Ruslan Sarkisyan

Partner, Begin Capital
Ruslan Sarkisyan, a former SaaS founder with five years investing in deeptech and fintech, champions communication-first seed investing and runs a hyper-selective AI/deeptech process selecting about 5 of 5,000 prospects.
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About Ruslan Sarkisyan

Ruslan Sarkisyan is a Managing Partner at Begin Capital who combines experience as a former SaaS startup founder with five years leading deeptech and fintech investments at Runa Capital, where he worked with companies like Mambu and NGINX. He advocates for a communication-focused seed investing approach over complex financial modeling and leads Begin's hyper-selective process of choosing about 5 companies from 5,000 annual prospects across their AI and deeptech focus areas.

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Begin Capital

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AI, SaaS, Devtools, Data, Fintech, Marketplaces, Retail Tech
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Seed - Series A
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$500K - $7M

Begin Capital positions itself as a TV series where each investment is an episode and fund vintages are seasons, with founders as actors and investment managers as casting directors. They back three founder archetypes—Pirates (rule-challenging risk-takers), Winners (globally ambitious conquerors), and Robots (hyper-analytical operators)—and split outreach between partners who specialize in narrative-driven versus numbers-driven pitches.

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