Virtual data rooms permit companies to securely share important documents with customers investors, customers, and company leadership on the internet. VDRs can eliminate paper and related costs, like storage and printing, as well as ensuring greater efficiency and due diligence supervision.
Mergers and acquisitions
M&A transactions can involve numerous documents that need to be reviewed carefully. VDRs make the due diligence process more efficient by allowing both parties to work together and reducing meetings costs. In addition, the best online data room providers offer advanced features such as document indexing and redaction (blacking out areas of files so that personally-identifiable information remains private).
Fundraising
Venture capitalists or BD partners will often ask you to answer a number this of written diligence questions. This can lead to numerous sets of documentation. By sharing these questions and answers in a VDR, with viewer permissions dependent on the member of the investor/partner team, you can avoid unnecessary disclosure and make the process more efficient.
Strategic Partnerships
Similar to M&As you will have to share a significant amount of information with third parties during strategic partnerships. This can be done using a VDR, which allows you to organize your documents and make them available to those you want to have access to them. A good VDR will also let you define your own terms of access that all users have to agree to before they can access your data.