# Capital Factory

> Capital Factory is a VC fund in Austin backing Software and SaaS. See 202 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 202
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 2%
- Fund size: $260k
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-factory
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/capitalfactory
- Website: http://www.capitalfactory.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/capitalfactory

Capital Factory is a venture capital firm and an accelerator that seeks to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies.It accelerates companies in the software, media, and technology sectors. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, the firm meets entrepreneurs in Texas and introduces them to their firstinvestors, employees, mentors, and customers.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 55 | 27% |
| SaaS | 22 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 18 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 8% |
| Enterprise Software | 16 | 8% |

215 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 90 | 45% |
| Series A | 35 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 21 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 18 | 9% |
| Series B | 5 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 153 | 76% |
| India | 1 | 0% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |
| Philippines | 1 | 0% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Busey | Co-founder , Partner & Mentor | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-busey |
| Ben Lamm | Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-lamm |
| Brett Hurt | Partner | 29 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-hurt |
| Bryan Bulte | Investor & Mentor | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-bulte |
| Chris Aniszczyk | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-aniszczyk |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Artis | Artis is a branding, marketing, and technology partner for residential architects, landscape architects, custom home builders, and luxury interior designers. | $7.3M | Seed | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| CASIMIR |  | $12M | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| DexMat | DexMat is the maker of Galvorn, a conductive carbon nanomaterial that outperforms GHG-intense alternatives. 10x stronger than steel, half the weight of aluminum, and 100x the flex life of copper, the combination of these historically valued properties allows customers to reimagine the products they build. Made in America and carbon-negative atscale, our mission is to drive the next industrial revolution by making dirty metals and materials obsolete. Available today in the form of fiber, yarns, films, and fabrics, when adopted at scale across industries such as sporting goods, e-textiles, wires and electronics, energy, aerospace, and automotive, Galvorn represents a multi-gigaton carbon reduction opportunity. | $9.2M | Seed | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Glīd | Glīd develops autonomous road-to-rail solutions that streamline logistics by replacing traditional diesel-powered trucks, forklifts, and yard tractors with a single, intelligent platform. This innovation reduces carbon emissions, labor costs, and equipment redundancy, providing a more efficient and sustainable solution for intermodaltransportation. | $2M | Seed | Oct 04, 2025 |  |
| DataJoint | DataJoint makes software that operates some of the world’s most complex research, like MICrONS, the $100-million “Apollo Project for the Brain.” Our technology has cracked the problem of making data-intensive science reproducible. Today our platform operates computational pipelines for neuroscience labs at a dozen institutions including HarvardMedical School, UCSF, Johns Hopkins, and the National Eye Institute at NIH. We’re leading a transformation in the scientific method itself — a paradigm shift we call “SciOps.” Like GitHub and AWS did for software development, we aim to transform scientific research, as the foundation layer that opens up entirely new categories of products and services. We’ll bring AI into the research loop, accelerate cures for Alzehimer’s and other diseases, and power a new category of AI-enhanced diagnostics and devices. | $4.9M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 |  |
| Markup AI | AI can create content, but Markup AI’s Content Guardian AgentsSM perfect your content. Our API- and MCP-first solution delivers content guardrails directly where your content lives. Markup AI instantly scans, scores, and rewrites any content to enforce your standards for brand voice, terminology, and compliance. Markup AI gives you the confidenceyou need to scale your use of AI. | $27.5M | Series A | Sep 17, 2025 |  |
| Guild | Guild is a decentralized platform leveraging AI to augment creation, ownership, distribution and monetization of content and digital goods. AI plays a pivotal role in automating tasks, providing data-driven insights, and offering strategic guidance to creators. Whether it's managing marketing campaigns, optimizing release schedules, oridentifying new opportunities, the AI in Guild serves as an invaluable tool for artists, producers, and songwriters. The platform's blockchain integration ensures that all music assets are securely owned and transparently managed, giving creators full control over their work. By combining the practical benefits of AI—like process automation and data analysis—with the security of blockchain, Guild empowers creators to focus on their craft while effectively managing their careers. | $2M |  | Aug 27, 2025 |  |
| StrongSuit | StrongSuit is an AI platform that automates legal research, document drafting, and contract review for litigation and transactional attorneys. The software integrates a proprietary database of over 10 million U.S. legal cases with AI models to generate legal briefs, memoranda, contract redlines, and discovery timelines. The platform includesanti-hallucination verification systems and maintains cited legal precedents for court-ready document output.The software serves solo practitioners, small to mid-sized law firms, and in-house legal departments through a cloud-based interface with Microsoft Word integration. Core modules include legal research with case law retrieval, litigation document drafting, contract analysis and redlining, document review automation, and timeline generation from case files. Callidus operates on a subscription model starting at $149 per user monthly, with enterprise features including SSO integration and volume pricing available for larger organizations. | $10M | Seed | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Paradigm Robotics | Paradigm Robotics is a technology startup that specializes in robotics solutions designed to reduce risks and address challenges faced by firefighters and civil workers operating in hazardous environments. The team have expertise in robotics, materials science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, with the objective of deliveringsituational awareness for sectors such as firefighting, disaster response, industrial manufacturing, and various other industries. | $3.6M | Pre-Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Autonomize AI | Autonomize AI is a human-centric AI platform that learns from multi-structured clinical and biomedical data and pairs it with human context to aid decision-making and data discovery. They extract contextual information from multi-structured healthcare data, enrich with human know-how, and aid decision-making and data discovery. | $28M | Series A | Jun 12, 2025 |  |

10 of 202 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Silverton Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silverton-partners) — VC Fund, 21 deals together
- [LiveOak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liveoak-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Next Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-coast-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Moonshots Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/moonshots-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Floodgate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/floodgate) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Active Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Capital Factory invest in?

Capital Factory invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 202 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Capital Factory?

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### Who are the partners at Capital Factory?

The team at Capital Factory includes Andrew Busey (Co-founder , Partner & Mentor), Ben Lamm (Partner) and Brett Hurt (Partner), among 20 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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