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Today we're launching Papermark Data Rooms 2.0 🚀
Secure data rooms for fundraising, M&A, due diligence
▪️ Live in under 60 sec
▪️ Audit log & page-by-page analytics
▪️ Granular permissions and redaction
▪️ API, CLI and MCP server
▪️ Your brand, your domain
We are building the best data room in the market, one commit at a time!
Here’s the link to our launch:
producthunt.com/products/pap…
Marc Seitz — oss/acc retweeted
Preparing launch on Saturday is my own type of meditation.
Like in good old days when I was launching something every couple weeks.
Tomorroooooow 🚀
I gotta say the “old” YouTube tech review need to step up their game
I’ll admit my guilty pleasure is watching tech gadget reviews on YouTube. Often the same product from different YouTubers .
It’s no longer enough to sit on a desk and record yourself opening a box.
Probably the only one that can still get away with a “boring” review video is MKBHD
You watch JerryRigged because you want to see the new iPhone be destroyed, which you’ll never be able to afford to do.
You watch HTX and Mediastorm for the creativity and entertainment value of what’s possible with tech reviews
Going from Opus 5 to 5.5 is the same massive jump as Opus 4 to 4.5.
I think we are all cooked when Opus 6.5 drops
Marc Seitz — oss/acc retweeted
Money is free!
I get it, nobody cares about getting extra €15,000 equity free. Everyone looking to raise their $10M angel round.
But, as more investors looking for the hyper growth companies to invest big checks, the % of investments for normally growing companies likely declines.
So money is never free and not easy to get.
Especially if you not yet well connected, and first time founder.
We are giving away €15,000 to the best pre-seed startups, equity free
Judged entirely by AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok.
Prizes:
🥇 €10,000
🥈 €3,000
🥉 €2,000
Pre-seed, raised under €500,000, any sector.
Submit now 👇
papermark.com/pitch-deck-com…
Marc Seitz — oss/acc retweeted
We are giving away €15,000 to the best pre-seed startups, equity free
Judged entirely by AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok.
Prizes:
🥇 €10,000
🥈 €3,000
🥉 €2,000
Pre-seed, raised under €500,000, any sector.
Submit now 👇
papermark.com/pitch-deck-com…
Marc Seitz — oss/acc retweeted
US VC Fundraising was nearly 4x Europe’s in September.
$12.9B vs $3.4B.
Bessemer alone raised $5.75B... more than Europe’s top 5 combined.
The funding gap remains wide.
Why investors keep ghosting you?
We analysed thousands of decks shared via Papermark to answer this one question.
Some of what came back was uncomfortable, but expected:
▪️ 4 mins is the average view time
▪️ But half of all views end in 77 seconds
▪️ 16% of investors spend 10 seconds
▪️ 44% of investors reach your final slide
▪️ 20% more views decks with traction
→ Papermark Fundraising Report out now: papermark.com/fundraising-re…
We cannot fix your pitch deck, but we can provide the view insights, so you will know how to fix it.
I’m channeling my inner @wongmjane on the new Stripe iOS app
Seems like AI agents coming to the app to ask about your financial data
Why is the @cursor_ai app so stupid that it cannot open a PR which is a standard API request to GitHub.
Why the fuck do I need an agent to do it and spend tokens and time. The branch and commits are already pushed.
This is such a terrible UX
Marc Seitz — oss/acc retweeted
Papermark is now a connector on Perplexity Computer
Ask the agent to:
→ set up a data room
→ upload your deck
→ share secure, tracked links
→ report who viewed what, page by page
From first share to closed deal, without leaving the chat
New milestone ✨
$55B deal volume running through Papermark
Thousands:
- Founders closing a round
- Funds raising there I, II and III
- M&A acquisition happening
- Sales for B dollars a year
We gathered insights from 5000 customers.
Insights:
▪️Average founder round targeted by startup founders is $11M
▪️Average MA transaction run via Papermark $32M (growing MOM)
▪️Funds are actively raising on Papermark (avg. size $46.7M)
▪️Sales is the fourth-largest use case (add up to $2B)
Thanks everyone for trusting Papermark!
Happy to celebrate each our milestone with our users!
$3M ARR!
It took us 18 months to reach $1M
6 more months to reach $2M
4 more months to reach $3M
It’s not the speed Harry Stebbings asks for but it’s life changing speed for me personally.
The core focus didn’t change: customers.
I still reply to each support request myself.
We are shipping to production (almost) every day.
Every dinner we discuss ways to grow Papermark
Now, we can afford $10 coffees without feeling guilty (maybe a little)
What changed:
- Tens of thousands of teams signed up
- Millions of viewed data rooms and documents
- Billions in deal volume running through Papermark
The greatest joy is that we built a product people love and use every day. Our customers trust us with their most confidential deals.
$10M next
when governments make apps and write update notes
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