Gil Elbaz

Gil Elbaz

Partner & Co-Founder · TenOneTen Ventures

Notable Deals: Kaggle (→Google), DataScience (→Oracle), Mapsense (→Apple), Alation, Datasaur, Nomad Data

Boards & Advisories: Common Crawl (Chairman), Foursquare (Board), X Prize (Board), Caltech (Board)

Focus Areas: FinTech Data Analytics AdTech ClimateTech

About

Co-founded Applied Semantics (invented AdSense, acquired by Google for $102M in 2003). Engineering Director at Google Santa Monica 2003-2007. Founded Factual (open data platform, merged with Foursquare 2020). Founded Common Crawl — largest open web dataset powering GPT, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E. Caltech BS. Focus: FinTech, data analytics, AdTech, ClimateTech.

Career

Role	Organization	Years	Outcome
Co-Founder & Managing Partner	TenOneTen Ventures	2013–present
Founder & Chairman	Common Crawl	2007–present
Founder & CEO	Factual	2008–2020	Merged with Foursquare
Director of Engineering	Google (Santa Monica)	2003–2007
Co-Founder & CTO	Applied Semantics	1998–2003	Acquired by Google for $102M

Role

Organization

Years

Outcome

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

TenOneTen Ventures

2013–present

Founder & Chairman

Common Crawl

2007–present

Founder & CEO

Factual

2008–2020

Merged with Foursquare

Director of Engineering

Google (Santa Monica)

2003–2007

Co-Founder & CTO

Applied Semantics

1998–2003

Acquired by Google for $102M

Data Sources

Full enrichment report available: View Full Profile →

30 files in data/gilelbaz/ — includes LinkedIn, Crunchbase, GitHub, Wikipedia, and more.

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Discovery	fetched	discovery.json, lookup_results.json
LinkedIn	fetched	linkedin_profile.json, linkedin_raw.html
Crunchbase	fetched	crunchbase.json, crunchbase_raw.html
Apollo + 9 APIs	fetched	enrichment.json (Apollo, SEC, Scholar, Patents, Wikidata...)
Deep Research	fetched	deep_research.json, profile_deep.yaml
Founder Score	fetched	person_scores table in people.db

Profile JSON ▸

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