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Daniel Gross

Angel investor · Founded 2018 · Active in 2026

Daniel Gross is an angel investor based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2018. The page below shows 17 Power Law outcomes from Daniel Gross's portfolio — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Transportation · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Decentralised · UK. Daniel Gross ranks #172 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

17 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #172 · Global · 17 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 60% 5y
16
Decacorns ↑ 150% 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 1000% 5y
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01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 17 Daniel Gross Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA15
  2. Decentralised1
  3. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. AI9
  2. Transportation2
  3. Fintech2
  4. Other B2B Software1
  5. Robotics1
  6. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  7. Cybersecurity1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+5
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed6
Estimated holdings

Daniel Gross’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Daniel Gross’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Daniel Gross is a named shareholder, worth about $1.1B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 PerplexityEnterprise Software · Decacorn 4.5% $20.0B $900M
  2. 2 The Bot CompanyRobotics · Unicorn 4.5% $2.0B $90M
  3. 3 RetoolEnterprise Software · Unicorn 2% $3.2B $64M

Estimated value = Daniel Gross’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Daniel Gross also appears inside investor groups in ElevenLabs, Safe Superintelligence, Suno, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Daniel Gross’ biggest exits.

Daniel Gross portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$55.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $90.4B
$20.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$5.2B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $71M
$1.7B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.5B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series A
$1.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Seed
04 · Portfolio market map

Daniel Gross's 17 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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17 of 17 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Daniel Gross stack up?

Daniel Gross in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

37 founders across the 17 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States21
Canada3
India3
Poland3
Belarus1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University4
University of Waterloo3
Berkeley3
New York University3
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign2
Duke University2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras1
Imperial College London1
University of Cambridge1
+9 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google3
Yahoo!2
Meta2
Twitch2
Quora2
Jama Software1
Cvent1
iRobot1
MVF1
Groupon1
+16 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Daniel Gross.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Daniel Gross

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In the news

Latest news about Daniel Gross

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