Apollo’s Next Steps: Apply Learnings From Prior Hub-And-Spoke Entities

Apollo’s $145m financing will help advance its 15-plus candidate portfolio into clinical development. With Patient Square leading the round, its expertise with BridgeBio and co. will help guide Apollo’s evolution.

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Apollo's $145m cash raise will help it move toward clinical development

With $145m in new capital, Apollo Therapeutics LLC is looking to move to the next level by taking its 15-plus preclinical programs sourced from three UK universities into clinical development. As Apollo – founded in 2015 as a joint venture of the three universities and AstraZeneca PLC, Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline plc – takes this step forward, Patient Square Capital is leading the financing, taking board control and bringing its expertise in the hub-and-spoke business model to the enterprise.

Patient Square managing partner Jim Momtazee previously played a role in funding hub-and-spoke models like BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. and...

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