Biohacker Bryan Johnson’s visited for treatment – how ‘a 2.0 version of Dubai’ seeded by US-based Próspera in Honduras aims to push limits of human longevity
- A ‘start-up city’ aims to attract longevity-focused entrepreneurs by having few regulatory hurdles – helping to, for example, rapidly get a new drug to market
- Honduran authorities have, though, repealed a law permitting a city with its own civil law and regulatory structure; founder Próspera is suing for US$11 billion
St John’s Bay, on the Honduran island of Roatán, is a start-up city that is attracting tech innovators, crypto mavericks and longevity gurus hoping to push the limits of human advancement.
The city was created by Próspera, a US-registered firm backed by investment heavyweights such as PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel that aims to operate a network of such cities with minimal regulatory barriers to innovation.
Próspera is Spanish for “prosperous”. Many of the 100 residents currently living in St John’s Bay are indeed well off. Niklas Anzinger, a graduate of Syracuse University in the US state of New York, is one.
Anzinger is the founder and managing partner of Infinita, a venture capital (VC) firm that he says is the first based in the Próspera network to support start-ups that are looking to overcome regulatory bottlenecks. It does this by using start-up cities and network states that offer them incentives such as generous tax breaks, residency and access to land.
Anzinger is also co-founder and CEO of Vitalia, a longevity-focused organisation.
He moved to Honduras to pursue his long-term goal: “To develop a new model for human civilisation that generates 5 per cent productive economic growth per year, allowing humanity to reach an unfathomable level of material superabundance.”
