Slingshot Therapeutics
slingshot-accelerator.co.uk Direct investor
Slingshot Therapeutics is Syncona's early-stage innovation accelerator, which identifies academic drug discovery programmes and advances them towards clinical readiness with funding, expertise and operational support. It has launched spin-outs such as Apini and ALTx Therapeutics.
Slingshot Therapeutics is an accelerator headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in oncology, inflammatory diseases, drug discovery and biotech. 2 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We partner with leading academics to progress high potential breakthroughs towards drug development.”
— Slingshot Therapeutics, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK, US, Europe
- Sectors
- oncology, inflammatory diseases, drug discovery, biotech
- Portfolio
- 2 companies
Team, as Slingshot Therapeutics publishes it
- Edward Hodgkin Executive Chair
- Richard Wooster Board Director
- Kate Butler Board Director
- Bobby Soni Chief Business Officer
- John Isaac Chief Scientific Officer
- Ben Woolven Head of Portfolio and Operations
- Ed Savory Head of Chemistry
- Joanne Charlwood Project Leader
- Lisa Duffin Operations Manager
- Melina Hoffmann Director, Search and Evaluation
- Richard Scarrott Finance Director
- Sarah Qian Director, Search and Evaluation
Names and roles exactly as listed on slingshot-accelerator.co.uk. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Slingshot Therapeutics publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://slingshot-accelerator.co.uk/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, description, status, confidence
- https://slingshot-accelerator.co.uk/altx-therapeutics-launches-into-the-slingshot-accelerator-with-12-55-million-of-funding/hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies
- https://slingshot-accelerator.co.uk/our-portfolio/sectors, portfolio_count
- https://slingshot-accelerator.co.uk/about-us/people
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