This notice explains what personal information RaisewithSurf collects through this website, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and what you can ask us to do with it. RaisewithSurf is operated by Surf Company Ltd, and we are the party responsible for the information described here.
We only collect information you choose to give us. There are three ways that happens.
If you complete our founder form, we collect your name, your role, your email address, information about your company including its name, website, location of incorporation and operation, stage, sector, evidence of clinical or commercial traction, regulatory position, and details of any current fundraise, together with any documents you choose to upload.
If you complete our investor form, we collect your name, email address, country of residence, the organisation you invest through where applicable, how you describe yourself as an investor, your indicative participation range, the sectors that interest you, your preferences around how investment opportunities are presented to you, and your prior experience with early-stage investing.
If you write to us at the address published on this site, we hold your message and your email address.
Information submitted through the founder form is used to assess whether a company falls within our investment scope, to carry out diligence where we take an opportunity forward, and to respond to you.
Information submitted through the investor form is used to understand which opportunities may be relevant to you, to contact you about them, and to communicate with you about the syndicate. We rely on the consent you give when you submit the form, and you can withdraw it at any time.
We do not sell personal information, we do not share it with third parties for their own marketing, and we do not use it to make automated decisions about you.
Access is limited to the RaisewithSurf team and, where an opportunity progresses, to advisers and co-investors involved in evaluating that specific opportunity. Our forms are operated by Tally, which stores submissions on servers within the European Union. Where we correspond with you by email, that correspondence sits with our email provider.
Founder submissions are retained for three years from the date of submission, since companies we decline at one stage frequently become relevant at a later one, and it is more useful to both sides if we remember the earlier conversation. Investor details are retained for as long as you remain part of the syndicate network, and for a further two years after you ask to be removed, where records relating to a completed investment must be kept for legal and regulatory reasons. Records connected to an actual investment are retained for as long as the relevant law requires.
You can ask us to do any of the following, and we will respond within thirty days.
Write to info@raisewithsurf.com with any of these requests. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to complain to a data protection authority, and in Nigeria that is the Nigeria Data Protection Commission.
This website does not set cookies and does not run analytics or advertising trackers. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, and the forms we link to are operated by Tally under its own privacy terms.
We take reasonable measures to protect the information we hold, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please do not send us sensitive financial details, identity documents, or account information through the forms on this site. Where that information is needed for an investment, it will be requested through the appropriate documentation.
If this notice changes, the revised version will appear on this page with a new date at the top.
Questions about this notice, or about anything we hold, should go to info@raisewithsurf.com.