David S. Rose

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David S. Rose is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor who has been described by Red Herring magazine as the “patriarch of Silicon Alley”.

Over 25 years he has founded or funded more than 70 early stage technology companies and been called a “world conquering entrepreneur” by BusinessWeek. An Inc. 500 CEO (for founding boom-era wireless pioneer AirMedia), he is well known in the East Coast technology community for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs. He is a regular speaker at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and NYU business schools, and was a founding member of the New York New Media Association.

Rose is one of the country’s most active early stage technology investors. He is the founder and Chairman of New York Angels, one of the largest technology investment groups in the US; Managing Principal of Rose Tech Ventures, specializing in scalable, Internet-based business; and Chairman of Egret Capital Partners, a middle market private equity firm. He founded and runs the largest technology incubator in New York City, and consults to corporations, not-for-profit institutions, venture capital funds and government agencies.

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, Rose has been a key player in the development of the ‘Silicon Alley’ technology community in New York.

Rose is currently Chairman and CEO of Angelsoft, which operates the international standard collaboration platform for early stage angel investing, and a member of the boards of directors of KoolSpan, Inc., CE Interactive, Panjiva, Pond5, Comixology, Ambient Devices and Magnify Networks. He also serves as an investor in companies including BioScale, DropIO, eJamming, Goodmail, Now Public, Mashery, Metaphor Solutions, Space Adventures, Storm Exchange, and over four dozen other early stage ventures.

A native New Yorker, Rose is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. He is an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University, a member of the Entrepreneurship Advisory Board of Columbia Business School, a Lifetime Professional Member of the World Future Society, and an Advisory Board member of the Liminal Group. He is profiled in Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Business and Industry.

Milestones

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• 10/29/08 — Named to the 2008/2009 Silicon Alley 100
• 2003 — Founds Angelsoft LLC.
• 2002 — Founds New York Angels, as successor group to the Angel Investor Program of the New York New Media Association
• 1993 — Warburg Pincus provides first VC investment
• 1988 — Founds Ex Machina, Inc., developer of the WristMac.
• 1/84 — Profiled (opposite Steve Jobs) in Time Magazine's "Computer as Man of the Year" issue
• 1982 — Creates first real computerized real estate sales system (Madison Green, New York, NY)
• 1981 — Announces first condominiums (The Colonnade, New York, NY) in which every apartment comes with a computer (Apple II) and network account (The Source)

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