Signed gives you a public link you can hand out to founders so they can send you their pitch directly. Share it on Twitter, drop it in your email signature, give it to a friend at a fund — anyone who visits the link can submit a deck and a short pitch, and it'll land in your pipeline automatically. No more digging through your inbox for that PDF someone forwarded you three weeks ago.
Want to see one in the wild? Here's Tifo's pitch page — that's one example of what a founder sees when they land on your link.
How it works
When a founder visits your pitch link, they see a simple, branded page with your name and logo and a short form: their contact info, the company name, a one-line tagline, a short description, and a place to drop a deck. When they hit submit, the pitch shows up in Signed under the Triage stage of your pipeline, and we'll send you a quick email letting you know.
If they upload a PDF deck, Signed reads through it for you and pulls out highlights, insights, and a few suggested tags before you even open it. By the time you click in, you've already got a head start on the read.
Enabling pitch submissions
Your pitch link is tied to an entity, so you can have different links for different vehicles — your personal angel checks, a fund, an SPV, whatever. To turn it on, head to your entities and either pick an existing one or create a new one. Then:
- Give it a slug if it doesn't have one — that's the bit where you can customize or brand the URL.
- Flip Accepting pitches on.
- Add a logo, public name, and short description if you'd like. This is what founders see, so a little polish goes a long way.
That's it. Your link is live at signed.com/pitch/your-slug.
Finding your link
You don't need to memorize the URL. Head to Pitches and look at the left sidebar — there's a "Receive pitches at" section that lists every entity that's currently accepting pitches, with the link right there to copy. If you've got multiple entities turned on, each one has its own link, so you can tell at a glance which channel a deal came from.
Working through pitches
New submissions land in Triage. From there, you can move pitches through the rest of the pipeline as you talk to founders:
- Triage — fresh in, haven't looked yet
- Tracking — interesting, keeping an eye on it
- Meeting — had a chat, taking it seriously
- Diligence — going deep
- Passed — not this one
Click into any pitch to see the deck, the highlights Signed pulled out, the founder's contact info, your notes, and anywhere else you've been chatting with them.
Saying yes
When you're ready to invest, hit Invest in Company at the top of the pitch page. You'll pick what kind of investment it is — equity, fund LP, or SPV — and Signed handles the rest: it spins up an investment record, carries over all the files, notes, and tags, and moves the company out of your pipeline and into your portfolio. Nothing gets lost in the shuffle.
Other ways pitches come in
The public link isn't the only way pitches show up. If a founder emails you (or someone forwards you a deck), you can forward any email to [email protected] and it'll drop it into Triage just like a form submission. Same deal — if there's a PDF attached, you'll get the highlights and insights waiting for you.
If something gets misfiled — say, an investor update comes in but lands as a pitch — there's a Correct to Investor Update button on the pitch page that'll reclassify it.
Taking a break
If you want to stop receiving pitches for a while, just flip Accepting pitches off on the entity. The link goes dark, and you can turn it back on whenever — your slug stays the same, so any link you've shared before will still work when you're ready again.