David S. Rose Overview
- Investor Type
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Angel
- Status
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Active
- Professionals
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1

- Investments
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53
- Portfolio
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15
- Exits
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39

David S. Rose General Information
Description
Mr. David S. Rose is the Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Gust. He serves as a Board Member at Moven and Moven. He serves as Chairman at MiDoctorcito. He is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor who has founded or funded over 120 pioneering companies. He served as a Partner at True Global Ventures. Described by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Forbes magazine as "New York's Archangel" and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley", his New York Times best-selling books on startup development and financing are Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups (2014) and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business (2016), both published by Wiley. Each has become the standard text in its field, with the world's leading angel groups providing the investment book to all of their new members and 500 US universities adopting The Startup Checklist as the text for their entrepreneurship programs. From his initial involvement with the first online communities in the 1970s, through founding one of the first personal computer training companies in the 1980s, one of the first wireless data information networks in the 1990s, and the first global angel investing platform in the 2000s, he has been at the forefront of innovation in business and technology. Outside of his work with Gust, he is Managing Director of Rose Tech Ventures; was Founder and Chairman of New York Angels; Co-founder and Managing Director of the AREA accelerator; and Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Economics at Singularity University, the Google/NASA-sponsored post-graduate program in exponential technologies. He has a BA from Yale, an MBA in Finance from Columbia, and a D. Eng. (hc) from Stevens Institute of Technology. He served as Chairman at Pinktada.
Business Details
Website
www.davidsrose.comInvestor Status
Primary Investor Type
Corporate Office
- New York, NY
- United States
David S. Rose Investments (53)
Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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Daivergent | 24-Jan-2025 | Later Stage VC | Education and Training Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | ||
Thinkable (Software Development Applications) | 01-Jan-2024 | Software Development Applications | Generating Revenue | |||
33Across | 01-May-2018 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Hellotoken | 20-Aug-2015 | Business/Productivity Software | Out of Business | |||
Enbritely | 28-Nov-2014 | Consulting Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | |||
WYL | 26-Oct-2014 | Real Estate Services (B2C) | Generating Revenue | |||
FunnelFire | 12-Aug-2014 | Business/Productivity Software | Out of Business | |||
CircumRent | 25-Jul-2014 | Social/Platform Software | Out of Business | |||
Myhomepayge | 15-Jul-2014 | Seed Round | Media and Information Services (B2B) | Generating Revenue | ||
Kinetic Global | 12-Mar-2014 | Seed Round | Network Management Software | Profitable |
David S. Rose Exits (39)
Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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33Across | 01-Oct-2021 | Secondary Transaction - Private | |
Space Adventures | 01-May-2021 | ||
ProterixBio | 01-Apr-2021 | ||
eDataSource | 30-Oct-2019 | ||
Monetate | 10-Oct-2019 | ||
Amicus | 01-Jul-2019 | ||
School Loop | 04-Dec-2018 | ||
Crimson Hexagon | 31-Oct-2018 | ||
Magnetic (Marketing Platform) | 10-Sep-2018 | Merger/Acquisition | |
Say Media | 28-Aug-2018 | Merger/Acquisition |
David S. Rose Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
David S. Rose Co-Investors (18)
Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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Emergence (Financial Services) | 1 |
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Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator |
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Kapor Capital |
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New York Angels |
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Western Technology Investment |
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David S. Rose FAQs
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Who is David S. Rose?
David S. Rose is an angel Investor who has made 53 investments.
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What kind of investor is David S. Rose?
David S. Rose is an angel investor.
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What does David S. Rose do?
As an angel investor, David S. Rose invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.
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What has David S. Rose invested in?
David S. Rose has made numerous investments in companies like Daivergent, Thinkable (Software Development Applications), and 33Across within the Education and Training Services (B2B), Software Development Applications, and Business/Productivity Software industries.
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What has David S. Rose invested in recently?
David S. Rose's latest investment was on 24-Jan-2025 in Daivergent, a company within the Education and Training Services (B2B) industry.
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