Fabrizio Zappaterra

Partner at Lion Capital

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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2021
At Bending Spoons, we acquire and improve digital businesses. We own AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, StreamYard, Vimeo, WeTransfer, and many others. Our products have served more than a billion people, with over 400 million monthly active users and 7 million paying customers, including many Fortune 500 enterprises. We acquire to hold for the long term, and have never sold a material business. After an acquisition, we typically invest in an ambitious effort to overhaul the technology, redesign the user interface, accelerate the release of new features, optimize marketing and monetization, and rearchitect the organization for improved long-term performance. At the companys core is a relentless focus on talent density and workplace excellence. We received around 800,000 job applications in 2025 alone, with a 0.04% job offer rate, and have numerous first-place finishes in Great Place to Work awards.
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2021
Investor / Advisor
2021
At Bending Spoons, we acquire and improve digital businesses. We own AOL, Brightcove, Eventbrite, Evernote, komoot, Meetup, Remini, StreamYard, Vimeo, WeTransfer, and many others. Our products have served more than a billion people, with over 400 million monthly active users and 7 million paying customers, including many Fortune 500 enterprises. We acquire to hold for the long term, and have never sold a material business. After an acquisition, we typically invest in an ambitious effort to overhaul the technology, redesign the user interface, accelerate the release of new features, optimize marketing and monetization, and rearchitect the organization for improved long-term performance. At the companys core is a relentless focus on talent density and workplace excellence. We received around 800,000 job applications in 2025 alone, with a 0.04% job offer rate, and have numerous first-place finishes in Great Place to Work awards.
2019
Partner
2019
Lion Capital is a consumer-focused investor passionate about investing in brands about which people are passionate. Our Principals have invested over €6 billion in over 100 consumer brands since the late 1990s. Lion’s team draws from its deep investing and operating expertise to identify consumer brands with strong growth potential and implement value creating strategies within these businesses.
2011
Senior Advisor
2011
Searchlight Capital Partners is a private investment firm that identifies and develops distinctive opportunities for its investors and partner companies. We seek out situations in which our capital, strategic and operational support help create substantial value. We operate across North America and Europe.
2007
Senior Principal
2007
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com. Nothing herein constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or product of Apollo or any Apollo-managed fund.
2005
Co-lead European Principal Finance
2005
Silver Point is a leading global credit investing firm. With a dedicated team of more than 340 employees, Silver Point oversees $37 billion in assets across a comprehensive credit platform that includes direct lending, liquid performing credit, and special situations investment strategies. Silver Point has invested successfully across multiple credit cycles since its founding in 2002, deploying more than $155 billion in capital to date. Over the past two decades, the firm has been committed to generating alpha and effectively managing risk on behalf of its investors through a unified culture defined by excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement. By consistently delivering innovative solutions to meet the needs of its business partners and investors, Silver Point has earned a reputation as a trusted and creative industry leader. Silver Point was founded and is today led by Ed Mulé and Bob O’Shea, former partners at Goldman Sachs who founded and built Goldman’s direct lending business, global bank loan and Asian special situation businesses, and led its high yield bond, CLO and special situations investing businesses.