Fundraising is cold sales. “They opened it” is not enough. You need to know who opened your deck, how long they stayed, which pages they cared about, when they came back, and who they shared it with. Google Drive can’t tell you that. papermark.com

Half of investors spend 77 seconds with your deck. 24,541 decks. 358,672 views. • Only 44% reach your last slide • Early traction gets 20% more views • 12-page decks win on views and return visits • 26.5% reopen on a later day papermark.com/fundraising-re…

3.5 million views in total! Peopleeeeeeeee papermark.com

Lets gooooo 🚀 You can see live amount of submissions

We are giving away €15,000 to the best pre-seed startups, equity free Judged entirely by AI: Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Grok. Prizes: 🥇 €10,000 🥈 €3,000 🥉 €2,000 Pre-seed, raised under €500,000, any sector. Submit now 👇 papermark.com/pitch-deck-com…

Papermark crossed 3.5M+ views across documents and data rooms. 2024: 344,000 views 2025: 1.5M 2026 so far: 1.9M most viewers show up once, read what matters, and never come back. that's the product doing its job.

US VC Fundraising was nearly 4x Europe’s in September. $12.9B vs $3.4B. Bessemer alone raised $5.75B... more than Europe’s top 5 combined. The funding gap remains wide.

I'm happy to see more and more open source alternatives popping up. Docsend → @papermarkio Postman → @YaakApp Wispr Flow → Handy Jira → @planepowers Google Analytics → @OpenPanelDev DocuSign → @documenso Notion → @appflowy Screen Studio → @cap Clerk → @hanko_io GitHub → @giteaio

So many folks using @papermarkio! @mfts0 is cooking 👨‍🍳

Q3 Recap is here! → 14% more documents opened through a link, than on Q2 → 754k unique visitors → 35% more customers on Q2 So excited, we are in the Q4 yeaaaaah

Le futur des Virtual Data Rooms s’ouvre en grand 📂 Et si le contrôle absolu de vos documents stratégiques ne dépendait plus d’une plateforme propriétaire fermée ? #KingLand #IA #VDR #OpenSource #PaperMark #Securite #DataPrivacy #SaaS #Fintech #LeveeDeFonds #Tech #Cloud #Automation ▫️ Fiche Impact : kingland.fr/article/papermar… Parce qu’avec le partage documentaire moderne, une architecture auditable vaut mieux qu’une promesse de sécurité aveugle. Pour sécuriser une levée de fonds ou une due diligence, tracer la moindre consultation est devenu indispensable. En 2026, l’irruption des agents intelligents dans les processus opérationnels change la donne : envoyer un rapport stratégique implique souvent de l’exposer aux modèles d’IA de frontière. Face aux solutions centralisées et opaques, l’émergence d’une alternative ouverte comme @papermarkio redéfinit les règles du jeu pour la protection des données sensibles. 📦 Souveraineté et self-hosting : la liberté d’héberger soi-même la structure et de choisir précisément la localisation physique de ses fichiers financiers. ⚙️ Automatisation par les agents : un serveur Model Context Protocol pour administrer, créer des espaces documentaires et gérer les permissions via des commandes programmatiques sécurisées. 👁️ Analytics et filigranes dynamiques : un suivi page par page du temps de lecture et l’incrustation de l’email ou de l’adresse IP du destinataire pour décourager les fuites. 💼 Économie maîtrisée : un modèle tarifaire transparent et accessible, évitant les surcoûts habituels des acteurs traditionnels du secteur. ✨ Explorer : refer.papermark.com/pestel-c… "La transparence du code n’est pas une faiblesse, c’est l’unique fondation solide pour une confiance numérique durable à l’heure des décisions automatisées." — C. Pestel En observant la vitesse à laquelle les outils d’intelligence artificielle s’intègrent dans l’analyse des documents d’entreprise, je trouve fascinant de voir comment l’infrastructure de stockage elle-même doit se réinventer. Ce qui retient mon attention ici, c’est cette idée qu’une data room ne soit plus seulement un répertoire passif, mais qu’elle devienne une surface d’action programmable pilotable par des agents logiciels. C’est un glissement intéressant : nous ne cherchons plus seulement à barricader des fichiers, mais à gouverner intelligemment la manière dont des systèmes automatisés interagissent avec notre propriété intellectuelle. Bien que l’auto-hébergement demande des compétences internes pour éviter les erreurs de configuration, cette approche redonne enfin aux fondateurs et aux équipes financières un vrai pouvoir de décision sur leurs actifs numériques. 📇 Fiche Tool : kingland.fr/tool/papermark Jusqu’gout êtes-vous prêt à déléguer la gestion et l’accès de vos documents stratégiques à des systèmes automatisés ?

Investors Spend Just 77 Seconds on Your Pitch Deck I partnered with @papermarkio on this analysis because they have an incredible amount of real-world data on how investors actually engage with pitch decks. Their dataset covers 24,541 pitch decks, 358,672 investor views and 1.37 million minutes of investor attention. I love data like this because it lets us move past opinions and actually see what investors are doing. Huge thanks to the Papermark team for sharing the data and working with me to break it down.

Why investors keep ghosting you? We analysed thousands of decks shared via Papermark to answer this one question. Some of what came back was uncomfortable, but expected: ▪️ 4 mins is the average view time ▪️ But half of all views end in 77 seconds ▪️ 16% of investors spend 10 seconds ▪️ 44% of investors reach your final slide ▪️ 20% more views decks with traction → Papermark Fundraising Report out now: papermark.com/fundraising-re… We cannot fix your pitch deck, but we can provide the view insights, so you will know how to fix it.

3 fixes for your pitch deck right now: 1. Add ask on first slide 2. Team is second 3. Traction is your 3rd slide

5 fundraising tools you should know as a founder: 1. Evalyze (@Evalyze_ai) → deck analysis, investor readiness, matching, shortlisting, and outreach 2. Roundly (@RoundlyX) → investor outreach, follow-ups, and meeting prep 3. CapitalReach AI (@capitalreachai) → investors, grants, accelerators, and fundraising planning 4. Papermark (@papermarkio) → pitch materials, investor engagement, and diligence 5. Gatsbie (@JobSeekerAdvoca) → investor research and fit analysis the best tool depends on where your raise is getting stuck.

Recently switched to @papermarkio from DocSend. much more startup friendly. had an issue where an investor couldn’t access our materials. @mfts0 reached out directly and pushed a fix so it wouldn’t happen again. small detail but a great example of how to operate as a founder.

Papermark is now a connector on Perplexity Computer Ask the agent to: → set up a data room → upload your deck → share secure, tracked links → report who viewed what, page by page From first share to closed deal, without leaving the chat

New milestone ✨ $55B deal volume running through Papermark Thousands: - Founders closing a round - Funds raising there I, II and III - M&A acquisition happening - Sales for B dollars a year We gathered insights from 5000 customers. Insights: ▪️Average founder round targeted by startup founders is $11M ▪️Average MA transaction run via Papermark $32M (growing MOM) ▪️Funds are actively raising on Papermark (avg. size $46.7M) ▪️Sales is the fourth-largest use case (add up to $2B) Thanks everyone for trusting Papermark! Happy to celebrate each our milestone with our users!