Jake Furst Bio

Jake Furst joined Generation Equity Capital as a Vice President in 2016 and is active in sourcing, evaluating and executing on investment opportunities and developing investment theses across many different sectors. Jake brings over seven years experience in operating and management roles at high-growth venture-backed startups to his role at Generation Equity Capital. Jake was an early employee at Foursquare, where he was the Director of Strategic Partnerships, overseeing high-value partnerships with American Express, Groupon, First Data Corporation, OpenTable and many others. Jake helped scale Foursquare’s suite of small business products from a handful of customers to over 2 million businesses worldwide. After Foursquare, Jake was the VP of Business Development at Shake, where he helped grow the business and eventually sell the company to Prepaid Legal Services, Inc. Most recently, Jake was the Interim General Manager at Transfix, a startup freight brokerage, which grew from 18 to 55 employees and $200,000 to $1,000,000 in monthly revenue over his six months working with the company. Jake has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Northwestern University (Go Cats!). In his free time, you can find him skiing, cooking, spending time with his wife and two daughters in Brooklyn or proudly rooting for Boston sports teams.