Karl Pfleger

Karl Pfleger is a prominent angel investor in the longevity sector, known for his involvement with Repair Biotechnologies, a company focused on using gene therapy to combat age-related diseases. Beyond his investment and active participation in conferences, Pfleger also manages Aging Biotech Info, which started as a directory of longevity industry companies and has since expanded to include a wide range of resources, such as information on conferences, books, blogs, interventions, diagnostics, and more. The website describes itself as “Structured info about aging and longevity”, and has the declared mission statement, “Everything important in the field (outside of academia), organised.”

Before diving into the longevity space, Pfleger worked at Google from 2002 to 2013 as a research scientist and data analyst, applying AI and machine learning at scale. He holds a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton and a PhD in Computer Science and AI from Stanford.

An avid supporter of the Buck Institute and SENS Foundation, Pfleger has also invested in over 15 aging-related startups. He is the founder of AgingBiotech.info, a free public platform designed to track the commercialisation progress of the aging biotech industry and provide related insights.