Terms of Service

Last updated: May 22, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the f4.fund website, the F4 Raise directory, the founder match service, VC firm and startup profile pages, claim flows, public deal pages, document share links, the F4 scout referral program, and any related products, features, or services we offer (collectively, the "Services").

"F4 Management LLC," "F4," "we," "us," and "our" refer to F4 Management LLC and its affiliates. "You" and "your" refer to the individual or entity accessing the Services.

By accessing or using the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use the Services. If you are using the Services on behalf of a company, fund, or other organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms, and references to "you" include that organization.

The Services are intended for venture capital firms, founders, scouts, and related professional users. They are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.

2. The Services

The Services include, without limitation:

  • F4 Raise — a public, no-login directory of researched venture capital firms and a founder-to-firm matching service.
  • Founder match and intake — submission of pitch decks (by file upload or URL), Q&A, and related materials in exchange for a generated match report.
  • Firm and startup profile pages — public profile pages for venture firms and startups, including a claim flow that lets the rightful owner edit content under a tiered publishing model.
  • Public deal pages and document share links — tokenized, viewer-tracked pages for sharing decks and other materials.
  • The scout referral program — a trusted scout channel for referring founders into the F4 pipeline.
  • Public sector pages and search — SEO-targeted sector landing pages and public search.
  • Contact, waitlist, and unsubscribe surfaces.

We may add, change, or remove features at any time.

3. Accounts and authentication

Some Services require an account. We support sign-in via email magic links delivered by Resend and WebAuthn passkeys. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials, your authenticators, and any activity under your account.

We may also create lightweight, token-gated sessions to support claim flows and founder intake. These sessions are tied to a single-use or time-limited token sent to your email.

You agree to provide accurate information when you sign up, claim a profile, or submit intake materials, and to keep that information current. You may sign out of all sessions at any time using the in-product "sign out everywhere" control.

4. User content

"User Content" means anything you submit, upload, or transmit through the Services, including pitch decks, founder Q&A responses, profile edits, claim materials, document share-link content, contact-form submissions, and any other materials you provide.

4.1 Your representations

You represent and warrant that, for any User Content you submit:

  • You own it or have all necessary rights to submit it and grant the license below.
  • It does not infringe any third-party intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights.
  • It is accurate and not misleading.
  • It does not contain confidential information of any third party that you are not authorized to share.
  • For decks and company data you submit, you have authority from your company to share them with us for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy.

4.2 License to F4

You grant F4 Management LLC a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, copy, transmit, process, display, analyze, generate embeddings from, summarize, classify, and otherwise use your User Content to operate, improve, and provide the Services to you and (where you have authorized public display, such as claimed startup profiles, public deal pages, and share links) to other users. This license is limited to the purposes described in our Privacy Policy and ends when you remove the content or close your account, except (i) for content already shared with others through the Services, (ii) where retention is required for compliance, audit, dispute resolution, or backups, and (iii) for de-identified, aggregated outputs that no longer identify you.

4.3 LLM processing

You acknowledge that we use third-party large language model providers (currently OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter) and other AI tools to process User Content for purposes such as classification, extraction, embedding generation, match generation, and content generation. Our agreements with these providers prohibit them from training their foundation models on your User Content; however, your content is transmitted to them in the ordinary course of operating the Services.

4.4 No obligation to publish or retain

We may, but are not required to, host, publish, or retain any particular piece of User Content. We may remove or refuse User Content that violates these Terms or that we believe in good faith creates risk for F4 or other users.

5. F4 content and intellectual property

The Services include content created by F4, including firm research, investment theses, sector taxonomies, generated reports, match outputs, the F4 brand, design system, software, and aggregated insights ("F4 Content").

F4 Content is owned by F4 Management LLC or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted, you may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, scrape, or create derivative works of F4 Content.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use F4 Content solely to use the Services in accordance with these Terms.

