Seedable Terms of Service

Important notice — please read first

Seedable is a professional networking and discovery platform. It enables founders and investors to create profiles, publish and discover content, view startup pitches, connect, communicate and participate in professional communities.

Seedable is not a securities exchange, broker, dealer, investment adviser, crowdfunding platform, placement agent, payment provider, custodian or other financial intermediary.

Seedable does not arrange, negotiate, execute, settle or complete investments. It does not receive, hold or transmit investment money or assets.

Nothing communicated by Seedable constitutes:

• An offer or invitation to buy or sell a security or financial product;
• Investment, legal, tax, accounting or other professional advice;
• A recommendation or endorsement of a startup, founder, investor, security or transaction;
• An assessment of investment suitability or appropriateness; or
• A financial promotion made or approved by Seedable.

Users remain responsible for their own communications, content, due diligence, regulatory obligations and investment decisions. Any investment-related discussions or dealings take place entirely between the relevant users, at their own risk and responsibility.

See sections 3, 5, 7 and 8 for further information.

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By creating a Seedable account, affirmatively accepting these Terms where an acceptance control is provided, uploading content or otherwise accessing or using the Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

The Community Guidelines form part of these Terms. Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain how Seedable processes personal data and uses cookies and similar technologies.

Acceptance of these Terms does not, by itself, constitute consent to non-essential analytics, advertising or tracking technologies. Where separate consent is required, Seedable will request it separately.

If you use the Services on behalf of a company, startup, fund or other organisation, you confirm that you have authority to act for and bind that organisation. In that case, “you” includes both you and the organisation.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not create an account or use the Services.

2. Eligibility, capacity and authority

You must:

• Be at least 18 years old;
• Have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract;
• Not be prohibited from using the Services under applicable law;
• Not be subject to sanctions or restrictions that prohibit your use of the Services; and
• Not access or use the Services from, or on behalf of a person in, a jurisdiction where doing so would be unlawful.

We may request evidence of age, identity, authority, professional status, business existence, startup affiliation or investor status where reasonably necessary for security, compliance or platform integrity.

Any review performed by Seedable is limited to platform-integrity purposes. It is not a regulatory, financial, legal, accreditation, suitability or investment verification. You must not represent that Seedable has verified or approved you, your organisation or your activities unless Seedable has expressly authorised that statement in writing.

3. Nature and limits of the Services

Seedable provides technology tools for:

• Founder and investor profiles;
• Startup and pitch discovery;
• Professional networking;
• Connection requests;
• Direct and group messaging;
• Posts, comments, likes, saves and sharing;
• Startup pitch videos and supporting materials;
• Notifications;
• Search and profile-history features;
• Content moderation and reporting; and
• Community participation.

Unless Seedable expressly agrees otherwise in a separate written agreement signed by an authorised representative, Seedable:

• Does not provide investment, legal, tax, accounting, valuation or other professional advice;
• Is not a broker, dealer, placement agent, investment adviser, financial consultant, crowdfunding operator, exchange, custodian, payment service provider or escrow agent;
• Does not arrange, execute, negotiate, structure, underwrite, settle or complete an investment or transaction;
• Does not receive, hold, control or transmit investment funds or assets;
• Does not assess whether an investment is suitable or appropriate for any person;
• Does not endorse, approve, rate, recommend or guarantee any user, startup, security, opportunity, business plan, projection or outcome;
• Does not itself make, communicate or approve a financial promotion, offer or invitation; and
• Is not a party to communications, introductions, negotiations, agreements or transactions between users.

Discover ranking and engagement signals

Seedable may order and display content through automated discovery and ranking systems.

Depending on the feature and the information available, these systems may use factors such as:

• A user’s selected role and stated discovery preferences;
• Startup sector, stage, geography and profile information;
• Pitch approval and availability status;
• Previous exposure to a pitch;
• Pitch impressions;
• Meaningful views and qualifying watch time;
• Natural video-playback progress;
• Profile clicks;
• Saves, likes, comments and shares;
• Content freshness;
• Platform-wide engagement patterns; and
• Rotation or randomisation intended to provide content variety.

Some engagement information may be associated with an authenticated user, as described in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Any feed position, search result, match, recommendation, badge, trend, engagement metric or automated output is provided solely for discovery, relevance and usability. It is not a statement of investment quality, credibility, suitability, expected return, regulatory status or endorsement.

You must conduct your own assessment and obtain independent professional advice before entering into any investment or commercial arrangement.

4. Accounts and account security

You must provide accurate, current and complete account information and keep it updated.

