Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Ventura, including our website, profiles, founder videos, pitch-deck viewing features, messaging or discovery tools, and any related services that link to these Terms (together, the “Service”).

By creating an account, signing in, uploading content, viewing content, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service. If you use Ventura on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for that organisation.

Ventura is a startup discovery and networking platform designed to help founders, investors, accelerators, and ecosystem partners discover startup-related profiles, videos, updates, pitch materials, and other publicly or selectively shared information.

Ventura is not an investment adviser, broker, dealer, crowdfunding platform, securities exchange, payment intermediary, or legal, tax, or financial adviser. Ventura does not arrange, recommend, verify, or complete investments, securities transactions, loans, or other financial transactions. Any investment or business decision made by a user is made independently and at that user’s own risk.

You may use the Service only if you can lawfully enter into these Terms and comply with all applicable laws. If you are under 18, you may use the Service only with permission and supervision from a parent or legal guardian. Users under 18 may not use Ventura to act as investors, enter into financial transactions, or make legally binding investment commitments.

We may refuse access, suspend accounts, or limit features where required by law, where we cannot verify appropriate use, or where we believe the Service is being used in a way that creates legal, security, or safety risks.

To access certain features, you may need to create an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep it updated.

Ventura may allow you to create or access your account using Google sign-in or another third-party authentication provider. If you choose to sign in with Google, your use of Google services is also subject to Google’s own terms and privacy policies. Ventura will use information received from Google only as described in our Privacy Policy and only for purposes connected to account creation, authentication, security, and providing the Service.

You are responsible for keeping your account secure and for all activity that occurs through your account. You must notify us if you believe your account has been compromised.

Ventura may include different user roles, such as founder, investor, accelerator, mentor, ecosystem partner, or administrator. Some features may be available only to certain roles or verified users.

Verification badges, ecosystem confirmations, accelerator references, profile labels, or similar indicators may help users understand context, but they do not mean that Ventura endorses, guarantees, audits, or legally verifies a user, company, claim, achievement, fundraising status, or investment opportunity.

You may be able to upload, create, publish, or share content through the Service, including founder profiles, short videos, pitch decks, updates, comments, messages, logos, images, traction information, company descriptions, and other materials (“User Content”).

You keep ownership of your User Content. By submitting User Content to Ventura, you grant Ventura a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, format, transmit, and otherwise use your User Content as necessary to operate, improve, secure, promote, and provide the Service. This licence ends when your User Content is deleted from the Service, except where retention is required for backups, legal compliance, dispute resolution, safety, or legitimate business records.

You are responsible for your User Content. You confirm that you have all rights and permissions needed to share it and that it does not infringe intellectual property rights, privacy rights, confidentiality obligations, securities laws, advertising rules, or other laws.

Ventura may allow founders to share pitch decks, videos, updates, or other startup information with selected users. Unless a separate written agreement says otherwise, Ventura does not make any content confidential by default and does not create a non-disclosure agreement between users.

Founders should not upload information that they consider highly confidential, trade secret, legally restricted, or unsafe to share. Investors and other users should respect shared materials and use them only for legitimate discovery, evaluation, networking, or partnership purposes.

You agree not to misuse the Service. You must not: (a) submit false, misleading, illegal, harmful, abusive, discriminatory, or deceptive content; (b) impersonate another person or organisation; (c) scrape, copy, or harvest data except as permitted by Ventura; (d) upload malware or attempt to disrupt the Service; (e) bypass security, access controls, or rate limits; (f) use the Service for spam, harassment, phishing, or unauthorised advertising; (g) post content that infringes intellectual property or privacy rights; or (h) use the Service in a way that violates applicable law or these Terms.

We may remove content, limit visibility, suspend accounts, or take other action if we believe a user has violated these Terms or created risk for Ventura, other users, or third parties.

Content on Ventura may include startup descriptions, traction metrics, fundraising plans, market claims, team information, or other business information. Ventura does not guarantee that any such information is accurate, complete, current, lawful, or suitable for any purpose.

Users are responsible for performing their own due diligence before making business, employment, partnership, accelerator, or investment decisions. Ventura does not recommend investments, rank securities, verify fundraising claims, negotiate terms, hold funds, process investments, or provide legal, tax, financial, or investment advice.

The Service may allow users to message, contact, follow, save, comment on, or interact with other users. You are responsible for your communications and for deciding whether to engage with another user outside Ventura.

Ventura is not responsible for agreements, promises, meetings, payments, investments, employment discussions, partnerships, or disputes between users. We may review, moderate, restrict, or remove communications where necessary for safety, security, compliance, or enforcement of these Terms.

Ventura, including its software, design, branding, interface, features, databases, text, graphics, logos, and other materials, is owned by Ventura or its licensors and is protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms do not transfer any ownership rights to you.

Subject to these Terms, Ventura gives you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and use the Service for its intended purpose. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the Service except where allowed by law or expressly permitted by Ventura.

The Service may integrate with or link to third-party services, including Google sign-in, hosting providers, analytics tools, video tools, payment providers, or external websites. Ventura is not responsible for third-party services, content, policies, availability, security, or actions. Your use of third-party services may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

Our collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you understand that we process personal data as described there. If you use Google sign-in, our Privacy Policy explains what Google account information we request and how we use it.

Ventura is an early-stage product and may change over time. We may add, modify, limit, suspend, or discontinue features at any time. We may also change eligibility rules, verification processes, content formats, user roles, or access levels as the product develops.

You may stop using Ventura at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account or access to the Service if you violate these Terms, create risk, use the Service unlawfully, or if we discontinue the Service or a feature.

After termination, some sections of these Terms will continue to apply, including sections about user responsibility, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, disputes, and any obligations that by their nature should survive termination.

The Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ventura makes no warranties or guarantees that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, error-free, accurate, complete, or suitable for your goals.

Ventura does not guarantee any startup outcome, investment outcome, user response, partnership, accelerator acceptance, funding, customer acquisition, revenue, or business result.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ventura and its team members, founders, affiliates, partners, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost opportunities, loss of goodwill, business interruption, or investment losses arising from or related to the Service or these Terms.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ventura’s total liability for any claim related to the Service or these Terms will be limited to the greater of: (a) the amount you paid to Ventura for the Service in the three months before the claim arose; or (b) EUR 100. Some laws do not allow certain limitations, so some of these limits may not apply to you.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ventura and its team members, founders, affiliates, partners, and service providers from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your User Content; (c) your violation of these Terms; (d) your violation of law or third-party rights; or (e) disputes between you and another user.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify users, such as by updating the “Last updated” date, posting a notice, or sending a message where appropriate. Continued use of the Service after changes become effective means you accept the updated Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Finland, unless mandatory consumer protection laws in your country require otherwise. Courts in Finland will have jurisdiction over disputes relating to these Terms or the Service, unless applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere.

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at: help@venturafund.eu.

Website: venturafund.eu.