Privacy.
What we collect through gain.ventures, why, who else sees it, and your choices.
Who we are
Ga^3in Ventures LLC ("Ga^3in VC", "we") is a venture capital firm based in New York (mailing address: 1178 Broadway, 3rd Floor #3286, New York, NY 10001, United States). It is the controller of the information described here. This policy covers gain.ventures, its forms and member portals, and the event and investor emails we send. Questions go to .
What we collect
- Founders applying to pitch: your name, email, company details, the materials and links you share, and your answers.
- Investors applying to our bench: your name, email, LinkedIn, organization, title, bio, and an optional photo.
- Investors asking about membership: your name, email, optional LinkedIn, investment experience, self-reported accreditation status, and who referred you. Members also have membership, billing and investment records in their portal.
- Partners and sponsors: your company, name, work email, website, the kind of partnership you are interested in, and the message you send through the partner form.
- OpenGa^3in access requests: your name, work email, company and expected usage.
- Consent records: when you tick a box to accept our terms or to receive marketing email, the email, time, IP address and browser, as proof of that choice.
- Payments: card payments are handled by Stripe, invoices and wires by our bank, Mercury. We never see or store full card numbers.
- Portals: your sign-in email or Google sign-in, and a cookie that keeps you signed in.
- Application pages: a count of page views and form starts, with a random identifier for that visit and the page you came from. Nothing follows you to other websites.
- Email: the messages you send us or reply with.
- Server logs: our host, Netlify, records IP addresses and request details to run and protect the site.
How we use it
- To review applications and inquiries and to reply. AI tools help us summarize and research, including public information such as your LinkedIn profile or company website. A person makes every decision.
- To run memberships, portals, payments, statements and investment records.
- To run events: lineups, invitations, and judge announcements with the bio and photo you gave us.
- To send news, events and deal announcements to people who ticked the box asking for them on one of our forms, and service and investment updates to members. The marketing box is never pre-ticked and is not required to apply. Every such email lets you unsubscribe.
- To keep the site secure and to meet legal, tax and regulatory duties.
Who else sees it
We do not sell personal information and do not share it for advertising. Service providers process it on our behalf: Airtable (our database, including its AI features), Netlify (hosting), Cloudflare (the Turnstile check that keeps bots off our partner form), Google Workspace (email and documents), Telegram (internal notifications to our team), Stripe and Mercury (payments), Allocations (vehicle administration, with identity and accreditation checks when you invest), Luma (event registration), Resend (event emails), and the providers of AI tools we use to summarize and draft.
When you invest in a vehicle, its administrator and service providers receive what the subscription documents and the law require. We also disclose information when the law requires it.
Cookies
We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in to a portal or a data room. There are no analytics or advertising cookies, and our pages and fonts are served from our own domain. The main exception is the partner form, which loads Cloudflare Turnstile to tell people from bots. Cloudflare receives your IP address and basic browser and connection details for that check and also uses them to improve its bot detection; it does not use them to identify, profile or advertise to you. See Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy notice. Two more third parties load only when you use them: the Sign in with Google button on our portal sign-in screens loads Google's script, so Google receives your IP address and, if you sign in with it, handles that under its own privacy policy; and when you upload a deck on the startup application, your browser fetches a PDF reader from Cloudflare's cdnjs, which sees your IP address. The deck itself is read in your browser and is not sent to cdnjs. Because we do not track you across other websites, and no third party does so through ours, a browser's Do Not Track signal does not change how the site works.
How long we keep it
Applications and inquiries we do not take forward: deleted three years after you sent them. Membership, investment, payment and tax records: seven years after the membership or investment ends, as tax and securities rules require. Your marketing opt-in and terms acceptance records: as long as we keep the information they cover, so we can show what you agreed to. Everything else: for as long as we have a relationship with you. You can ask us to delete anything sooner that we are not required to keep.
Your choices
You can ask to see, correct, delete or export your information, object to or restrict how we use it, and withdraw any consent you gave. You can stop our emails at any time by replying "unsubscribe" or using the link in the email. Write to and we will answer within 30 days.
If you are in the EU or the UK: we use your information to take the steps you ask for (applications, membership), for our legitimate interest in running the firm and its events, to meet legal duties, and, with your consent, for marketing email and for a photo you give us. Withdrawing consent does not affect what we did before. Your information is stored and processed in the United States; transfers rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, as offered by each provider. You may complain to your data protection authority.
Copyright notices
If you believe something on gain.ventures infringes your copyright, send a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to our designated agent: Copyright Agent, Ga^3in Ventures LLC, 1178 Broadway, 3rd Floor #3286, New York, NY 10001, United States. Phone: (347) 669-1320. Email: .
Children
Our site and events are for adults. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
Changes
When our practices change, we update this page and the date at the top.