Case Study: 500 Startups achieves streamlined, data-driven fundraising with DocSend

DocSend Streamlines 500 Startups’ Fundraising Process

500 Startups is a global venture capital firm that has backed over 2,200 companies across 74 countries. When fundraising, the firm faced complex compliance requirements and a clunky investor onboarding process that required account logins, which created friction, lost LP leads, and left them without clear visibility into how investors engaged with fund materials.

By adopting DocSend’s link-based sharing, secure Spaces, and page-by-page analytics, 500 Startups removed the login barrier, centralized fundraising documents, and gained dynamic version control. The result: improved fundraising efficiency, better-targeted follow-ups based on engagement data, recovered leads that previously dropped out, and confidence that investors always view the latest materials.

500 Startups

Sheel Mohnot

Partner