Begin Capital
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Begin Capital is an international venture capital fund investing in (Pre) Seed and Series A startups across the globe with a focus on Europe
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Begin Capital invests in
Stages Begin Capital invests in
Countries Begin Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $634k–$7.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$4M
- Series A
- $4.2M–$43M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 9 (18%)
- Software 9 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (16%)
- FinTech 5 (10%)
- E-Commerce 5 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 19 (39%)
- Series A 10 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (8%)
- Convertible Note 2 (4%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
Country
- United Kingdom 15 (31%)
- United States 8 (16%)
- The Netherlands 2 (4%)
- Russian Federation 2 (4%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Saagar Bhavsar
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Alexey Menn
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Joel van Dijk
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Ruslan Sarkisyan
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Ruslan Sarkisyan
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwelly is a UK-based lettings & property management AI-first platform. The company grows by acquiring and partnering with traditional letting agencies to elevate it's level of service. Using AI, Dwelly streamlines the entire letting lifecycle—from tenant finding to rent collection—while enhancing the user experience | $95M / Series B / Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| DesignVerse is an AI platform that develops enterprise software using company documentation and internal rules. | $5.5M / Seed / May 13, 2026 | ||
| All3 uses AI and robotics to design, manufacture, and assemble buildings through a unified system. The company provides an end-to-end system that combines AI-driven architectural design, robotic off-site manufacturing, and automated on-site assembly for residential and commercial structures. Its platform enables customized building components to beproduced and assembled with software-controlled workflows, reducing reliance on manual processes and fragmented supply chains.All3 also offers vertically integrated services that cover planning, engineering, fabrication, and construction delivery, allowing developers to manage projects within a single system. Its technology supports complex building designs and constrained urban sites by adapting production and assembly processes to specific project requirements. | $25M / Seed / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| xmemory is an AI‑focused startup working on advanced, structured memory architectures for AI agents and large‑language‑model (LLM) systems. It provides a specialized AI infrastructure layer that enables AI agents to transition from stateless to stateful by implementing a structured, hierarchical memory architecture. | $4M / Pre-Seed / Mar 18, 2026 | ||
| Dwelly is a UK-based lettings & property management AI-first platform. The company grows by acquiring and partnering with traditional letting agencies to elevate it's level of service. Using AI, Dwelly streamlines the entire letting lifecycle—from tenant finding to rent collection—while enhancing the user experience | $43.3M / Series A / Feb 25, 2026 | ||
| SurrealDB develops a multi-model database platform designed to handle document, graph, and relational data within a single system. The platform supports SQL-like querying while enabling real-time data synchronization and event-driven updates across applications. It provides built-in features such as authentication, authorization, and access controlat the database layer. SurrealDB operates across various environments, including embedded deployments, single-node instances, and distributed clusters. The system is designed to support modern application development by combining flexible data modeling with transactional consistency and programmable logic inside the database. | $23M / Series A / Feb 17, 2026 | ||
| AppFactor is an AI powered app modernization platform, designed for architects and engineers to accelerate and optimise the process of applying and delivering the latest cloud-based technology to existing business applications. Available as an enterprise focused SaaS platform that automatically and intelligently converts legacy applications awayfrom existing virtual and physical infrastructure to cloud-native technology. Unlike traditional consultative processes that are manual at each step, lack repeatability and predictability, take too long and cost too much, our product ...AppFactor is a continuous, intelligent, AI powered transformation platform to empower architects and engineers to re-factor and re-architect applications to solve legacy infrastructure problems, cut technical debt and dramatically improve application delivery at an accelerated speed and a fraction of the cost. A self-serve optimized platform that systematically identifies heavily entangled dependencies and transformation opportunities with AI/ML approaches, tracks, transforms and delivers modern apps with the controls in place to prevent tech debt from emerging. The next wave of DevOps and lifecycle capabilities that also allow apps over time to leverage the latest technologies in a standardised, repeatable and predictable approach. | $4M / Seed / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| Crewline AI appears to be a startup focused on retrofitting heavy construction equipment for supervised autonomy. Its website says it upgrades existing machines like drum rollers, dozers, rock trucks, and excavators to make them self-driving. | $7.1M / Seed / Dec 14, 2025 | ||
| Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API. | $50M / Series A / Dec 11, 2025 | ||
| Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API. | $13M / Seed / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| See all 49 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Begin Capital invest in?
Begin Capital invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 49 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Begin Capital invest in?
Begin Capital typically joins rounds of $634k–$7.1M at Seed, $1M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $4.2M–$43M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Begin Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Begin Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Begin Capital?
The team at Begin Capital includes Saagar Bhavsar (Principal), Alexey Menn (General Partner) and Joel van Dijk (Principal). 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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