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Peter Diamandis

Founder of Abundance360

Santa Monica, California

Overview 

Peter Diamandis is a data-driven optimist, best-selling author, and renowned speaker known for inspiring entrepreneurs to create an abundant future for humanity through research, investment, and community building. He is the Founder of Abundance360 and has played key roles in organizations such as XPRIZE, Singularity University, and Human Longevity, Inc., showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and strategic partnerships.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & Curator

    2012 - Current

    Abundance360 shapes your mindset and gives you access to world-changing technologies. Join a dynamic and private community of entrepreneurs, CEOs, and investors, who meet annually at our in-person Summit and quarterly during our virtual workshops.

Abundance360 is a Singularity University that brings together forward-thinking businesspeople to tackle the biggest problems in the world.

  • Founder & Executive Chairman

    1994

    Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter H. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions.

  • Exec. Chairman & Co-Founder

    2008

    Created as a new university (co-Founded with Ray Kurzweil) on the campus of NASA Ames/Moffett, Singularity University is an interdisciplinary, international graduate level institution focused on exponentially growing technologies and their ability to be used to address humanity’s Grand Challenges. (www.singularityu.org).

Singularity Group is an educational organization that provides research development and executive programs.

  • Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman

    2020

Vaxxinity is a biotechnology company that enables the innovation of synthetic peptide vaccines to prevent or treat infectious diseases.

Raised $9,250,000.00 from Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.

  • Co-Founder & Vice Chairman

    2014

    HLI is focused extending the healthy human life-span. Making 100 years-old, the “new 60”. The company is backed by a group of world-class investors (www.HumanLongevity.com).

Human Longevity is a genomic-based, health intelligence company empowering proactive healthcare and enabling a life better lived.

Raised $369,800,000.00 from TVM Capital Healthcare, Emerging Technology Partners, Panacea Venture, Panacea Venture, Emerging Technology Partners, Celgene, Amino Capital, OS Fund, Illumina Ventures and GE Ventures.

  • Co-Founder

    2015

    Venture capital firm investing in exponential transformation. We back entrepreneurs and companies utilizing exponential technologies, focused on disrupting existing industries and trying to solve the world’s biggest problems.

  • Co-Founder & Vice Chairman

    2016

    Commercial-stage cell therapeutics company delivering transformative allogenic cellular therapies, engineered from the postpartum human placenta, in cancer immunotherapy and functional regeneration.

Celularity is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing off-the-shelf placental-derived allogeneic cell therapies.

Raised $400,000,011.00 from Sorrento Therapeutics, Dragasac Limited and Starr Insurance.

  • Owner

    2010

PHD Ventures is the holding company for developing new initiatives and problem solving across Dr. Peter H. Diamandis.

  • Co-Founder, Managing Director

    1997

    (www.spaceadventures.com). Space Adventures is the leading space- tourism company. Space Adventures has flown 8 private customer-missions to the Int’l Space Station since 2001.

Space Adventures has arranged all eight of the spaceflights completed by private citizens to date.

  • President, Chairman, & CEO

    1994

    ZERO-G is a Space Entertainment Company providing weightless experiences aboard its ‘zero-g aircraft.’ The company operates FAA-certified Boeing 727 aircraft. Zero-G provides NASA with parabolic flight services for research, education and training, having flown over 10,000 customers.

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