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New York Angels
Angel Group | New York, NY, United States
www.newyorkangels.com
Angel Capital Association
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David S Rose ChairmanDavid S. Rose is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investments, finance and government. He was named by Inc. magazine to the 1998 Inc 500 list as CEO of one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Red Herring... More David S. Rose is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investments, finance and government. He was named by Inc. magazine to the 1998 Inc 500 list as CEO of one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Red Herring magazine has described him as "a patriarch of New York's Silicon Alley" and Crain's New York Business named him one of the City's top three angel investors and 25 most influential technology executives.
During the course of his career, Mr. Rose has supervised the creation of an intellectual property portfolio of issued patents appraised at over $100 million and negotiated both domestic and international corporate acquisitions. He was a prime author of the new data messaging protocols for the personal communications industry, and lectures frequently on issues relating to the development of the international information infrastructure.
In 1997 he was honored as a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New York New Media category; in 1984, Time magazine profiled him in its "Computer as Man of the Year" issue; and he has been the subject of numerous interviews and articles in print and electronic media.
Mr. Rose is Founding Chairman of the Board of the New York Angels, Inc., the leading angel investment consortium in the New York region. Through his investment fund, Rose Tech Ventures, he provides capital and management expertise to promising early stage companies. On behalf of his own technology firms he has personally raised over $75 million in venture, strategic and institutional capital.
With over two decades of hands-on experience in founding, managing and funding diverse companies, Mr. Rose is actively involved in mentoring and advising other entrepreneurs and corporate executives. He was a Founding Member of the New York New Media Association and is a frequent guest speaker at graduate business schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and NYU. He is also a mentor and judge of the Yale, Columbia and NYU annual business plan competitions and has judged the annual Students in Free Enterprise national finals. As a regular lecturer for New York?s Industrial Technology Assistance Corporation he has taught the Venture Financing and Deal Negotiation section of the FasTrak Tech course since 1997.
Mr. Rose is Chairman of KoolSpan, a provider of innovative network security systems, and Chairman of Ambient Devices, the leading wireless 'bit-tricking' network. He is Chairman and CEO of Angelsoft, which operates the leading international platform for early stage private equity investing, and he serves as an active early stage investor in over three dozen companies, companies including Metaphor Solutions, Goodmail, BioScale, LinkStorm and Zero-G. Prior to founding AirMedia Corporation in 1988, for which he served as CEO for over ten years, his career included over fifteen years in real estate development, government, teaching and urban planning.
Mr. Rose was co-founder and Chairman of The Computer Classroom, one of the world's first computer training firms, and spent over ten years developing technology-enhanced commercial and residential real estate in New York, Washington, DC and Boston with the firm of Rose Associates, Inc. Earlier, he served as Deputy Director of the New York office of US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In that position, Mr. Rose represented the Senator on multiple civic and public boards and was the Senator's Special Assistant for high technology and urban planning.
A native New Yorker, Mr. Rose has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University Business School. He is a graduate of the New York City public school system and Horace Mann High School. He is profiled in Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Industry. Paul Sciabica General ManagerPaul Sciabica brings a 30 year career in venture capital, equity research and technology management to his role as Executive Director of New York Angels. He has been the General Partner or Fund Manager of several private equity funds, Vice President of the Internet Technology Group at Merill Lynch G... More Paul Sciabica brings a 30 year career in venture capital, equity research and technology management to his role as Executive Director of New York Angels. He has been the General Partner or Fund Manager of several private equity funds, Vice President of the Internet Technology Group at Merill Lynch Global Equity & Fixed Income Research, Vice President of New Media Strategy at Merrill's Global Technology Strategy group, and Director of Technology for the Stanley Kaplan Educational Centers division of the Washington Post Company.
Earlier he served as a Project Manager and Programmer/Analyst for the National Association of Securities Dealers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
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New York Angels - Ideal Startup Investment
New York Angels looks for early stage, post-seed ventures that are highly scalable and that can show us how the company will get to break-even within 12-24 months on the basis of our one-time investment. This typically means smallish teams (2 to 5 people), with serious domain expertise and a product that is either currently in the market or already in beta.
New York Angels Invests In These Industries
| • Business Products and Services | • IT Services |
| • Clean Technology | • Internet / Web Services |
| • Computers and Peripherals | • Marketing / Advertising |
| • Consumer Products and Services | • Medical Devices and Equipment |
| • Education | • Mobile |
| • Electronics / Instrumentation | • Software |
| • Financial Services | • Sports |
| • Food / Drink | • Telecommunications |
| • Healthcare Services | • Travel |
New York Angels Invests In Companies That Have Reached The Following MilestonesPrototype Ready - $1M in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue Concept OnlyProduct In DevelopmentPrototype ReadyFull Product Ready$500K in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue$1M in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue$3M in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue$5M in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue$10M in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue$20M in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue$50M in Trailing 12 Mo. RevenueMore than $50M in Trailing 12 Mo. RevenueMore than $50M in Trailing 12 Mo. Revenue ▶◀ Concept OnlyNew York Angels Invests In Companies With These Funding Needs- Pre-money Valuation: $500,000 - $5,000,000
- Capital Seeking: $100,000 - $1,000,000
- Previously Raised: $25,000 - $500,000
New York Angels Expects Their Investments To Generate- Expected Revenue By Year 5: $8,000,000 - $40,000,000
- Expected Returns: 10x Investment - 30x Investment
- Expected Years to Exit: 2 Years - 7 Years
- Expected Years to Break Even: 1 Year - 2 Years
New York Angels Investment Portfolio
Last 12 Months Cookstr Tote Good Health Advertising Inc. Iconology, Inc.
Previous Investments BioScale, Inc. oneText, Inc. Preclick Corporation FASTTAC, Inc. Transactis, Inc. Design Buggy, LLC Chromis Fiberoptics Payoneer Metaphor Solutions, Inc. Anvato, Inc. mPoint GRIDPLEX Inc. BuyYourFriendADrink.com ChallengePost, Inc. MediaTile Standout Jobs, Inc. Finpago, Inc. Hovr Incorporated Salesconx, Inc. Chromis 2008 Financing Visioneered Image Systems Clear Align Senscient TalkShoe innRoad, Inc. ReImage.com Pond5.com Ambient Devices Magnify Networks Ambient Devices (Round 2) Viddler, Inc. Urovalve, Inc. Cognition Therapeutics Inc. LiveLOOK CE Interactive, Inc. School Loop KoolSpan Inc. eJamming Inc nTAG Interactive Spotlight Data, LLC. Zero Gravity, Inc. Gametrust Billtrust Linkstorm Critical Mention, Inc. Digit Wireless Feedster Adapt Media, Inc. Aereon Solutions Design2Launch InBoxer, Inc. Mashery Email Data Source, Inc. Recognia Inc. nimbit, Inc. Synergy Beverages International Strategies SignStorey, Inc. |
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