The Spider Network

Access is the work.

David Townshend works at the intersection of health, science, capital, media, and technology. Over more than a decade he has connected founders, investors, scientists, and cultural leaders, and has positioned the people and technologies that move health forward inside the rooms where real decisions are made.

The future of American health is being written now. It will be shaped by the people who can bring the right science, capital, and platforms together. This overview is a map of that work: the ventures he advises and helps to scale, the relationships he holds across the movement, the events he curates, the media he reaches, and the capital he moves.

David Townshend, Founder of The Spider Network

Alignment

Alignment with the Movement

The Make America Healthy Again movement rests on a clear premise. Remove the toxins from American life, restore honest science, and let health follow. Cleaner food, cleaner water, safer medicine. David's work sits directly on that premise, not as commentary but as execution.

Through his advisory and client portfolio he is helping bring to market the technologies that make the mission real. Medical sterilization without the cancer-causing gas used on roughly half of America's devices today. Drinking water cleared of forever chemicals at the molecular level. Food treated for pests without chemical fumigation. Agriculture that grows more while using less water and fewer chemical inputs. He pairs those technologies with the capital to scale them, the media to carry them, and the relationships to put them in front of the people now writing national health policy.

His role across the movement is connective. He brings founders and investors into its orbit, places its leaders and ideas in front of national audiences, and curates the gatherings where its most important relationships form. Few people sit as naturally across the movement's three engines at once: the science and the practitioners, the capital that funds them, and the media that carries the message.

About the Founder

David Townshend

Founder. The Spider Network. High-Integrity Relationships. Strategic Collaboration. Real-World Execution.

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Centerpiece

Ventures Advancing the Mission

Across his advisory and client portfolio, David works with the founders and teams building some of the most consequential technologies in health, food, water, and science. He helps position them, connect them to capital, and bring them to the audiences and decision makers who matter.

Clean Food, Water, and Environment

Pulse Industries

Advisory / Client Portfolio

David advises Pulse, a deep-technology company that mass-manufactures industrial electron beam accelerators at a 278,000 square foot factory in Marianna, Florida. The platform replaces toxic processes with electricity alone. It sterilizes medical devices without the cancer-causing gas used on roughly half of America's devices today, destroys PFAS and forever chemicals in drinking water at the molecular level, and treats food for pests without chemical fumigation. Led by Dr. Eric Burgett, a nuclear engineer formerly of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. No chemicals, no radioactive sources, clean output.

UpTerra

Advisory / Client Portfolio

David advises UpTerra, a farm performance technology company whose inline TerraFlow system restructures irrigation water to behave more like rainwater and reach the soil more evenly. Deployed across more than 50,000 acres and 350 farms, with partners including John Deere, Kansas State University, and Mississippi State, the company reports field results of 20 to 30 percent reductions in applied water while maintaining or increasing yields, alongside reduced reliance on chemical fertilizer and pesticide inputs.

MicroSnap Carbon

Portfolio / Scaling

A cleantech company using hyper-triggered microorganisms to rapidly convert organic waste into stabilized carbon, preventing methane and CO2 emissions while generating verified carbon credits.

Biotechnology, Neuroscience, and Longevity

Atumnus

Ecosystem Partner

David works with Atumnus, a pre-IPO biotechnology company founding the discipline of endogenic pharmacology. Built by Daniel Dorsey and Daniel Nowak around its CortixEngine cognitive AI architecture and a portfolio of approximately 500 patents, and backed by GSD Venture Studios, Atumnus is on a defined path toward public listing. David connects the company into capital, partnership, and accelerator pathways.

Neuroscience20 and the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics

Connector / Convener

The G20-aligned global summit advancing brain, spine, and mental health policy, research, and the commercialization of next generation neuro-technologies. David supports the initiative as a connector and convener.

Frontier Computing and Security

Quantum Light Technology

Strategic Partner

David is a strategic partner to QLT, which is building room-temperature photonic quantum computing. Its Optical Distortion Reversal technology is a passive error-correction layer on standard silicon that extends usable quantum computation by roughly an order of magnitude, covered by more than 34 patent filings.

