Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$25,000.00Max Investment:
$100,000.00Target Investment:
$50,000.00
Skills
Education
- YU
- SI
Lists including David S.
Investments
Next Gen HQ
Total Funding:
Tobly
Total Funding: $500K
Miner App
Total Funding: $2M
hellotoken
Total Funding: $500K
RealtyMogul
Total Funding: $45M
CITIA
Total Funding: $2.6M
Social Bicycles
Total Funding: $1M
JUMP Bikes
Total Funding: $11M
Bolstr
Total Funding: $630K
Amicus
Total Funding: $3.6M
Work Experience
2019
Founder & CEO
2019
Financial Technology startup developing a capital markets platform for flexible institutional investment in commercial real estate.
2004
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
1999
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.
2024
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.
2024
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.
2004
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.
2009
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.
2004
Board Member
2004
1986
Board Member
1986
2017 - 2023
Board Member
2017 - 2023