{"id":119088,"date":"2021-02-02T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/michael-antonov-formic-ventures-taking-on-huge-challenges-from-vr-to-longevity-biotechnology"},"modified":"2021-02-02T08:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:22:55","slug":"michael-antonov-formic-ventures-taking-on-huge-challenges-from-vr-to-longevity-biotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/michael-antonov-formic-ventures-taking-on-huge-challenges-from-vr-to-longevity-biotechnology","title":{"rendered":"Michael Antonov \u2014 Formic Ventures \u2014 Taking On Huge Challenges \u2014 From VR To Longevity Biotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvcMR4_UbFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Formic ventures \u2014 taking on huge challenges \u2014 from virtual reality technologist to longevity biotechnology investor.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Michael Antonov is the Founder and CEO of The Michael Antonov Foundation (<a href=\"https:\/\/antonovfoundation.org\/),\">https:\/\/antonovfoundation.org\/),<\/a> a charitable organization that supports biotechnology research and various causes that improve well being of people around the world, as well as Formic Ventures (<a href=\"https:\/\/formic.vc\/index.html),\">https:\/\/formic.vc\/index.html),<\/a> an early stage high tech and biotech investment firm focused on prolonging human healthspan and empowering human creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist passionate about taking on huge challenges that can make a difference in human lives, such as solving the problem of aging.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to launching the foundation, Michael was a technology executive, most recently as the co-founder and Chief Software Architect at Oculus, acquired by Facebook, where he helped revive the virtual reality industry. Prior to that, Michael was the co-founder and CTO of Scaleform, a user interface software company, whose product is embedded into hundreds of computer, console, and mobile games around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is a graduate of the University of Maryland in the field of computer science and is a member of their alumni hall of fame.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/michael-antonov-formic-ventures-taking-on-huge-challenges-from-vr-to-longevity-biotechnology\">Continue reading \u201cMichael Antonov \u2014 Formic Ventures \u2014 Taking On Huge Challenges \u2014 From VR To Longevity Biotechnology\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formic ventures \u2014 taking on huge challenges \u2014 from virtual reality technologist to longevity biotechnology investor. Michael Antonov is the Founder and CEO of The Michael Antonov Foundation (https:\/\/antonovfoundation.org\/), a charitable organization that supports biotechnology research and various causes that improve well being of people around the world, as well as Formic Ventures (https:\/\/formic.vc\/index.html), an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,269,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-life-extension","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}