Your inbox is already the system of record for your angel portfolio — pitches land there, founder updates land there, term sheets land there. Signed has a single address that turns that pile back into structured data: [email protected].
Forward anything investing-related to that address and we'll do the parsing on the other side. You don't need to clean it up, strip the forwarding headers, or pick a category first. Just hit forward.
What you can send
There are two main flavors of email worth forwarding:
- Pitches and intros. A founder cold-emailing you, a friend introducing a company, a deck attached to a "thoughts?" one-liner — any of these will land in your pitch queue, with the company, founders, round details, and deck pulled out automatically. If a PDF deck is attached, we'll keep it on the pitch so you don't have to go dig through your inbox later.
- Investor updates. The monthly or quarterly notes founders send to their cap table. Forward them in and they'll show up on that company's timeline, so the next time you open the company page you can scroll back through every update they've ever sent — not just the one you happen to remember.
You don't need to flag which is which. A short LLM pass figures it out from the content of the email itself.
Who you can send it from
Forwarded mail has to come from an email address that's tied to your Signed account, otherwise we have no way to know which portfolio it belongs to. Your primary account email works out of the box.
If you triage deals from more than one inbox — a personal Gmail, a fund address, a Superhuman alias — add the others under Settings → Emails. Each one needs a quick verification click, and after that you can forward from any of them and it'll end up in the same place.
If a forward ever bounces back, the most common reason is that you sent it from an unverified address. We'll email you back with a heads-up so you don't have to wonder where it went.
A few practical tips
Apple Mail and Gmail both add their own quoting around forwarded messages, and that's fine — the parser is built to handle it. You don't need to clean up the email before sending.
If you want a frictionless workflow, set up a filter in your mail client that auto-forwards anything from a portfolio company's domain straight to [email protected]. New update lands in your inbox, copy lands on the company timeline, no extra clicks. Other Signed users have done well with an updates@ inbox on their domain, which auto-forwards all investor updates into Signed from that mailbox.
And if you're testing it out for the first time, send yourself a quick forward and check the Pitches or company page a minute later. The round trip is usually fast enough that you'll see it before you've finished refilling your coffee.