Gondor Data Security

Portfolio

A quantum-inspired data security company building crypto asset recovery and post-quantum cryptography to protect high-value data against current and future threats.

Artificial Intelligence and Agentic Infrastructure

Trinity Consortium

Strategic Partner / AI Infrastructure

The sovereign intelligence stack beneath the network's AI: a deterministic, auditable substrate where every computation can carry a proof. Home of the unified anti-hallucination system, spanning 80 engines and 461 agent skills. David partners with Trinity to make autonomous agents safe to act on behalf of members.

Astral.AI

Co-Founder / Marketing Infrastructure

David is a co-founder of Astral.AI, the outreach layer for the network's agent sub-armies. Astral.AI runs automated, consent-based direct messaging across Instagram and social channels to qualify and warm leads at institutional scale.

Glitches.Gigi

Co-Founder / Content Engine

David is a co-founder of Glitches.Gigi, a community of clippers and editors backed by advanced AI production, supplying fact-checked, voice-matched, on-brand content and clips at scale.

White Label Suite

Strategic Partner / Computer-Use Agent

A browser-driving outreach agent that researches ideal clients, runs automated email and text outreach, handles follow-ups, and books appointments without human babysitting.

Mindful Agency

Strategic Partner / Public Relations

An earned-media engine that gets brands featured in top-tier press such as Forbes and Rolling Stone and on marquee podcasts, with access to more than 774 outlets.

Velvi AI

Portfolio / Scaling

An AI platform connecting brands and creators, building the next generation space for the two to collaborate.

David Townshend Consulting

Operator / Throughline

David's advisory practice and the throughline across every partnership: strategy, orchestration, and partner integration that turns a vision into a working machine and co-architects the agent infrastructure above.

Wellness, Longevity, and Human Potential

Kabbalah Enlightenment

Co-Founder

David is a co-founder of Kabbalah Enlightenment, a platform bringing the wisdom and practices of Kabbalah to a modern audience seeking spiritual growth, meaning, and enlightenment.

Holistic University

Strategic Partner / Connector

The initiative building the Global Wellness Infrastructure - one platform unifying the world's practitioners, teachers, founders, operators, and investors across the multi-trillion-dollar wellness economy. David serves as a strategic partner and connector, bringing capital, relationships, and reach to the movement.

Private - by introduction

SoulMatch

Ecosystem Platform / Matching Engine

The connection engine of the wellness ecosystem and the matching layer behind Spider Network - pairing a person to the right practitioner, teaching, technology, or initiative by intent and alignment rather than keywords.

EVLVE

Ecosystem Platform / Member Front Door

The consumer front door of the wellness ecosystem - brand, membership, mentorship, and events. It owns the member relationship and the cultural energy that carries the movement.

Gaia Healers

Ecosystem Platform / Global Directory

The living global directory and map of vetted wellness practitioners, teachers, products, and technologies - the supply layer that makes the world's healers findable.

Private - by introduction

Global Wellness Forum

Convener / Standards (Emerging)

An emerging standards and policy layer convening leaders across the wellness field to establish shared credibility, standards, and a seat at the table for the movement.

Private - by introduction

Network

Relationships Across the Movement and Global Wellness

David's relationships span the leadership of the health and wellness movement and the broader longevity and biohacking world. Among the figures he is connected to and has worked alongside:

Marla Maples

Wellness advocate, host, and a respected voice in the field, with whom he has collaborated on content and programming.

Dr. Edward Group

Founder and a leading authority in natural health and detoxification.

Sayer Ji

Founder of GreenMedInfo and a prominent author and researcher in the natural health movement.

Dr. Mehmet Oz

Physician and broadcaster, whom he has connected with across the movement's events and gatherings.

His relationships also extend into the family network surrounding Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the leadership of the broader movement, giving him close proximity to the people now shaping national health policy. He is similarly connected across the longevity and biohacking world, including figures such as Dave Asprey and the exponential technology community around Peter Diamandis. Across all of it his role is the same. He works alongside these figures not as a promoter but as a connector.

Music Industry

In the Room

The People and Platforms He Sits Across

From royal lineage and global culture to the leading edge of longevity and national media - a look at some of the rooms and conversations David has been part of.

