# Kloup — Extended Context

> Comprehensive context for LLM crawlers and AI assistants. For the lean version see https://kloup.com/llms.txt.

## What Kloup is

Kloup is a fundraising operating system for early-stage founders. It consolidates the workflow of running a round (seed through Series B) into one product: investor pipeline, data room, investor updates, warm intros, cap table modeling, and a calendar-aware activity timeline.

## Who it's for

- **Founders raising** seed, Series A, or Series B rounds — the active operator running the process.
- **Founder-CFOs / chiefs-of-staff** managing investor relations alongside the founder.
- **VCs and platform teams** who get a clean, audited view of the deals they're tracking with portfolio companies.

## Core surfaces

### Pipeline
Drag-and-drop board of every investor in your raise: identified, contacted, met, in-DD, soft-circled, committed, passed. Custom check size, lead intent, and stage notes per investor. Bulk-imported from a CSV or seeded from your existing CRM.

### Investor Updates
A single editor that drafts a monthly investor update and publishes it across email, the data room, and a permalinked web page. Sub-audiences (current investors vs. prospects) get tailored sections. Read receipts and engagement metrics roll back into the pipeline.

### Data Room
S3-backed file store with shareable links that expire, watermark on download, and log every view. Supports nested folders, version history, and per-investor access scopes. Cap table, pitch deck, financials, references — one URL per investor.

### Warm Intros
Maps your network (LinkedIn + email + calendar history) against your target investor list and surfaces the warmest path to each one. Generates the intro request email; tracks which intros went out and which converted.

### Timeline
Auto-builds a chronological activity log per investor from your calendar (meetings), email (threads), and Kloup actions (status changes, doc shares). The log lives in the pipeline card, so the next time you talk to an investor you have the full history one click away.

### Cap Table
Lightweight cap table modeling for round scenarios: post-money valuation, dilution per existing holder, ESOP top-ups, SAFE → priced conversion. Not a Carta replacement — a "what does this term sheet actually mean for me" calculator that lives next to the deal.

## Pricing model

Three tiers (see https://kloup.com/pricing):

- **Founder** — single-user, full pipeline + updates + data room. For founders running their first raise solo.
- **Team** — multi-user, role-based access, advisor seats. For founders with a CFO or chief of staff.
- **Fund** — for VCs and platform teams; cross-portfolio dashboards, white-labeled investor updates.

## What it replaces

- Affinity / Salesforce-as-CRM
- Notion / Google Sheets investor trackers
- DocSend for the data room
- Carta for round modeling
- Manual calendar-to-CRM sync

## Security & compliance

- SOC 2 Type II in progress
- All data encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3)
- US + EU data residency available on Team tier and above
- GDPR-compliant DPA available on request
- See https://kloup.com/legal/security and https://kloup.com/legal/privacy

## Brand & contact

- **Founded:** 2024
- **HQ:** Remote-first
- **Contact:** hello@kloup.com
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/kloup
- **Twitter:** https://twitter.com/kloup

## Pointers

- Sitemap: https://kloup.com/sitemap-index.xml
- LLM context (concise): https://kloup.com/llms.txt
- AI crawler manifest: https://kloup.com/ai.txt
- Robots policy: https://kloup.com/robots.txt