Terms of Service

1. Eligibility & Accounts

You must be at least 18 and able to form a binding contract. You are responsible for your account, the accuracy of information you provide, and all activity under your account. Keep your credentials secure.

2. The Service

RaiseStartup helps founders build investor target lists, generate and send outreach, check government-scheme eligibility, and engage service providers. Features rely on automated and AI-assisted tools and may evolve over time.

3. Outreach & Acceptable Use

You are solely responsible for the content you send and for complying with all applicable laws, including anti-spam and data-protection laws (e.g., CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and local equivalents). You agree not to:

• Send unlawful, deceptive, harassing, or unsolicited bulk messages in violation of law.
• Misrepresent your identity or the purpose of your outreach.
• Upload content you do not have the right to use, or that infringes others’ rights.
• Attempt to disrupt, reverse-engineer, or gain unauthorized access to the Service.

Any LinkedIn outreach is performed manually by you and must comply with LinkedIn’s User Agreement; we do not automate LinkedIn activity.

Investor information made available through the Service is provided to help you conduct your own fundraising outreach. You may not use it for any purpose prohibited by law, and specifically not for employment, credit, insurance, housing, or other eligibility decisions governed by the U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) or similar laws. You may not scrape, export, resell, or redistribute investor data obtained through the Service, or attempt to defeat the masking of contact details.

3b. Securities & Solicitation Notice

Important: contacting investors may constitute a “general solicitation” or other regulated communication under securities laws (for example, certain offerings under U.S. Regulation D Rule 506(b) prohibit general solicitation). You are solely responsible for ensuring your outreach complies with the securities laws applicable to your offering and jurisdiction. RaiseStartup is a software tool and does not provide legal, securities, investment, or financial advice. Consult qualified counsel before conducting investor outreach.

4. Email Sending

To deliver outreach, the Service may send email on your behalf through our platform sending infrastructure, with your email address set as the reply-to address, or through an email account you choose to connect. You remain responsible for the content and legality of all messages sent through the Service.

5. Payments, Subscriptions & Refunds

Paid plans, credits, and marketplace transactions are billed as described at the point of purchase. Marketplace engagements may be held and released via escrow. Fees are stated exclusive of taxes unless noted. Except where required by law or expressly stated, payments are non-refundable. We may change pricing prospectively with notice.

6. Marketplace & Third Parties

Where the Service connects you with third-party experts or service providers, those parties are independent. We are not a party to, and are not responsible for, the services they provide. Third-party tools and links are governed by their own terms.

7. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software and content we provide, is owned by us or our licensors. You retain ownership of the content you submit, and grant us a limited license to host and process it to operate the Service. You may not copy, resell, or create derivative works of the Service without permission.

8. No Fundraising or Investment Guarantee

RaiseStartup is a software tool. We do not guarantee investor responses, meetings, funding, scheme approvals, or any particular outcome, and we do not provide investment, legal, tax, or financial advice. Decisions you make based on the Service are your own responsibility.

9. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from claims arising out of your use of the Service, your content, your outreach, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.

12. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access for violation of these Terms or to protect the Service or other users. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

13. Governing Law

For services provided by Atharved Innovations Inc., these Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. For users transacting with Avadhscart Private Limited in India, those transactions are governed by the laws of India (courts at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh). Disputes will be subject to the courts of the applicable jurisdiction, unless otherwise required by law.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date and, where appropriate, additional notice. Continued use after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

15. Contact

Atharved Innovations Inc. (Delaware, USA) — avadh@atharved.com; Avadhscart Private Limited, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India — avadhscart@gmail.com.