Welcome to Tome

When you send us your documents, our system automatically begins to read, analyze, and validate every word in your documents using our machine learning technology.

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In less time than it probably took you to find the right attachments, you’ll receive a digestible summary of your documents highlighting key terms, unusual terms, and an explanation of each term.

Your uploaded documents are secured by TLSv1.2 or higher and RSA 2048-bit encryption, and stored in your personal, encrypted Tome Vault.

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For the non-techies out there, this means your uploaded documents are secure!

All uploaded agreements are stored in our secure Tome Vault, an encrypted storage solution. In addition, all agreements ingested in our database are stripped of sensitive user information, company information, investor information, etc.

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Tome will never store such information or sell it for any purpose. A detailed privacy policy is contained on our website and in our Terms of Service.

At Tome, we determine if a specific term falls within the middle quartiles of the range of possible variations for that term. We also compare the term against the NVCA model venture capital financing documents, and alert you if the term does not match those documents.

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In the future, you will also be able to create your own standard of review, ensuring that all venture agreements you and your fund enter into conform to your and your fund’s specific requirements.

Tome is not your lawyer. And although our database of clauses and contracts have been vetted by some of the world’s foremost venture capital attorneys, a Tome Verified agreement does not necessarily imply that a law firm or lawyer has reviewed that agreement. In providing the Tome Report, Tome does not opine on whether the contract pertaining to the report is enforceable.

The Tome Report simply provides a factual statement about what is in your contracts and whether or not your terms are “market standard.” The “market standard” determination is not a judgment, but rather a comparison of the term in question against thousands of terms and a determination as to the rate of occurrence of that term. At Tome, we define “market standard” as a term falling within the middle quartiles of the range of possible variations for that term.

Currently, Tome supports all types of SAFEs (including side letters), the standard suite of venture capital financing documents (i.e., the Restated Charter, Stock Purchase Agreement, Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement, Voting Agreement, and Investors’ Rights Agreement).

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Tome also supports Management Rights Letters. We plan to support more document types in the future.

When you are participating in a financing round, it’s customary to receive venture financing documents from the company you’re investing in. You would ordinarily send these documents to your attorney (either in-house or outside counsel), or you might review them yourself, to confirm that they conform to what you agreed to with the company and whether they have anything unusual.

In lieu of that process, you would upload the documents to Tome, and our Tome Report provides the confirmation and confidence you need to proceed in the next step of your investment process: signing and wiring. Tome also integrates with other fund management software and administrators, providing seamless updates to them so you don’t have to.

Tome has redlined tens of thousands of venture contracts against each other, generating a database of hundreds of thousands of clauses. Our attorneys, experienced in corporate and venture law, have ensured that every variation of every clause has been catalogued and explained.

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When you upload a new contract, its clauses are compared against this database. We can therefore tell you the meanings of the clauses in your contracts based on which clauses they match within our robust database.