David Townshend in conversation with HRH May Liu

Culture & Legacy

A Conversation with HRH May Liu

Artist, filmmaker, philanthropist, and descendant of the Han Dynasty Liu royal family - David sat down with HRH May Liu on building bridges between culture, capital, and conscious legacy.

David Townshend at the Dave Asprey Beyond Biohacking conference

Longevity & Biohacking

Dave Asprey · Beyond Biohacking

Inside one of the world's leading gatherings of biohackers, longevity scientists, and visionaries - where David connects the founders and capital shaping the future of human performance.

David Townshend on the news set of Real America's Voice

National Media

On Air with Real America's Voice

That's David on the set of Real America's Voice - a national media partner where his work has been featured and where he helps align the guests and stories that reach a national audience.

Curation

Signature Events: Curated, Hosted, and Activated

A central part of David's work is the curation and production of events. He does not simply attend the field's most important gatherings. He builds rooms inside them: private lounges, investor dinners, summits, and activations that put the right people together.

Health, Longevity, and Biohacking

  • HealthTech Summit at JPMorgan Healthcare Week

    Helped organize and curate this summit during one of the most important weeks on the healthcare calendar.

  • Dave Asprey Beyond Biohacking Conference

    A leading gathering of the biohacking and longevity community.

  • HLTH and the major health and biotech summits

    Presence and programming across the field's flagship investor and innovation events.

  • Art Basel longevity lounges

    Private longevity lounges and activations during one of the world's premier cultural weeks.

  • Biohackers World

    A proposed activation built around the global biohacking community.

  • A4M conferences

    Engagement across the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine's professional gatherings.

Sports, Culture, and Entertainment

  • World of Wellness fashion show, Miami Swim Week

    A recent wellness and lifestyle activation staged during Swim Week.

  • FIFA World Cup longevity lounge

    An upcoming longevity lounge at the fashion show tied to the World Cup.

  • NBA All-Star activations

    Celebrity, sports, and entertainment activations across All-Star weekend.

  • Leigh Steinberg Super Bowl Party

    Helped curate the room and bring in guests for one of the marquee events of Super Bowl week.

Capital and Policy

  • FII, including FII Miami

    Presence and relationship-building across the Future Investment Initiative gatherings.

  • Abundance360

    Active participation in Peter Diamandis's annual summit of exponential founders and investors.

  • Hispanic Prosperity Gala at Mar-a-Lago

    Helped curate the guest list for this gathering.

  • AmericaFest and the Turning Point orbit

    Curated sponsors and guests, where commemorative paintings were presented to Erika Kirk. His presence was featured on Real America's Voice.

He has also covered and worked across CES, the Oscars, Consensus, eMerge Americas, and other major global gatherings.

Distribution

Media and Publications

David works actively across premier media channels and helps founders, experts, and brands earn placement in the outlets that shape the field.

Real America's Voice

An active media partner, where his work has been featured and where he helps align guests and stories.

Top Doctor Magazine

Ongoing collaboration placing physicians and health leaders in front of a national audience.

Biohack Yourself Media

A strategic media partner across the wellness and longevity space.

National publications

Works with Michael Graziano and his team to help clients earn features in outlets including Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Sports Illustrated.

Portfolio

Client and Media Portfolio

Through Biohack Yourself Media and David Townshend Consulting, David has produced and directed branded content for a wide range of wellness, longevity, biohacking, and health technology companies, and has created media with some of the most recognized figures in health, business, and culture. A selection follows. Video case studies are available on request.

