InvestAcure, PBC
An automated spare change investment platform to help us cure Alzheimer's by investing in companies developing scientific discoveries into new therapeutics.
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Fintech
- Location New York, NY, US
- Currency USD
- Founded September 2017
- Employees 11
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website investacure.com
Company Summary
InvestAcure is a finance company building an investment platform to enable individuals who share a ‘Common Need’ to see progress in developing a cure for Alzheimer’s, to automatically round up purchases & invest the change in a portfolio of companies working on effective treatments. Our 3-year plan is to reach 1.7+ million users, investing $1 billion per annum to develop scientific innovations from basic research into lifesaving therapeutics.
Team
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CEO
Social entrepreneur who built RAJE, a large educational non-profit and had the idea for InvestAcure when his daughter was battling cancer.
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COO
Worked with Max as the COO of RAJE and joined him in co-founding the new company. MBA & IT background.
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Co-Founder & Chairman
31 years Wall Street investment banking and equity capital markets leadership, Founder, Chairman & CEO of Weild & Co., Former Vice Chairman of the NASDAQ, known as "The father of the JOBS Act", served as President & Head of Corporate Finance at Prudential.
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Chief Investment Officer
NGN Capital, Co-founder & Managing General Partner, voted top pharmaceutical analyst by Institutional Investor Magazine, Wall Street Analyst Hall of Fame, MBA, Harvard Business School.
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EVP of Development, InvestAcure Foundation
Experienced nonprofit & social impact executive, Founder of Nextdor, a social impact startup accelerator & Bizrael, a leading nonprofit connecting US & Israeli pharmaceutical & tech startups.
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Chief Experience Officer -Head of UI/UX Design
15 years Gamification and UI/UX design leadership for world's leading brands, including Google, LEGO, eBay, Huawei, and Volkswagen/Porsche.
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CTO
25 years leading software development teams in building Core Banking, Wealth Management, Electronic Payments and Money Transfer platforms, worked with IBM & Microsoft in creating financial service & credit card processing systems for emerging markets.
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Director of Corporate Communications & Events
5 years communications & development, Communication Officer @ Smith & Lewis Global, BA Political Science & Government Smith College
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Scientific Advisor
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Alzheimer's, Dean UT-San Antonio, one of the top most-cited scientists in Neuroscience.
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Scientific Advisor
Director of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute. Over 350 scientific papers, including several leading to FDA approval of treatments for Alzheimer's.
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Scientific Advisor
CSO of In Silico Biosciences, headed Johnson & Johnson Alzheimer’s research and developed one of only 5 approved Alzheimer’s drugs.
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Scientific Advisor
NIH and Alzheimer’s Association national panels. Over 50 publications, 5 patents, and more than 100 presentations at conferences.
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Scientific Advisor
Director of USC State of California Alzheimer’s Disease Center and the National Institute on Aging Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Editor-in-chief of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions.
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Scientific Advisor
A leading expert in early-stage drug discovery directed Exploratory & Translational Sciences at Merck, scientific board of Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, 144 research publications.
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Scientific Advisor
Columbia University – Director of MR Research – 45 patents – pioneer in development of MRI technology for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.
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Scientific Advisor
Director at Center for Cognitive Medicine, Vanderbilt University. Lead consultant to pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies in the US and abroad on central nervous system drug development, clinical trial design for dementia & depression, & clinical nicotinic pharmacology.
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