Terms of Service

What GetDeal is, and is not

GetDeal.AI is a marketplace operated by GetDeal Inc. It lets founders list a company that is raising capital or for sale, lets investors and buyers find, assess and contact those companies, and provides deal rooms, messaging and e-signature to help the two sides work together.

GetDeal Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer. GetDeal does not give investment advice, does not recommend any investment, takes no fee based on capital raised, and is not a party to any agreement between a founder and an investor or buyer. A company that engages GetDeal in writing to advise on the sale of that company agrees GetDeal’s role and fee in that engagement. Whether to invest, to sell, and on what terms, is decided by the parties themselves, on their own judgement and advice.

Who may use the platform

The platform is for businesses and for people acting in a professional capacity: founders and officers of a company, and investors and buyers acting for themselves or for a firm. You must be at least 18 and able to enter into a binding agreement. If you use the platform on behalf of a company or a firm, you confirm that you are authorised to bind it to these Terms.

You are responsible for your account, for keeping your password to yourself, and for everything done through your account. Tell us at once if you believe your account has been used without your permission.

Founders: what you list must be true

When you list a company you are making statements to people who may act on them. Everything you enter about the company — its figures, its funding history, its team, the documents you place in its data room — must be accurate, complete in what matters, and kept up to date. You must have the right to share every document you upload, and you must not upload anything that belongs to someone else without their permission.

We may review a listing before or after it is published, ask you for evidence of what it says, and remove or suspend a listing that we believe is inaccurate, misleading or in breach of these Terms.

Investors and buyers: confidentiality

Access to a company’s identity and its deal room may be conditional on signing a non-disclosure agreement with that company through the platform. Everything you receive under that agreement, and everything marked confidential, is to be used only to evaluate that company, kept confidential, and not shared with anyone outside your firm who has not agreed to the same. A listing that is shown to you without the company’s name is anonymised for a reason; you must not try to identify the company by other means.

Fees

Creating an account and listing a company are free. Where a feature has a price, the price is shown to you on the platform before you buy it, or agreed with you in writing, and that is the fee that applies. Prices are in US dollars and do not include any tax that applies; any such tax is shown to you before you pay. Payments are taken by our payment provider.

A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period you have paid for, and our payment provider charges the payment method you gave us for the next period, until you cancel. You can cancel a subscription at any time in your account’s billing settings, and closing your account cancels it too. A cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for, and you keep what you paid for until then. If a payment is not made when it is due, we may suspend the paid feature until it is. If we change the price of a subscription, we tell you by email at least 30 days before the new price applies to a renewal, so that you can cancel before it does.

Fees are not refundable except where these Terms say otherwise, where the law requires, or where we agree otherwise in writing. If we close your account or stop offering a paid product for a reason other than your breach of these Terms, we refund the part of what you paid that covers the time or the sessions not yet provided.

Premium Listing

Premium Listing is a paid subscription for a founder’s listed company. It is paid monthly or yearly, in advance, at the price shown to you on the platform before you buy it, and renews as described under “Fees”. It adds to the free listing an enhanced company profile, analytics about your listing that are shown to you, a section for recordings of your pitches, meetings and workshops that you add, and the document check described below.

Premium Listing does not change where or how often your company is shown to investors. It has no effect on search results, ranking or matching, or on what investors are sent or alerted about. Investors are not shown any badge, label or other mark saying that your company has a Premium Listing.

What you add to an enhanced profile, and every recording you add, is part of your listing, and the rules under “Founders: what you list must be true” apply to it. You must have the right to share each recording, and the agreement of the people who appear in it.

The document check

With a Premium Listing you can ask us to check the documents you have placed in your company’s data room against the list of documents the platform shows you. The check records which of those documents you have provided, and the date of each. It does not examine whether what a document says is true, complete or current, and its result is not a verification of any fact, a valuation, a recommendation, or investment, legal, tax or financial advice.

The result is shown to you only. Investors and buyers are not shown the check, its result, or any badge or mark based on it. If we later offer a way to show the result to investors, we will announce it as a change to these Terms before it is available, and it will appear on your listing only if you choose to show it.

