Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 28, 2026
Overview
Sophon Capital ("we," "us," or "our") operates sophon.capital. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you use our service.
Information We Collect
When you submit a deck for analysis, we collect:
- Email address - to send you the analysis results and follow-up communications
- Pitch deck (PDF) - the document you upload for AI-powered analysis
- Website URL - if provided, to enrich our understanding of your company
- IP address and user agent - for rate limiting and security purposes
How We Use Your Information
- AI Analysis - Uploaded PDFs are converted to text with Mistral's OCR service, then your deck is processed by AI models (Groq, OpenAI) to generate a First Look analysis
- Email Communications - We send you the analysis results and may follow up regarding potential investment
- Internal Review - Our team reviews submissions to evaluate investment opportunities
- Service Improvement - Aggregated, anonymized data may be used to improve our analysis quality
Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services to operate:
- Groq / OpenAI - AI model providers for deck analysis
- Mistral - OCR text extraction from uploaded deck PDFs
- Resend - Email delivery service
- Vercel - Hosting and infrastructure, including optional AI Gateway routing for analysis requests
- Sentry - Error and performance monitoring for service reliability
- Upstash - Redis storage for rate limits, submission deduplication, deferred analysis jobs and results, and email retries. Operational records can include founder contact details, extracted deck text, analysis, and the original recipient, sender, reply-to address, plain text and HTML of a failed email, plus a PDF copy when an internal email needs retry.
These services process data according to their respective privacy policies and data processing agreements.
Data Retention
We retain your submitted deck and analysis results for the duration of our evaluation process and any subsequent investment relationship. Rate limiting data (IP addresses) is retained for 24 hours. You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us.
Pending enrichment payloads expire no later than seven days after they are queued and are removed from the queue store after successful processing. Completed enrichment artifacts and email retry payloads expire after seven days in their respective stores. A deletion request must cover these operational records as well as evaluation and email records.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information, including encryption in transit (HTTPS), rate limiting to prevent abuse, and secure handling of file uploads.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate data
- Request deletion of your data
- Object to processing of your data
- Request data portability
To exercise these rights, contact us at hello@sophon.capital.
Cookies
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We do not initialize PostHog, send PostHog analytics requests, or create PostHog analytics storage. Session replay, heatmaps, autocapture and person profiles are not enabled.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@sophon.capital.