Causa, a York-based startup providing a causal AI platform for development teams, announced a pre-seed six-figure investment. The round was led by AI specialist VC Twin Path Ventures with participation from angel investors. Causa’s flagship product CausaDB brings causal AI from the lab to developers’ fingertips for rapid integration with apps.
Co-founders Professor Daniel Franks and Dr Jordan Hart met five years ago at a research-intensive university, working together and publishing papers on new machine learning approaches. Later they pursued separate industry roles, where they each became concerned by seeing businesses misled by decisions made by standard AI which is designed exclusively for forecasting.
“When two things seem to be related, it doesn’t always mean that one thing is causing the other to happen. It’s a simple truth. Yet standard AI gets confused over this, leading it to completely wrong decisions that cost businesses money and trust,” said Co-founder Dan Franks. “Causal AI gets it right. It’s the only AI that can actually tell you what actions to take to achieve your desired outcomes. It answers your ‘what if?’ questions and tells you the best actions to take.”
Founded in 2023, Causa’s flagship product CausaDB is a cloud-native platform that makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy causal AI. This enables development teams to focus on the application of causal AI without the burden of managing complex infrastructure. This is of enormous benefit across industries from healthtech, martech, to retail, logistics and more.
“We are delighted to lead this first round for Causa,” said Twin Path Ventures “Led by an excellent team in the form of the brilliant Dan and Jordan, we are excited to see Causa’s technology start making a huge impact across a range of sectors. This is an area ripe for disruption with this ‘no-brainer’, yet incredibly clever, solution.”
