Community guidelines
Matching only works if both sides can believe the card. Six rules, applied to founders and investors alike.
Real name, real company, real numbers. Inflated MRR, invented AUM, or a profile run on someone else’s behalf without disclosure gets the account removed — verification exists to make honesty cheap and lying expensive.
Passes are silent and final. Don’t create a second account, borrow a colleague’s, or chase someone off-platform after they’ve passed on you.
Chat opens on mutual interest, not before. Scraping the directory for cold outreach, or using it to build mailing lists, is grounds for removal.
Terms discussed in chat and documents shared in a data room stay between the matched pair. Don’t forward, screenshot, or trade on them. NDA templates live in Documents if you want it in writing.
Threats, hate, discrimination, and unwanted advances end the account — this is a workplace, not a dating app, whatever the swiping suggests. One report is enough to trigger review.
Every profile and chat has a report action; a trained reviewer reads it within 24 hours and the reporter stays anonymous. Don’t answer bad behavior in kind — it makes both reports harder to act on.
Warning → feature limits → suspension → permanent ban, depending on severity and history. Fraud, harassment, and confidentiality breaches skip straight to a ban. Appeals go to trust@cofounderforstartup.com and are answered by a human.