Evangelistas Collective Membership Terms

1. Membership Terms

1. Who you contract with. Your membership is a contract with Dous Ventures GmbH, Strelitzer Straße 58, 10115 Berlin, Germany, HRB 230265 B, which operates the Evangelistas Collective. You can reach us at hello@theevangelistas.com.

2. Admission and conclusion of the contract. Membership is by application and reviewed for fit. The Collective is capped at one hundred seats. We may decline an application without giving reasons, and an application creates no entitlement to a seat. If we admit you, we send you these terms and a personal payment link. The contract is concluded when your payment is received. If no payment is received within fourteen days of our admission, the admission lapses.

3. Term. Your membership runs for twelve months from the day your payment is received. It ends automatically at the end of that period and does not renew automatically. Before it ends, we will offer you a renewal, which requires your active confirmation and payment.

4. Price and payment. The fee is EUR 950.81 per membership year, including 19 percent German VAT (EUR 799.00 plus EUR 151.81 VAT). If your membership is invoiced to a business in another EU member state with a valid VAT identification number, we invoice EUR 799.00 net under the reverse charge procedure. Payment is due on admission and is made by card or SEPA direct debit through our payment provider Stripe. You receive an invoice once your payment has been received.

5. Your rate. The fee at your admission remains your fee for every renewal without interruption. A renewal within thirty days of the end of your membership year counts as without interruption. If you rejoin later, the fee current at that time applies. If you joined at an earlier fee, that fee remains yours on the same terms.

6. What membership includes. Access to the Collective’s private online space and member directory for the duration of your membership. Invitations to our own gatherings, sessions and programmes over the membership year, online and in person. Participation in deal flow and diligence discussions inside the space. Where we are able to extend them, invitations to selected gatherings hosted by third parties.

7. What membership does not include. Membership does not buy allocation and gives no entitlement to participate in any investment, vehicle or fund. We do not provide investment, tax or legal advice, we do not review pitch decks, and we do not broker investments or introductions. We do not guarantee that any particular event, programme, speaker or third party invitation will take place or be available, and the programme changes over the year. Invitations to third party gatherings depend on the host and can be withdrawn by them. Unless an invitation says otherwise, travel, accommodation and the costs of attending third party gatherings are your own. Whether one of our own gatherings carries a contribution is stated in its invitation.

8. Your statutory right of withdrawal. If you are a consumer, you have a statutory right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days. The details are set out in the withdrawal information (Widerrufsbelehrung) below. Your access starts as soon as your payment is received. By confirming this at checkout, you expressly ask us to begin your membership before the withdrawal period ends. If you withdraw, we waive any payment for the time already used, under clause 9.

9. Our own thirty day promise. Beyond your statutory rights, you can leave the Collective within thirty days of the start of your membership and receive a full refund of the fee, for any reason and without any charge for the time used. Write to us at the address in clause 1 and we refund the fee within fourteen days, using the payment method you used. This promise is voluntary and in addition to clause 8; it does not limit it.

10. Personal and non transferable. Membership is personal to you as a named individual. It cannot be transferred, shared, sold or passed on, including to a colleague, a successor in your role, or another person at the same firm, and your access must not be shared. If your employer pays your fee, the membership still belongs to you and stays with you if you move on. You may bring a guest to a gathering only with our prior agreement.

11. Confidentiality. Our gatherings are off record and our deal discussions are confidential. What is shared inside the Collective, including opportunities, documents, diligence and the identities and circumstances of other members, stays inside it and is not shared, published or forwarded without the express consent of the person it concerns. This obligation continues after your membership ends. The member directory is for reaching each other directly and not for recruiting, marketing lists or any other use.

12. Photos and recordings. We may take photographs at our gatherings and will say so in the invitation. You can ask not to be photographed, and we will not publish a photograph of you without your consent. Sessions may be recorded for members only when we announce it in advance. Conversations at gatherings described as off record are never recorded.

13. Content shared by members and third parties. Opportunities, documents and information in the space are shared by members, partner funds and other third parties. We do not review them and do not make them our own, and nothing in the space is an offer, a recommendation or investment advice. Every member decides for herself, signs her own documents and carries her own risk. We earn no fee, commission or carry on what members invest.

14. Liability. We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and where mandatory law provides otherwise. For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an obligation essential to the purpose of this contract, and then limited to the damage typically foreseeable when the contract was concluded. Otherwise our liability is excluded, including for content under clause 13.

15. Conduct. The value of this room is the people in it. We may suspend or end a membership with immediate effect where a member breaches clause 10, 11 or 12, uses the space or the directory to sell services to or raise money from members without being asked, or seriously or repeatedly disrupts gatherings or the space. Where we end a membership for this reason, we refund the unused part of the fee pro rata.

16. Ending your membership. You can end your membership at any time by writing to us at the address in clause 1. Your access continues until the end of the paid membership year, and fees already paid are not refunded beyond clauses 8 and 9.

17. Your data. We process your data as described in our privacy notice. Your profile in the member directory is visible to other members only. Data you give us for the Collective is used to run the Collective, is never sold, and is never used for executive search or any other business.

18. Changes. We may change these terms with reasonable notice where there is a valid reason, for example a change in the law or in how the Collective operates. If a change materially disadvantages you, you may end your membership from the date it takes effect and we refund the unused part of the fee pro rata.

19. Law and disputes. German law applies. Where you are a consumer, this does not remove the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence. We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

4. Withdrawal information (English convenience translation)

The German Widerrufsbelehrung above is the binding version.

Right of withdrawal. You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day the contract is concluded. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (Dous Ventures GmbH, Strelitzer Straße 58, 10115 Berlin, email: hello@theevangelistas.com) of your decision to withdraw by an unequivocal statement, for example a letter sent by post or an email. You may use the model withdrawal form above, but it is not obligatory. To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient to send your notice before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal. If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse all payments received from you without undue delay and at the latest within fourteen days from the day we receive your notice of withdrawal. We will use the same means of payment you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees for the reimbursement. If you asked for the services to begin during the withdrawal period, you would by law owe a proportionate amount for the services provided until you informed us of your withdrawal. We waive this amount under clauses 8 and 9 of the Membership Terms.