Christian Angermayer

Co-Chairman at Blackrock Neurotech

Christian Angermayer is an entrepreneur, investor, and film enthusiast.

He is the founder of Apeiron Investment Group, his family office and merchant banking business. Apeiron focuses on investments in biotech, fintech & crypto and deep tech companies. Apeiron completes deals across the entire lifecycle and balance sheet of a company, from non-listed seed/start-up investments to larger scale restructuring and special situations deals .

Passionate about the arts and film, Christian has (executive) produced 21 feature films including critically acclaimed movies like Filth, Aspern Papers and Hector and the Search for Happiness. He is the largest shareholder of DEAG, one of the largest live entertainment companies in Europe. Christian has a unique art collection centred around the theme “Psychedelics / Entheogens”.

With his biotech company ATAI Life Sciences, Christian has the ambitious goal to find cures for various mental health issues like depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD by bringing back so called psychedelics like “magic mushrooms” and DMT into the legal realm as powerful medical treatment.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Christian places great value on social, political, and societal commitments. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Presidential Advisory Council of His Excellency President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle. Christian’s “Angermayer Policy and Innovation Forum” convenes several times a year Head of States, leading politicians, artists, investors, and scientists to discuss crucial topics and issues.

UK Newspaper Sunday Times ranks Christian among the 1.000 richest people living in the United Kingdom with an estimated net worth of approx. USD 700 million.