Founders apply on your brand, at your own address
Your logo, colours and copy on every founder page and email, on your own subdomain or, on the upgrade plan, your own domain.
- Branded portal on a subdomain Pilot
- Custom domain, email from your domain First release
We back B2B software founders at seed.
Contrast check passed. Button labels and text on Northwind Seed's colour meet WCAG AA, in light and dark mode.
Sample funds. Names and domains are made up.
Every page and email a founder sees carries your brand
Founders apply to your fund, not to a software company. Your team's workspace stays on Delsivo's own address, kept apart from your portal.
| Surface | Who sees it | Brand |
|---|---|---|
| Portal landing page | Founders, scouts, the public | Your brand |
| Application form | Founders | Your brand |
| Founder workspace: application, interview, requests, files | Founders and invited teammates | Your brand |
| Interview screens | Founders | Your brand |
| Guest data room pages | Named guests | Your brand |
| Emails to founders | Founders | Your name, logo and colours |
| Investor workspace | Your team | Delsivo, with your logo in the fund switcher. Never served on your portal's address |
Logo, colours, type and words, published as a version
Edit with a live preview and publish when ready. A half-finished edit never reaches founders, and you can restore the last published version.
Logo, mark and favicon
Light and dark logos. SVG files are cleaned of scripts and external references before they are served; PNGs are re-encoded.
Colours
Primary, accent, background and text, with a dark version derived and checked too.
Fonts from a list
Pick from self-hosted fonts. No outside font links, which would share founders' addresses with a third party.
Copy and legal links
Headline, what you invest in, stage and cheque size, thank-you text. Your privacy notice and terms are required before publishing.
Social image
Upload one, or generate it in your colours with your name, logo and headline.
Versions
Each publish is a version with who published it and when, and the last published version can be restored.
A colour pair founders can't read is refused, with the reason
Text and button labels on your colours must meet WCAG AA, a contrast of 4.5 to 1. The check runs when you save, in light and dark mode.
- Failing pairs are refused, never quietly darkened.
- The message says which pair failed, its ratio and what is needed.
- The published portal is untouched until a passing version is saved.
- The same formula checks Delsivo's own colours.
Example refusal
“Light violet text on an ivory background has a contrast of 2.47 to 1. Text needs at least 4.5 to 1. Pick a darker colour.”
Try it with the colour switcher at the top of the page.
A subdomain on every plan, your own domain on the upgrade
Both work the same for founders. A custom domain needs two DNS records, which Delsivo checks for you.
| Subdomain | Custom domain | |
|---|---|---|
| Address | yourfund.delsivo.app | apply.yourfund.com |
| Plan | Every plan | Upgrade plan |
| Release | Pilot | First release |
| Set-up | Pick a name at set-up: 3 to 40 lowercase letters, digits or hyphens | Add two DNS records we show you; we check them and attach the domain |
| Certificate | Covered by the shared certificate | Issued and renewed automatically |
| Emails link to | The subdomain | Your domain, once it is active |
| If something breaks | Nothing to maintain | Daily checks; emails fall back to the subdomain if DNS stops pointing at us |
The subdomain name (delsivo.app) is a placeholder until launch. It is a separate domain from the investor workspace on purpose, so sessions can't cross between your team's app and founder portals.
Four steps, and nothing goes live until DNS proves you own it
The ownership check stops anyone claiming a domain they don't control. Each domain can belong to one fund only.
- 1Type the domain you want, such as apply.yourfund.com
- 2Add the ownership TXT record and the routing record we show you
- 3Delsivo checks DNS, attaches the domain and issues the certificate
- 4Choose it as your primary address; other addresses redirect to it
- TXT
- _delsivo.apply.yourfund.com → "tr-verify=…"
- CNAME
- apply.yourfund.com → the routing value shown in your settings
Domain states
- Waiting for DNS
- The records are shown. Nothing is attached until the ownership record is found.
- Verifying
- The ownership record matched on two independent DNS resolvers. The domain is being attached.
- Issuing certificate
- The certificate is being issued. A health check must answer with your fund before it goes live.
- Active
- Founders can use it. Choose it as your primary address and others redirect to it.
- Misconfigured
- Was active, now DNS or the certificate is wrong. Emails switch to the subdomain and your admins are told.
If DNS stays wrong for 14 days, the domain is detached, so a lapsed domain can never send your founders somewhere else.
What you can't do, and why
A portal holds founders' decks, recordings and documents. Some flexibility isn't worth that risk.
No custom CSS or JavaScript
Custom CSS or JavaScript. Arbitrary styles and scripts could read founder documents, so funds brand with logos, colours, fonts from a list, and copy.
No unpublished intake
A portal that isn't published shows a branded "not open yet" page and can't receive applications.
Founder pages never indexed
Applications, the founder workspace and rooms are always hidden from search. Your landing page is your choice.
Emails from your fund, and a badge you can remove
Founders recognise your name in their inbox.
- Pilot
Your name and logo on every email
In the pilot, emails come from "Your fund via Delsivo" with replies going to an address you choose, in your colours.
- First release
Sending from your own domain
Emails from apply@yourfund.com once your domain's email records are verified. Until then, we keep sending from ours.
- Pilot
"Powered by Delsivo"
A small badge in the portal footer, the only place our name appears. Removable on a higher plan.
- Pilot
Report this portal
Every portal footer has a report link. Staff can suspend a portal used for phishing, and lookalike names can be blocked.
Custom domains and email from your domain arrive in the First release.
Questions about portals and domains
Open your portal on your own subdomain
Pilots start with a branded portal for your fund. We set up the branding with you and you publish when it is ready.