# Daniel Svonava

> Daniel Svonava is the Co-Founder and CEO of Superlinked, an ML infrastructure company building self-hosted inference infrastructure for vector search and document processing. A Slovak-born engineer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, he spent six years as an ML Tech Lead at YouTube building ad performance systems powering over $10B in annual ad revenue before co-founding Superlinked in 2021. Superlinked raised a $9.5M seed round led by Index Ventures in March 2024, and the company is on a mission to make vector-based retrieval accessible and production-ready for enterprises.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Superlinked, Inc.
- **Organizations:** Superlinked, Inc., Google, YouTube, Slovak University of Technology
- **From:** Bratislava, Slovakia
- **Nationality:** Slovak
- **Education:** Master's degree, Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Venture Capital Academy, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Built ad performance forecasting engine at YouTube that powers $10B+ in annual ad purchases, Co-founded Superlinked and raised $9.5M seed from Index Ventures and Theory Ventures (2024), Led Superlinked to SOC2 Type 2 certification at product launch

## Career timeline

- **early career** — Competitive programming and web development during high school in Bratislava, Slovakia
- **university** — Algorithm research and internships at Google and IBM Research Zurich
- **early 2010s** — Co-founded a computational photography startup (Tiny Angel Deals)
- **2013-2019** — ML Tech Lead at YouTube/Google, building user modeling and ad performance prediction systems powering $10B+ in annual ad purchases
- **2021** — Co-founded Superlinked with Ben Gutkovich (ex-McKinsey), building ML infrastructure for vector search
- **2024-03** — Led Superlinked's $9.5M seed round from Index Ventures and Theory Ventures
- **2025** — Speaking at GenAI Week Silicon Valley; Superlinked receives additional investment from ZAKA VC

## Achievements

- Built ad performance forecasting engine at YouTube that powers $10B+ in annual ad purchases
- Co-founded Superlinked and raised $9.5M seed from Index Ventures and Theory Ventures (2024)
- Led Superlinked to SOC2 Type 2 certification at product launch
- Built open-source Superlinked Inference Engine with 1,800+ GitHub stars
- Created VectorHub, a free open-source learning resource for vector retrieval with 520+ stars
- Interned at Google and IBM Research Zurich during university
- Competed in programming competitions during high school
- Speaker at Databricks Data + AI Summit 2024, GenAI Summit 2024, ELC Annual 2024

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Scheduled to speak and moderate at GenAI Week Silicon Valley 2025 (July 13-17)
- **2025-04** — Hosted Superlinked event 'Making Search Work for the Real World' in San Francisco
- **2025-02** — Superlinked received additional investment from ZAKA VC
- **2024-11** — Panelist at GenAI Summit 2024 on 'The Future of Vector DB' alongside Zilliz and Weaviate CEOs
- **2024-08** — Presented at Engineering Leadership Conference (ELC) Annual 2024 in San Francisco
- **2024-03** — Announced Superlinked's $9.5M seed round led by Index Ventures

## Links

- Website: https://svonava.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svonava
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/svonava
- GitHub: https://github.com/svonava
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@svonava
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mountain.supo/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/svonava

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Last updated: 2026-05-14