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 in the world's leading angel groups, who use Gust to coordinate their deal flow and collaboration. Launchpad & Mission Control help founders get started.

Team

  • David Rose
    Founder and Executive Chairman

    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."

  • Ryan Nash
    CEO

    Ryan Nash began as a software engineer and manager specializing in agile methodologies. He came to Gust from Boeing, where he managed two development teams focused on backend services, text and data processing, high performance, scale and data storage. At Gust, he served as CTO, COO, and CPO, before taking the reins as CEO in 2025.

Advisors

  • Lori Smith, White & Williams, LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

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