David S. Rose

David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has founded or funded over 100 companies. He has been described by Forbes as “New York’s Archangel”, by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering entrepreneur”, and by Red Herring magazine as “patriarch of Silicon Alley”. He is the New York Times best-selling author of both The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business and Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups. David is founder and CEO of Gust, the global financial technology platform connecting over 500,000 entrepreneurs with investors in over 190 countries. David is Managing Director of Rose Tech Ventures; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels; Managing Director of the AREA accelerator and was Founding Track Chair for Finance and Entrepreneurship at Singularity University, the Google/NASA-sponsored post-graduate program in exponential technologies. He serves on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Boards at Yale and Columbia, and was named Mentor of the Year by NYU Stern Business School. David can be found online at davidsrose.com and followed @davidsrose.