António Caçorino is the Founder and CEO of APEX, a sports-focused investment firm he established in 2020 and grew with the backing of more than 150 world-class athletes. Under his leadership, APEX invests across the full sports ecosystem, supporting early-stage innovators, emerging concepts, and established properties through a strategy that spans venture capital, growth equity, and private equity. His work has positioned APEX as a leading player in the global sports investment landscape.
Before founding APEX, António worked in private equity and investment banking. His experience includes serving as Head of Capital Markets at WELZ and holding multiple roles at Leonteq in London, including Head of Iberia, where he focused on cross-asset investment solutions and structured financial products.
At BRIDGE Summit, António Caçorino will discuss the future of sports investment, how athlete-backed capital is reshaping the industry, and the opportunities emerging at the intersection of sports, innovation, and global growth.
Formula 1’s transformation from an elite European motorsport into a global cultural and commercial juggernaut, offers a clear playbook for media innovation multiplying the value of premium sport properties. This session looks to unpack the decisive catalysts behind such shifts, from Liberty Media’s ownership vision to strategic content partnerships and data-driven growth engines, and examines, through APEX’s investment in Alpine, what F1’s trajectory reveals about the future economics, global relevance and investor appeal of sport in a timeline dominated by streaming, personality and borderless audiences.
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