 In 2011, after his investment in the early crowdfunding platform ProFounder closed its doors, Furst joined up with fellow Los Angeles entrepreneur Chance Barnett to launch Crowdfunder, where Furst is the SVP of Business Development.Furst served on the Board of Directors at the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Conrad Foundation; the Board of Advisors at Decision Education Foundation and Unreasonable Institute and has served as a Mentor at Sandbox, StartingBloc, and Thiel Fellowship.In 2003, Furst and his friend Phil Gordon launched the Bad Beat on Cancer initiative which encourages poker players to pledge 1% of their winnings to prevent cancer.