You agree not to:

  • Use automated means (bots, scrapers, crawlers) to access the Services except as expressly authorized in writing.
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code or our underlying models, embeddings, or research datasets.
  • Resell, sublicense, or otherwise commercialize F4 Content or match outputs without our written consent.
  • Use the Services to train a machine learning model that competes with F4 or any of its providers.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Services to:

  • Violate any applicable law or third-party rights.
  • Submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, fraudulent, or that misrepresents your identity or affiliation.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, or data not belonging to you, including by claiming a firm or startup profile you are not authorized to claim.
  • Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Services, or breach or circumvent any authentication, rate-limiting, or security measure.
  • Interfere with the operation of the Services or transmit malware, spam, or other harmful material.
  • Use the Services to send unsolicited commercial communications in violation of applicable law.
  • Use the Services in connection with the offer or sale of securities in any way that would require F4 to act as a broker-dealer, investment adviser, or registered offering platform.

We may suspend or terminate access for any actual or suspected violation, and we may report illegal activity to law enforcement.

7. Claim flows and profile editing

If you claim a venture firm or startup profile via our magic-link claim flow, you represent that you are authorized by that firm or company to do so, and you accept responsibility for the accuracy of edits you submit. Edits may be published live with a "provisional" badge and reviewed by F4 before being marked verified. We may revoke a claim at any time if we believe in good faith it was made without authority.

8. Public surfaces

Certain Services are designed to be public, including F4 Raise firm directory pages, claimed VC firm profiles, claimed startup profiles, public deal pages, and shared documents accessed via share links. By participating in those Services or submitting User Content for those Services, you agree that the relevant content may be displayed publicly and indexed by search engines, subject to the controls described in our Privacy Policy.

9. Email and outreach

If we send you transactional or marketing email through Resend, you can unsubscribe from non-essential email using the one-click unsubscribe link in those messages. Transactional email (sign-in links, security notices) cannot be unsubscribed while you have an active account.

10. Third-party services and links

The Services rely on third-party providers and may link to third-party websites or content. We are not responsible for third-party services, their content, or their practices. Your use of a third-party service is governed by that service's own terms.

A current list of categories of third-party processors we use is in our Privacy Policy.

11. AI-generated outputs

Reports, matches, summaries, evaluations, and other outputs generated by our AI systems are provided for informational purposes only. They may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date. You are responsible for independently verifying any AI-generated output before relying on it. F4 makes no representation that any match, score, ranking, or recommendation is suitable for your purposes.

12. No investment advice; no offer of securities

The Services do not constitute investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. F4 Content, match reports, AI-generated outputs, and any commentary appearing on the Services are not recommendations to buy, sell, or hold any security or to enter into any transaction.

Nothing on the Services constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security. Any offering of interests in F4-related investment vehicles is made only to qualified investors through separate offering documents.

13. Disclaimers

THE SERVICES, F4 CONTENT, AND ALL AI-GENERATED OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT. F4 MANAGEMENT LLC DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.

14. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, F4 MANAGEMENT LLC AND ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES, EVEN IF F4 MANAGEMENT LLC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

F4 MANAGEMENT LLC'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (i) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID F4 MANAGEMENT LLC IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (ii) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitations above, in which case the limitations apply to the fullest extent permitted by law.

15. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold harmless F4 Management LLC and its affiliates, officers, employees, and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (a) your User Content, (b) your use of the Services, (c) your breach of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any law or third-party right.

16. Term and termination

These Terms remain in effect while you use the Services. You may stop using the Services at any time. You may request deletion of your account by emailing [email protected]; we will action your request as described in our Privacy Policy.

We may suspend or terminate your access, in whole or in part, with or without notice, for any reason, including if we believe you have violated these Terms or if we discontinue a Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 4.2, 5, 11–15, 17–20) will survive.

17. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Services will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and F4 Management LLC consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms at this URL and update the "Last updated" date. Material changes will be highlighted, and where required by law we will give you advance notice. Your continued use of the Services after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

19. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and F4 Management LLC regarding the Services and supersede any prior agreements. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder will remain in effect. F4 Management LLC's failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; F4 Management LLC may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Notices to F4 Management LLC must be sent to [email protected].

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email [email protected]. Privacy-specific requests should go to [email protected].