Seedable currently supports Founder and Investor account types. Administrative accounts are internal platform roles and are not available through public registration.

You are responsible for:

• Maintaining the confidentiality of your password and verification codes;
• Keeping your account and email address secure;
• Not sharing account access with unauthorised persons; and
• Activity carried out through your account, except to the extent caused by Seedable’s breach of applicable law.

Notify us promptly at admin@seedable.co if you suspect unauthorised access, account compromise or misuse.

We may require email verification, additional login verification, password changes, session termination or other proportionate security measures.

Accounts are personal unless Seedable expressly provides an organisational or enterprise account that permits multiple authorised users. You may not sell, transfer, lease or share an account except where Seedable has expressly permitted it.

5. User roles and representations

Seedable’s public account types are currently:

• Founder, for a person creating or representing a startup profile; and
• Investor, for a person creating an investor profile, including where that person provides information about a fund, firm or organisation with which they are affiliated.

An account type, profile label, firm name, startup name, badge, approval status or other designation does not mean Seedable has confirmed that person’s:

• Identity beyond any verification expressly described;
• Authority to represent an organisation;
• Legal or regulatory status;
• Professional qualifications;
• Financial position;
• Accreditation or investor classification;
• Trustworthiness; or
• Suitability for any transaction.

You represent and warrant that:

• All information you provide is accurate, current and not misleading by statement or omission;
• You have authority to create and operate any startup, investor or organisational profile you claim to represent;
• You hold all rights, permissions, consents and lawful bases needed to upload, disclose and process your User Content;
• Your use of the Services complies with applicable laws, sanctions, export controls, financial-promotion rules and contractual duties;
• You will not represent that Seedable sponsors, endorses, authorises or participates in your activities; and
• You will not use the Services to make an unlawful offer, solicitation, promotion or invitation relating to securities, financial products or regulated services.

6. User Content

“User Content” means profile information, startup information, videos, audio, images, documents, pitch materials, financial or business information, posts, comments, messages, links, reports and other material submitted, uploaded, generated or shared through the Services.

Ownership and licence

As between you and Seedable, you retain ownership of your User Content.

You grant Seedable a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free and sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, transcode, format, adapt for technical display, transmit, display and otherwise process your User Content only as reasonably necessary to:

• Operate and provide the Services;
• Display content to the audiences you select;
• Deliver videos, documents, posts, messages and other requested features;
• Secure, maintain and improve the Services;
• Moderate content and enforce these Terms;
• Investigate reports or suspected misuse;
• Comply with legal obligations; and
• Protect Seedable, its users and third parties.

This licence continues for as long as your content remains available through the Services. It may continue afterwards only where reasonably necessary for backups, legal compliance, dispute resolution, safety, fraud prevention, moderation records or content that another user has independently shared or retained.

Name, image, voice and performance

Where User Content contains your name, image, likeness, voice or performance, you grant Seedable the rights reasonably necessary to display and transmit that content within the Services and to the audience with whom it was shared.

Seedable will not use private messages, restricted documents or non-public User Content in external advertising without separate permission.

If another identifiable person appears in your User Content, you are responsible for obtaining the rights and consents necessary to upload and share that content.

Audience and privacy settings

Certain content may be restricted to:

• Authenticated users;
• Investors;
• Accepted connections;
• Selected connections;
• Conversation participants; or
• Other audiences made available through the Services.

Audience controls reduce visibility but do not create a contractual confidentiality obligation between users. Recipients may save, copy, disclose or misuse information despite platform controls.

Do not upload trade secrets, privileged material, confidential information or another person’s personal data unless you are authorised to do so and accept the associated disclosure risk.

Feedback

If you provide ideas, suggestions or feedback about the Services, you grant Seedable a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable and royalty-free right to use that feedback without compensation or obligation.

7. Prohibited conduct

You must not, and must not assist another person to:

