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

  • Social entrepreneur who built RAJE, a large educational non-profit and had the idea for InvestAcure when his daughter was battling cancer.

  • Worked with Max as the COO of RAJE and joined him in co-founding the new company. MBA & IT background.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Director of Corporate Communications & Events

    5 years communications & development, Communication Officer @ Smith & Lewis Global, BA Political Science & Government Smith College

  • Scientific Advisor

    Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Alzheimer's, Dean UT-San Antonio, one of the top most-cited scientists in Neuroscience.

  • Scientific Advisor

    Director of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute. Over 350 scientific papers, including several leading to FDA approval of treatments for Alzheimer's.

  • Scientific Advisor

    CSO of In Silico Biosciences, headed Johnson & Johnson Alzheimer’s research and developed one of only 5 approved Alzheimer’s drugs.

  • Scientific Advisor

    NIH and Alzheimer’s Association national panels. Over 50 publications, 5 patents, and more than 100 presentations at conferences.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Scientific Advisor

    Columbia University – Director of MR Research – 45 patents – pioneer in development of MRI technology for diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.

  • 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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