Hexis Closes €1.85M Seed Round to Accelerate Elite Sport Expansion and Launch Direct-to-Consumer Platform

APEX Capital leads follow-on investment, joined by Enterprise Ireland and ScaleX, backing the next phase of growth for the performance nutrition platform trusted by professional teams across four continents. 

Dublin, Ireland — 17th June 2026. Hexis, the performance nutrition platform built on the science of carbohydrate periodisation, has closed a €1.85M seed round led by returning investor APEX Capital, with participation from Enterprise Ireland and ScaleX. The investment will accelerate the continued development of Hexis’s elite sport offering and fund a significant expansion into the direct-to-consumer market later this year. 

APEX Capital, an athlete-backed venture capital firm, first backed Hexis at pre-seed stage in 2024. Its decision to lead this seed round reflects continued conviction in both the platform’s scientific foundations and its commercial trajectory across professional sport. 

Since that initial investment, Hexis has continued to grow its international market reach in the UK, Europe, the United States and Australia, spanning various football codes, cycling and endurance sports. The platform’s integration ecosystem has expanded to include Garmin, WHOOP, and Apple Health, as well as Catapult and STATSports, enabling real-time fuel plan adaptation driven by athletes’ own performance data. The business has grown headcount by 33% across the whole organisation. 

Founder Quote 

Our vision at Hexis is to be the global nutrition operating system for human performance. Wearables and training platforms have transformed how athletes understand their training and recovery, but nutrition, the fuel behind both, has lagged behind and remained the missing layer. Hexis is ready to complete the picture and make nutrition your smartest training tool. This round allows us to go further: deepening our impact across professional sport while laying the foundations to bring truly personalised, periodised nutrition to every athlete, at every level. That has always been the ambition. We are now in a position to deliver it.” 

— Dr. David Dunne, CEO and Co-Founder, Hexis 

The capital will support continued investment in Hexis’s Coach Hub, the platform’s practitioner-facing tool designed to enable performance staff to deliver personalised and periodised nutrition across entire squads alongside the build-out of new athlete-facing features and the infrastructure required to scale to a consumer audience. 

The round also coincides with strategic hires at senior level, including the appointment of a Vice President of Performance Solutions to strengthen the platform’s elite sport offer, and a new Head of Growth to lead the direct-to-consumer expansion. 

Investor Quotes 

“Hexis was one of the first investments out of our Elite Performance Fund. They were a part of our APEX Impact Program, where we invest in founder(s)/market fit, irrespective of commercial traction. Fast forward to today, we are proud to lead Hexis' seed round. From powering the elite in Premier League Football to 40% of the Tour de France teams, something super interesting happened that we are doubling down on. Some B2B investments in sports could work, in most cases the market is just not big enough. Our conviction is that solutions adopted by elite athletes should have downstream potential towards the consumer. Exactly this happened and is happening to Hexis. Not another weightloss app, not another calorie counting thing, but a consumer app that fuels performance. Amazing consumer growth so far, let's see what the future holds, but we are excited making our bets building it. ” 

— Koen Bosman, APEX Capital 

"Enterprise Ireland is proud to back Hexis as it scales its performance nutrition platform from elite sport into the wider consumer market. Our investment reflects real confidence in the science, the founding team, and the global ambition behind the business, which already supports professional teams across four continents. Supporting companies like Hexis sits at the heart of our strategy of helping ambitious Irish firms scale and compete internationally, and it underlines the growing strength of Ireland's sports tech sector." 

— Keith Brock, Head of Enterprise Ireland’s sports tech portfolio 

“We’re excited to support the Hexis team as they continue building at the intersection of performance nutrition and technology. With strong industry validation so far, we believe their approach has the potential to meaningfully improve how athletes personalise nutrition at scale. We look forward to supporting through this next stage of growth. ” 

— Oishin Lappin, ScaleX 

Hexis was founded by Dr. David Dunne, Dr Xiaoxi Yan and Dr. Sam Impey, whose combined research backgrounds in behaviour change science, data science and metabolism form the scientific basis of the platform. David Dunne and Sam Impey are available for press interview. 

About Hexis 

Hexis is an intelligent personalised nutrition platform, proven to enhance performance. Driven by the understanding that every athlete is unique, Hexis has developed its own proprietary nutrition periodisation system, Carb CodingTM, that translates workout data into personalised fuelling strategies uniquely tailored to the demands of each athlete's training, lifestyle and goals. Built on the scientific foundations of physiology, exercise metabolism and nutrition, Hexis is at the forefront of innovation in personalised sports nutrition and is now trusted by athletes and coaches from leading professional and Olympic sporting bodies globally. hexis.live 

Press Contact 

Simon Dunne 

Head or Growth, Hexis 

simon@hexis.live