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!