Born in Jerusalem, Daniel came to America when he was accepted into the Y Combinator program at 17, the youngest ever to be admitted. He co-founded social media search engine Cue and sold it to Apple where he led their machine learning department until joining Y Combinator as a partner in 2017.

In 2018 he created Pioneer, a company that searches out bright people with talent and ambition, but lack the opportunity to get their ideas into the world.