Seed Funding Announcement
Summary
30 January 2024, London The Enhanced Games, the modern reinvention of the Olympic Games that does not have drug testing, is pleased to announce the closing of its Series Seed funding round with the participation of leading venture capitalists including Christian Angermayers Apeiron Investment Group, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan.The multi-million dollar round gives Enhanced the financial foundations to deliver a world-class sporting event. By focusing on world records in popular sports such as track and field, swimming, gymnastics, weight lifting and combat sports, we can eliminate wasteful infrastructure spending and reinvest to fairly pay all athletes, said DSouza.Christian Angermayer, a pioneer in the biotech, longevity and mental health sectors, who, in addition to his investment, joins the Enhanced Games as a co-founder declared, I was instantly drawn to Enhanced Games forward-thinking ethos and its alignment with many elements of my own vision for the Next Human Agenda. Its core mission centres on building a platform that not only improves the safety and fairness of competition but also stimulates scientific breakthroughs and nurtures human advancement. In the era of accelerating technological and scientific change, the world needs a sporting event that embraces the future, particularly advances in medical science, said DSouza.More information is available at Enhanced.org. Thiel co-founded Founders Fund, PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and was the first outside investor in Facebook.Dr Michael Sagner, MD, is an advisor on Ageing Research at the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at Kings College London, Director of the European Society of Preventive Medicine and a member of the Scientific and Medical Advisory Commission of the Enhanced Games.