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Michael Antonov

Software Architect, Investor, Co-founder at Oculus

Michael is the founder of Formic Ventures, an early stage high tech and biotech investment firm focused on prolonging human healthspan and empowering human creativity.

He was the co-founder and Chief Software Architect at Oculus, which revived the virtual reality industry and became a part of Facebook in 2014. At Oculus, Michael led the software team for Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, including the rendering runtime, game engine integrations and public APIs of the Oculus SDK.

Michael was the co-founder and CTO at Scaleform, a user interface middleware company sold to Autodesk, Inc. He led the development of Scaleform GFx, a leading user interface toolkit that shipped in hundreds of games including Mass Effect and Crysis. Core functionality of Scaleform included GPU-accelerated vector graphics and a bytecode VM to enable playback of Flash content inside of game engines on PCs, consoles and mobile devices.

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See also: Company Michael Antonov Foundation - Makes grants and gifts to organizations that perform human longevity-centered research

Details last updated 17-Dec-2020

Michael Antonov News

SRF's End Of Year Campaign receives $1M from Antonov Foundation

SRF's End Of Year Campaign receives $1M from Antonov Foundation

SENS Research Foundation - 16-Jan-2021

Raises a total of $2M dollars this year amidst the pandemic

Donations being triple matched for SENS end-of-year fundraiser

Donations being triple matched for SENS end-of-year fundraiser

SENS Research Foundation - 01-Dec-2020

I've just donated to help #UnlockLongevity - these are the experts and they need funding!