Q1 Releases & Product Updates

In the first three months of 2024, the team has launched 25+ new releases across our product offerings for funds, investors, and founders.

As AngelList continues to innovate across our product lines, we're focused not only on enhancing our current infrastructure but also on releasing new products and features across all software offerings. These product updates aim to provide transparency into these efforts while keeping our partners and community up-to-date on AngelList's offerings across the private markets.

Full Service Fund Management

AngelList offers an all-in-one solution for fund managers looking to launch, run, and scale a fund. We pair our software with Belltower's fund admin services for venture funds, rolling funds, and syndicates.

[Spotlight Feature] Your LPs can track K-1 timing directly on their dashboard – to improve K-1 delivery timelines, your LPs can now view filing requirements and expected K-1 delivery dates for each of their investments directly within their AngelList dashboard.

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Additional Releases:

• Real-time tax data verification – we’ve improved our tax software leveraged by Belltower, our native fund admin, to ensure timely delivery of K-1s.
• Directly adjust commitments –LPs can take full control of adjusting their commitments within the AngelList dashboard by having their requests to decrease/cancel commitments sent directly to the GPs (via email & in-product) for approval or rejection. Once actioned by the GP, the change will be automatically executed.
• Request investor dashboard access – third party partners, like tax professionals or accountants, can now request dashboard access via the “Request Access” screen. Invest account owners can then review and approve these requests directly from their Team Members page.
• Automated fee contributions – syndicate leads can now track and pay their contributions towards vehicle setup costs directly within product instead of having to reach out to their account manager.
• Improved LP tax information collection – to improve K-1 delivery timelines and accuracy, LPs can now provide tax information within the investment workflows before completing an investment.
• Improved valuation updates – up-to-date portfolio markups are important for accurate financial reporting to LPs. We launched a new automated process that's significantly increased response times & data coverage from portfolio companies.
• Revamped launch process for venture funds with custom docs - we’ve added a layer of automation to the fund intake process to easily review custom docs while also simplifying the fund configuration interface.
• Improved interest transfers flow – the process of submitting an interest transfer is now fully automated and supported within the AngelList platform.
• Contact settings for Syndicates – you can now designate within the Lead dashboard whether AngelList can reach out to portfolio companies to collect tax information on your behalf, as well as identify 'valuation contacts' within your Venture Firm who should be contacted for portfolio company valuation updates.
• Unified navigation – experience a redesigned navigation bar, on the left of each page, making it easy to switch between AngelList apps and dashboard pages.
• 2FA reset – you and your LPs can now reset your 2FA by verifying your personal identity within the product instead of having to email support.

Investor Management Suite

For funds larger than $150M, AngelList provides fund admin-agnostic software for you to prospect, close, and nurture long-term investor relationships – all within a unified platform. You can impress your investors from day one with software modernizing Data Rooms, digital sub docs, and investor portals.

[Spotlight Feature] Share fundraising materials with LPs using fully customizable authentication options – we've released additional authentication options for accessing data rooms, including the ability to create public links that don't require investors to create an account.

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Additional Releases:

• Investor Portal launch – firms looking to improve ongoing touch-points with their LPs across the lifecycle can leverage AngelList’s Investor Portal. A single platform providing a branded experience to keep investors engaged by publishing standard quarterly reports and sharing content for current and future investment opportunities.
• Compliance CRM for KYC/AML – you can now manage your KYC/AML checks within our Compliance CRM, where we'll run investor identity data through our battle tested compliance systems. If you'd like to put KYC/AML on autopilot, our internal teams can resolve false positives and follow up with investors so you don't have to.
• Self-serve settings in Transact – directly update transaction templates for your sub doc workflows with the ability to customize URLs, names, descriptions, and more from your 'Settings' tab.‍
• Add multiple CTAs to data rooms – configure your data rooms on the permission group or visitor level even further by adding multiple call-to-action links.‍
• Video section in data rooms –data rooms now support the ability to upload videos, allowing you to create a more engaging story for your investors.‍
• Data Room configurations – easily configure the layout to suit your firm's needs by adding a new team section and dragging/dropping files, allowing you to take control of customizing your data room experience.

Portfolio Management

AngelList provides comprehensive, AI-powered portfolio management software (Relay) to centralize all portfolio data and help firms execute key workflows such as valuation updates, SOI reconciliation, and monitoring portfolio company key performance using data from company updates and legal documents.

[Spotlight Feature] Gain deeper context on portfolio companies with additional fields - In addition to the existing fields, customers can now track profile data related to their portfolio companies such as information related to the company's headquarters, ESG, and founder directly within their Relay dashboard.

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Additional Releases Include:

• Portfolio table CSV export – users can now easily export their entire Portfolio Index Table from their Relay dashboard.
• Valuation updates CSV export – users can now take all valuation changes made to company valuations and investments tracked in Relay and easily export them via CSV.

Equity Management for Founders

For companies from pre-seed to $5B in valuation, AngelList’s cap table software removes the friction from managing startups’ greatest asset, their equity. Draft and sign options, shares, or SAFEs all from one connected product. Give employees and shareholders secure dashboards to track vesting, exercise their options, and access important documents.

[Spotlight Feature] Stakeholders portal received a fresh usability upgrade – employees, investors, and other company shareholders now have a clean new portal on AngelList Equity where they can view their holdings, exercise options, and download documents.

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Additional Releases Include:

• Seamless money movement – ability to allow investors and stakeholders to directly connect their bank info so companies on AngelList Equity can easily receive capital and payments for equity-related transactions such as option exercise.
• Corporate Transparency Act – FinCEN introduced new reporting requirements for all companies (including some management companies) where they need to file beneficial ownership information with the government. AngelList's offering can collect the necessary information here for newly incorporated companies and submit it to FinCEN on your behalf.

Stay Tuned

Be on the lookout as we continue to ship updates across our product offerings for funds, startups, and investors. We’re excited to continue to evolve our product offerings as we continue to build the infrastructure that powers the startup economy.

If you have any questions on any of the above releases, product offerings, or upcoming features – don’t hesitate to reach out to your account manager or contact our team directly here. To learn more about our products, visit AngelList.com.

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