• Publish false, deceptive, fraudulent, materially incomplete or misleading information, including traction, revenue, customer, valuation, return, team, investor, licence or fundraising claims;
• Impersonate a person or organisation, create a fabricated identity, or misstate authority, credentials or affiliation;
• Make an unlawful financial promotion, offer, solicitation or invitation;
• Target users in breach of securities, financial-services or consumer-protection laws;
• Promise, imply or guarantee returns, liquidity, capital protection, funding, allocation, preferential access or regulatory approval;
• Harass, threaten, defame, discriminate against, exploit or abuse another person;
• Upload unlawful, obscene, hateful, culturally offensive, privacy-invasive, infringing or malicious content;
• Share confidential, personal, proprietary or legally protected information without authority;
• Scrape, crawl, harvest, index, copy or use automated means to access the Services unless expressly authorised in writing;
• Circumvent access controls or usage restrictions;
• Reverse engineer the Services except where applicable law expressly permits it;
• Test vulnerabilities without permission;
• Introduce malware or interfere with the security or availability of the Services;
• Send spam, mass unsolicited communications, chain messages or deceptive marketing;
• Use the Services for money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, bribery, fraud or other unlawful conduct;
• Use engagement data, profile views or platform analytics to make unlawful discriminatory decisions;
• Manipulate engagement metrics, impressions, views, likes, saves, comments or ranking signals;
• Use Seedable branding, badges or screenshots in a way that implies endorsement; or
• Encourage another person to breach these Terms or the Community Guidelines.

8. Communications, introductions and off-platform dealings

Users decide whether to connect, communicate, meet, share information or enter into a relationship.

Seedable may provide messaging, group conversations, connection requests, profile links and content-sharing tools. Seedable does not supervise or participate in resulting discussions or dealings.

You are responsible for:

• Verifying another user’s identity and authority;
• Conducting appropriate due diligence;
• Obtaining independent legal, financial, tax and investment advice;
• Entering into confidentiality agreements where appropriate;
• Carrying out sanctions and source-of-funds checks;
• Complying with financial-promotion and securities laws;
• Preparing and reviewing transaction documents;
• Protecting confidential information; and
• Detecting and preventing fraud.

You must not ask Seedable personnel to negotiate transaction terms, recommend an investment, receive money, confirm suitability, approve a financial promotion, validate a valuation or act as an intermediary. Seedable personnel have no authority to perform those activities unless Seedable has expressly agreed otherwise in a separate written agreement and holds any required authorisation.

9. Subscriptions, fees and renewal

The current Seedable MVP may be made available without a paid subscription.

If Seedable introduces paid plans or paid features, the applicable price, billing period, included features, taxes, payment arrangements, cancellation rights, renewal terms and refund conditions will be clearly displayed before a user places an order.

Seedable will not charge a user unless that user has affirmatively authorised the purchase.

Where a subscription renews automatically:

• The renewal arrangement will be clearly disclosed before purchase;
• Seedable will identify the renewal period and price;
• Users will be given a reasonably accessible cancellation method;
• Price changes will take effect only after appropriate advance notice; and
• Mandatory consumer rights will continue to apply.

If a payment processor is introduced, payment processing will also be subject to that provider’s terms and privacy notice. Seedable should not store complete payment-card details unless expressly stated and handled in accordance with applicable requirements.

Fees and refunds will be governed by the purchase terms shown at checkout and applicable consumer law. Nothing in these Terms limits a refund, cancellation or other remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded.

10. Trials, promotions and beta features

Seedable may identify parts of the Services as beta, preview, experimental or early access.

These features may:

• Be incomplete or contain errors;
• Change without notice;
• Have limited availability;
• Produce inaccurate or incomplete results; or
• Be suspended or discontinued.

Do not rely on beta features as the sole means of satisfying legal, regulatory, recordkeeping, security or business-critical requirements.

Any future trial, promotional credit or introductory offer may be subject to additional terms disclosed when it is offered.

11. Third-party services and links

Seedable uses third-party providers to operate parts of the Services.

Current providers include:

• Supabase, which supports authentication, database, storage, application programming interfaces and real-time functionality; and
• Resend, which supports transactional email delivery.

The Services may also contain links to third-party websites, including social-media websites, or display content hosted through other providers.

Seedable does not control and is not responsible for third-party websites, independent content, availability, security, privacy practices or terms. Your use of a third-party service may be governed by a separate agreement between you and that provider.

Nothing in this section excludes responsibility that Seedable cannot lawfully exclude for providers acting on its behalf.

12. Moderation and platform integrity

Seedable may use automated rules and human review to detect or investigate fraud, abuse, unlawful content, security threats and violations of these Terms or the Community Guidelines.

Depending on the circumstances, Seedable may:

• Remove, restrict, label or de-rank content;
• Remove a pitch from Discover;
• Limit content visibility or messaging;
• Reject or restrict uploaded material;
• Request additional information;
• Issue an account warning;
• Suspend or ban an account;
• Restrict particular features;
• Preserve evidence or relevant records;
• Prevent associated accounts from avoiding enforcement; and
• Report conduct or information to authorities where lawful and appropriate.

