What is Data Room?
A secure shared folder where a startup puts documents for investors to review: financials, contracts, the cap table and key metrics. What it holds, and what is missing, shows how well the company knows its own numbers.
company fills it · invited investors read
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Before the second meeting, the founders opened a data room with three years of financials, the cap table and every customer contract over $50,000.
In the illustration
From the company's side, folders go into the four labelled drawers: financials, contracts, cap table, metrics. An invited investor's guest key turns, the glass hatch lifts and the reading lamp comes on over the open pages.
Check the data room index I paste below in your deal notebook against a seed-stage list: financials, contracts, cap table, metrics. List what is missing, what looks out of date, and what you could not judge.
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