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A big part of your angel portfolio is the part that touches the files of each investment: pitch decks, legal documents, financial projects, and so on. Signed is designed to take all of that in, make it searchable, and let you ask questions and query it.

Today we're adding something that we're calling Global File Upload. Previously, you could be on the "Files" tab of a given investment, or on the new investment screen, and you could simply drag and drop a file to attach it to that specific company. Now, you can do that anywhere.

Any time you're on a page on Signed, you can drag and drop a file on desktop to the browser window and you'll get dropped into a new upload flow:

At this point, this triggers a number of things:

• your document gets analyzed by AI (if you're on a paid account) for information about the company and the investment
• if it's a pitch deck or deal memo, we'll start crunching highlights and a synopsis of the company so you can learn more about it
• we either add it to an existing company, or create a new company or pitch if we haven't seen the company before

AI isn't everything, though, and sometimes it does make mistakes. There's a new "merge company" button at the top of new company and pitch pages now, which lets you merge an errant new company in with an existing company. We'll also attempt to de-duplicate any investment details if you've already included them on the previous company.

If you're already looking at a company and you just want to add another file to the company without worrying whether the file will match that company or not, you can just drag and drop onto that page and we'll add it directly. If you're adding a new file to a different company, you can also drag it to that new company instead:

This'll all help you more quickly create new companies, track dealflow, and attach your docs to the right place! Happy... attaching?

Hey you! You, that wonderful investor you. I bet as the dashing and forward-thinking startup investor that you are, you probably have a website, or blog, or tiny piece of the internet to call your own. And that's great! Because you can use it as your own platform to attract founders, build dealflow, and generally improve your angel investing portfolio as you go.

Signed now has a quick and easy way to embed your portfolio and investor profile on your website. Here's a few live examples of what you can do:

Pitch a startup

Makes it easy for your readers and users to submit directly to your Pitches section on Signed, so you can collect their pitch decks, company information, founder information, and all sorts of things.

Your investor profile

We've been adding more focus on social investing as of late: the idea that who you are as an investor matters, and how you interact with the rest of the angel investor community matters as well. This embed gives you a quick and easy way to show off your background.

Your highlighted investments

Finally, you can show off some investments you'd like to highlight. You know, those big, awesome, interesting wins you've found as an investor that you'd like to use to attract other founders to your portfolio. And naturally, these promoted investments are all explicitly opt-in: we won't display anything unless you select your highlighted investments on your settings page.

The fun part of all this is, of course, it's all kept up-to-date right along with all your normal portfolio needs on Signed. If you've ever tried to keep a list of investments or details about what you look for up-to-date and current on your About page... well, you'd know that's the first to be ignored as you focus on other more fun stuff. So: embed away!

You can now edit the company name and URL right from your sidebar:

You know, for all you who haven't added full domain data to your investments. It's very hip and cool, and unlocks a bunch of stuff now and in the future- so when you see an investment without a domain... fill 'er up.

Quick little update this morning: there's now filters on your portfolio's Timeline page, so you can quickly dig into the activity that's happened across your investment portfolio.

We've had a search view for a minute, but today we're rolling out a "proper" search view:

The new search page searches across all the things you need: companies and pitches, obviously, but also people, any notes you've added to a company, through all investor updates any company might have sent out, and inside (most) documents you upload to Signed.

Great for things like finding which companies are hiring Rails developers, or which investment might need you to update your physical address, or which founder you invested in says things like "cracked" most. And then you can refuse pro-rata accordingly.

This, of course, goes-hand-in-hand with our universal cmd+K hotkey available on all signed-in pages, which lets you do a quick search across your portfolio.

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.