Moderation decisions may consider context, severity, repetition, user safety, legal obligations, platform integrity and available evidence.

Seedable does not undertake to review all content before publication or guarantee that it will identify or prevent every violation.

13. Intellectual property

The Services, excluding User Content, include software, interfaces, visual designs, databases, trademarks, logos, text and platform-generated materials owned by Seedable or its licensors and protected by applicable law.

Subject to these Terms, Seedable grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to access and use the Services for their intended purpose.

You may not reproduce, distribute, sell, license or exploit Seedable’s intellectual property except as permitted by these Terms, applicable law or written permission from Seedable.

No right is granted to use the Seedable name, logo, branding or trademarks in a manner that suggests sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation.

14. Copyright and content complaints

Seedable respects intellectual-property rights and expects users to do the same.

If you believe User Content infringes your copyright or other rights, send a notice to admin@seedable.co containing:

1. Your name and contact details;
2. Identification of the protected work or right;
3. Identification and location of the allegedly infringing content, including a URL where available;
4. A statement explaining why you believe the use is unauthorised;
5. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for the rights holder; and
6. Your physical or electronic signature.

Seedable may remove or restrict access to content following a sufficiently detailed and credible notice.

Where appropriate, Seedable may notify the affected user and permit a response or counter-notice. Seedable may restore content where the complaint is withdrawn, rejected or not substantiated.

Seedable may suspend or terminate accounts involved in repeated or serious infringement.

15. Privacy and electronic communications

Our Privacy Policy explains how Seedable collects, uses, discloses and retains personal data.

Our Cookie Policy explains Seedable’s use of authentication cookies, local storage and browser-side measurement, including authenticated Discover engagement data.

Where required by applicable law, Seedable will obtain separate consent before enabling non-essential analytics or tracking. Acceptance of these Terms is not a substitute for that consent.

Service communications relating to verification, security, account administration, moderation, legal notices and material service changes form part of the Services.

Marketing communications will be sent only in accordance with applicable law. Where required, they will include a method to unsubscribe. Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent Seedable from sending necessary service communications.

16. Service availability and changes

Seedable aims to provide reliable Services but does not guarantee that the Services will always be uninterrupted, error-free, secure or available.

Seedable may maintain, update, modify, restrict, suspend or discontinue all or part of the Services.

Where reasonably practicable, Seedable will provide advance notice of a material discontinuation that significantly affects users. Additional remedies may apply to paid users where required by law.

You are responsible for maintaining copies of User Content and records needed for your business, legal, tax or regulatory purposes. Seedable is not a backup or permanent archival service.

17. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Services are provided “as is” and “as available”.

Seedable does not warrant that:

• Every feature will be continuously available;
• The Services will be free from errors or security incidents;
• Any user is genuine, solvent, authorised, accredited, regulated, trustworthy or suitable;
• User Content is accurate, complete or current;
• Any startup or opportunity is lawful, viable or investable;
• Discover ranking reflects investment quality or expected performance;
• Engagement measurements are complete or error-free; or
• Any introduction, investment, funding, hiring, partnership or transaction will occur.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Seedable excludes implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, availability and satisfactory quality, except where they cannot lawfully be excluded.

Nothing in these Terms affects mandatory consumer guarantees or statutory rights.

18. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where exclusion or limitation is prohibited by law, including liability for:

• Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• Death or personal injury caused by negligence where such liability cannot be excluded;
• Wilful misconduct; or
• Any other liability that applicable law makes non-excludable.

Subject to the preceding paragraph and to the maximum extent permitted by law, Seedable will not be liable for:

• Indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive or consequential loss;
• Loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill or anticipated savings;
• Loss or corruption of data;
• Investment losses or missed investment opportunities;
• Loss resulting from reliance on User Content or discovery rankings;
• Another user’s acts, omissions, statements or content; or
• Off-platform communications, meetings, agreements or transactions.

Subject to the preceding paragraphs, Seedable’s total aggregate liability arising from or relating to the Services or these Terms will not exceed the greater of:

1. The fees paid by you to Seedable during the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim; and
2. AED 500.

This cap does not apply where prohibited by mandatory law.

Each exclusion and limitation applies to claims in contract, tort, negligence, statutory duty, restitution or otherwise, including where a remedy fails of its essential purpose.

