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Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur and investor who builds and invests in companies that are shaping the Next Human Agenda: a future in which technology empowers people to live longer, healthier, and happier lives. He is the world’s leading advocate for human enhancement and believes in advancing scientific progress to usher in an era of physical and mental potential, improving life for all.

Apeiron Investment Group, Christian’s family office and private investment firm, has more than USD 2.5 billion under management and 50 people in London, New York City, Abu Dhabi and Berlin. Apeiron focuses on Life Sciences, FinTech & Crypto, Future Tech, Natural Resources & Clean Energy, and Experiences, Hospitality & Happiness. Over the past 20 years, Christian has founded three unicorns and has been the lead investor in four unicorns and two decacorns.

Christian’s current areas of focus include:

1. Psychedelics and mental health: Christian is recognized for leading the current psychedelics renaissance which he believes will end the global mental health crisis. atai Life Sciences (Nasdaq: ATAI), founded by Christian, is developing psychedelic compounds including psilocybin, ketamine, DMT, and ibogaine, and their potential use as approved medical treatments.

2. Longevity: Christian has founded two biotech companies, Rejuveron Life Sciences and Cambrian Biopharma, that are developing medical drugs with the aim to significantly prolong the human life and health span. He is also a sponsor of the XPRIZE Healthspan, the $101 million competition that will incentivize new therapeutics to improve healthy aging and close the gap between life and health expectancy.

3. The Enhanced Games: Christian is co-founder of The Enhanced Games - the world’s first sporting event where performance enhancements are not just permitted, but actively endorsed. Its core mission centers on building a platform that not only improves the safety and fairness of competition but also stimulates scientific breakthroughs and nurtures human advancement.

4. Brain-computer interfaces and neurotech: Christian is a driving force behind the world’s leading BCI developer, Blackrock Neurotech. The Utah-based company is developing innovative brain technologies provide new hope for people with paralysis and other neurological disorders – and already has almost 50 BCIs implanted in patients’ brains.

5. Fintech, crypto – and AI: Through the Samara Asset Group, Christian has interests in Northern Data (Europe’s largest generative AI cloud platform and Bitcoin miner), Nextmarkets, and Deutsche Digital Assets.

Christian is an active thought leader and is an advisory council member for the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research, chaired by Professor David Sinclair, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders’ Circle, a partner of the Munich Security Conference, an advisor to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, and a founding member of President Macron’s “Scale-Up Europe” initiative. The Angermayer Policy and Innovation Forum convenes international heads of states, politicians, investors, and scientists coming together to discuss and address global priorities.

He is passionate about the arts and film and has been the (executive) producer of 26 feature films, including the critically acclaimed movies Filth (2013), Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014), the Zack Snyder hit Army of Thieves (2021), and Doctor Jekyll (2023).