Privacy Policy

Last updated: 07.09.2026

MeridianBridge Invest takes the protection of your personal data seriously. This policy explains what we collect, why, on what legal basis, how long we keep it, and what rights you have.

Who is responsible. The controller is Amogh Jayaraj Rau, operating as MeridianBridge Invest, Factory300, 4040 Linz, Austria. You can reach us at info@meridianbridgeinvest.com. Our GISA number is [GISA NUMBER], and we are exempt from VAT under the small-business scheme (§6 Abs 1 Z 27 UStG). For any question about your data, or to exercise any of your rights, write to info@meridianbridgeinvest.com and we will respond within one month.

What we collect. When you use our submission form, we collect your name, email, country, company or project name, industry, a description of what you are building, your business model, your current stage, the amount you are looking to raise, and, if you choose to provide them, your website, LinkedIn and a pitch deck. If we go on to work together, we also collect the information you share during a short online call and an informal in-person meeting — your professional experience, prior founding experience, education, and further detail about your venture — along with our notes. If you email us, we hold your message and contact details. When you visit the website, our hosting provider records standard technical log data such as IP address, browser and time of access, in order to deliver and secure the site. We do not collect special categories of data such as information about ethnic origin, religion or health, and we ask you not to send such information; the profiles we prepare never contain it.

Why we process it, and on what legal basis. We process your submission to respond to you and arrange the call and meeting, which is necessary to take steps at your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). We prepare a factual profile of you and your venture, and include that profile in a curated selection shared with our subscribing investors, on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). We release your contact details to a specific investor only on your separate consent, given case by case (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). We answer email enquiries on the basis of our legitimate interest and pre-contractual steps (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). We keep business and tax records because the law requires it (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR). And we secure our website and, if necessary, defend legal claims on the basis of our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

No automated decision-making. We do not use artificial intelligence or any automated system to evaluate founders, ideas or people. Every profile is researched and written by a person. We do not carry out profiling within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR.

What a profile contains. A profile is a factual summary — your experience, prior founding, education, current stage, what you are building, and the amount you are raising. It is not an assessment of whether you are worth investing in, and it contains no recommendation. Investors form their own view and carry out their own due diligence.

How long we keep it. We keep submissions that do not proceed for 12 months, after which we delete them. We keep records for founders we work with for 7 years, in line with Austrian record-keeping law (§132 BAO). We keep records of your consent for as long as we may need to demonstrate it. Website logs are kept for a short period only.

Who we share it with. We do not sell your data and we do not use it for advertising. We share your factual profile with our subscribing investors only if you have consented, as part of a curated selection shared with them periodically; your identity and contact details are included only where you have separately agreed. We use service providers who act on our instructions under data processing agreements (Article 28 GDPR) to host our website and our submission form and to store the information you submit; these providers process data within the EU. We also share data with our accountant or lawyer under confidentiality, and with authorities where the law requires. Once you consent to an introduction, the investor becomes independently responsible for the data they then hold; we only share profiles with investors who agree to keep them confidential and use them solely to consider a potential investment.

International transfers. Our website and form data are hosted within the EU. Where any provider processes data outside the European Economic Area, the transfer is covered by an EU adequacy decision or by Standard Contractual Clauses (Article 46 GDPR). If we ever propose to share your profile with an investor based outside the EEA, we will tell you where they are based before you consent, so that your consent is informed (Article 49(1)(a) GDPR).

Your rights. You have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its processing, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw any consent at any time; withdrawing consent does not affect processing that already took place (Articles 15 to 21 and 7(3) GDPR). To exercise any of these, email info@meridianbridgeinvest.com; we may ask you to confirm your identity, and we will respond within one month. You also have the right to complain to the supervisory authority: the Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde, Barichgasse 40–42, 1030 Vienna, Austria, dsb@dsb.gv.at.

Cookies. This website uses only cookies that are strictly necessary for it to function, on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR and §165(3) TKG 2021. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. If we later add analytics, they will load only after you agree through a cookie banner.

Changes. We may update this policy as our service or the law develops. The current version, with its date, always appears on this page. Where a change materially affects data you have already given us, we will contact you.