 Of founding APT, Manzi explained to "The Washington Post" that "a lot of the work I was doing as a consultant was very repetitive.I realized how much of it could be put into a software model.” With venture capital from Devon Partners, it took Manzi and Bruce less than a year to develop and launch APT’s software tool.In 2006, the firm was backed by Accel-KKR, a private equity firm.