19. Indemnity

If you use the Services on behalf of a business or organisation, you will, to the extent permitted by law, indemnify Seedable, its affiliates and their directors, officers and personnel against third-party claims, losses, liabilities, penalties, costs and reasonable legal fees arising from:

• Your User Content;
• Your unlawful or unauthorised use of the Services;
• Your material breach of these Terms;
• Your infringement of another person’s rights; or
• Your communications or dealings with another user.

If you use the Services as an individual consumer, this indemnity applies only to the extent permitted by mandatory consumer law and only to losses reasonably resulting from your unlawful conduct or material breach.

The indemnity does not apply to the extent a claim results from Seedable’s own breach, negligence, wilful misconduct or violation of law.

20. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Services at any time and may request account deletion through the available account-deletion process.

Seedable may suspend, restrict or terminate access immediately where reasonably necessary to address:

• Security risks;
• Fraud or suspected unlawful conduct;
• Serious or repeated abuse;
• Threats to another user;
• Sanctions or regulatory concerns;
• Material payment breaches where paid services apply;
• Attempts to evade previous enforcement; or
• Significant platform-integrity risks.

Where appropriate, Seedable may provide notice and an opportunity to remedy or appeal before or after taking action.

On termination:

• Your right to access and use the Services ends;
• User Content may be removed or become inaccessible;
• Seedable may retain records as described in the Privacy Policy; and
• Provisions that by their nature should survive will continue, including ownership, necessary content licences, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnities, dispute provisions and enforcement rights.

21. Complaints and appeals

Questions, complaints and requests for review may be sent to admin@seedable.co.

Where an enforcement decision is eligible for appeal, you should submit the appeal within 30 days of receiving notice and provide:

• The affected account or content;
• The decision being challenged;
• The reason you believe the decision was incorrect; and
• Any relevant supporting information.

Seedable will review eligible appeals reasonably and in light of the information available. Seedable may decline repetitive, abusive, fraudulent or legally prohibited requests.

Nothing in this section restricts a right to complain to a regulator, consumer-protection body or court where applicable.

22. Force majeure

Seedable is not liable for delay or failure to perform caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including:

• Natural disasters;
• War, terrorism or civil unrest;
• Epidemics or public-health emergencies;
• Government or regulatory action;
• Sanctions;
• Power, telecommunications or internet failure;
• Hosting or infrastructure-provider failure;
• Labour disruption; or
• Cyberattacks that Seedable could not reasonably prevent.

This section does not excuse obligations that applicable law does not permit Seedable to exclude.

23. Governing law and disputes

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising from them are governed by the laws of the Abu Dhabi Global Market.

The ADGM Courts have exclusive jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protections or jurisdictional rights available under the law of a user’s place of residence.

Before commencing formal proceedings, each party will attempt in good faith for 30 days to resolve the dispute through written notice describing:

• The nature of the dispute;
• The relevant facts;
• The requested resolution; and
• Appropriate contact details.

This informal-resolution period does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief, preserving a limitation period or contacting a regulator or law-enforcement authority.

24. Notices

Seedable may provide notices:

• By email to the address associated with your account;
• Through an in-app notification;
• By posting a notice within the Services; or
• By another reasonable method appropriate to the circumstances.

You are responsible for maintaining an accurate account email address.

Legal notices to Seedable must be sent to:
Email: admin@seedable.co

An email notice will be treated as received when delivered without a delivery-failure notification. An in-app notice will be treated as received when made available through the account, subject to mandatory law.

25. Changes to these Terms

Seedable may update these Terms for legal, regulatory, security, product or business reasons.

Seedable will provide reasonable advance notice of material changes where practicable. Changes will not apply retroactively unless required by law.

Where appropriate, Seedable may require users to affirmatively accept materially revised Terms before continuing to use some or all of the Services.

If you continue to use the Services after revised Terms take effect, that continued use may constitute acceptance to the extent permitted by applicable law. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Services and may request account deletion.

Changes requiring separate privacy or cookie consent will not be treated as accepted merely through continued use.

26. General

These Terms, the Community Guidelines and any additional terms expressly accepted for a particular feature constitute the agreement between you and Seedable concerning the Services, except where a separately signed agreement applies.

If a provision is found unlawful or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or, if modification is not possible, removed. The remaining provisions will continue in effect.

A failure or delay in enforcing a provision is not a waiver.

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without Seedable’s written consent. Seedable may assign them in connection with a merger, reorganisation, financing, corporate restructuring or sale of all or part of its business, subject to applicable law.

No person other than you and Seedable has a right to enforce these Terms unless expressly stated.

Headings are provided for convenience and do not affect interpretation.

Questions about these Terms may be sent to admin@seedable.co.