Jake Furst

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Mr. Jake Furst serves as Partner at Generation Equity Capital. He is active in sourcing, evaluating, and executing investment opportunities and developing investment theses across many different sectors. Jake brings over seven years of experience in operating and management roles at high-growth venture-backed startups to his role at Generation Equity Capital. Jake was an early employee at Foursquare, where he was the Director of Strategic Partnerships, overseeing high-value partnerships with American Express, Groupon, First Data Corporation, OpenTable, and many others. Jake helped scale Foursquare's suite of small business products from a handful of customers to over 2 million businesses worldwide. After Foursquare, Jake was the VP of Business Development at Shake, where he helped grow the business and eventually sell the company to Prepaid Legal Services, Inc. Most recently, Jake was the Interim General Manager at Transfix, a startup freight brokerage, which grew from 18 to 55 employees and $200,000 to $1,000,000 in monthly revenue over his six months working with the company. Jake has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Northwestern University.