Causa Prima lands $20M seed just three months after pre-seed round

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.