Daniel Kobran
Cofounder at Etched
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Kobran is an entrepreneur and investor with eight years of hands-on experience building cloudscale AI infrastructure and GPU compute platforms. He co-founded Paperspace, an early GPU cloud that went through Y Combinator and was acquired by DigitalOcean, and later led Paperspace within DigitalOcean as Senior Director/GM. Currently he’s building a new AI company at the intersection of frontier reasoning systems and financial markets (YC F25), while actively investing in AI startups like Runway, Nomic, Etched, and Anthropic. His background blends graduate-level research from the University of Michigan with practitioner expertise in deploying ML infrastructure at scale. Beyond product and ops, he has a track record of spotting foundational AI companies early and backing teams that push next-generation computing systems. Based in New York, he combines builder-led strategy with investor perspective to bridge research-grade models and production-ready platforms.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorMasters, Masters at University of Michigan
Github Skills (66)
opencv10
python10
command-line-interface10
deep-learning10
bounding-box10
gradient10
ai10
object-detection10
data-augmentation10
cli9
machine-learning9
react8
fastai7
mnist7
javascript7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dkobran/mnist-sample
May 2019 - Jan 2021
An example mnist model for Gradient to demonstrate TensorFlow model parsing, distributed training, and more.
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes in 1 year 8 months
distributed-trainingmnistparsingtensorflow-model
dkobran/mnist-sample-1
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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