Josh Strauss
Builder, founder & UATX sophomoreAustin, TX / Miami, FL

Josh Strauss.

Building products and companies that leave people better off.

Explore my work Resume (PDF)
Josh Strauss in a navy blazer in front of bookshelves

Currently building

GumGaugeDental technology MiseMeal planning Giltedge & Co.Private capital JarvismacOS assistant

What I’m building

From an idea to the details that make it work.

Dental technology

GumGauge

Co-founder & CEO · Aug 2023–present

Investigational chairside periodontal-measurement concept built around a bite-held mouthpiece and companion software. No hardware or clinical performance data exists; session timing, safety, and performance remain unvalidated design targets. The device is not cleared or approved by the FDA, and its premarket pathway remains under review. Alongside running the company, I build the public website and sample-data software demo.

gumgaugedental.com ↗ LinkedIn ↗

Food & everyday life

Mise

Designed & built solo · May 2026–present · Approved for the App Store

AI meal planning around what is already in the fridge and pantry — photo-assisted inventory, personalized weekly plans, grocery lists for the gaps, guided cooking, and an in-app sous-chef. The native iOS app uses a Supabase backend; an Android client is in development.

getmise.org ↗

Private-capital fintech

Giltedge & Co.

Founder · 2026–present · pre-seed concept

Capital, composed — a pre-seed concept for treasury and investor reporting for family offices and private funds, with planned reconciled ledgers, LP statements, capital-call notices, and an immutable audit trail. Validating the market thesis.

site — coming

Also on my desk

Personal software and research.

Jarvis

Personal software · macOS · Mark IV

A native macOS assistant I built and use on my Mac. Its command center brings together my agenda, reminders, focus sessions, local notes, and projects, with on-device natural-language commands.

Edgeboard

Private research workspace · in development

A private sports analytics workspace with MLB and NFL forecasting research, plus NBA game and injury tracking. It combines experimental score and probability models, historical backtesting, and checks on the evidence behind each forecast.

Out on the web

Sites I’ve designed and built.

A little
background.

Austin, Miami, and a few places in between.

Josh Strauss is a mission-driven builder and founder based in Austin, TX & Miami, FL. He is the co-founder & CEO of GumGauge and a sophomore at the University of Austin (UATX), shipping software end to end across native apps and private-capital fintech.

The reason behind all of it is simple: he wants to help people and leave the world better than he found it. That thread runs from nine years of youth human-rights advocacy with B’nai B’rith International, from delegations to the UN in Geneva and UNESCO in Paris to leading a youth mission to Colombia, through growing up working events for the family production studio, to the ventures he builds today as a sophomore at UATX, where he studies economics, politics, and history.

Getting there meant leaving Northeastern after one semester: a deliberate bet on an unaccredited school and the like-minded people in it, the kind who constantly and willingly challenge themselves to push the limits of what it means to be an active member of society.

Right now

Running GumGauge, refining Mise after App Store approval, validating Giltedge & Co.’s pre-seed thesis, developing Edgeboard, and using and refining Jarvis on my Mac.

Updated

Experience

B’nai B’rith International

Youth Leadership Rep., North America & Latin America · 2017–present

Nine years of youth human-rights advocacy: delegations to the UN Human Rights Council, UNESCO in Paris, and the UN in Geneva; led the youth mission to Colombia and joined the mission to Bulgaria; organized a 160-image exhibit for BBI’s 180th anniversary.

Strauss Production & Entertainment

Staff · 2012–present

Grew up working the family studio’s events — administrative and on-site support before and during productions, and later the studio’s website.

Colombian Foundation of Community Services

Aid Distribution Coordinator & Volunteer · Summer 2023

Coordinated aid distribution in Colombia; recognized with the foundation’s Leadership in Human Rights Initiative Award (Bogotá, 2023).

David Posnack JCC

Sports Center Staff · 2023–2025

Athletic-facility operations at the JCC in Davie, FL.

Education

University of Austin (UATX)

Sophomore · Class of 2029

Concentration in CEPH — Economics, Politics & History.

Northeastern University

Boston, MA · Fall 2025 · one semester

Started college here, then left after a semester to take a deliberate risk on UATX: an unaccredited new university, chosen for the people in it.

David Posnack Jewish School

Cooper City, FL · Class of 2025 · High Honors

Model United Nations, yearbook, flag football. CIJE Innovation Day awards two years running; CIJE Tank finalist (New York).

Awards & recognition
  • CIJE Innovation Day — Most Innovative Project (2024), Best School Presentation (2023); CIJE Tank finalist, New York (2023–24).
  • Youth Leadership in Human Rights & Advocacy Award — B’nai B’rith South Florida (2024).
  • Leadership in Human Rights Initiative Award — Fundación Colombiana de Servicios Comunitarios, Bogotá (2023).

On the reading list

The books and research behind the work.

Books

Founding, philosophy, strategy, and the classics.

Research papers

The literature behind GumGauge.

Let’s be in touch.

joshstrauss06@gmail.com
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