Gust

The global infrastructure platform for entrepreneurial startups, now developing the blockchain-based, private equity trading technology for the finance industry

  • Stage $5M in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Location New York City, NY, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2004
  • Employees 40
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website gust.com

Company Summary

Gust is the platform for incorporating and operating high growth companies, enabling the early-stage investing ecosystem. Gust’s tools support all aspects of corporate legal and equity formation and operation for entrepreneurs. These facilitate deal flow and relationship management for investors, and are the basis for a blockchain-based, industry initiative to develop an SEC-compliant market for private equity trading among accredited investors.

Team

  • Founder and CEO

    David is an Inc 500 serial entrepreneur (six companies) and active angel investor (80 companies) who 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."

  • VP Engineering

    Ryan Nash is a software engineer and manager specializing in agile methodologies. He comes to Gust from Boeing, where he managed two development teams focused on backend services, text and data processing, high performance, scale and data storage.

  • Head of Design

    Jun is an award-winning designer with over 17 years of User Experience design. She graduated #1 in her department from Rhode Island School of Design and studied at both Harvard and Brown University. After spending two years at Gust designing the company’s original product offerings, she held senior design roles at Solvate, SetJam (acquired by Google) and PayPal (as Senior UX Design Lead for mobile apps) before returning to Gust in 2016.

  • Head of Finance and Operations

    Faraaz heads operations and finance at Gust. A former founder himself he has spent his career in FinTech, beginning in the hedge fund group at AIG. He then moved to private equity at TIA Capital and early stage venture at Rose Tech Ventures. He transitioned from investing to operations at PayPerks before going onto build his startup, Fliver, where he led product, operations and business development. He holds degrees from Columbia and UT Austin.

Advisors

  • Lori Smith, White & Williams, LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Kenneth Weisenberg , Eisner Amper LLP
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

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