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Michael Antonov

Founder & CEO at DeepOrigin, Investor, Co-founder Oculus

San Francisco Bay Area

Investor
VC
Founder

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Virtual Machines
Architecture
C++
Software Development
OpenGL
Video Games
.NET
Embedded Systems
Software Engineering
3D
User Interface
Animation
Multithreading
Perforce
Scrum
Software Design
C
Java
Visual Studio
Agile Methodologies

Education

Investments

Aviron Interactive

Seed

Total Funding: $24M

BlockFi

Series C

Total Funding: $960M

Underdog Pharmaceuticals

Seed

Total Funding: $4M

Schrödinger

Series E

Total Funding: $180M

LEAD

Seed

Total Funding: $160M

Bolt

Series B

Total Funding: $2.4B

PreNav

Seed

Total Funding: $7.5M

Oculus

Seed

Total Funding: $94M

Work Experience

Deep Origin

2022

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2022

Formic Ventures

2020

  • Founder

    2020

Formic Labs

2022 - 2023

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2022 - 2023

Facebook

2018 - 2019

  • Software Architect

    2018 - 2019

    Focused on Caffe2/Pytorch and Better Engineering within FB AI Infra team.

Oculus VR

2012 - 2018

  • Chief Software Architect

    2012 - 2018

    Leading SDK Development for Oculus Rift.

Gaikai

2012 - 2012

  • Lead Software Architect

    2012 - 2012

    Focusing on Gaikai Client SDKs.

Autodesk

2011 - 2012

  • Senior Software Architect

    2011 - 2012

    Joined Autodesk Media & Entertainment group through acquisition of Scaleform.

Scaleform

1999 - 2011

  • CTO / Lead Architect

    1999 - 2011

    As a co-founder I was in charge of building Scaleform and its GFx product line.