About Us
Item of Christian’s private collection of historic artefacts centering around the ritualistic use of psychedelics:
Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, crossroads, and guardian of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Statue from 1st - 2nd century A.D.
The Eleusinian Mysteries were the most famous mystery cult in ancient Greece held in honour of the goddess Demeter at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis.
Apeiron Investment Group is the family office and private investment firm of entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer.
With more than $2.5b under management and over 50 people across six international locations, Apeiron focuses on Life Sciences, FinTech & Crypto, FutureTech, and Experiences, Hospitality & Happiness.
Apeiron has a global approach and deploys its capital across the entire company lifecycle, from founding companies in-house, seed/start-up investments, to large-scale investments in listed companies.
Apeiron predominantly invests its own capital, making us highly entrepreneurial, reliable and flexible.
Christian Angermayer
Apeiron Founder
Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Apeiron Investment Group.
Christian is the driving force behind the current renaissance of psychedelics - and the development of psilocybin and DMT as potential treatments for a wide range of mental health conditions. In 2018, he founded atai Life Sciences, which has a pipeline of more than 10 therapeutic candidates targeted at the world’s most prevalent and damaging mental health illnesses, including depression, anxiety, and addiction.
With his biotech companies rejuveron Life Sciences and Cambrian Biopharma, Christian is developing medical drugs with the aim to significantly prolong the human life span - and health span to match. Because, after all, we all want to live healthier, happier and longer lives.
Christian is an active thought leader and is an advisory council member of the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research, chaired by Prof. 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. His Angermayer Policy and Innovation Forum convenes international heads of states, politicians, investors, and scientists coming together to discuss and address global priorities.
Passionate about the arts and film, Christian has been the executive producer of 26 feature films to date, including the critically acclaimed movies Filth (2013), Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014), Resistance (2020) and the Zack Snyder movie Army of Thieves (2021).
Entrepreneurial,reliable& flexible.
Our current portfolio encompasses more than 100 high-growth tech companies in Europe, North America, and Asia. We have founded three unicorns, and have also been the lead investor in two additional unicorns and two decacorns.
5 Reasons To Work With Us
Value-add01
Most institutional investors usually just provide capital. In contrast, we provide a hands-on, value-add approach to all our portfolio companies. We actively help entrepreneurs to create and crystallize value.
Long-term02
Most investment managers just manage external money and are bound by an abundance of rules and constraints. We primarily invest our own capital, which enables us to be a truly long-term and reliable partner.
Thought-leader03
We have masterminded some of the most successful IPOs and venture deals over recent years and are well-known for this. As a result, we have strong connections with the world’s leading investors, who closely follow our activities and invest alongside us.
Loyalty04
We are entrepreneurs at heart. We know from our own experience that there will also be challenging times in the lifecycle of any company. Companies need us most when others turn their backs on them. We truly support our entrepreneurs.
Happiness05
We are the largest investor globally in psychedelics. Making people truly happy is our No. 1 goal and inspires us to act with integrity, commitment, and conviction.
Our Team Members
Senior Partner
Focused across life science and deep tech verticals with 15+ years of financial markets experience. Investing across the full company lifecycle and helping to found the next generation of world-changing companies.
Founding Partner Presight Capital
Fabian is a co-founder of Presight. Fabian was an early investor in numerous category-defining companies and serves on the board of Peptilogics, Beren, Alloy, Valoreo and Angiex. In 2020, he was featured in Forbes’ “30 under 30” list in the Finance category.
Founding Partner re.mind Capital
Senior investment professional, manager, entrepreneur and coach with 20+ years of experience with globally leading organisations in healthcare private equity, FinTech, investment banking, media and strategic management consulting.
Managing Director Apeiron Investment Group Ltd.
Jefim has been with Apeiron for more than 6 years and has been the COO of Cryptology Asset Group since 2018. In addition to his financial expertise, he is passionate about translating his skills into investing into sustainable, particularly crypto-related business models.
Managing Director Apeiron Investment Group Ltd.
Business lawyer having worked in international law firms in London, Frankfurt and Berlin. Strong focus on business and capital markets law, now working as Managing Director of Apeiron Investment Group.
Head of Proprietary Investments, and CEO, 029 Group
Heads up Proprietary Investments at Apeiron and is also CEO of 029 Group. Over 16 years of experience across venture, company building and public markets. New York University graduate.
Chief Financial Officer
Having worked across different parts of the financial services industry for over 20 years, including investment banking, private equity and FinTech, Marc now serves as CFO for the Apeiron group.
Founding Partner Elevat3 Capital
Marlon is a passionate investor and entrepreneur. He started his first company while at university and has accompanied various other ventures as a founder or angel since. He holds a PhD in Economics and is passionate about animal and nature conservation in Africa.
Founding Partner re.mind Capital
Investing into impactful companies led by force-of-nature founders. 10+ years of experience in consulting and company-building.
Head of Communications
Mike has 20 years of experience in communications and editorial roles and was previously at The Economist, EY, the Middle East Economic Digest, and Virgin Atlantic. He holds an MA in Middle East Politics and a BA in Economics and Accounting.
Founding Partner, Apeiron Partners
Early-stage venture capital investor, previously at Samsung Next and helped to establish their presence in Europe. Former banking and institutional finance lawyer with Morgan Lewis, and Dewey & LeBoeuf. MBA from MIT.
Chief Legal Officer
A highly experienced lawyer with over 20 years of in-depth legal practice within the venture capital/distressed debt/private equity/investment banking and asset management sectors. Skilled at Debt/Equity/M&A deal execution, fund establishment, deal and team management as well as providing legal and commercial advice to the C-Suite and UHNWI.
Head of Operations
Paula has over 14 years’ fund and investment banking operations experience in buy and sell-side environments, including in operational due diligence.
Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff
Philipp is Chief Operating Officer at Apeiron. His focus lies on venture investments and company building.
Chief People and Talent Officer
Stacy leads human resources and recruiting at Apeiron and our funds, as well as advising our portfolio on talent acquisition. He was formerly Head of People and Workplace at Bill Gates-backed ResearchGate, the world's largest network for scientists.
Founding Partner Elevat3 Capital
Before co-founding Elevat3 together with Christian and Marlon, Thomas worked in various leading positions in the areas of small and mid-cap private equity and venture capital since 2009. Thomas holds a degree in business administration from the University of Würzburg.
Chairman, DEAG
Investing across mid- to large-cap companies across private and public markets for the last 10 years with a focus on TMT, consumer goods, FinTech. Previously with Goldman Sachs and a special situations buyout firm. Loves art and travel.
Head of Public Markets Investments & ECM/DCM
Vincent is an experienced Corporate Finance professional with extensive capital markets and business development expertise. He has led numerous transactions, raising capital for corporations in excess of €30bn. Prior to joining Apeiron, he spent over a decade in investment banking.