Supplements, Nutrition, and Longevity

L-Nutra / ProLon

LivOn Labs

SNiP Nutrigenomics

Arctic Collagen

V14 Longevity

The Sprouting Company

Amino Innovations

Ascended Health

True Relief

Recovery, Devices, and Wearable Tech

Pulsetto

Relax Saunas

eXciteOSA

Dnsys.AI

OsteoStrong

HaloScape

Feno

Smart oral care

Willo

Kernel

Neurotech

Awear Tech

Diagnostics and Health Data

Molecular You

Blood GPT

AI blood diagnostics

Goodlabs

Lab testing

FaceHeart

Contactless vitals AI

Mira Health

CanLab International

Functional and Longevity Medicine

10X Health System

Karli Health

Centner Wellness

Health Tech and AI

Deep Care AI

Plug and Play

Hi-Centric AI

Beverage

Ritual Zero Proof

Non-alcoholic spirits

Proud American Beverages

Verse Drink

Vitality

Clinics and Wellness Centers

BioRegen Wellness

Atlas Clinics

Pompano Beach

Cosmo Contour and Spa

Sila Miami

Ascended Health

The Tree of Life Co

Medical Marvel Massage

Guti D Health

Marehead Spa

Brazelia Med Spa

Amrit Ocean

Wellness resort

Education and Personal Development

Forbes Factor

Advanced PRF Education

PRF Education

Dynami Coach

Wealthy Minds

Mind Expansive

Care Yaya

Beauty, Body, and Lifestyle

SculptingBySara

VB Tech

SKG Health

Warriors Choice

Dulsa Life

Gogeviti

WSI Sports

Aurafit

Fresh Mouth

Media and Platforms

Real America's Voice

RAV Studio

Biohackers World

Fashion Channel

Giving Hope PH

Newlife Expo

Wellness expo

Creator Sanctuary

Notable Figures and Voices

Marla Maples

Tony Robbins

Lara Trump

Les Brown

Motivational speaker

Vishen Lakhiani

Forbes Riley

Doug Evans

Dr. Edward Group

Jason Shurka

Founder, UNIFYD

Myron Gaines

Kyle Rittenhouse

Public figure

Taboo

Black Eyed Peas

Lenny Tavarez

Recording artist

Valerie Orsoni

Sam Tejada

Gary Vaynerchuk

Sergey Brin

Co-founder, Google

Jeff Hoffman

Gary Brecka

Jonathan Goldman

Daniel Puder

Roster

Craig LongFarsam ShadabJoshua GreenrockMarieSophieMigena AgarajRuth KatzTaja AbitbolThor TorrensLibia SchellerJarek TadlaDaniel GJahn and KellanNatalya KrayevaAlex FairChristine CurranParker White

Selected brands and voices. Video case studies linked as they are released.

Investing

Capital Networks and Investment

David operates within some of the most active capital networks in the health, longevity, and technology space. He sources, evaluates, and helps align early stage deals, and he opens his investor and family office relationships to the companies he believes in.

01

Bloom Co. Capital

Serves as a General Partner and actively sources investment opportunities for the fund.

02

GSD Venture Studios

Partnered with Gary Fowler across the studio's global venture and scaling work, including the path to market for portfolio companies such as Atumnus.

03

Peter Diamandis network

A personal connection through Abundance360 and FII, with proximity to one of the most influential longevity and exponential technology communities in the world.

04

Plug and Play

Works directly with the firm's health division, bringing aligned deals and partnerships into its pipeline.

05

Shark Tank network

Relationships including Daymond John and the broader investor roster.

Infrastructure

The Connective System

Everything runs through David Townshend Consulting, the brand through which he gives brands and the people behind them the one thing money usually cannot buy: a way in.

At its core sits a private network of more than 15,000 members. Founders, investors, operators, and creators across finance, technology, health, and culture, connected through private communities where real introductions, deals, and opportunities happen every day. The network spans more than four hundred active partnerships and relationships reaching across billions in collective assets under management.

Powering it is a proprietary AI matching engine that maps people to the right people with precision, scoring alignment across dozens of dimensions to surface the introductions, partnerships, and deals most worth making.

Around both, he delivers the full system: strategy, media, capital, experiential brand activations, and intelligent agentic AI that automates the work a business runs on, from outreach and lead generation through follow up and closing.

Platform

Reach and Platform

1M+

Organic views monthly

100K+

Following

400+

Active partnerships

David's personal platform reaches over one million organic views each month across his channels, with a following of more than one hundred thousand. That reach is not an audience for its own sake. It is a distribution layer, a way to put the brands, founders, and technologies he works with in front of the people who can move them forward.

If you are building something that matters, there is a way in.