We recently launched the Causo Hub, a free collection of fundraising + GTM resources for founders.
One of the things we just added is an accelerator deadline tracker:
https://hub.causo.ai/deadlines
The idea is pretty simple: instead of finding a random article from 2024 saying applications are "open", we try to keep the actual upcoming cohorts and deadlines in one place, together with the stuff you need to know before wasting an hour on an application.
We launched Causo 4 months ago with a simple thesis: get precise intelligence -> achieve big things when reaching out to strangers. Since then, startups using Causo have raised over 20 million dollars in venture funding - all through cold outreach. I kinda forgot to post this - we've been busy building out our generalised deep research and outbound agentic architecture that lets you find any company, even in very niche ICPs, gather powerful intel, and reach the right people. Extremely proud of our users. You don't need a massive SF based network to fundraise, you just need better knowledge (and having a kickass product doesn't hurt). I have a couple of discount codes to give out as a celebration - comment Raccoon and I'll toss you 50% off the first month of Causo. Here's to a lot more monies raised and a lot more sales made; and killing spray and pray for good:)
Over the past few months, we have been building Causo around two problems almost every early-stage founder runs into:
Finding the right investors and reaching out to them properly
Finding potential customers with a real reason to buy
Our fundraising product helps founders discover relevant VC funds and partners, research them, and run personalized outreach.
Our sales product finds companies that match a specific ICP, identifies why they may be a good fit right now, finds the right people, and drafts personalized outreach.
We originally built Causo for fundraising: help founders find the right investors, research why they fit, and write proper outreach instead of sending hope this finds you well slop to every VC with a pulse.
A couple of weeks ago we started testing Reddit ads for Causo Fundraising, mainly because Reddit has already been one of our strongest organic acquisition channels.
One of the more interesting things we have learned while building Causo is that people ask for automation, but what they really want is productivity. Those sound like the same thing but actually aren't.
Ask someone what they want from an AI sales tool and the answer is usually:
Just find the leads, write the emails and run the outreach for me.
But the moment the tool actually tries to do that, the questions start: where did this company come from; why does it match my ICP, is this person still working there; where did you find this information; can I change the email; has anything been sent yet?
For a while, we were tracking the usual SaaS stuff like signups, pageviews, DAU, WAU, and retention charts. Useful to know, but none of it told us whether people were actually succeeding with Causo. So we started using PostHog properly and built our own dashboards around the things that matter for our product.
Causo now has two sides:
Causo for Fundraising has a database of 1,000+ funds and 17,000+ investors. It helps founders find the right partner at the right firm, understand why that person is relevant, and write outreach specifically for them.
Causo for Sales uses the same technology to research almost any niche live. You describe the companies you want, and it finds them, checks why they fit, identifies the right people, verifies contacts and writes the outreach.
We kept the exact Causo stack private because we thought it was part of the moat.
Then we realized that knowing the tools is the easy part. Orchestrating them, verifying every result, building fallbacks and running the whole thing at scale is what actually takes the time and money.
So we re making it public.
This is how Causo searches, enriches, verifies and writes outreach using live data instead of stale databases.