Startup Premium

Startup Premium is a 12-week programme for a founder of a listed company that is preparing to raise money. It is paid at the price shown to you on the platform before you buy it, either upfront or in three monthly instalments in advance. The 12 weeks start on the day of your first payment. It includes:

• 9 one-to-one sessions with GetDeal: 3 pitch polishing sessions of 60 minutes each; 3 reviews of your own pitch deck of 1 hour each, with written notes; and 3 reviews of pitch recordings you send, of 45 minutes each, with time-stamped written feedback;
• a founder-led outreach kit: a guide to building your own list of investors from public sources, templates for emails, follow-ups, investor updates and keeping track of your contacts, and 3 pipeline reviews of 45 minutes each, one-to-one reviews of your own outreach messages and pipeline;
• Premium Listing for 12 months from your first payment.

It does not include building a pitch deck or a financial model, advice on the terms of an investment, any contact by GetDeal with investors, or anything described under “What the paid products do not do”. If you already have a Premium Listing subscription when you buy Startup Premium, that subscription ends at the end of the period you have already paid for, and that period is not refunded. When the 12 months of Premium Listing included in Startup Premium end, your listing returns to the free listing unless you subscribe to Premium Listing.

Booking and missed sessions

These rules apply to each of the 9 one-to-one sessions and to each of the 3 pipeline reviews of the outreach kit. You book each one on the platform, at a time offered there, within the 12 weeks. You can cancel a booked session or review up to 24 hours before it starts and keep it to book again. One you cancel later than that, or do not attend, counts as used. If we cancel one, you keep it, and if we cannot offer you a time for it within the 12 weeks, we extend your programme so that you can take it. Sessions and reviews not used by the end of the 12 weeks, with any extension, lapse; they are not refunded or credited.

Paying in instalments

If you choose to pay in three monthly instalments in advance, you agree to pay the full price. Our payment provider charges the first instalment when you buy, then one instalment on the same day of each of the next two months, and then stops. If an instalment is not paid when it is due, we may pause your sessions and your Premium Listing until it is paid, and the 12 weeks are not extended for the pause.

Refunds

Full refund only before the first session: until the first of the 9 one-to-one sessions has taken place, you can cancel Startup Premium and we refund everything you have paid for it, and no further instalment is charged. A one-to-one session has taken place once it has been held, or once it counts as used under “Booking and missed sessions”, which includes a session you cancel late or do not attend. The 3 pipeline reviews of the outreach kit are not one-to-one sessions for this purpose: holding or missing a pipeline review does not end your right to a full refund. After the first one-to-one session has taken place, nothing you have paid is refundable, and any instalment not yet paid remains due in full, so that you owe the full price, whether or not you use the rest of the programme.

Credit against a fundraising preparation package

If your company signs a written engagement with GetDeal for one of our fixed-fee fundraising preparation packages at any time from the day you buy Startup Premium until 60 days after your 12 weeks end, the amount you paid for Startup Premium is credited against that package’s fee. This includes a package signed during the 12 weeks. The credit is applied once, cannot reduce that fee below $0, cannot be transferred, and is never paid out or refunded.

What the paid products do not do

Premium Listing and Startup Premium help a founder present the company and run its own fundraising. They are not a service that raises money for you. GetDeal Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer, and neither product is a brokerage or placement service. Under neither product does GetDeal:

• contact, introduce, recommend or follow up with any investor for you, or send your materials to investors;
• compile a list of investors for you, or name, select or rank investors for you;
• attend or take part in your meetings or negotiations with investors, or advise on the terms of any investment;
• give your company a “Featured” slot or label or any other paid placement, include it in investor digests or alerts, or boost it in investor matching, search or ranking;
• charge, refund, credit or change any fee depending on whether, how much or from whom your company raises money.

Under either product, every contact with an investor is made by you. You are responsible for every message you send, and for using the outreach kit’s templates only in a way that is lawful where you and the people you contact are.

Nothing in either product, and nothing said in a session, is a promise or a prediction that any investor will be interested in your company or that your company will raise money. Sessions are feedback on your own materials; they are not investment, legal, tax or financial advice.

