About the Deal Box Dispatch

A weekly read for founders raising capital and the people who back them.

I am Thomas Carter. I have spent twenty-six years in private markets. The Deal Box Dispatch is the newsletter I wish I had been reading the whole time.

What you get

Every Friday, five things worth your attention.

A macro read. A piece of dilution math somebody is hoping you will not run. A regulatory note that matters before you sign the doc. A process play we have seen work. And one thing from the week that is funny enough to forward.

Plus the occasional personal note from Oahu, where I live and where the surf is honest about whether you should paddle out.

Who it is for

Founders raising a seed or Series A. Operators who have been through it and want to compare notes. Investors who would rather see a clean cap table than a managed one. Anyone who has ever signed a term sheet and felt a little dumber after reading it again on Monday.

If that sounds like you, you are in the right place.

What we are building

Deal Box is the company behind the Dispatch. We build investor onboarding infrastructure for founders raising under 506(b) and 506(c). Accreditation, KYC, document workflows, investor messaging, real-time visibility into who is actually engaging.

The Dispatch came first because the conversation came first. The product is what happens when you take that conversation seriously enough to build for it.

How to reach me

Hit reply on any issue. It comes to my inbox. I read every one. If you are building something interesting, raising something real, or saw something in a back-channel that you think the rest of us should know about, send it.

That is the deal.

— Thomas Carter
Founder & CEO, Deal Box
Oahu, Hawai'i