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The page for both funds and SPVs have been updated today:

Buncha stuff in today's quick update:

• Fund-level metrics and charts right at the top for the vintage aggregate (so you can get a view at a glance as to how your investments are doing at a venture firm or SPV manager)
• Quick progress bars on capital calls and overall allocation for that fund, to compare weight between investments
• You can dig into each individual fund vintage or SPV investment to note capital calls, update the performance of each individual fund, and so on

Enjoy your LP experience just a little bit more now!

Next time you sign in you'll see a DPI — distributed to paid-in capital — metric listed on the dashboard. DPI's a nice alternative measurement that gives you a bit different viewpoint on your portfolio than just MOIC and IRR, particularly when you're trying to answer questions about your own liquidity and cash flow.

As always, you can mouseover terms like DPI and IRR within Signed to get a quick understanding of what a particular investment jargon™ actually means.

If you've spent large chunks of your life entering numbers into web forms, you know they can be a bit... limited, at times.

For our currency fields across Signed, we have a nice little shortcut to saving some time or braincells: Currency Magic™. It'll let you auto-expand amounts with a lot of zeros as well as do some basic arithmetic right in the input field. Just a little niceness.

Recently we added a data export for all your investing-related information; the backup process now has the power to suck in all of your various files you've uploaded to a company or pitch and throw them in the zipfile, too:

Hot off the heels of our social investing additions, we've added some additional slots on your public profile to add your social media presence as well. Check 'em on your settings page.

Investing is inherently a social activity: founders meet investors, investors recruit other investors to put a check in, then everyone recruits employees to help work on the company.

Strangely, the whole thing is gatekept as some sort of special dance behind closed doors, where you have to know the right people to talk to so they can know the right people to talk to. It's actually strange there isn't some sort of list of angels to refer to if you're searching for other angles, for example. (You could call it... an "Angel Listing" maybe. Weird no one's done that before.)

Some of the more interesting things we have planned for Signed is improving the social aspect of investing, and today there's a new experience for your user profile (here's mine, for example). It looks like this:

Think of it as a quick little overview into your investment background- you can pop some highlights of previous investments up top, put a little background on how you invest, and then select some categories that you invest in so you show up in the investor directory. If you have an Entity set up, you'll be able to use this as a place to collect pitches from investors, too.

This is, of course, all completely optional: everything is private by default, and you can pick and choose which companies and information to put out there (and most importantly, all of your portfolio's financial data and notes are never public).

There's going to be a lot of fun stuff to come in terms of dealflow and other aspects of dealsharing, so sign up for the waitlist if you're interested in grabbing your @handle and onboarding soon!

This goes without saying — although it's becoming harder and harder to see other companies say this — but your data is yours. And the data about your investments is doubly so.

Quick little update today: export your data. Click a button, get all your investment details in a simple CSV for export to other systems, or just as an offsite backup for piece-of-mind.

Venture capital has quite a language of its own. Like any fancy financial discipline, it's made up of a ton of acronyms to make the people in the space work faster and/or feel special.

Part of what Signed is here for is to increase literacy for people just getting into investing and startups, so we've started adding little tooltips across the site explaining what weird term we might be using here. If you're confused by something, give it a little mouseover and hopefully we'll have a nice little explanation for you right there.

Made an announcement, so I guess we can say the beta is open now.

Add your email to https://signed.com/signup to get added to the waitlist; we'll get you on board soon enough!

Gone are the days of just a cryptic logo on the front page; welcome to having a real landing page!

We're getting a bit more public, little by little, as we storm towards launch. This also gives a bit more color on what the hell we're actually building here. So enjoy. Enjoy a landing page. That's a phrase that's never been typed before.