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Someone who knows your situation, takes your call, and tells you the truth.
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Apex
A direct line for the decisions that define the next phase.
Apex is a retained, one-to-one advisory relationship for senior scientists and research leaders. When the stakes are real, you have a practitioner alongside you who has been there before.
The starting point
For leaders whose next decision is too important to get wrong.
At a certain level, the questions stop fitting in a programme. They are specific, confidential, and consequential, and the people around you are either too junior to challenge you or too invested to be honest. Apex is the standing relationship that gives you a candid, experienced perspective exactly when you need it.
- Research leaders weighing a spin-out or a major partnership
- Founders navigating a first institutional raise
- Principal investigators stepping into commercial leadership
- Institutions placing a senior leader into a new commercial mandate
What happens
How it works.
No syllabus and no cohort. Apex is shaped around your decisions, and it moves at their pace.
- StartA standing lineDirect access for the decisions that cannot wait for a workshop
- RhythmRegular sessionsStructured one-to-one time, paced to your decisions, not a fixed syllabus
- DepthReal situationsLive negotiations, term sheets, hires, and board conversations
- ReachThe right roomsWarm introductions to investors, partners, and operators when they matter
What you leave with
What it gives you.
Not a deliverable on a deadline. A standing advantage at the moments that count.
Sharper decisions
High-stakes calls made with a practitioner who has made them before.
A stronger hand
Preparation for the negotiations, raises, and hires that define the next phase.
The right introductions
Access to investors, partners, and operators, made at the right moment.
For institutions
Senior support for your most important commercial bets.
When an institution places real weight behind a leader or a venture, Apex is the discreet, senior support that protects the investment. It is scoped privately and priced per engagement.
- A retained advisory relationship for one senior leader or founder
- Scoped and priced per engagement, with clear terms up front
- Confidential by default, suitable for sensitive commercial and IP matters
- Complements an institution placing a leader into a new mandate
- The natural continuation for teams that have completed Momentum
- Delivered personally by Dr Ben Miles, founder of Spin Up Science
Apex is offered by invitation and through institutional partners. Introductions are arranged personally.
Pathway
The road to Apex.
Request an introduction.
Apex begins with a private conversation. Tell us about the decisions ahead of you, and we will see whether it is the right fit.