Tactical playbooks for founders, pre-seed to Series A.
Fundraising and GTM. Fund lists that refresh every Monday, working tools, and tactical guides for the founders we build Causo for. Free, no signup.
The 31 playbooks we'd hand a pre-seed to Series A founder.
How to cold email VCs in 2026: the tactical playbook
The tactical playbook for cold emailing VCs in 2026: what gets opened, what gets replies, and the 18 examples founders are actually copying this quarter.
Founder narrative X LinkedIn 2026: the audience that funds you
Customer expansion at seed 2026: double ARR per customer
Banking and payments setup for seed startups in 2026
The seed financial model 2026: a drivers-based template
Run your cold email through an LLM that's read 40,000 of them.
Cold Email Grader
Paste a draft. Get a rubric score, five specific fixes, and a rewrite.
Pitch Deck Roaster
Upload a PDF. Slide-by-slide feedback and the top three things to fix.
Readiness Quiz
10 questions. A score and a checklist of what you're missing before you raise.
Valuation Calculator
Stage, sector, traction in — a fair range out, with the comps it's based on.
Deliverability Check
Your SPF, DKIM, DMARC setup — so your cold emails don't die in spam.
Who's actively writing checks right now.
Active deeptech seed VCs in 2026: hard-tech first checks
Active crypto seed VCs in 2026: who signs token-and-equity checks
Active seed VCs in MENA: 2026 founder guide
184 guides organized the way founders actually search.
Fundraising basics
Core concepts every founder should know before raising.
Cold outreach
Emails, intros, and follow-ups that actually get investor replies.
Pitch deck
Structure, storytelling, and slide-by-slide guidance.
Valuation
Pre-money, post-money, dilution, and how VCs actually set terms.
Traction & metrics
What investors look for at each stage — and how to present it.
Legal & incorporation
Entity choice, founder agreements, cap table basics.
GTM & business model
Go-to-market, pricing, and monetization for venture-scale companies.
Team
Hiring, co-founders, equity splits, and early team building.
The VC process
What happens between first meeting and wire — and how to run it.
Regional guides
Fundraising playbooks by geography: US, UK, EU, MENA, Asia, LatAm.
Post-raise
What to do after the round closes: reporting, governance, next round prep.
Startup setup
Technical setup every startup needs in the first 30 days — DNS, Stripe, analytics, deliverability.
Validation
Customer interviews, first conversations, and how to tell if the idea is real before you build.
Launch & growth
First 100 users, Product Hunt, and the playbooks for going from zero to traction.
Growth
Acquisition channels, paid + organic, what works at each stage.
Pricing
Pricing strategy, packaging, tiers, and what to charge when.
Retention
Churn, NPS, cohort retention, and how to keep customers paying.
Social presence
Building a founder audience on X, LinkedIn, Reddit — at every stage.
Launch platforms
Product Hunt, BetaList, Hacker News — what actually works in 2026.
Run your whole raise through Causo.
When the playbooks turn into a raise: Causo connects to 1,000+ funds and your email, matches your stage and thesis to the best-fit partner at each firm, then drafts and sends hyper-specific emails.