Data Transparency & Rights
Transparency in Data Handling: Your Privacy Matters to Us at Cofounders Capital

Name: Cofounders Capital
Address: 9129 Sanctuary Court, Raleigh, NC 27617
Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 11, 2026

Cofounders Capital, including its affiliated funds and management entities, respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit cofounderscapital.com, contact us, submit a pitch, upload materials, or otherwise interact with us through the website.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to separate investor onboarding documents, portfolio company agreements, confidentiality agreements, employment matters, or other arrangements that may be governed by separate notices or contracts.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information.

Information you provide directly

When you contact us or submit a pitch through our website, we may collect:

Name
Company name
Email address
Location
Business type, business model, or similar company information
Notes, messages, or questions you submit
Uploaded files, including pitch decks, executive summaries, financial materials, or other supporting documents
Any other information you choose to include in a form, email, upload, or other communication

Please do not submit Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, personal financial account numbers, health information, or other sensitive personal information unless we specifically request it.

If you upload materials that include personal information about other individuals, such as founders, employees, advisors, investors, customers, or references, you are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to provide that information to us.

Information collected automatically

When you visit our website, we or our service providers may collect technical and usage information, such as:

IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages visited
Referring website
Date and time of visit
Cookies, pixels, or similar technologies, if enabled on the site

We may use this information to operate the website, understand site performance, protect the site, and improve user experience.

2. How We Use Information

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

To receive, review, evaluate, and respond to pitch submissions
To assess whether a company may fit our investment focus
To communicate with founders, company representatives, advisors, investors, or other contacts
To manage deal flow, internal notes, diligence, and investment review processes
To share relevant submissions internally with our investment team, partners, advisors, funds, affiliates, or service providers
To maintain business records
To operate, secure, analyze, and improve the website
To comply with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, audit, and contractual obligations
To protect our rights, property, security, business operations, and legal interests
For any other purpose disclosed at the time of collection or with your consent

We do not use website pitch submissions to make decisions through fully automated processing without human involvement.

3. How We Share Information

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

Cofounders Capital personnel, funds, and affiliates, including investment team members and operating partners
Service providers, such as website hosting providers, cloud storage providers, CRM systems, email providers, analytics providers, cybersecurity providers, and other vendors that help us operate our business
Professional advisors, such as attorneys, accountants, auditors, consultants, and compliance advisors
Potential co-investors, syndicate partners, strategic partners, or portfolio-related contacts, where relevant to evaluating or supporting a potential investment opportunity
Government authorities, regulators, courts, or other third parties, when required by law, legal process, or to protect rights, safety, or security
Successors or counterparties in a business transaction, such as a reorganization, merger, fund restructuring, asset transfer, or similar transaction
Other parties with your direction or consent

We do not sell personal information. We do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If this changes, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any required opt-out rights.

4. Cookies and Analytics

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies to support site functionality, analyze website traffic, measure performance, and improve the website.

You can usually adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Some website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals. There is no uniform industry standard for responding to those signals, and our website may not respond to them. If we are legally required to honor a browser-based opt-out preference signal, such as a Global Privacy Control signal, we will do so as required by applicable law.

5. Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including investment evaluation, relationship management, business records, legal compliance, dispute resolution, audit, tax, accounting, and security purposes.

For pitch submissions and uploaded pitch materials, our recommended default is to retain materials for up to [7 years] after the last meaningful interaction, unless a longer period is reasonably necessary for legal, investment, business, regulatory, or recordkeeping purposes. Records relating to actual investments, portfolio companies, fund operations, or legal obligations may be retained for longer.

When information is no longer needed, we may delete, de-identify, aggregate, or archive it in accordance with our recordkeeping practices.

6. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

No website, email system, cloud storage system, or internet transmission is completely secure. You should use care when deciding what information to submit or upload through the website.

7. Your Privacy Choices and Requests

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have rights to request:
Access to personal information we maintain about you
Correction of inaccurate personal information
Deletion of personal information
A copy of certain personal information in a portable format
Information about how we collect, use, disclose, sell, or share personal information
Opt-out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling, if applicable
Restriction or objection to certain processing, if applicable

To submit a privacy request, contact us at:

Email: tobi@cofounderscapital.com
Mail: 
Cofounders Capital Fund IV, LP
9129 Sanctuary Court
Raleigh, NC 27617
We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request. We will use information provided for verification only for that purpose. We may deny or limit a request where permitted by law, including where we cannot verify the request, where information must be retained for legal or business reasons, or where an exception applies.

8. California Privacy Notice

This section applies to California residents to the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, applies to us.

Categories of personal information collected

In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

Identifiers, such as name, email address, IP address, and similar contact or online identifiers
Commercial or business information, such as company name, business type, pitch materials, investment-related information, and communications
Internet or electronic network activity information, such as website usage, browser information, device information, and page interactions
Professional or employment-related information, if included in pitch materials, biographies, founder profiles, or communications
Education information, if included in pitch materials, biographies, founder profiles, or communications
Geolocation-related information, such as general location submitted through a form or inferred from IP address
Inferences, such as internal investment fit notes or relationship management notes
Sensitive personal information, only if you choose to include it in materials you submit, although we ask that you not submit sensitive personal information unless specifically requested
Sources of personal information
We may collect personal information from:

You directly
Your company or representatives
Uploaded pitch materials or communications
Public sources, such as company websites, LinkedIn, press coverage, public databases, and public filings
Referrals, co-investors, advisors, portfolio companies, accelerators, universities, and other members of the startup ecosystem
Website analytics and service providers
Purposes for collection and use

We collect and use personal information for the purposes described in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy, including investment review, communications, deal flow management, business operations, legal compliance, security, and recordkeeping.

Categories of personal information disclosed for business purposes

In the past 12 months, we may have disclosed the categories listed above to the recipient categories described in Section 3 of this Privacy Policy for business purposes.

Sale or sharing of personal information

We do not sell personal information. We do not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

California privacy rights

If applicable, California residents may have the right to:

Know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected about them
Know the categories of sources, purposes, and third parties involved
Request deletion of personal information
Request correction of inaccurate personal information
Opt out of sale or sharing of personal information
Limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information, where applicable
Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights

To exercise these rights, contact us at tobi@cofounderscapital.com

9. International Visitors

Cofounders Capital is based in the United States. If you access the website or submit information from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate. These jurisdictions may have data protection laws that differ from those in your country.

Where the GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar laws apply, our legal bases for processing may include:

Our legitimate interests in reviewing investment opportunities, operating our website, communicating with founders, managing business relationships, and protecting our business
Taking steps at your request before entering into a potential investment or business relationship
Compliance with legal obligations
Consent, where required

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or request portability of your personal information, and to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our website is intended for founders, company representatives, investors, advisors, and other business contacts. It is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Effective Date” above shows when it was last updated. If we make material changes, we may provide notice by posting the updated policy on our website or by other appropriate means.

12. Contact Us

For privacy-related questions or requests, contact us at:

Cofounders Capital
Email: tobi@cofounderscapital.com
Mail: 
Cofounders Capital Fund IV, LP
9129 Sanctuary Court
Raleigh, NC 27617