David S. Rose Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

  • Status
  • Active

  • Professionals
  • 1

Professionals

  • Investments
  • 53

  • Portfolio
  • 15

  • Exits
  • 39

Exits

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

Investor Status
Actively Seeking New Investments
Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
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
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
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

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David S. Rose Co-Investors (18)

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David S. Rose FAQs

  • Who is David S. Rose?

    David S. Rose is an angel Investor who has made 53 investments.

  • What kind of investor is David S. Rose?

    David S. Rose is an angel investor.

  • What does David S. Rose do?

    As an angel investor, David S. Rose invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

  • 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.

  • 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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