Last updated: 26 September 2026
CatenaHQ is a software platform operated by Anthony Owen trading as CatenaHQ, ABN 30 519 768 584 ("CatenaHQ", "we", "us", "our"). It provides tools for founders, companies and their advisers to prepare for and manage capital raising, investor relations, share registers, due diligence, corporate governance, grants and related activities (the "Platform").
These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Platform. They should be read with our Privacy Policy and Data Collection Notice.
You accept these Terms when you tick the acceptance box when creating an account or when first asked on the Platform. We keep a record of each acceptance, including the version accepted and when. If you do not agree, you must not use the Platform.
If you use the Platform on behalf of a company or other entity, you confirm you are authorised to bind it, and "you" includes both you and that entity.
You must be at least 18 years old and give accurate information. You are responsible for keeping your login details and passkeys secure and for all activity under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been used without your authority.
Your email address is your login. One email address may hold one login on the Platform. When the address on an account is changed, we notify both the old and the new address.
Team members. An account holder may invite team members and advisers and choose what they can access. The account holder is responsible for the access they grant and for the activity of the people they invite.
Partners. A partner (such as an accelerator, fund, company secretary, accountant or other adviser) may create or manage client accounts. A partner managing your account can see and act on your company's data on the Platform. A client may leave a partner, and a partner may release a client; the client's account and data remain with the client.
CatenaHQ access. Our administrators can access accounts to operate the Platform, provide support and resolve problems. That access is recorded.
Paid features are subject to the plans and prices published on our Pricing page or agreed with you in writing. Fees are in Australian dollars and exclude GST unless stated otherwise.
Subscriptions are billed in advance through our payment provider, Stripe, and renew automatically each billing period until cancelled. We do not store your card details.
Trials. Where an account is set up with a trial, a card is taken at sign-up and the subscription is charged when the trial ends unless it is cancelled before then. The trial length is shown when the account is created and on the Billing page.
Accounts provided free of charge. We or a partner may provide an account free of charge or at a reduced rate. We may end a free arrangement with reasonable notice.
Cancellation and refunds. You may cancel from the Billing page at any time; access continues to the end of the paid period. Fees already paid are not refunded, except where required by the Australian Consumer Law or where these Terms say otherwise.
Price changes. We will give at least 30 days' notice of a price change to an existing subscription. You may cancel before the change takes effect.
If a payment fails we will tell you and retry. If it remains unpaid we may restrict paid features until it is paid.
You may use the Platform for the business purposes of your company or, if you are a partner, your clients. You must not:
CatenaHQ provides software. We do not provide legal, financial, tax, accounting or investment advice, and nothing on the Platform is a recommendation to issue, acquire or dispose of any financial product. The Platform is not provided under an Australian Financial Services Licence.
General advice warning. Any information on the Platform about financial products, capital raising or investment is general information only. It does not take into account your objectives, financial situation or needs. Before acting on it you should consider whether it is appropriate for you and obtain advice from a suitably qualified professional.
We do not guarantee any outcome, including that a raise will succeed, that investors will invest, or that a grant, tax incentive or concession will be obtained.
The Platform uses artificial intelligence to produce suggestions, ratings, scores, summaries, reviews, draft text and other content ("AI Output"). You acknowledge that:
Tools and scores. Calculators, estimators, readiness scores, deck ratings, grant matches, ESIC and R&D assessments, share calculations and similar tools are guidance only. They rely on the information entered and on general assumptions, and they do not replace professional advice.
Compliance checks. Tools that check material against legislation, ASIC regulatory guides or other requirements identify some common issues. They do not confirm that any document or activity complies with the law, and a clean result does not mean nothing is missing. Responsibility for the content and compliance of any offer document, disclosure or investor material stays with you, your directors and, where one is involved, your licensed intermediary.
Templates. Document templates (including constitutions, term sheets, agreements and offer document structures) are general starting points. They are not prepared for your circumstances and must be reviewed by a qualified professional before use.
You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to your company and your raise, including the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), fundraising and disclosure requirements, the crowd-sourced funding regime and the conditions for any exemption you rely on.
