Causera was an early-stage Palo Alto, California startup surfaced as a 500 Global (500 Startups) portfolio company. Enrichment probing found no operating public surface: the company's own domain, causera.com, resolves to a GoDaddy parked-domain lander rather than a product site, and the only verified live property is the dormant "Causera Engineering" GitHub organization (github.com/causera, created 2011-06-22), which holds a single public repository — a fork of mbleigh/princely, a Rails wrapper for the PrinceXML PDF library — last pushed in August 2011 with no public members. Causera therefore appears to be a defunct 2011-era company with no developer portal, no documentation, no API, and no published specifications. This profile records the negative result so future enrichment rounds do not re-probe from scratch.
Causera is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, 500 Global, Portfolio, Defunct, and Palo Alto.
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aid: causera
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/causera.png
name: Causera
description: 'Causera was an early-stage Palo Alto, California startup surfaced as a 500 Global (500 Startups) portfolio company.
Enrichment probing found no operating public surface: the company''s own domain, causera.com, resolves to a GoDaddy parked-domain
lander rather than a product site, and the only verified live property is the dormant "Causera Engineering" GitHub organization
(github.com/causera, created 2011-06-22), which holds a single public repository — a fork of mbleigh/princely, a Rails wrapper
for the PrinceXML PDF library — last pushed in August 2011 with no public members. Causera therefore appears to be a defunct
2011-era company with no developer portal, no documentation, no API, and no published specifications. This profile records
the negative result so future enrichment rounds do not re-probe from scratch.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/causera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence: causera.com serves a GoDaddy parking lander (window.LANDER_SYSTEM=PW, _trfd ap:"parking"); github.com/causera
dormant since 2011-08-02; no package-registry or well-known surface found.
x-source-url-mismatch: The 500 Global portfolio scrape (500-global/portfolio/500-global-portfolio.yml) paired the name "Causera"
with https://simplycircle.com. That domain 301-redirects to https://www.konstella.com/ — a PTA/PTO communication product
with no stated link to Causera. The pairing is unverified and is NOT treated as Causera's website; causera.com (declared
as the blog URL on the Causera Engineering GitHub org) is used instead. Retained here for provenance only.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- 500 Global
- Portfolio
- Defunct
- Palo Alto
tags_raw:
- Company
- 500 Global
- Portfolio
- Defunct
- Palo Alto
- No API Surface
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://causera.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/causera
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/causera-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-20'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 3
pass: local-v1
x-tags-removed:
- Startups
x-company-stage: venture-backed
x-company-stage-evidence: 'own tags: Startup, 500 Global, Portfolio'
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