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Communicating to deal rooms

Communicating with deal rooms is important, as this lets you to forward information, or ask specifying questions regarding your application.



Tools for communicating with deal rooms


To send messages or ask questions, you will have these 3 options available in Dealum:


  1. Application discussion
    This is likely to be your main way to communicate with the deal rooms. You can write messages in Application discussion and get replies from the deal room.
Application discussion will only be accessible to you, and the deal room you applied to.

Nobody without access to the application can see the Application discussion, so the Application discussion is visible to:

  • Your company team members
  • The deal room's members who have access to your application and right to communicate with companies


  1. Funding discussion
    Functions like the Application discussion, but includes all funding round participants. Funding round can have multiple participating deal rooms
Manually added external participants will not be able to see Funding discussion, as they do not have an account in Dealum. Read more about Funding.


Nobody without access to the funding round can see the Funding discussion, so the Funding discussion is visible to:

  • Your company team members
  • All participating deal rooms' members with access to the funding round and right to communicate with companies


  1. Emails
    Emails are used mostly by the deal room to send information like updates or requests for more information to the companies. As a company, you do not have the option to initiate an email (the only exception here is when you are the funding round lead, you can send emails to round participants). This means you can receive emails from deal rooms, and reply to some of them.

    When a deal room has sent you an email, you can reply to it and a representative of the deal room who sent you the email will receive your reply.


Please do not reply to system notifications that include the notice "Please do not reply to this email." - it is usually seen at the end of the email

These emails are automatically generated and replying to these emails will not send an email to anyone.


How to contact deal rooms via Application discussion?


  1. Application discussion
    In order to send an application discussion message to deal room, follow these steps:
  • Go to https://app.dealum.com/#/home
  • Click on company name
  • You will land on the Applications page
  • Find the application of the deal room you wish to contact
  • Click on "View application"
  • Click on "Application discussion" in the Communication section
  • A discussion window pops up
  • Write your message
  • Click on "Send"
  1. Funding discussion
    In order to send a funding round discussion message to funding round participants, follow these steps:
  • Click on Funding on the left side menu
  • Find the funding round you would like to message
  • Click on "Discussion"
  • A discussion window pops up
  • Write your message
  • Click on "Send"


If the "Discussion" option is not available for you, this means there is nobody to send a message to (there are no participants in the round). You might want to look into how to share your funding round.


How do I know there's a message or reply from a deal room?


There's a variety of options to see that you've received a discussion message to either Application discussion or the Funding discussion.


For both discussions, the following notifications will be available:

  • A notification on your Home page, in the section "Unread messages"
  • A notification in your "Messages" icon
If the message notification says "(Name) from (Deal room name) funding round sent a message to (Your company name)", it was sent to the Funding discussion. If the message says "(Name) from (Deal room name) sent a message to (Your company name)" it was sent to the Application discussion.


  • A blue dot next to the menu page you have an unread message in
  • A red dot and corresponding notice are visible on the application in Applications view
  • You receive an email (if your personal settings haven't disable it)


Emails can be configured in your personal settings. If you have altered those settings, an email might not be issued.


Email notification will not be sent, if you are online in Dealum at the time of receiving the message.


How to stop receiving communication from a deal room?


If you want to prevent a deal room from being able to communicate with you via email and in-app discussion threads, you can revoke their access.


To do that:

  • Go to https://app.dealum.com/#/home
  • Click on your company
  • On the opened Applications page, find the application submitted to the deal room you want to revoke access for
  • Click on "View application"
  • Click on the button with three dots at the top right corner of the opened page
  • Click on "Change access"
  • Click on "Revoke access"
  • A warning message pops up
  • Click on "Revoke" to confirm


In addition to disabling communication functionality for both parties, this will also:

  • Revoke their access to your profile updates (they will only see the data you had provided them before revoking access)
  • Prevent the deal room from being able to request payments from you


Updated on: 28/01/2025

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