Wealthiest Peoples Associated with Longevity

Wealthiest Living Figures Associated with Longevity, Biotech and Anti-Aging Technology.

Tier I: Roughly 100 billion and above

  • 1. Jeff Bezos - Amazon founder; reported primary backer of Altos Labs; early investor in Unity Biotechnology via Bezos Expeditions.
  • 2. Larry Ellison - Oracle co-founder; funded the Ellison Medical Foundation's aging-research program and now the Ellison Institute of Technology (Oxford).
  • 3. Larry Page - Google co-founder; founding backer of Calico.
  • 4. Sergey Brin - Google co-founder; Calico backer and major funder of Parkinson's disease research.
  • 5. Bill Gates - Microsoft co-founder; Gates Foundation global health funding and the Alzheimer's Discovery Fund.
  • 6. Mark Zuckerberg - Meta co-founder; co-funds the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Biohub, which target disease biology.
  • 7. Priscilla Chan, M.D. - Co-founder of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; wealth tied to Meta stock.

Tier II: Roughly 10-100 billion

  • 8. Peter Thiel - Founders Fund; early funder of SENS and the Methuselah Foundation; backer of Unity Biotechnology.
  • 9. Patrick Collison - Stripe co-founder; Fast Grants; co-founder of the Arc Institute.
  • 10. John Collison - Stripe co-founder; philanthropic funder in science alongside Patrick.
  • 11. Brian Armstrong - Coinbase co-founder; backer of NewLimit and founder of ResearchHub.
  • 12. Vinod Khosla - Khosla Ventures; early-stage investor in AI drug discovery and diagnostics.

Tier III: Roughly 1-10 billion

  • 13. Yuri Milner - Investor; reported Altos Labs co-backer.
  • 14. Sam Altman - OpenAI CEO; invested about $180M in Retro Biosciences.
  • 15. Marc Andreessen - Andreessen Horowitz; bio and health investing, including AI drug discovery.
  • 16. Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn co-founder; co-founded the AI drug-discovery company Manas AI.
  • 17. Sean Parker - Napster/Facebook; founder of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
  • 18. Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D. - Surgeon and NantWorks founder; cancer immunotherapy and biotech.
  • 19. Leonard Schleifer, M.D., Ph.D. - Regeneron founder and CEO.
  • 20. Stephane Bancel - Moderna CEO; mRNA platform.
  • 21. Ugur Sahin, M.D. - BioNTech co-founder and CEO; mRNA therapeutics.
  • 22. Ozlem Tureci, M.D. - BioNTech co-founder and chief medical officer.
  • 23. Thomas Struengmann - Hexal co-founder; early BioNTech backer.
  • 24. Andreas Struengmann - Hexal co-founder; early BioNTech backer.
  • 25. Julian Baker - Baker Bros. Advisors; major biotech investor.
  • 26. Felix Baker, Ph.D. - Baker Bros. Advisors; major biotech investor.
  • 27. Jed McCaleb - Founder of the Astera Institute; reported funder of exploratory science and longevity-adjacent research.
  • 28. Vitalik Buterin - Ethereum co-founder; donor to SENS and the Methuselah Foundation.
  • 29. Fred Ehrsam - Co-founder of Coinbase and Paradigm; reported NewLimit backer.
  • 30. Jim Mellon - Investor; co-founder of Juvenescence; author of Juvenescence. Wealth uncertain (high hundreds of millions to low billions).
  • 31. Christian Angermayer - Apeiron Investment Group; investor in Cambrian Biopharma and other longevity biotechs. Wealth uncertain.
  • 32. Joe Lonsdale - 8VC; bio and health investor. Wealth uncertain.
  • 33. Michael Milken - Milken Institute and its Center for the Future of Aging; long-time medical-research philanthropist.
  • 34. Hansjoerg Wyss - Funder of the Wyss Institute at Harvard and Wyss Center.
  • 35. Ernesto Bertarelli - Former Serono owner; biotech investor and Bertarelli Foundation founder.
  • 36. Andre Hoffmann - Roche founding-family heir; major shareholder.
  • 37. Cyrus Poonawalla - Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine maker.
  • 38. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw - Biocon founder; biotech and biosimilars.
  • 39. Dilip Shanghvi - Sun Pharma founder.
  • 40. Seo Jung-jin - Celltrion founder; biosimilars.
  • 41. Zhong Huijuan - Hansoh Pharmaceutical.
  • 42. Sun Piaoyang - Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine chairman.
  • 43. Ge Li - WuXi AppTec founder; drug-development services.
  • 44. Li Xiting - Mindray co-founder (medtech).
  • 45. Xu Hang - Mindray co-founder (medtech).
  • 46. Mohammed bin Salman - Saudi Crown Prince; state-backed Hevolution Foundation, a large global healthspan research funder. Wealth opaque; the funder is a state-linked foundation.

Tier IV: Sub-1 billion or opaque wealth, but prominent in the longevity economy

  • 47. Bryan Johnson - Project Blueprint; reports his wealth at a few hundred million dollars after the Braintree sale.
  • 48. Peter Diamandis, M.D. - XPRIZE founder; Human Longevity Inc. co-founder.
  • 49. J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. - Genomics pioneer; founder of Human Longevity Inc.
  • 50. Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D. - United Therapeutics founder; organ-manufacturing and transhumanist projects.
  • 51. Ray Kurzweil - Futurist and inventor; longevity advocate and co-author of Fantastic Voyage.
  • 52. Dave Asprey - Bulletproof founder; biohacking entrepreneur.
  • 53. Joon Yun, M.D. - Palo Alto Investors; Palo Alto Longevity Prize.
  • 54. Michael Greve - Forever Healthy Foundation and Kizoo.
  • 55. Naveen Jain - Viome founder; microbiome-based health tech.
  

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