MUTUAL NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
Date: 2026-10-26
Between: [SELLER NAME] ("Seller"), owner of "[STARTUP NAME]"
And: [BUYER NAME] ("Buyer"), email [buyer email]

1. Purpose. Seller may share confidential information about [STARTUP NAME] (revenue data, customer counts, code, contracts, metrics) so Buyer can evaluate buying it. Buyer may share information about Buyer's funds and intentions.
2. Confidential information is anything marked confidential or that a reasonable person would treat as confidential. It excludes what is already public, what the receiving party already knew, or what it develops independently.
3. Each party will use the other's confidential information only to evaluate this deal, keep it secret, and share it only with advisers who are also bound to confidentiality.
4. Buyer will not use anything learned here to build a competing product, poach customers or staff, or contact the business's customers without Seller's written consent.
5. Either party may end discussions at any time. Obligations last 2 years from the date above. On request, each party deletes the other's confidential information.
6. Nothing here obliges anyone to buy or sell. NextFounder is a venue and not a party.

Signed electronically on NextFounder. These templates are provided by NextFounder free of charge for convenience. They are not legal advice and NextFounder (a for-profit company) is not a party to this agreement. For a sale above a few thousand dollars, have a lawyer read it. Governing law and venue are whatever the two of you write in.