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David S. Rose

USREM, Gust, Thinkable, Bookitngo, New York Angels, Singularity U

New York City Metropolitan Area

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

2004

  • Board Member

    2004

  • Board Member

    1986

2017 - 2023

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2023