What founders see about their application
Set your fund's contact address for founders, the reply time on their status card and your own names for each status, in Settings under Portal, then Founder status.
Founders follow their application on your portal's Application tab. Settings → Founder status (under Portal) sets what they see beyond your decision messages: where their replies go, how soon you reply, and what each status is called. Fund admins change these settings; everyone on the team can read them.
Set it up
- Open Settings, then Founder status under Portal.
- Under Contact address, enter a shared inbox, such as applications@ your fund's domain.
- Under Reply time, choose We reply within 1 to 12 weeks, or Don't show a reply time.
- Under Status names, type your own name next to any status you want to rename. Leave a name empty to keep Delsivo's.
- Click Save changes. You see "Saved. Founders see it now."
The contact address
When it's set:
- every email a founder gets from your fund replies to it: the application receipt, requests and their reminders, interview invitations, decision messages, pitch session invitations and cohort decisions
- your portal's footer shows "Questions for [your fund]? Write to" and the address
- the Withdraw application dialog tells founders to write to it if they want to pick the application up again
Without it, founder emails have no reply address and the portal shows none.
Status names and when each shows
| Status | When the founder sees it |
|---|---|
| Received | Their application arrived and nobody has moved it yet |
| In review | The deal is in Screening, Interview, First meeting, Diligence, Committee or Terms, or you passed or parked it without sending a decision message yet |
| Interview invited | An interview invitation is open. The Interview stage alone never shows it |
| Interview completed | They finished the interview |
| Information requested | A request is waiting on them |
| Not now | You sent a Not now decision message |
| Decision made | You sent a Pass or We'd like to invest message, or the deal closed. The status card shows the outcome you sent |
| Withdrawn | The founder withdrew their application |
You can rename every status except the older Interview requested, which only applications from before this change can still show. When each status shows is fixed: nothing about a decision reaches a founder until a person sends the decision message. See Founder decision messages.
The status card also shows Updated and the date the status last changed. Founders see your names in their Delsivo hub too.
What founders can do from their workspace
Until you send your decision, a founder can:
- Upload a new deck version. It becomes the next version on the deal (Deck v2, v3), goes through the virus scan and analysis, and the earlier version stays with its citations. See Deck versions and founder corrections.
- Withdraw application. The deal moves to Passed with the reason "The founder withdrew the application", open interview invitations and requests close with their pending emails, and any decision message still waiting for approval is discarded. Nothing is emailed. If you had already passed without telling the founder, the deal stays as it was, with your pass reason.
- Correct facts read from the deck. Once you send your decision, or the founder withdraws, corrections are read only.
Frequently asked questions
Can we rename a status for one founder only?
No. The names apply to every founder on your portal.
Does the reply time change anything for the team?
No. It's a promise to founders. Use Settings → Pipeline stage reminders to keep it.
Where do I see that a founder withdrew?
In the deal's stage history and activity, as "Withdrew their application", and in the activity log.
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