Daniel Gross (software entrepreneur)

Daniel Gross
Born 1991 (age 24–25)

Daniel Gross is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Cue (search engine). He also contributes to the technology news site TechCrunch.[1]

Background

Gross was born in Jerusalem, Israel. In 2010, Gross was accepted in to the Y Combinator program. At the time, he was the youngest founder ever accepted.[2]

After iterating through multiple products, Gross launched Greplin (later renamed Cue) with co-founder Robby Walker.[3]

In his short career, Gross has been the recipient of numerous awards from several publications. In 2011, Forbes named Gross one of 30 under 30 Pioneers in Technology.[4] In the same year, Business Insider named Gross one of the top 25 stars in Silicon Valley.[5] In 2012, Forbes again named Gross one of 30 under 30 Pioneers in Technology.[6] In 2014, Business Insider named Gross one of 30 under 30 “Influential Young People in Tech”.[7]

Cue

Main article: Cue (search engine)

In 2010, Gross launched Greplin, a search engine for personal content. Greplin operated by linking together various online accounts into one search experience. For example, a customer could search their Facebook, Gmail and Dropbox accounts from one unified service without check each individually.

In 2011, Greplin raised $4 million in funding from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Gross was one of Sequoia's youngest founders at the time. They introduced a premium offering at $5 a month, which allowed customers to link enterprise-facing services like Salesforce.

In 2012 the company renamed itself to “Cue” and launched an additional predictive search features.[8] In addition to search, Cue offered customers an automatic and intelligent agenda of their day. This included files, emails, addresses, phone numbers and more that were deemed algorithmically relevant. Cue was a similar product to Google Now.

In 2013, Apple acquired Cue[9] for an undisclosed sum.

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