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Investor; Partner at AI Grant.
Tools Daniel Gross has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Daniel Gross runs AI Grant alongside Nat Friedman. Known for early bets on Pioneer, Cue and now AI infra; X feed and AI Grant accelerator demo days are the strongest signal surfaces.
Daniel Gross co-led ElevenLabs' Series A with Nat Friedman and Andreessen Horowitz at a roughly $100M post-money valuation. The financing announcement names him as a lead investor, which is a stronger public stake than casual mention. ElevenLabs remains the flagship NFDG voice-AI position.
Daniel Gross is a public investor in Perplexity alongside Jeff Bezos, Tobias Lütke, Nvidia and Nat Friedman. The position sits in his portfolio at a roughly $18B valuation as of the most recent financing and represents one of NFDG's loudest answer-engine bets.
Daniel Gross is a public backer of Groq, the Language Processing Unit inference company shipping sub-second Llama at scale. He's named the position on his personal site's portfolio and through NFDG's broader infra thesis: own the AI inference layer rather than the model layer.
Pika is in the NFDG portfolio, the AI video generation startup Gross and Friedman backed alongside their other generative-media bets. Investor endorsement is the load-bearing signal here; Gross hasn't published personal-use commentary on Pika, but the portfolio position is public.
Suno sits in the NFDG portfolio alongside ElevenLabs and Pika as part of the generative-media thesis. Gross backs the text-to-song company as an investor, though he hasn't published direct personal-use commentary.
Last researched May 18, 2026
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