Laurence Ion
Co-initiator at Vitalia.city
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Initiator
2025 - Current
A community building a new city to make death optional. Yes, we're building a permanent city for people who prioritize longevity.
Founding Steward
2021
- VitaDAO is the world’s first decentralised collective funding early stage longevity research - Our mission is to extend the human lifespan by researching, financing, and commercialising longevity therapeutics in an open and democratic manner
Member
2023
The revolutionary movement to solve biological aging and death.
Co-initiator
2022
Funding movies to inspire people about an ageless world
Founding Member
2022
A fund focusing on Decentralized Science projects
Director
2021
Not-for-profit to advance the development of biomedical interventions that addresses age-related diseases for the purpose of improving healthspan.
Co-Founder
2023 - 2025
The first longevity pop-up city. We discontinued Vitalia and spun off two separate new brands: https://x.com/longevion/status/1876817119909908594 The original idea of Vitalia is continued by Viva.city
Core Organizer
2023 - 2023
Zuzalu.city was the first-of-its-kind pop-up city, initiated by Vitalik Buterin in Montenegro, from March 25 to May 25, 2023. 200 core residents were brought together by a shared desire to learn, create, live longer and healthier lives, and build self-sustaining communities. The Zuzalu community continues with gatherings around the world, as well as developing open source software for more pop-up cities and permanent settlements to be created.
Co-founder & CEO
2015 - 2019
An app that gives people who locked eyes in real life a second chance at getting in touch. Intersect recommends you new people based on the places you've been in real life.
Co-founder
2014 - 2015
became Intersect. see above