Terms of Use

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Glenn Yancy. “Founder Partner,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Glenn Yancy in connection with the operation of the Founder Partner website and service. Founder Partner is a service operated by Glenn Yancy, an individual based in Illinois, United States. By using this website or submitting a signal, you agree to these terms and to the Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.

• You must be at least 18 years old.
• You must have the authority to submit the information you share, including on behalf of any company or project you name.
• You must comply with applicable laws when using the service.

Founder Partner facilitates informal review and potential connections. Founder Partner is not:

• A broker-dealer
• An investment adviser
• A crowdfunding platform
• A placement agent
• A law firm
• An accounting or tax adviser
• An employment agency

Founder Partner does not provide investment, legal, tax, employment, or other professional advice, and does not guarantee funding, feedback, introductions, meetings, commercial opportunities, or any other outcome. Nothing on this site is an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.

Submitting a signal or using the service does not create:

• A confidential relationship
• A fiduciary relationship
• An advisory relationship
• An agency relationship
• A partnership
• A joint venture
• An employment relationship
• An investor-founder relationship
• A contractual obligation to review or respond

We aim to read every signal and respond within our stated window, and we take that seriously — but it is a commitment of practice, not a contractual guarantee.

You retain all ownership of the materials and information you submit. You grant us a limited, nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to:

• Host and store your submission
• Reproduce and process it
• Summarize and analyze it
• Display it internally within the private Signal Desk
• Share it with authorized reviewer network participants
• Use service providers, including AI providers, to process it

This license exists only so we can operate Founder Partner: reviewing submissions, generating The Read, identifying relevant routing opportunities, communicating with you, maintaining records, and improving the service. It ends when your submission is deleted, except for copies retained as described in the Privacy Notice.

Founder Partner and participating reviewer network members may already be reviewing, advising, investing in, building, supporting, or working with businesses, concepts, products, or technologies similar to your submission, and may do so in the future.

Similarity alone does not create liability or any obligation to you, and does not imply that anything was taken from your submission. Nothing here is exclusive unless separately agreed in a signed writing.

Please do not submit confidential, proprietary, legally privileged, or trade-secret information. Submissions are not treated as confidential under a nondisclosure agreement.

We do not accept submissions subject to an NDA unless a separate written agreement has been executed by an authorized person on our behalf. Sending an NDA with, before, or after a submission does not create one.

When you submit a signal, you represent that:

• You have the right to submit the information.
• Your submission does not violate the rights of any third party.
• The information is not knowingly false or misleading.
• The submission does not contain unlawful, harmful, infringing, or malicious material.
• You will not attempt to access private areas of the service without authorization.

You agree not to:

• Access any non-public area of the service without authorization
• Scrape, crawl, or bulk-download content
• Harvest personal information
• Reverse engineer the service
• Interfere with or test security controls without permission
• Upload or transmit malware
• Use a false identity or impersonate anyone
• Engage in fraud or harassment
• Submit unlawful content
• Use the service to violate securities, privacy, intellectual-property, export-control, or other applicable laws

The Read and other AI-assisted outputs are internal review aids. They may be inaccurate, may omit information, and may contain unsupported inferences. They are not investment recommendations, diligence conclusions, or professional advice, and they are reviewed by people before anything is acted on.

The service relies on third-party platforms and may link to third-party websites. We do not control those services and are not responsible for their content, availability, or practices. Their own terms and privacy notices apply.

We may modify the service, suspend access, remove submissions, change or remove features, discontinue the service, and update these terms. When we update these terms materially, we will change the effective date and version at the top of this page and provide additional notice where appropriate.

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, and we do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any review, routing, or outcome will occur.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, neither we nor our reviewer network participants will be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost business opportunities, lost data, or loss of goodwill arising out of or relating to the service.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of Glenn Yancy in connection with Founder Partner, the website, any Founder Signal submission, the Signal Desk, The Read, or these Terms will not exceed the greater of: (a) US$100; or (b) the amount the claimant paid to use Founder Partner during the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud or willful misconduct. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from third-party claims, damages, and reasonable costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) to the extent they arise from your misuse of the service, your unlawful submissions, your infringement of a third party’s rights, or your breach of these terms.

This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our own negligence or misconduct. We will notify you of any claim, allow you to control the defense with counsel of your choosing, and cooperate reasonably at your expense. You may not settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation on us without our written consent.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Except where applicable law provides otherwise, disputes will be brought in the state courts located in Lake County, Illinois, or the federal courts having jurisdiction over Lake County, Illinois.

If you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law grants you the right to bring claims locally, nothing here removes that right.

There is no mandatory arbitration provision, no arbitration provider, no class-action waiver, and no jury-trial waiver in these Terms.

If a provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets. These terms, together with the Privacy Notice and Cookie Notice, are the entire agreement between us about the service.