NF NextFounder No cut, ever.

The charter

Short, written down, and the reason you can trust "free".

  1. Sellers never pay. No listing fee, no monthly fee, no commission, no "success fee", on any sale, of any size. If that ever changes for new accounts, every account created before the change keeps these terms forever. We will never remove this wording quietly.
  2. Buyers never pay to make an offer. Browsing, NDAs, messaging and LOIs are free. If we ever sell buyer tools (early alerts, saved searches), they will be monthly and refundable, and the full listing data will stay visible after a signed NDA.
  3. Escrow at cost. We pass Escrow.com through at their published price and take nothing from it. If we find or build something cheaper, you get it at cost too.
  4. We are funded by pay-it-forward. At close, both sides are asked for a voluntary contribution. $0 is one tap and nobody is treated differently for choosing it. Nothing is given in return; a contribution buys no badge, boost or ranking.
  5. Every unit of money is public. Contributions in, costs out, runway, on one page, updated automatically.
  6. Verification is continuous and honest. Badges show what we could check and when. We say "unverified" when we could not. A badge that stops being true comes off within 48 hours.
  7. Pre-revenue startups belong here. In their own lane, with their own proofs, never mixed into revenue listings.
  8. Open data. Live listings are on a public API. Aggregate deal data (asking multiples, time to close) is published for everyone.
  9. We are a venue. We do not hold money, own assets, or arbitrate. The contract is between buyer and seller. We give you the documents and the checklist, and we suspend sellers whose proofs break or who are reported for fraud.
  10. We are a for-profit company (NextFounder (a for-profit company), to be decided). Contributions are not donations and not tax-deductible. If this ever becomes a co-operative, that will be a legal fact first and a marketing line second.

First published 26 October 2026. Changes are dated and listed below this line, never edited in place.