Rose Tech Ventures

Rose Tech Ventures is a New York City-based early-stage venture capital firm, incubator and support platform founded in 2001 and headquartered in the Flatiron district at 30 East 23rd Street. The firm is led by Managing Partner David S. Rose -- an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, founder of Gust and New York Angels, and described by Crain's New York Business as 'the father of angel investing in New York.' Rose Tech focuses on finding, nurturing and launching the next generation of world-class ventures, with a particular emphasis on New York-based internet and software companies that are typically 2-3 years into their development. The firm has made more than 50 investments since inception and its portfolio has produced 24 acquisitions, reflecting a strong bias toward backing companies that ultimately become acquisition targets for major technology and media corporations. High-profile exits include Comixology, in which David Rose was the initial investor and Chairman before Amazon acquired the company, SetJam (acquired by Google), drop.IO (acquired by Facebook), Mashery (acquired by Intel), LiveLOOK (acquired by Oracle), SignStorey (acquired by CBS) and LearnVest (acquired by Northwestern Mutual). Additional notable portfolio names include Brandwatch, Monetate and PerformLine. Rose Tech Ventures primarily invests at the Seed stage in US-based startups across software, enterprise applications, consumer internet and media. David Rose's dual role as the leading organizer of the New York angel investing community -- through his leadership of New York Angels and Gust, the global angel platform -- gives Rose Tech portfolio companies preferential access to the broadest possible angel network and facilitates follow-on syndication at later stages.