CatenaHQ is not a crowd-sourced funding intermediary, a broker, a dealer or a registry. Where the Platform supports an equity crowdfunding campaign, the licensed intermediary remains responsible for its own obligations, and the company remains responsible for its offer.
The Platform can hold your share register, cap table and corporate records. The company remains responsible for keeping its statutory registers accurate and complete. Records on the Platform reflect what users enter, including investor classifications, verifications, document status and allotments.
You are responsible for the content of emails, updates, notices and documents you send through the Platform, for having the right to contact the people you send them to, and for any decision you or they make using that material.
Material you share from the Platform (such as decks, data rooms and reports) may include AI Output and tool results. People you share it with have no agreement with CatenaHQ and may not rely on CatenaHQ in relation to it.
Replies to emails sent through the Platform may be captured and stored in your Platform inbox.
You own the data, documents and content you upload to or create on the Platform, including AI Output generated for you ("Your Content"). CatenaHQ claims no ownership of Your Content.
You grant CatenaHQ a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, process, transmit and display Your Content, only as needed to operate and improve the Platform and to provide it to you and the people you choose to share it with. We do not sell Your Content.
AI Output may not be protected by copyright and may be similar to content produced for other users. We give no assurance that AI Output is original, accurate or free of third-party rights.
You confirm you have the rights and consents needed to upload Your Content, including personal information about shareholders, investors, directors and others.
We or our licensors own the Platform, its software, design, text, templates, tools and branding. These Terms give you a limited, non-transferable right to use them for the purposes in section 5 while you have an account. Templates and tools may be used for your own business or, for partners, your clients; they may not be redistributed or resold.
We may name your company as a customer on our website unless you ask us not to.
We handle personal information as set out in our Privacy Policy and Data Collection Notice.
The Platform relies on third-party services, including hosting, email delivery, payment processing and AI. If you connect an external account or service, your use of it is subject to that provider's terms. We are not responsible for services we do not control.
We aim to keep the Platform available and secure but do not guarantee it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may carry out maintenance and will try to give notice of planned downtime.
We take reasonable steps to protect Your Content and keep backups. You should keep your own copies of important documents.
When an account is closed we keep Your Content available for export for at least 30 days, after which it may be deleted or anonymised. Some records are kept longer where the law requires it.
Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy, or any guarantee, warranty or other term or condition, implied or imposed by the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
Where our liability for failing to comply with a consumer guarantee can be limited, it is limited, at our option, to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.
Subject to section 16, and to the extent permitted by law:
Our liability is reduced to the extent any loss is caused or contributed to by you or anyone acting for you.
You indemnify CatenaHQ against any claim by a third party, and any resulting loss, cost or liability (including reasonable legal costs), arising from Your Content, material you send or share through the Platform, your breach of these Terms, or your breach of any law, including securities, fundraising and privacy law. This indemnity does not apply to the extent the claim is caused by our breach of these Terms or our negligence.
By you. You may close your account at any time from the Platform or by contacting us.
By us. We may suspend or close an account immediately if it is used in breach of these Terms or the law, or in a way that puts the Platform, other users or third parties at risk. We may also close an account for any other reason on 30 days' notice, and will refund any fees paid for the period after closure.
Sections 6 to 12 and 16 to 22 continue after your account closes.
We may update these Terms. We will tell you about a material change through the Platform or by email before it takes effect, and ask you to accept the updated Terms when you next use the Platform. If you do not accept them, you may close your account and we will refund any fees paid for the period after closure.
Advisory services offered by Anthony Owen, such as capital raising advice, document review and strategy sessions, are separate from the Platform and are provided under a separate written agreement, which sets out the basis on which they are provided. A Platform subscription does not include advisory services.
Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts.
Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Data Collection Notice and any written agreement with you for a particular plan or service are the whole agreement about the Platform.
Severability. If any part of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, it is read down or severed and the rest continues to apply.
Waiver. A failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of it.
Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms without our consent. We may assign ours to a successor to the Platform on notice to you.
CatenaHQ (Anthony Owen trading as CatenaHQ, ABN 30 519 768 584)
Email: anthony@catenahq.com.au
Phone: +61 497 975 000
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia