# Begin Capital

> Begin Capital is a VC fund in London backing SaaS and Software. See 49 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 49
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last fund: Jan 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/begin-capital/
- Website: https://www.begincl.com/

Begin Capital is an international venture capital fund investing in (Pre) Seed and Series A startups across the globe with a focus on Europe

## Contacts

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

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $634k–$7.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$4M |
| Series A | $4.2M–$43M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 9 | 18% |
| Software | 8 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 12% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 12% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 10% |

69 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 35% |
| Series A | 8 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 2% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 13 | 27% |
| United States | 6 | 12% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 4% |
| Russian Federation | 2 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Saagar Bhavsar | Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saagar-bhavsar |
| Alexey Menn | General Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexey-menn |
| Joel van Dijk | Principal | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joel-van-dijk |
| Ruslan Sarkisyan | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ruslan-sarkisyan |
| Ruslan Sarkisyan | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ruslan-sarkisyan-1096 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dwelly | 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 | DesignVerse is an AI platform that develops enterprise software using company documentation and internal rules. | $5.5M | Seed | May 13, 2026 |  |
| All3 | 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 | 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 |  |
| xmemory | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 49 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Begin Capital invest in?

Begin Capital invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Information Technology 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 is Begin Capital's check size?

Begin Capital typically joins rounds of $634k–$7.1M at Seed, $1M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $4.2M–$43M 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 Begin Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Begin Capital?

Public channels for Begin Capital include LinkedIn 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 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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