Separately, and outside both paid products: when you apply on the platform to an investor who has no GetDeal account yet, GetDeal may contact that investor, free of charge, to introduce your application and invite them to the platform. GetDeal charges no fee for this and changes no fee because of it, does not recommend your company or advise you or the investor, takes no part in any negotiation, and does not promise that the investor will reply or invest.

Analyses are evidence, not advice

The platform can produce an analysis of a company, generated by software from the company’s own public website and other public sources and, where a founder has supplied them, from the company’s own materials. An analysis is a summary of what those sources say and of what could not be found. It is not a verification of any fact, it is not a valuation, it is not a recommendation, and it is not investment, legal, tax or financial advice. Anything it states can be wrong, and you must check anything you rely on against the source.

Intellectual property

The platform, its software, its design and its own content belong to GetDeal Inc. or its licensors. What you upload and what you write stays yours. You may use the platform and what it shows you only as these Terms allow, and you may not copy, scrape, resell or build a competing dataset from the platform’s content.

Acceptable use

You must not:

• use the platform for anything unlawful, or to make an offer or solicitation that is unlawful where you or the other party are;
• list a company you are not authorised to list, or impersonate anyone;
• upload anything that infringes someone else’s rights, or that contains malicious code;
• extract data from the platform by automated means, probe its security, or interfere with its operation;
• use information obtained through the platform to make a decision about any individual’s employment, credit or insurance.

What you allow us to do with what you provide

So that the platform can work, you grant GetDeal Inc. a licence to store, display, process and analyse the content you provide — listing information, uploaded documents, messages and the details you supply about your company and its people — for the purposes of operating the platform, producing analyses of your company, showing your listing and its documents to the investors and buyers you allow, and running the checks these Terms describe. That includes processing through the service providers named in our Privacy Policy and, once agreements with them are in place, the sub-processors listed on our sub-processor page. The licence lasts as long as your content is on the platform, and for anything already delivered to an investor or buyer, as long as a record of that delivery is kept.

Where you supply information about other people — your team, your references, your shareholders — you confirm that you are entitled to supply it and that they have been told how we handle it, which is set out in our transparency notice.

Liability

The platform is provided as it is. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that any listing or analysis is accurate, or that any contact made through the platform will lead to a transaction. To the fullest extent the law allows, GetDeal Inc. is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, for loss of profit, business or opportunity, or for any loss arising from a decision to invest in, buy, sell or deal with any company found through the platform.

Where we are liable to you under these Terms, our total liability for all claims together is limited to the greater of one hundred US dollars and the fees you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law. An investor who has signed a separate written agreement with GetDeal Inc. for commissioned assessments is governed by that agreement’s liability terms, which are different from these.

Ending your account

You may close your account at any time by asking us to, at the support address below. We may suspend or close an account, or remove a listing, if we believe these Terms have been broken, if the law requires it, or if the platform is discontinued. Confidentiality obligations, the licence over content already delivered, and the limits on liability survive the end of an account.

Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The state and federal courts located in Delaware have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of these Terms or the platform, and each party submits to that jurisdiction. Nothing here removes any protection that the law of the country where you live gives you and that cannot be excluded by agreement.

Our two roles

GetDeal operates this marketplace and may in future operate an investment fund. If it does, the fund would use the platform on the same terms as any other investor, with no privileged access to what the marketplace holds, and any listing in which such a fund had invested would say so. Information held by the marketplace is to be kept separate from any fund.

How these Terms apply to you

Whether you create an account with the email sign-up form or through a third-party sign-in such as Google or LinkedIn, the form asks you to tick a checkbox next to links to these Terms and the Privacy Policy before your registration is complete. In every case, using the platform means these Terms apply to you, and if you do not agree to them, you should stop using it and close your account.

Changes to these Terms

The date at the top of this page is the date these Terms last changed. A change that affects your rights or obligations is announced to account holders by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use the platform after the change takes effect means the changed Terms apply to you.

Contact

GetDeal Inc., 8 The Green, Ste R, Dover, DE 19901, USA. Legal notices: contact@getdeal.ai. Support and privacy requests: support@getdeal.ai.