Angel investor · San Francisco, United States
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of dated first investments
were at Angel, Pre-Seed or Seed
One dot = one company at first recorded investment.
Written insights from the recorded portfolio, with the evidence linked below.
Daniel Gross has dated investments in 28 companies. 8 first entries were at Angel, Pre-Seed or Seed (28.6%). An early-stage founder can use the sector and stage filters to find comparable companies before approaching the investor.
Explore the evidence ↗10 first company relationships appear in the latest 24 months, compared with 13 in the preceding window. The latest recorded investment is 2025-06-12. This describes observed activity through 2026-05-22; it does not establish current availability.
Explore the evidence ↗9 of 18 companies with a full 24-month observation window raised another equity round. This investor backed 4 of those companies again within that window. The difference is a reason to research the wider syndicate, rather than assume the same investor will fund the next round.
Explore the evidence ↗Artificial Intelligence is the largest displayed sector by company count, appearing in 16 portfolio companies; sector tags overlap. 6 first entries carry a recorded lead flag and the median first-round syndicate includes 5 other named backers. Shared rounds are evidence of co-investment, not evidence of an introduction route.
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25th–75th percentile across 27 disclosed first rounds. Total round size; the investor’s own cheque is undisclosed.
Size your round ↗22 May 2024–22 May 2026, versus 13 in the preceding 24 months.
See the rhythm ↗9 of 18 companies with a full observation window. The next round can include any investor.
Follow the path ↗4 of the same 18 companies. Build a financing plan around the wider investor market.
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companies he first backed in that space.
A match means a recorded investment in this category. It does not establish current interest or availability.
All sectors · All entry stages. Round amounts are total financing, in USD.
Antimetal is an infrastructure intelligence platform built for on-call and SRE teams that automates the most time-consuming part of incident response: investigation and root cause analysis
$20M total first roundDeveloper of epigenetic reprogramming medicines for aging-related diseases and healthspan extension
$130M total first roundDeveloper of RL environments for training AI models in software tasks
Undisclosed total first round| Sector | Angel | Seed | Series A | All stages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | 16 | |||
| Generative AI | 7 | |||
| AI Infrastructure | 6 | |||
| HealthTech | 5 | |||
| Application Development Tools | 4 | |||
| Native AI in Software Development | 4 | |||
| FinTech | 3 |
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Logarithmic scale. A dot marks the median; the band spans the 25th–75th percentiles. These are entire rounds, not individual cheques.
A subsequent round and repeat backing
answer different fundraising questions.
Includes first investments on or before 22 May 2024. 10 newer companies and 0 undated histories are excluded. Follow-up stops at the dataset’s latest round on 22 May 2026. These observations do not measure returns or predict a company’s outcome.
| First stage | Eligible companies | Next round ≤24 mo | Same investor again ≤24 mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel | 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 |
| Seed | 3 | 1 / 3 | 1 / 3 |
| Series A | 7 | 5 / 7 | 2 / 7 |
| Series B | 4 | 2 / 4 | 1 / 4 |
| Series C | 4 | 1 / 4 | 0 / 4 |
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rounds in companies already backed.
*2026 is partial, through 22 May. Bar height counts first investments + repeat rounds; earlier years are complete calendar periods in this dataset.
Frequent shared rounds suggest a place
to investigate sector and stage alignment.
6 shared rounds · 6 companies
Latest shared round Mar 20256 shared rounds · 4 companies
Latest shared round Feb 20254 shared rounds · 2 companies
Latest shared round Dec 2023Shared rounds establish recorded co-investment. They do not establish a personal connection, introduction route, or current willingness to invest.
First investment comes first.
Amounts refer to that entry round.
| Company | First backed | Entry stage | Total entry round | Same investor again? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Antimetal ↗New York City | Jun 2025 | Series A | $20M | No later round recorded |
NewLimit ↗San Francisco | May 2025 | Series B | $130M | No later round recorded |
Mechanize ↗San Francisco | Apr 2025 | Angel | Undisclosed | No later round recorded |
Freed ↗Santa Rosa | Mar 2025 | Series A | $30M | No later round recorded |
Pulse ↗San Francisco | Feb 2025 | Seed | $3.9M | No later round recorded |
Basis ↗New York City | Dec 2024 | Series A | $34M | No later round recorded |
Consensus ↗Boston | Aug 2024 | Series B | $11M | No later round recorded |
EvolutionaryScale ↗New York City | Jun 2024 | Seed | $142M | No later round recorded |
Zeta Labs ↗San Francisco | Jun 2024 | Seed | $2.9M | No later round recorded |
Bluedot ↗London | May 2024 | Angel | $600K | No later round recorded |
Suno ↗Cambridge | May 2024 | Series B | $125M | No later round recorded |
Espresso ↗New York City | May 2024 | Seed | $11M | No later round recorded |
Perplexity ↗San Francisco | Apr 2024 | Series C | $63M | No later round recorded |
Ivo ↗San Francisco | Apr 2024 | Series A | $4.8M | No later round recorded |
Magic AI ↗San Francisco | Mar 2024 | Series C | $321M | No later round recorded |
Matic ↗Mountain View | Nov 2023 | Series A | $24M | No later round recorded |
| Aug 2023 | Seed | $40M | No later round recorded | |
ElevenLabs ↗New York City | May 2023 | Series A | $19M | Yes · Jan 2024 |
CoreWeave ↗Livingston | Apr 2023 | Series B | $221M | Yes · Dec 2023 |
Descript ↗San Francisco | Nov 2022 | Series C | $51M | No later round recorded |
Polywork ↗New York City | Sep 2022 | Series B | $28M | No later round recorded |
| Aug 2022 | Series B | $20M | No later round recorded | |
Retool ↗San Francisco | Jul 2022 | Series C | $45M | No later round recorded |
AssemblyAI ↗San Francisco | Mar 2022 | Series A | $28M | Yes · Dec 2023 |
Klarity ↗San Francisco | Jan 2022 | Series A | $18M | Yes · Jun 2024 |
Medallion ↗California City | Jun 2021 | Series A | $20M | No later round recorded |
Streamlit ↗San Francisco | Jun 2020 | Series A | $21M | No later round recorded |
Deepnote ↗Prague | Feb 2020 | Seed | $3.8M | Yes · Jan 2022 |
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