Introducing Roll Up Vehicles
Streamline your closing with one entity for angel investors. With Roll Up Vehicles, founders get a single link that allows investors to commit and send funds online—and AngelList takes care of the rest.
Mar 29, 2021 — 4 min read
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Update (July 2025): Roll Up Vehicles have moved to Rollups.com, AngelList's new brand for startups.
At the early stages of a company, the most supportive investors are often customers, angel investors, and other operators. Despite having dozens of value-add investors eager to participate in a financing round, founders often have to turn away smaller checks because of legal costs and increased cap table complexity.
With Roll Up Vehicles (RUVs), founders get a private special purpose vehicle through which up to 250 accredited angels and operators can invest. AngelList will handle the RUV formation, collection of capital, accreditation, KYC, and signatures. Through a closed beta, over 25 companies have already run an RUV on AngelList, including SecureFrame, Mainstreet, and Italic. Today, we’re excited to make RUVs available to more founders.
Close Investors With a Single Link
Traditionally, to close a round, founders either spend time chasing down signatures and reconciling wires or pay their law firm to manage the process. With RUVs, founders get a single link that allows investors to commit and send funds online. Once the RUV closes, AngelList sends one single wire to the company.
Shrav Mehta, Founder & CEO of Secureframe, used an RUV for his recent fundraise.
“During our fundraise, we had early customers and value-add investors that wanted to participate in our round. Managing dozens of individual investors would have substantially increased operational overhead for us. AngelList took care of all the paperwork and was incredibly communicative throughout the process. Our investors were able to sign and wire right on the platform. Our legal counsel is a lot happier too!”
Streamlining Cap Tables
Adding dozens of small-check investors makes a company's cap table harder to manage over time. While SAFEs and convertible notes have made it easier to raise capital, companies still have to manage a complex and expensive conversion process of getting signatures from each shareholder when they convert to equity. Even after the conversion, founders still end up with a complex cap table.
