Curator Capital was founded in 2015 by Jay Schiff to help companies and institutional investors with all of their private equity, debt, and venture capital management needs.

Jay is a successful investment professional skilled with over 25 years of experience in corporate private equity, debt, and venture capital raising, investment fund LP capital raising, sourcing, underwriting and portfolio management, and restructuring/workouts. Invested over $1 billion from early stage (seed, series A) to mid-sized companies (>$100mm revenue). 

He founded and successfully managed a private debt investment fund for a $1 billion private equity firm and led investment teams at Merrill Lynch, Neptune Financial, and Crescendo Asset Management. Mr. Schiff also founded and manages an early-stage healthcare tech company focused on tackling the opioid epidemic. The company raised $895,000 anchored by the nation's leading social-impact angel group and was awarded a $260,000 SBIR grant from the CDC.

Curator Capital has been engaged to provide advisory for the development of three different early-stage investment funds, led multiple M&A processes, raised capital for several LBOs, provided underwriting assistance on dozens of investment opportunities, provided restructuring advisory, and liquidated a special situations debt and equity fund.​

Education includes a BA in Economics from Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences and an MBA in Finance and MS in Accounting from New York University Stern School of Business.