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Papermark

Papermark is a Berlin-based, open-source virtual data room and document sharing platform trusted by over 53,000 companie...

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This is an official Papermark Reddit channel!

iuliiashnai · Feb 28, 2026

You can read latest [Papermark](https://www.papermark.com) news! Feel free to post questions, comment in here and discuss the updates [https:\/\/www.papermark.com](https://preview.redd.it/7n47ohqsrem...

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The 5 Best Virtual Data Rooms (VDR) I've Tested for 2026

Sad-Recognition-8257 · Feb 13, 2026

I've been testing virtual data rooms for several years now, and 2026 has brought some interesting developments to the space. This is my updated compilation of VDRs I've tried and genuinely liked. No p...

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Papermark for fundraising in Europe?

jumpDefendRoyal7530 · Jan 22, 2026

I'm wondering if other founders here have successfully raised funds in Europe and used Papermark as their virtual data room? I know they're positioned as the data room vendor for Europe with europea...

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What documents should you include in your Data Room?

Sad-Recognition-8257 · Nov 10, 2025

This is a question I've been asked a lot by other founders who are just starting to look for investment. So here's a quick post on the key documents that should be a part of any data room. For those ...

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Some tips on how to fundraise effectively?

MildFrost764 · Nov 6, 2025

We've been running a startup for a bit over a year and finally we're looking for some pre-seed investment, we're profitable and we're not really DYING for the investment but we need it to scale up and...

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The Best Alternatives to Docsend in 2025

LeafyDriver25 · Nov 5, 2025

DocSend has been the go to solution for virtual data rooms for a long time, but there's many more competitive and compelling alternatives in the market right now. Here's some alternatives to DocSend w...

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We found our first angel investor! Here's how we did it

Academic_Way_293 · Nov 3, 2025

After months of pitching and learning along the way we finally got our first angel investor to finally scale and get out there some more. It was pretty though and as a first time founder I didn't real...

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We got 700k in funding. Is it unfair to take a vacation?

Free_Explorer6853 · Oct 14, 2025

Well... post title. We were looking for investing for a little while and it's been a lot of hard work but I can't take out everyone on the team on vacations and I'm kind of scared some people may take...

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The 5 best Virtual Data Rooms (VDR) that I've tried in 2025

Sad-Recognition-8257 · Sep 19, 2025

I've been testing a lot of different virtual data rooms this year and the past. So this is kind of just a compilation of what I've tried and liked, it's in no particular order, and none of these tools...

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Do you guys use VDRs?

Sad-Recognition-8257 · Sep 16, 2025

We've been using a VDR (Papermark) to help with document sharing, mostly just legal, contracts, esignatures from our customers. We made the switch to a VDR from Google Drive maybe 6 months ago and ...

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Why I built an open source DocSend alternative?

mfts0 · Jul 9, 2025

When I started Papermark, the main question I get was why open source? "How will you monetize?" "Won't competitors just copy you?" "Why give away your code for free in this market?" 18 months ...

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Papermark - Tool for document qa

EssYouJAyEn · Jun 1, 2025

**Pricing**: Free/USD **Category**: document qa **Release Date**: 2025 **About Tool:** Papermark AI is a revolutionary, open-source AI platform aimed at reshaping document sharing and collaboration...

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Papermark Review

Aamir Rashid · Sep 29, 2024

Documents not resized and fit to width like DocSend

It's a good tool, although my documents are not being resized and fit to width like it happens in other tools like Docsend

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Papermark Review

Michał Hernas · Sep 4, 2023

Congrats @mfts0 on the launch! Amazing idea with Papermark, we are for sure gonna use it!

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Papermark Review

Atharva Bondre · Sep 4, 2023

A very useful and needed tool in the open-source productivity segment. Excited to use it and save subscription fees.

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Papermark Review

Won Jang · Sep 4, 2023

Dope Project, and what an alternative for Docsend! Pretty amazing how you utilize open sources to create such products so fast.

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Papermark Review

Dan Mindru · Sep 4, 2023

This is a brilliant product. Have to love that it's open source too. Will be keeping this in my pocket next time I need to share confidential documents.

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Papermark Review

Peer Richelsen · Sep 4, 2023

Really awesome tool. Especially running on a custom domain is a cool addition!

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Papermark Review

Kalpesh Bhalekar · Sep 4, 2023

I've been in Sales for 7+ years. Absolutely love Papermark! Congratulations @mfts0 on launching this.

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Long Paperback Books?

Tomte · May 24, 2021

Link: https://ask.metafilter.com/354780/Very-long-paperback-books

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Two new books about the history of paper

well_i_never · Nov 9, 2017

Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/g00/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-paper-mark-kurlansky-paper-trail-alexander-monro-20160512-story.html

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Papermarkers for print out?

tobiasdoe · Sep 22, 2016

Hello, as for Infinity I want to make some print out markers for GuildBall. Is there a good ressource for markers I need for every faction? Such as when you play butchers you need the following .... ...

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Papermaking at home

nahumfarchi · Jun 12, 2009

Link: http://fisheyepress.com/Papermaking.html

Firmex

Firmex is a leading virtual data room provider with over 20,000 new rooms opened yearly. Known for robust security (9.2 ...

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Need some career advice towards CSM

PBInvests · Jan 29, 2023

Customer Success Associate at Firmex (smaller tech company compared to Hubspot. They are in the VDR space.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

mariahristova · Nov 1, 2016

Firmex | Toronto, Canada | Team Lead - Full Time | ONSITE. Firmex is hiring a highly experienced Dev Team Lead to work on our core virtual data room product.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

mistagrooves · Apr 1, 2015

Firmex Inc. | Toronto, ON | Platform Developer, Dev Ops, Sys Admin. We are a Virtual Data Room provider. Thousands of investment banks, law firms, funds and corporations trust Firmex to run their lega...