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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.

Signed has had public pitches for a bit, but we just gave them a freshen-up with a new design and some improved interactions during the submission form.

You can take a look at Tifo's public submission page if you'd like. All of this helps with tracking the pipeline of pitches and intros you might see as an investor: new pitches get added into your Pitch dashboard, where you can use Signed's tooling to dig into the company further.

If you've made some investments on AngelList, you can now import your entire portfolio directly into your account.

Head over to our Importer and click the "AngelList Imports" link up top to get started. You can do this as often as you'd like; we'll only update the companies and values that have changed since the last time you uploaded your portfolio CSV. Great for the first-of-the-month update you might already be doing across your financial ecosystem today, or if you have the odd one-off update you want to pull into Signed.

We've been working on Signed for a while now, but as we're getting closer to launch, it's time to start to bring things together in blog form so you can use the new hotness right as they come off the press.

So: welcome to the Signed Blog.

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