Find the investors who actually back companies like yours
Most investor lists tell you a fund exists. They do not tell you what it actually writes cheques for, which partner covers your sector, or whether it has invested in anything at your stage in the last two years. These pages break the market down two ways, by the kind of investor and by the sector they back, and name the firms working in each.
By investor type
The three kinds of investor behave differently enough that the same pitch will not work on all of them. What each wants to see, and how they decide.
VC fundsInstitutional funds, and how to find the partner inside one who actually backs your stage and sector.How they decide 
Angel investorsIndividuals, syndicates and family offices, and how to find the ones who back your kind of company.How they decide 
Corporate VCVenture arms of operating companies, and how to read the parent’s strategy before you pitch.How they decide
By sector
Every sector has its own gates: what a fund needs to see, which sub-domain it actually backs, and where its real track record is published.
AI & machine learningWho funds AI, split by the four kinds of AI company that raise on completely different terms.Who funds it 
Enterprise & B2B softwareWho funds B2B software, and what changed now that AI takes half of all venture capital.Who funds it 
FintechWho funds fintech, split by the four sub-sectors that raise on completely different terms.Who funds it 
Healthcare & biotechWho funds health, split by the four investor types the word "healthcare" hides.Who funds it 
CybersecurityWho funds security startups, split by the buyer each investor group underwrites.Who funds it 
Deep tech & hardwareWho funds hard technology, and which investors will carry physics risk before market risk.Who funds it 
ConsumerWho funds consumer companies now that most venture capital goes somewhere else.Who funds it 
Crypto & web3Who funds crypto, and how token structures change what a round even is.Who funds it 
Devtools & infrastructureWho funds developer tools and infrastructure, and how each group reads the adoption-to-revenue gap.Who funds it 
Cleantech & climateWho funds climate tech, broken down by the four sub-sectors the label hides.Who funds it 
Aerospace, space & defenceWho funds defence and space, and why the customer makes this unlike any other sector.Who funds it
Raising in something that isn’t listed?
These are the sectors we have written up, not the sectors Causo matches for. Matching runs off your deck and your actual business, not off a dropdown of categories, so a company that sits between two sectors or in none of them is the normal case rather than the exception.
Upload a deck and see the matches →What Causo reads that a list does not
Every page above is built the same way, because the thing that makes an investor list wrong is always one of these four.
- Reading the thesis, not the tagsA fund tagged “AI” might back foundation models or vertical applications, which are different businesses with different investors. What a partner has written and said tells you which.
- Checking they are still deployingA fund at the end of its cycle looks identical to an active one on its website. Recent announced deals and new fund closes are what separate them.
- Finding the partner, not the inboxCheques are written by people. Which partner covers your sector, what they backed before, and where they were operating beforehand.
- Showing the evidence for every matchA score with no reasoning behind it is a guess with a number on it. Every match carries the signals it was built from, so you can disagree with it.