What does Apollo invest in?
Apollo invests most often at Venture and Debt (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Credit, Equity and Real Assets.
United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 114 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $62M, Oct 2026Private equityWebsite unconfirmed
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37 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Venture and Debt: 59% of its rounds
Sole investor in 29 rounds, median $255M
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Every round we can evidence, newest first114 appearances
30 rounds
30 rounds
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration24 named
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From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo European Principal Finance Fund | 2008 | $85M |
| Apollo Special Opportunities Managed Account | 2007 | $800M |
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo Fund X | 2023 | $175M |
| Apollo Fund IX | 2017 | $135M |
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo Hybrid Value Fund II | 2021 | $250M |
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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The investors most often in the same rounds as Apollo. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Apollo put money into.
6 episodes naming Apollo in the title, and 4 more that mention it.

Apollo’s Yahoo Playbook, 5 Years After the $5B Deal
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How Apollo, Citadel, Blackstone, & Bridgewater Built Their Brands
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Apollo: Connoisseurs of Complexity - [Business Breakdowns, REPLAY]
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Elon Musk's Banker, Beijing Pours $26B into Robot Boom, How Apollo Dodged SaaSsassination | Ashlee Vance, Vincenzo Landino, Ethan Thornton, Kris Marszalek, Cristóbal Valenzuela, Brad Svrluga, Dayna Grayson

Scott Kleinman – Apollo's Integrated Alternatives Platform (EP.481)
WithScott Kleinman
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Marc Rowan on Private Markets, Software Repricing, and Capital Allocation

Working in orbit: what happens when space goes blue-collar?
Apollo invests most often at Venture and Debt (59% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Credit, Equity and Real Assets.
114 investments on record, 37 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 3. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: SpaceX (Debt, Oct 2026), Nscale (Undisclosed round, Sept 2026) and iCapital (Venture, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $55M.
Sometimes: it led 3 of its 114 investments on record (3%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (64%), the United Kingdom (18%) and the Netherlands (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 37 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Citibank (8 rounds together), BlackRock (7 rounds together) and Maven 11 Capital (6 rounds together).
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