[ 01 ]
Capital + Code.
We don’t just write cheques. We invest engineering hours through LANARS — full-stack squads building alongside the founder from week one.
Equity in exchange for cash and committed development capacity.
● EST. 2025 — FORNEBU, NORWAY
◆ Vol. 01 — Thesis
CapitalCode.
We back AI-native founders
from day one.
[ THE FUND ]
A founder-led venture fund building alongside the next generation of intelligent products. We invest cash and engineering — through LANARS, our development partner — into a small number of conviction-led companies.
◆AI-NATIVE◆PRE-SEED◆SEED◆CAPITAL + CODE◆FOUNDER-LED◆BUILDING TOMORROW
◆AI-NATIVE◆PRE-SEED◆SEED◆CAPITAL + CODE◆FOUNDER-LED◆BUILDING TOMORROW
[ 02 ] Thesis
A focused fund
for technology
that matters.
ARS Capital is a small, founder-led venture fund. We invest in a handful of AI-native companies each year and stay deeply involved. The model rests on three pillars.
[ 02 ]
AI-native only.
We back products where AI isn’t a feature on top — it’s the substrate. Inference, agents, models, evaluation, novel data loops.
Next-gen products. Not AI wrappers.
[ 03 ]
Hands-on, day one.
Pre-seed and seed. One conviction per quarter. Direct line to the operating team. We work from where the work is hardest.
Founder-led. Small portfolio. Long horizons.
[ 03 ] Portfolio · Venture
Where we’re
actively investing.
Active venture positions. Selected for AI substrate, founder quality, and operational fit with LANARS.
Active · 2025
Venture investment · 01
SelectAI AS
A Norwegian startup developing AI-powered solutions for smarter aquaculture. Their system combines advanced image-processing and artificial intelligence to continuously monitor fish health and sea lice — giving fish farmers accurate, stress-free data for better decision-making and sustainability in operations.
- Sector
- Aquaculture AI
- Stage
- Seed
- Status
- Active
Venture investment · 02
SkillHack
An AI school for people who don’t write code.
A new education company teaching non-developers — designers, PMs, marketers, and business owners — to direct AI to build what they imagine: sites, apps, agents, and end-to-end workflows wired into the tools they already use.
- Sector
- AI · Education
- Stage
- Pre-seed
- Status
- Active
Active · 2025skillhack.no ↗
AI · Education · Oslo
Teaching the rest of us to build with AI.
[ 04 ] Operating network
The partners
behind every cheque.
Our edge is operational. Each cheque comes with a network that actually ships — engineering, advisory, marketing, and finance — wired together so founders can move faster than the market.
Engineering partner
LANARS.
Our development engine. Full-stack squads ship product alongside founders from day one.
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✦Asterios
Strategic partnerAsterios
Strategic advisory and operational support across portfolio companies.
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ApexRegnskap
Accounting, payroll, and financial operations for the fund and portfolio.
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[ 05 ] Public holdings
ARS Capital also holds long-term positions in selected Nordic and European technology-focused equities.
Passive · Patient · Concentrated
[ 06 ] Founder
The person
behind the fund.
One conviction per quarter is easier when one person owns the decision.
![Arslan Tayliyev — [ 06 ] Founder](/_next/image?url=%2Fimages%2Ffounder.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Founder · GP
Arslan Tayliyev
Operator first,
investor second.
Sixteen years in technology. Founded LANARS a decade ago in Ukraine and, over the past seven years, established Norway as our home market — partnering with and supporting a number of well-known startups across product development and growth.
Alongside operating, I have advised founders on technology strategy, engineering team formation, and product design — typically at the stages where those decisions define what the company becomes. ARS Capital extends that work: capital and engineering, delivered from an operator’s perspective.
Continuously curious about applied AI and how it reshapes the way modern products are designed, developed, and brought to market.
- Experience
- 16 yrs in tech
- Operating
- CEO · LANARS
- Based
- Oslo, NO
[ 07 ] Contact
Building something
worth backing?
We read every pitch ourselves. Tell us what you’re building, at what stage, and why now.