Cj Follini, P.G.A.

Capital Formation Executive | Alternative Investment asset manager | Nonprofit fundraising leader | Fintech Founder | Building the engagement layer between private funds and agentic AI.

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Founding Investor and Adviser
Apr 2024
Creating Iconic AI-First Ventures Beyond the Digital Sector.
Private Investor
Jan 2021
Nalu Bio is a female-founded and led San Francisco-based biotech company committed to accelerating the potential of cannabinoids for the health of people and the planet. Nalu Bio is harnessing the power of chemistry and predictive AI modeling to solve the world’s top health and wellness challenges impacting 2 billion people globally, including pain, anxiety, sleep, and weight loss. Our proprietary pipeline of no-high, chemistry-derived cannabinoids for global CPG and therapeutics companies maintain the molecular identity of the plant while addressing the drawbacks, including safety, predictability, scalability, and sustainability. Nalu Bio offers minor cannabinoids and combinations with bioactives to provide effective, safe, and consistent products for food and beverage, health and wellness, and personal care. Additionally, our pipeline of therapeutic products mimics naturally occurring cannabinoids to develop new chemicalentities (NCEs). This approach aims to increase druggability, safety, and efficacy while potentially reducing side effects in some of the most in-demand medications on the market. Learn more at NaluBio.com and contact us at hello@nalubio.com.
Board Member
Jan 2019
Solving glasses for kids and parents.
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2024
Founding Investor and Adviser
Apr 2024
Creating Iconic AI-First Ventures Beyond the Digital Sector.
2022
Founder & CEO
2022
Noyack Wealth Club is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide financial education to #Millennials, #GenZ and specifically High Earners Not Rich Yet (#HENRYs). NWC is a global leader in financial literacy operating with the pillars of Education & Enablement i.e access to private markets. Ask anyone where they received practical education to manage their finances and wealth and invariably the answers are social media or nobody. Sad state of affairs. Noyack Wealth Club will fix this. NOYACK will educate about Millennials and Gen Z in a safe, agenda-free s[pace preparing them for the Great Wealth Transfer. $40 trillion will pass from Baby Boomers to younger generations; that’s a lot of cheddar! Are they prepared? How will they make decisions? Where will they get the practical education? Who are their mentors & coaches? This is where we come in, building a community around financial self-empowerment. Our core product is the Noyack Wealth Academy, an asynchronous, modular curriculum where we learn about trusts and estates, family wealth transfer, retirement planning, tax strategies and most importantly, private markets investing. We do this online in a digital campus, live events, detailed research reports andof course , the #1 subscribed newsletter about financial literacy and private investing in the US - Noyack Wealth Weekly. This nonprofit mission of ours is all about bringing people together in a community to learn, explore, and control their financial destiny. Because when someone decodes financial planning they unlock unlock better neighborhoods which unlocks access to the best schools which unlocks access to the best universities which unlocks access to the best careers and the best networks…unlocking the world. Hopefully we teach our community to fish for themselves so they can build generational security. Education, community and access...thats who we are and... weareNOYACK.com. And so are you. Accessgranted℠
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Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer
2022
"Alts for All" is our mantra at Noyack Investing Club, where were on a mission to democratize alternative investments for HENRYs (High Earners, Not Rich Yet). Our Founder, CJ Follini, brings over 40 years of experience managing investments for ultra-high-net-worth families. Why Alts? $ Diversify your portfolio and potentially reduce risk $ Tap into the potential for higher returns $ Hedge against inflation $ Access unique investment opportunities $ Take advantage of increased accessibility to alts We offer a range of alternative investment funds designed specifically with millennial HENRYs in mind. Our core values of equality, integrity, and transparency drive us to make "Alts for All" a reality. As one of our investors put it, "Noyack makes money FOR partners, not FROM partners." Were committed to empowering a new generation of investors to build wealth through alternative investments. Join us on this journey and discover the power of alts for your financial future.
2021
Private Investor
Jan 2021
Nalu Bio is a female-founded and led San Francisco-based biotech company committed to accelerating the potential of cannabinoids for the health of people and the planet. Nalu Bio is harnessing the power of chemistry and predictive AI modeling to solve the world’s top health and wellness challenges impacting 2 billion people globally, including pain, anxiety, sleep, and weight loss. Our proprietary pipeline of no-high, chemistry-derived cannabinoids for global CPG and therapeutics companies maintain the molecular identity of the plant while addressing the drawbacks, including safety, predictability, scalability, and sustainability. Nalu Bio offers minor cannabinoids and combinations with bioactives to provide effective, safe, and consistent products for food and beverage, health and wellness, and personal care. Additionally, our pipeline of therapeutic products mimics naturally occurring cannabinoids to develop new chemicalentities (NCEs). This approach aims to increase druggability, safety, and efficacy while potentially reducing side effects in some of the most in-demand medications on the market. Learn more at NaluBio.com and contact us at hello@nalubio.com.
2020
Seed Investor
2020
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA. For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
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