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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 16 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 · Fintech · Transportation; 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.
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.
Daniel Gross’ selected top 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.
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1
Perplexity
4.5%
$20.0B
$900M
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2
The Bot Company
4.5%
$2.0B
$90M
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3
Retool
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 →
The 16 Daniel Gross Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA14
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Decentralised1
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UK1
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AI9
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Fintech2
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Transportation2
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Robotics1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Other B2B Software1
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Series B+5
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Series A5
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Seed6
Daniel Gross's 16 Power Law outcomes.
How does Daniel Gross stack up?
Daniel Gross in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Daniel Gross's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
37 founders across the 16 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.
Key people at Daniel Gross.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Daniel Gross
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Daniel Gross on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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