David S. Rose

Founder & CEO

2019 - Current

Financial Technology startup developing a capital markets platform for flexible institutional investment in commercial real estate.

Founder & Executive Chairman

2019

Gust is the global SaaS platform for founding, operating, and investing in scalable, high-growth companies. Gust's online tools help entrepreneurs start, run, and fundraise for companies and provide deal flow and relationship management for investors. As the world's largest community of entrepreneurs and early-stage investors from 192 countries, Gust pioneered the equity funding collaboration industry and is the official platform of the world's leading angel investor federations and venture accelerators. More than 850,000 startups have already used Gust to connect with over 85,000 investment professionals. Gust powers Gust Launch, the first Company as a Service™ (CaaS™) platform for startup founders that facilitates all of the legal, financial, and back-office operations necessary to incorporate as a Delaware C Corp and operate a new, high-growth venture. Gust is headquartered in New York, New York.

Founder & CEO

2004 - 2019

Managing Partner

1999

Seed and early stage capital, mentoring, management and support for high growth entrepreneurial businesses. We incubate companies of our own, and invest in other entrepreneurs with exciting business plans. Our general (although not exclusive) areas of interest include Internet platforms, ASP services, wireless, out-of-home advertising, security, and B2B market-making networks. We have funded over 110 companies with exits to Facebook, Amazon, Google, Intel, Oracle and other industry leaders.

Chairman

2024

Thinkable’s Mission is to accelerate innovation using AI by enabling everyone from freelance developers to enterprise development teams to rapidly solve complex problems and build sophisticated digital products. Thinkable AI is Shopify for AI - an easy to use, no-code, AI development toolkit that harnesses the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically plan and autonomously execute complex tasks.

Chairman

2024

Bookitngo is a hospitality industry technology platform building the blockchain foundation of the travel industry, by the travel industry, for the travel industry.

Founder & Chairman Emeritus

2004

Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels (NYA). As the leading angel capital investment consortium in the New York area, NYA provides seed and early-stage capital in the range of $100K-$1M. Since 2004, New York Angels members have invested over $50 million in more than 80 ventures, with exits to companies including Google, Living Social, Kodak and CBS. New York Angels members are founders, CEO's, venture capitalists and business leaders who have funded and built world-class companies. They mentor and coach the entrepreneurs in whom they invest, serve on their boards, provide contacts and assist with team building, strategic planning and fundraising.

Associate Founder & Founding Track Chair, Finance, Entrepreneurship & Economics

2009

I founded, ran and taught the Finance, Entrepreneurship & Economics track at this post-graduate program at NASA Ames Research Park, sponsored by Google, NASA and others to train the next generation of global leaders in dealing with exponentially advancing technologies. As an Associate Founder, I remained involved as a special lecturer and advisor.

Board Member

2004

Board Member

1986

Board Member

2017 - 2023