APEX Capital
VC Fund
Cascais, Portugal
APEX Capital is a VC fund in Cascais focused on Sports and Artificial Intelligence. Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.
- Total investments:
- 31
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
- Fund size:
- $53M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries APEX Capital invests in
Stages APEX Capital invests in
Countries APEX Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 10 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$7M
- Pre-Seed
- $611k–$2.5M
- Series A
- $3M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Sports 14 (45%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (16%)
- Media and Entertainment 4 (13%)
- Events 3 (10%)
- Soccer 3 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (39%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (16%)
- Series A 5 (16%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
- Private Equity 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 9 (29%)
- Portugal 4 (13%)
- United Kingdom 3 (10%)
- Italy 1 (3%)
- France 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Antonio Cacorino
CEO and Founder
|
CEO and Founder | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Francisco Quintal
Senior Investment Associate
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Senior Investment Associate | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Pedro Félix da Costa
Founder and COO
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Founder and COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Sam Isaacs
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
|
Diogo Horta Correia
Analyst
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Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 10 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marquee AI is a Sports tech company that develops advanced AI platforms to analyze recruitment, scouting and performance of the player. | $4M / Seed / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Northern Super League operates a professional women's soccer league, offering matches, stats, and news online. | $14.1M / Private Equity / Jul 07, 2026 | ||
| Hexis is a fitness app that estimates and plans daily carbohydrate and calorie requirements based on workout demands, lifestyle demands, and goals. They provide minute-by-minute visual insights into energy status in real-time throughout the day. Hexis uses individualized nutrition that is catered to the user's workouts, lifestyle, and goals toenhance performance and elevate recovery. | $2.1M / Seed / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| TIVA Performance provides natural, athlete-specific products that designed to enhance grip, protect against friction, and support recovery. | $611K / Pre-Seed / May 29, 2026 | ||
| Graymatter Labs employs innovative nootropics and plant-based substances that are intended to replicate the effects of overprescription medications. | $1.3M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| Model Health is a software startup that develops advanced solutions for monitoring human activities and helps in improving physical health. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 02, 2025 | ||
| Kindred Labs is building the default interface for human–AI interaction — always-on, trusted companions that unify productivity, commerce, and emotional connection into a single relationship. As the only AI company officially trusted by 25+ iconic IPs, including Sanrio, Warner Bros., LINE Friends, and Pudgy Penguins, Kindred Labs sits on a uniquecultural and distribution moat powered by billions of existing fans worldwide.Kindred’s growth has been consistently explosive: the company has attracted millions of registered users within weeks of opening access, climbed into the Top 10 on DappRadar with hundreds of thousands of on-chain daily and monthly active users and millions of on-chain transactions in a single month, and driven an NFT free-mint that organically reached above a 1.3 ETH floor, alongside outsized gains in brand mindshare and category visibility (including a #1 gainer ranking on Kaito).Backers and partners include SEI Foundation, Protocol Labs, 0G Foundation, Techstars, Orange DAO, Sky Mavis, CoinMarketCap Labs, Nvidia Inception, ElevenLabs, and others. Kindred Labs is founded by Max Giammario, whose M.A./Ph.D.-level research focuses on human–AI interaction, and is built by a team of experts from companies such as Apple and Disney. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2025 | ||
| Samphire Neuroscience builds clinically validated neurotechnology to support women across their lives. Our wearable devices, Nettle™ and Lutea™, are built on the same underlying brain-stimulation technology, targeting neural pathways involved in pain, mood, stress, and sleep regulation. - Lutea™ is available globally as a wellness device. Itstimulates the same regions of the brain to support stress regulation, sleep, and recovery - key drivers of readiness and long-term performance - allowing athletes and teams to move beyond wellbeing education alone to practical, evidence-based intervention. - Nettle™ is a CE-marked (EU and UK regulated), drug- and hormone-free device that has been clinically shown to improve pain, mood, functionality, and the ability to train during the menstrual cycle, with measurable benefits after one month of use - supporting athletes to maintain training intensity and movement quality during their period. - The Samphire App is the platform controlling all Samphire hardware products with the use of CycleSync™ AI technology: the only one of its kind to support personalized neurotechnology use for women. | $5M / Seed / Jun 03, 2025 | ||
| ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager for sports-specific workflows. FTP, calendar integration, and live broadcast ingestion are among the features offered by ScorePlay. ScorePlay provides a dedicated space for brands to centralize media assets, which are then classified using an integrated AI tagging system before being distributedautomatically to identified athletes/artists and sponsors. | $13M / Series A / Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Output Sports operates as a sports tech start-up. We are revolutionizing the way athletic staff optimize sports performance. Using advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques we have developed an end-to-end solution that can test multiple components of athletic performance and track training programmes with a single wearable sensor. | $4.8M / Seed / Jan 30, 2025 | ||
| See all 31 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does APEX Capital invest in?
APEX Capital invests primarily in Sports, Artificial Intelligence and Media and Entertainment startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does APEX Capital invest in?
APEX Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$7M at Seed, $611k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$25M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not APEX Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds APEX Capital took part in.
How do I contact APEX Capital?
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Who are the partners at APEX Capital?
The team at APEX Capital includes Antonio Cacorino (CEO and Founder), Francisco Quintal (Senior Investment Associate) and Pedro Félix da Costa (Founder and COO), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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