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Common Paper (YC W23) — The SAFE for commercial contracts

Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. We create standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements.

Common Paper is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The SAFE for commercial contracts. The founders listed are Benjamin Garvey (Founder), Jake Stein (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 15, 2022).

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Common Paper

New accelerator entry · 2022-12-15 · the record

Winter 2023
batch
8
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2023
Announced2022-12-15
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size8
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Sales
SectorsSaaS, Open Source, Sales, Legal, LegalTech
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedPhiladelphia, PA, USA; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttps://commonpaper.com/

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Common Paper is a contracting platform that helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. We create standard, open-source contracts for commercial transactions, including NDAs, DPAs, and sales agreements. These are analogous to the SAFE, but are between customers and vendors rather than investors and startups. The standardized format means that data within contracts is structured from inception. We build software for managing standard contracts, accelerating sales cycles, and making the data within the contracts programmatically accessible to other business systems. Tens of thousands of people have downloaded our standard contracts, and 63% of the contracts on our system close within 24 hours.

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