What Apollon does

Apollon SE is a privately held, family-controlled investment holding company headquartered in Elsbethen, Salzburg, Austria, focused on medicine and healthcare. Its role is the active administration of a portfolio of operating healthcare businesses, with the stated objective of generating added value across its investment companies. The company is governed by Schoen family members and functions as a strategic group centre rather than an operating care provider.

The portfolio comprises five wholly-owned businesses. Schoen Clinic is Germany's largest family-run hospital group, founded in 1985, operating 26 sites in Germany and 4 in Great Britain with more than 11,300 employees treating approximately 300,000 patients each year across mental health, orthopaedics, neurology, surgery, and internal medicine. Silony Spine, founded in 2013 by Schoen Clinic shareholders, develops and distributes precision spinal surgery tools and hardware with logistics operations in six countries and product distribution in over 20 countries; it has been ISO-certified since 2013 and MDR-certified since 2023. Three smaller orthotics, prosthetics, and rehabilitation technology businesses — Orthopädietechnik München Harlaching, Orthopädietechnik Chiemgau (Vogtareuth), and Orthopädietechnik Hamburg — provide specialty clinical, paediatric, and geriatric orthopaedic services across Germany.

Apollon SE itself does not sell a unified product or technology platform; its revenue mechanics are those of a holding company that derives value from dividends, capital allocation, and operational oversight of its portfolio companies. Go-to-market is executed at the portfolio level: Schoen Clinic delivers patient care directly, Silony Spine sells through medical device distribution networks, and the orthotics businesses provide craft-based clinical services direct to patients and referring physicians. No pricing is publicly disclosed, and there is no software platform or direct end-product offering at the holding entity level.

Name

Apollon

Legal name

Apollon SE

Website

https://apollon-se.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Apollon SE is a privately held, Schoen-family-controlled Austrian investment holding company that actively administers a portfolio of healthcare businesses, including Germany's largest family-run hospital group (Schoen Clinic), spinal surgery device maker Silony Spine, and three orthotics and prosthetics providers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Investment Holding

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282), Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances & Supplies (3842)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospital Shared Services, GPOs & System Support Organizations (HLAFAAAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Orthopedic & Surgical Recovery SNFs (HLADADAF)

Keywords

• Healthcare investment holding
• Medical portfolio management
• Hospital group operations
• Spinal surgery devices
• Orthotics and prosthetics

Headquarters

HQ city

Elsbethen

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

Apollon SE is an active investment holding company focused on medicine and healthcare. It manages a portfolio of wholly-owned healthcare operating companies — Schoen Clinic (Germany's largest family-run hospital group), Silony Spine (spinal surgery precision tools and hardware), and three Orthopädietechnik orthotics and prosthetics providers — to generate added value through active investment administration and strategic oversight.

Product overview

Apollon SE is an active investment holding company headquartered in Salzburg, Elsbethen, Austria, focused on medicine and healthcare. Rather than offering a unified product platform, the company operates a portfolio of healthcare investments managed to generate added value. Its investment portfolio comprises Schoen Clinic (Germany's largest family-run hospital group specializing in mental health, orthopaedics, neurology, surgery, and internal medicine across 30 locations), Silony Spine (spinal surgery precision tools and hardware company), and three orthotics/prosthetics specialists (Orthopädietechnik München Harlaching, Orthopädietechnik Chiemgau, and Orthopädietechnik Hamburg). The company does not offer a standalone product or software platform; its business model centers on investment administration and value generation for portfolio companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Schoen Clinic The largest family-run hospital group in Germany, treating patients regardless of statutory or private insurance coverage. Specializes in mental health, orthopaedics, neurology, surgery, and internal medicine and measures treatment results for continuous improvement. Patients: individuals requiring specialized inpatient and outpatient medical care across Germany and Great Britain.
• Silony Spine Spinal surgery precision tools and hardware with compatible enabling-technology systems. Founded by Schoen Clinic Group shareholders. Customers: spinal surgeons, hospitals, and healthcare providers; products distributed in over 20 countries with logistics in six countries.
• Orthopädietechnik München Harlaching Specialist provider of orthotics, prosthetics, and compression therapy in Munich. Delivers high-end clinical, paediatric, and geriatric orthopaedic equipment, epitheses, compression therapy, and rehabilitation technology combining high-tech methods with craftsmanship for tailor-made solutions. Customers: patients, doctors, and therapists.
• Orthopädietechnik Chiemgau Provider of orthotics, prosthetics, rehabilitation technology, compression therapy, and epitheses in Vogtareuth. Combines years of experience with current technology to deliver high-quality care to doctors, therapists, and patients.
• Orthopädietechnik Hamburg Supplier of high-quality orthotic and prosthetic products with an emphasis on timely services and close communication between patient, doctor, therapist, and orthopaedic technician. Specializes in paediatric care and the implementation of new concepts with maximum quality.

Named customers5 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Ottobock: Global market leader in prosthetics, orthotics, and exoskeletons headquartered in Germany. Directly comparable to Apollon's three orthotics/prosthetics subsidiaries (München Harlaching, Chiemgau, Hamburg) in product category and DACH focus.
• Bauerfeind: German family-owned manufacturer of medical compression stockings, orthoses, supports and orthopaedic braces. Directly comparable to Apollon's orthotics/prosthetics subsidiaries in product category, family ownership, and German market.
• Asklepios Kliniken: One of Germany's largest private hospital groups operating more than 160 facilities across Germany and Europe. Directly comparable to Schoen Clinic in scale, German footprint, and specialty care orientation.
• Schoen Klinik: Apollon's wholly-owned subsidiary and Germany's largest family-run hospital group; treated as a peer for benchmarking, since its operating profile (orthopaedics, neurology, mental health, surgery) mirrors the core of Apollon's portfolio.
• Helios (Fresenius Helios): Europe's largest private hospital operator, part of Fresenius SE, with hundreds of facilities across Germany, Spain, and Latin America. Directly comparable to Apollon's Schoen Clinic as a continental-scale hospital platform.
• Amedes Group: Privately-held healthcare services and laboratory medicine platform operating across Europe. Comparable to Apollon as a private healthcare-focused investment/services platform with multiple operating units in the European healthcare market.
• Sana Kliniken AG: Major German private hospital group with a network of acute care hospitals and affiliated medical service providers. Directly comparable as a German private hospital operator to Apollon's Schoen Clinic.
• Globus Medical (including NuVasive): Global spinal surgery medical device company formed via Globus Medical's acquisition of NuVasive. Directly comparable to Silony Spine as a competing spinal hardware and enabling-technology vendor with international distribution.

Broad incumbents

• Medtronic (Spine & Biologics): Diversified global medtech leader with one of the world's largest spinal surgery franchises. Comparable to Silony Spine as a spinal device competitor with broader product portfolio and substantially larger scale.

Others

• Stryker (Spine division):

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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