Papermark
Papermark is a secure data room platform for dealmakers, founders, and finance teams. It lets you organize documents, set granular permissions, add NDA gating and watermarking, and track page-level analytics to see what drives decisions. Teams use it for M&A, fundraising, due
Papermark launched on September 4, 2023 with 794 votes, #13 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Papermark is an open source alternative to DocSend for secure document sharing. It allows users to share pitch decks, sales decks, and other documents with options for self-hosting or using the hosted version. The tool offers custom domain support and real-time analytics to track document engagement. It serves sales teams and venture capital professionals who need to share sensitive materials securely.
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Papermark is the Open Source DocSend Alternative. Share your Pitch Deck, Sales Deck and any documents securely. Self-host it, or have it hosted by us. Features include custom domain and real-time analytics.
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The world's most ambitious dealmakers, founders and finance teams trust Papermark to host their data rooms and share confidential documents. Papermark is the secure data room built for modern dealmakers. Share confidential documents on a platform that gives you control, visibility, and trust. Papermark meets the highest industry standards for security, privacy and compliance. Every room ships with SSO, granular permissions, dynamic watermarking, NDA gating, audit logs, IP allow-listing, end-to-end encryption and full data lifecycle controls - with the option to self-host on your ownfrom papermark.com
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Papermark – the open-source DocSend alternative with custom domains2023 · papermark.io · ▲35Hi HN! We’re Marc and Iuliia from Papermark (https://papermark.io). We're building an open-source, modern document sharing platform with real-time engagement analytics and 100% customization. It all started as a tweet [1] and led to our launch on Product Hunt [2] last month. We crossed over 1000 stars and over 10 contributors on GitHub (https://github.com/mfts/papermark). Incumbents, like DocSend, founded in the early 2010s have been acquired already and just don't innovate anymore. Their main priority is enterprise clients. As founders and developers ourselves…
Pitchwise2025 · pitchwise.se · ▲198Send documents and data rooms as secure, trackable links. Know who opens them, what they’re reading and when to follow-up. #1 Papermark and DocSend alternative.
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