Begin Capital is a London-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies across Europe and the United States.
The seed round was led by Tensor Ventures to accelerate platform capabilities and go-to-market efforts.
"Enterprises have brilliant engineers spending the majority of their time maintaining the past instead of inventing what’s next. AppFactor changes that by turning software upkeep into an autonomous, closed-loop process. With the AppFactor Agentic Orchestration Platform handling maintenance, teams move much faster on the initiatives that grow the business."
The financing round was led by Insight Partners with participation from a16z Speedrun, Atomico, Begin Capital, and Zero Prime.
"As more and more models launch, devs can have tens or even hundreds of endpoints to integrate with and maintain. Runware solves this problem by delivering access to all the models, at the best price, with the best inference time. We see model providers now moving to our platform and offering their APIs from our inference pod, because we can deliver 90% lower inference cost than any cloud provider."
Arete led the Series A investment round with participation from Begin and MatrixCapital.
"The traditional customer analytics industry has historicallyfocussed on a two-dimensional understanding of the customer and their motivation, which isgreat, but there was a real gap in the market that needed to be filled in terms of what isgoing on elsewhere in the space."
