Terms of Service

Last updated: October 3, 2026

1. Who we are

Startups Compass™ ("we", "us", "our") operates startupscompass.com and the Startups Compass application: a fundraising CRM and cap table / dilution calculation tool built for startup founders. Startups Compass is operated by QUANOMALY LTD (קואנומלי בע"מ), a limited liability company incorporated in Israel, company number 517297453, registered at HaAtzma'ut Road 45, Haifa 3303323, Israel. Contact: [email protected].

A few terms used throughout these Terms:

• "Service" means the startupscompass.com website together with the Startups Compass application.
• "App Data" means the data you enter into the application — investors, pipeline, financing rounds, cap table, costs, and everything else described in Section 5 — which is stored locally in your browser as described in Section 6.
• "Registration Data" means the information you submit when creating an account, as described in Section 4.

2. Acceptance of these Terms

By accessing this website, creating an account, or using the Startups Compass application, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you're accepting on behalf of a company, you confirm you have the authority to bind that company. If you don't agree, don't use the site or the app.

3. Eligibility and accounts

The Service is intended for business use by startup founders and their teams, not for personal consumer use. You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract to use the Service.

3.1 One account per company

Each account covers one company. If you're raising for multiple, separate companies, each needs its own account — sharing a single account across unrelated companies isn't permitted.

3.2 Account accuracy

You're responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide when registering (including your email address) and for keeping your login credentials confidential once accounts exist. You're responsible for all activity that happens under your account.

4. Creating an account, and access codes

This is the part of the Service that is live today.

4.1 How an account is created

An account requires a valid work email address (we don't accept personal email providers such as Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, etc.). Accounts are created either by subscribing (Section 7) or with an access code that we have issued to you. Codes are limited in number, are not transferable, and may be used once per account. A code is optional — you can also create an account by subscribing (Section 7), or by starting the free trial described there. We may deactivate a code, or change how registration works, at any time and without prior notice.

4.2 With an access code: one year free, with no payment details

Redeeming a valid code gives you one year of free access, counted from the date you register. During that year:

• We do not collect any payment details from you — no card, no billing address, nothing. There is no payment method on file for your account.
• Nothing is charged, and nothing can be charged, because there is no payment instrument to charge. There is no subscription, no auto-renewal, and no trial that silently converts into a paid plan.
• You are not agreeing to any future payment by registering. If we introduce paid plans later, becoming a paying customer will require a separate, explicit decision by you at that time — including actively providing payment details, which you have not done and will not be asked to do during this year.

We will tell you before your free year runs out, at the email address on your account, and explain what your options are at that point — including the subscription prices set out in Section 7, which you may then choose to take or not.

4.3 What we collect at registration

Along with your email and optional name, we automatically collect some technical/meta information needed to operate registration and to keep a record of your consent (such as your browser's language, your IP address at signup, and the page you signed up from) — see Section 2 of our Privacy Policy for the full list. We also record which access code your account used and the date your free year ends.

5. The Service

Once your account is active, the Service lets you: track investors and manage a fundraising pipeline by stage; set and receive follow-up reminders; record strategic partnerships, tasks, and costs; build a multi-round capitalization table including SAFEs, convertible notes, option pools, and priced rounds; and run exit waterfall simulations. We may add, change, or remove individual features over time; we'll aim not to remove core functionality you rely on without reasonable notice.

6. Your data: local mode and optional cloud backup

The application runs from your own web browser and your App Data is always stored there. You choose one of two modes, and Local mode is the default. You can switch between them, in either direction, at any time.

6.1 Local mode (the default)

Nothing leaves your browser. As a result:

• We do not receive, store, or have access to your App Data, and cannot see, back up, or recover it on your behalf.
• You are solely responsible for exporting backups using the app's built-in backup feature, on a schedule that matches how much you'd mind losing — we recommend exporting a fresh backup after any significant change, such as adding a financing round or updating your cap table.
• Your data does not automatically transfer between devices, browsers, or browser profiles. Moving to a new device requires exporting a backup and importing it there.
• If your browser's local storage is cleared, or the app file/backup is lost, your data may be permanently unrecoverable. We are not liable for that loss (see Section 13). Additionally, if you use the app in an Incognito or Private Browsing window, all your data will be permanently deleted the moment you close the browser window.

In Local mode, some of the App Data you enter — for example, an investor's name, email address, or phone number — is personal data about someone else, not you. For that data you are the data controller, not us: you're responsible for having a lawful basis to collect and store it, for how you use it, and for responding if that person contacts you about it. Because this data lives only in your own browser and we never receive, process, or have any visibility into it, we do not act as a controller or a processor for it.

