Michael Antonov

Michael Antonov is the Founder & CEO of Deep Origin. Deep Origin is helping scientists solve disease and extend healthspan by building tools that simplify R&D, simulate biology, and untangle the complexity of life. Michael is a highly accomplished serial entrepreneur and software architect. Before founding Deep Origin, he co-founded two companies that were both successfully acquired: Scaleform, which was acquired by Autodesk, and Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook.

At Oculus, he led development of the PC Runtime and SDK for DK1, DK2, and the Oculus Rift. He also started the Web VR team, which shipped the Carmel browser and React VR, and contributed to Caffe2 and PyTorch as part of the Facebook AI team. Prior to that, at Scaleform, he led development of its GFx product line—a GPU-accelerated graphics and UI toolkit used in major games across PC, console, and mobile. The software enabled seamless playback of Flash content inside game engines and became the industry standard for in-game user interfaces.

In addition to his experience in software, Michael is also an investor and the founder of Formic Ventures, which makes early-stage investments in biotech startups focused on human longevity as well as technology startups and companies that make human lives more meaningful.