DealPoint offers standard subscription documents, and we can also work with subscription documents prepared by your counsel.

We provide the software, tools, administrative support and best practises to help you raise capital yourselves.

An accredited investor refers to any individual, entity, or financial institution that meets specific criteria set by the securities regulatory authorities in CanadA. National Instrument (NI 45-106) details the official definition of accredited investors in Canada. The most frequently used definitions are:

Individuals

• Either alone or with spouse, own more than $1 million in cash and securities (financial assets), after subtracting any debt related to the cash and securities (The value of your residence or other real estate is not included in this calculation)
• Have net income before taxes exceeding $200,000 in each of the last 2 years and reasonably expect to exceed that net income again this year
• Have net income before taxes exceeding $300,000 when combined with spouse in each of the last 2 years and reasonably expect combined net income to exceed that again this year
• Have net worth, either alone or with a spouse, of at least $5 million. Net worth is your total assets (including real estate) minus your debt
• Are registered or was formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a registered advisor or dealer other than a limited market dealer
• Beneficially own financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that, before taxes but net of any related liabilities, exceed $5 million. (The value of your residence or other real estate is not included in this calculation)

Entities

• a company, other than an investment fund, that has net worth of at least $5,000,000, as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements
• a company that is entirely owned by an individual or individuals who are accredited investors
• a trust established by an accredited investor for the benefit of the accredited investor’s family members of which a majority of the trustees are accredited investors and all of the beneficiaries are the accredited investor’s spouse, a former spouse or a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of that accredited investor, of that accredited investor’s spouse or of that accredited investor’s former spouse

For a complete list of accredited investor qualifications, download the Accredited Investor Certificate Form here

DealPoint servers are hosted on AWS (Amazon Cloud) in Montreal Canada, taking advantage of their worldwide security/privacy/cyber infrastructure. Access to profiles is limited to users that have a valid session token and a completed profile. Access to any supporting documentation is forbidden to users without an additional valid download token. Session and download tokens are only valid for a limited time. We have integrated safeguards throughout the site that cleanse all user inputs from these attack methods. When capturing ID verification data including SIN and DOB, we have added an extra layer of encryption whose values can only be decrypted by our own site. Email and CAPTCHA verification are required from all users. Connections to the DealPoint platform are secured via SSL encryption.

We are not a deal marketplace. Investors can see a dataroom if they have been invited to do so.

Yes, we support US investors and cater our product to investors outside of Canada. Please reach out to us for more information.

We offer two options.

Option 1 - use of the platform only. DealPoint provides an investor portal for document execution and investor management and is ideally suited to manage the onboarding and compliance for many smaller investors.

Option 2 - platform use and fund administration. We provide, in addition to the portal, the structure for pooling investors into one SPV entity and managing the investment through wind-down.

Yes. We have integrated with a Canadian payment processor to facilitate funds transfer. DealPoint’s new e-transfer solution takes away the pain of collecting cheques and wire transfers for investor funds.

Yes. We set you up with a dataroom that allows investors to indicate interest through a “Learn more” button where the potential investor can request additional information. The dataroom would be used to display deal information through a combination of text, documents, team information, photos and videos.

Timing can depend on the complexity and number of documents that need to be managed; we can usually get the platform set up in under 48 hours.

Yes, all of these documents are already integrated on the platform, and can be turned on in the settings.