“HHMI enthusiastically supports eLife’s new model.” https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-statement-support-elife-and-open-science-innovation
Huge endorsement from a major funder in the biosciences of the new scientific publishing model deployed by @eLife
All be said, HHMI is one of the three founding agencies behind #eLife, together with the Wellcome Trust and the Max Planck Society.