Daniel Gross

Background

Gross was born in Jerusalem, Israel.

Career

He also contributes to the technology news site TechCrunch. In 2010, Gross was accepted in to the Y Combinator program 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.

In the same year, Business Insider named Gross one of the top 25 stars in Silicon Valley. In 2012, Forbes again named Gross one of 30 under 30 Pioneers in Technology.

In 2014, Business Insider named Gross one of 30 under 30 “Influential Young People in Technical”. In 2010, Gross launched Greplin, a search engine for personal content.

Greplin operated by linking together various online accounts into one search experience.

Foreign 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 “” and launched an additional predictive search features. In addition to search, offered customers an automatic and intelligent agenda of their day.

This included files, emails, addresses, phone numbers and more that were deemed algorithmically relevant. was a similar product to Google Now. In 2013, Apple acquired for an undisclosed sum.

Achievements

• At the time, he was the youngest founder ever accepted. After iterating through multiple products, Gross launched Greplin (later renamed ) with co-founder Robby Walker.