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Causa Prima lands $20M seed just three months after pre-seed round. Causa Prima is developing an autonomous finance platform that uses AI agents to automate invoice approvals, resolve disputes and manage payments between businesses. Causa Prima, a company developing an autonomous finance platform for businesses, has raised $20 million in a seed funding round led by Base10 Partners. The round also saw participation from QED Investors and FJ Labs, alongside existing investors Creandum, Kfund and Borusan Ventures. The investment comes just three months after its $10 million pre-seed round, bringing the company's total funding to $30 million. Founded by Maex Ament (CEO), Henrik Gebbing and Philip Stanislaus, Causa Prima is developing a platform designed to automate financial processes between companies, particularly invoice approvals, dispute resolution and payments. The company focuses on an area of corporate finance that remains largely manual despite significant investment in financial software. According to a study by Atradius, nearly half of credit-based B2B sales in the US are overdue, highlighting the challenges businesses face in managing payments between companies. Causa Prima's platform uses autonomous agents to handle communications and negotiations between businesses, including disputed invoices and early-payment requests. Rather than relying on finance teams to exchange emails and follow up manually, the agents can manage these interactions directly. The technology also aims to improve working capital management by helping companies identify opportunities for early-payment discounts. For example, a supplier may agree to accept a discount in exchange for receiving payment sooner, while the paying company can use available cash to benefit from the arrangement. Automating these negotiations across large volumes of invoices is intended to give finance teams greater visibility into expected payments and opportunities to manage cash flow. The biggest inefficiency in corporate finance is no longer inside the company. It is between companies. That is where the next generation of financial infrastructure will be built, said Maex Ament, co-founder and CEO of Causa Prima. He added that Causa Prima aims to automate these tasks, allowing finance teams to focus on decision-making while identifying opportunities to benefit from early-payment discounts. Causa Prima's approach was also highlighted by Rexhi Dollaku, General Partner at Base10 Partners, who pointed to the scale of the opportunity and the company's rapid progress as reasons for the continued investment. The funding follows early adoption of Causa Prima's platform, with the company already onboarding multi-billion-dollar enterprise customers and reporting more than 3,000 active accounts across its business networks. Causa Prima plans to use the new financing to support its expansion into the US and continue developing its autonomous finance platform. Follow the developments in the technology world. What would you like us to deliver to you?

Causa Prima raises 18 million euros in a new round led by Base10 Partners. Causa Prima, a technology company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence solutions for business financial management, has closed a seed financing round of 18 million euros led by Base10 Partners. The transaction comes just three months after the company announced a first round of 10 million dollars, bringing the capital raised since its creation to 30 million. The new round includes the participation of QED Investors and FJ Labs, which join the company's shareholder base, as well as Creandum, Kfund and Borusan Ventures, investors who already participated in the first round and are now expanding their investment. The financing will allow Causa Prima to accelerate its expansion in the United States and continue developing its artificial intelligence platform, designed to automate financial relationships between companies. Since its launch, more than 3,000 companies have joined its network and the startup has already begun onboarding large corporate clients with billions of dollars in revenue. AI to automate financial relationships between companies. Despite investments made during recent decades in the digitalization of financial departments, a significant part of transactions between companies continues to depend on manual processes. The approval of invoices, the resolution of discrepancies, the negotiation of payment terms, or the tracking of outstanding collections still require numerous email exchanges and the direct intervention of financial teams. This is an especially relevant problem in the United States, where nearly half of B2B sales made on credit have payment delays, according to an Atradius study. Causa Prima seeks to solve this inefficiency through a platform of autonomous AI agents capable of directly managing interactions between the companies that make payments and those that receive them. Its technology makes it possible to automate processes such as invoice reconciliation and resolution, dispute management, payment tracking, and negotiation of early payment discounts, reducing administrative tasks and facilitating financial decision-making. One of its main applications is in working capital optimization. For example, a company may be willing to offer a discount in exchange for collecting an invoice before its due date, while its customer can use its available liquidity to benefit from that discount. However, identifying and negotiating these opportunities is especially complex when companies manage thousands of invoices and must manually coordinate the terms of each transaction. Through its AI agents, Causa Prima makes it possible to automate these negotiations and provide finance leaders with a more precise view of expected cash flows, outstanding obligations, and liquidity optimization opportunities. "The biggest inefficiency in corporate finance is no longer within companies, but in the relationships between them. That is where the next generation of financial infrastructure will be built," explained Maex Ament, co-founder and CEO of Causa Prima. "For years, companies have invested in automating their financial systems, but the last step of the process still depended on a person who had to request an approval, reconcile an invoice, or send another reminder. We have developed the technology that takes care of all that work. Financial teams can stop chasing responses and start making decisions with full control, also taking advantage of opportunities to save millions through early payment discounts," added Ament. A founding team with experience. Causa Prima was founded by Maex Ament, Henrik Gebbing and Philip Stanislaus, three entrepreneurs with experience in developing technology companies and solutions for the financial sector. Ament was previously co-founder of Taulia, a company specializing in working capital management technology that was acquired by SAP in 2022. Henrik Gebbing co-founded Finoa, a company specializing in digital asset custody, while Philip Stanislaus developed part of his professional career at Oak Security. The founding team's experience in the financial sector and the development of technology infrastructure has been one of the factors driving investor interest in the company. "Every dollar currently invested in automating accounts payable and accounts receivable starts from the premise that the main bottleneck is within a company. Causa Prima is building a solution for what happens between companies," says Rexhi Dollaku, general partner at Base10 Partners. "Our participation in this new round, just three months after the pre-seed financing, reflects both the magnitude of the problem they are addressing and the speed at which the team is developing its technology," adds Dollaku. With this new financing, Causa Prima will strengthen the development of its platform and its presence in the U.S. market, where it seeks to position itself as a new technology infrastructure for automating financial processes between companies.

Causa Prima, a Delaware-based startup, has raised a $20 million seed round to build AI agents that settle billing disputes and speed up payments between companies and their suppliers. Base10 Partners led the round, which closed in September, with QED Investors, FJ Labs, Creandum, Kfund, and Borusan Ventures taking part. The company previously raised $10 million in pre-seed funding, bringing its total to $30 million. It declined to disclose its valuation. Causa Prima has 25 employees in Madrid and Munich. It plans to open a New York office as it expands into the United States. The company takes a cut whenever its agents successfully negotiate early payments between buyers and suppliers. Cofounders Maex Ament, Henrik Gebbing, and Philip Stanislaus founded it earlier this year.