Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross

Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross invest as NFDG, a San Francisco-based venture partnership founded in 2022 that backs frontier-AI companies and operates the AI Grant accelerator, which provides $250,000 in cash and $250,000 in Azure credits to AI-native startups. The pair also built the Andromeda Cluster, a multi-thousand-GPU H100 supercomputer for portfolio companies. Notable investments include Safe Superintelligence, Perplexity, Vercel, and Pulse. Recent activity: in 2025, Meta agreed to acquire a substantial portion of NFDG's holdings and hire both partners to lead its AI efforts.