# APEX Capital

> APEX Capital is a VC fund backing Sports and Artificial Intelligence. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cascais, Portugal
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Fund size: $59M
- Last fund: Sep 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apex-capital-cp
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ApexCapital_?msclkid=f101b8d2bc1811ec9ac06318e8e67e55
- Website: http://www.apex-cp.com

APEX Capital is a VC fund in Cascais focused on Sports and Artificial Intelligence. Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for APEX Capital. Shizune tracks 10 team members at APEX Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/apex-capital-9cd3?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $611k–$2.5M |
| Series A | $3M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | 14 | 45% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 16% |
| Media and Entertainment | 4 | 13% |
| Events | 3 | 10% |
| Soccer | 3 | 10% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 39% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Series A | 5 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Private Equity | 2 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 29% |
| Portugal | 4 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 10% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Antonio Cacorino | CEO and Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antonio-cacorino-5060 |
| Francisco Quintal | Senior Investment Associate | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francisco-quintal |
| Pedro Félix da Costa | Founder and COO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pedro-f%C3%A9lix-da-costa |
| Sam Isaacs | Investment Manager | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-isaacs-fd9b |
| Diogo Horta Correia | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diogo-correira |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marquee | 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 | Northern Super League operates a professional women's soccer league, offering matches, stats, and news online. | $14.1M | Private Equity | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Northern Super League | Northern Super League operates a professional women's soccer league, offering matches, stats, and news online. | $14.1M | Private Equity | Jul 07, 2026 |  |
| Hexis | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dopamine Sports Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dopamine-sports-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Boab AI](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boab-ai) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Enterprise Ireland](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-ireland) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HearstLab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearstlab-36b3) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Indico Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indico-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plus Eight Equity Fund LP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plus-eight-equity-fund-lp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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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 is APEX Capital's check size?

APEX Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$7M at Seed, $611k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $3M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds APEX Capital participates in.

### How do I contact APEX Capital?

Public channels for APEX Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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?

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