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File encryption for founders: cap tables, drafts, and quiet plans
Every founder has a folder that is not yet ready for the shared drive: term sheets in progress, cap-table scenarios, draft board decks. Elba is a small local fence around that folder.
The pre-share folder
Keep one ‘private’ folder on your laptop. Draft in there. When it's ready, copy the finished document out. Everything else stays sealed at rest.
Investor and legal comms
Send the sealed folder if you have to; share the password through a separate channel. The recipient opens it with the same free Elba download.
Questions people actually ask
- Better than Google Drive with restricted sharing?
- Different — Google Drive still has your files; a sealed local folder does not leave your machine unless you copy it.
Take the island
Elba is one HTML file. It runs locally in a Chromium browser, seals a folder with AES-256-GCM, never phones home, and becomes open source on 1 January 2030.
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