6.2 Cloud backup mode (Cloud plan)

Cloud backup is part of the Cloud plan and is on by default there; you can turn it off in the app at any time, and the app explains what that means before it does. While Cloud backup is on, the application still runs from your browser exactly as before — your browser remains where you work, and it keeps working if our servers are unreachable. What changes is that a copy of your App Data is also stored on our servers so that it can be restored:

• What we store. A copy of your App Data, and a series of dated restore points. The current copy is refreshed within seconds of a change. A restore point is kept at most once per day, and the most recent 10 are retained; older ones are deleted automatically.
• Where. On infrastructure located in the European Union.
• Our access. The copy is encrypted in transit and at rest. It is not end-to-end encrypted: we are technically able to read it. This is deliberate and is what allows us to restore your data for you and to help when something goes wrong. If that is not acceptable to you, use Local mode.
• What we will not do. We do not use your App Data for our own purposes. We do not read it except as needed to provide, secure, restore, or support the service, or where we are legally required to. We do not combine, aggregate, pool, or share it with other customers, and we do not build any product or dataset out of it.
• Deleting it. You can erase your cloud copy and all its restore points yourself, from within the app, at any time. That deletion is immediate and permanent. Switching back to Local mode on its own stops new backups but does not delete an existing copy.
• If you close your account. Deleting your account permanently and immediately deletes your cloud copy and every one of its restore points — this is enforced at the database level, not a manual step we might forget. Your local data is unaffected: it stays exactly where it already was, in your own browser, and the built-in export remains available. Export a local backup first if you want to keep a copy of anything that only ever lived in the cloud.

In Cloud backup mode, for the personal data of third parties contained in your App Data — investors and their contact details — you remain the data controller and we act as a processor on your instructions. Your instructions are: store it, keep restore points, restore it when you ask, and delete it when you ask. Our obligations as a processor, and the safeguards we apply, are the commitments in this Section 6 — what we store, where, our access to it, and what we will not do with it — which apply in full and do not depend on any payment. If paid plans are ever introduced, a more detailed data processing addendum may be provided with them, and where that addendum and this section conflict, the addendum governs.

You remain responsible for having a lawful basis to collect and hold that personal data, for what you do with it, and for responding to the people it concerns. Turning on Cloud backup does not transfer that responsibility to us, and it does not affect those people's rights.

6.3 Files in the cloud (Cloud plan)

The Cloud plan includes storage for files you attach to your records — for example contracts, NDAs, term sheets, financial models and presentations — up to the limit stated in the app (currently 2 GB). On the Local plan you can link to files kept on your own computer or drive; the files themselves are not stored with us.

• Where and how. Files are stored on infrastructure in the European Union, encrypted in transit and at rest. They are not end-to-end encrypted: we are technically able to read them. We do not read them except as needed to provide, secure or support the Service, or where legally required, and we never use them to build any product, dataset or model.
• What the Service does with them. It stores them and lets you find, download, replace, move and delete them. We do not send, share or publish your files: there is no sharing link and no public access. What you do with a file after downloading it, including sending it from your own email, is yours alone.
• Your content. You are responsible for the files you upload. You confirm you have the right to store them with us, including under any confidentiality obligation you owe to an investor, partner or other third party, and that they are lawful, do not infringe others' rights and contain no malicious code. We do not review files, are not a party to your agreements with others, and may remove content or suspend access where required by law, to stop abuse, or to protect the security of the Service.
• No restore points. Unlike Cloud backup of your records, files have no dated restore points. The app asks you to confirm before a file is deleted; once confirmed, a deleted or replaced file is permanently removed. Keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose.
• Storage limit. Above the limit, new uploads are refused; files already stored stay available to download.
• When Cloud ends. If your subscription ends, or you move from the Cloud plan to the Local plan, your files and your cloud copy are kept for 60 days and are then permanently deleted (Section 8). Deleting your account deletes them immediately.

For the personal data of other people inside your files you remain the data controller and we act as a processor on your instructions, exactly as described for Cloud backup in Section 6.2.

7. Payment and pricing

Paid subscriptions are being rolled out. Until they are available on your account, access is by invitation code as described in Section 4, and nothing is charged.

Startups Compass is sold as a subscription, billed monthly or annually, in US dollars:

• Local — $9.90/month, or $99/year (the annual price is ten months).
• Local + Cloud backup — $14.90/month, or $149/year. Cloud is an addition to Local, never a separate plan; the difference between them is $5.00/month, or $50/year. The Cloud plan includes 2 GB of file storage for the files you attach to your records.

Free trial. The first subscription on an account starts with a 14-day free trial; a later subscription on the same account, after an earlier one has ended, is billed from the start. Starting a trial requires a payment method upfront. If you cancel before the trial ends you are not charged at all — not even a prorated amount. If you don't cancel, billing begins automatically when the trial ends, at the price shown to you at signup.

Renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled. The price is shown before you are charged, and we will tell you by email before any price change takes effect for you.

Changing plan. If you add Cloud partway through a billing period, you pay only the difference for the remainder of that period, prorated, and the combined price applies from your next renewal; your existing billing date does not change. Removing Cloud takes effect at your next renewal; from then, your cloud copy and stored files are kept for 60 days, so you can download them, and are then permanently deleted. Returning to Cloud within those 60 days keeps them.

Access codes. We also issue access codes to selected users. Redeeming one gives a year of free access from the date you register, with no payment details collected at all. A code covers the Local plan; Cloud backup remains a paid addition.

Payments are processed by Paddle.com Market Limited ("Paddle"), which acts as our authorised reseller and merchant of record. Paddle bills you, collects payment, and handles applicable sales tax/VAT; your payment appears on your statement under Paddle. We do not store or process your full card details — see Section 3 of our Privacy Policy.

8. Cancellation and refunds

You can cancel at any time, yourself, from within your account settings. Cancellation is self-service and does not require contacting us.

Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not shorten the period you have already paid for. A monthly subscription runs to the end of that month, and an annual subscription runs to the end of that year.

Refunds: 14 days. You can request a refund within 14 days of any charge, including a renewal. Contact us at the address at the end of this section, or contact Paddle, our merchant of record, directly. Refund requests are handled by Paddle under Paddle's refund policy, and refunds are made to the original payment method. When a refund is issued, access for the period it covered ends at the end of that day in your own time zone (in UTC, if we do not know your time zone).

During the 14-day free trial you can cancel and pay nothing at all.

What happens when a subscription ends. From the moment your access ends there is no access to the application itself. For the following 60 days, signing in shows a single screen from which you can either choose a plan or download your data — an Excel export and a full backup file, and, on the Cloud plan, a ZIP of your stored files. We email you when the subscription ends and again 30 days and 7 days before the 60 days are up. At the end of the 60 days your cloud copy, its restore points and your stored files are permanently deleted; after that, signing in offers only the choice of a plan, as for a new user. Data held in your own browser is never touched by us. Deleting your account deletes the cloud copy and files immediately (Section 12).

If you were charged in error, email [email protected] and we will put it right.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to: use the Service for any unlawful purpose; enter or store another person's personal data (such as an investor's name, email, or phone number) in the Service without a lawful basis and the right to do so — see Section 6 for how responsibility for that data works; attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems or another user's account or data; reverse-engineer, scrape, or resell the Service without our permission; interfere with or disrupt the Service's operation; upload malicious code; or misrepresent your identity or company affiliation when registering.

10. Not professional advice

Startups Compass is a planning and management tool only. Nothing in the app or on this site constitutes legal, financial, tax, or investment advice. Cap table and dilution calculations are approximations based on the inputs you provide and standard simplified assumptions — actual SAFE, convertible note, option pool, and term sheet mechanics vary by agreement and jurisdiction. Always consult a qualified lawyer or accountant before relying on these numbers for an actual transaction. Startups Compass is not a registered broker-dealer, investment advisor, or equity crowdfunding platform. The Service and its outputs (including cap tables, dilution calculations, and exit waterfalls) are intended for your own internal planning and understanding only. You agree not to present any output of the Service to a third party — including investors, accelerators, lenders, or financial or legal advisors — as a verified, audited, or binding financial or legal document without independent verification by a qualified professional. We are not liable to you or to any third party for decisions made in reliance on Service outputs.

11. Intellectual property

The Startups Compass name, logo, branding, website, and application code are our property or used under license, and are protected by intellectual property law. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for your own business purposes while your account is active. Your own business data that you enter into the app remains yours; we claim no ownership over it. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works of the Service's code or interfaces, except as this license permits. "Startups Compass" and our logo are our trademarks; you may not use them without our prior written permission.

12. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service, or delete your account, at any time by contacting us. Accounts that stay inactive are deleted automatically, after advance notice by email where we have a confirmed address, as described in our Privacy Policy; accounts with an active subscription or free access period in force are never deleted for inactivity. We may suspend or terminate access to the Service for anyone who materially breaches these Terms (in particular Section 9), with notice where practical. Because your app data lives in your own browser, termination of your account does not, by itself, delete or affect data already stored locally on your device — you retain whatever local copies and backups you've made. If you had Cloud backup switched on, deleting your account permanently deletes the cloud copy and every restore point along with it — see Section 6.2. You can also erase them yourself beforehand, from inside the app, and either way you should export a local backup first if you want to keep the data.

13. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or business, arising from your use of or inability to use the Service — including data loss related to the local-only storage design described in Section 6. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or 100 USD if you haven't paid us anything. These limitations apply only to the extent permitted by applicable law and do not exclude liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded (for example, in cases of gross negligence, willful misconduct, or personal injury). We are also not liable for any failure or delay in performance resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, cyberattacks, government action, internet or infrastructure failures (including outages of our hosting, cloud, or payment providers), or public health emergencies.

14. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, damages, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from: your violation of these Terms; your misuse of the Service; or any third party's reliance on Service outputs that you presented, shared, or disclosed to them (see Section 10). We'll give you prompt notice of any such claim and reasonably cooperate, at your expense, with your defense of it.

15. Changes to these Terms or the Service

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves — for example, if we introduce paid plans. We'll update the "Last updated" date above when we do, and for material changes we'll make reasonable efforts to notify active users (for example, by email to your registered address and/or a notice on the site or in the app). Continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms. We retain prior versions of these Terms and will provide a copy on request.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from these Terms or the Service will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.

17. General

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision isn't a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms: [email protected]