Malak

Malak is a self-hostable alternative to tools like AngelList Raise and Carta, built for startups that want to manage investor communication and fundraising data without paying enterprise pricing for a fraction of the features — or handing their financial and investor data to a vendor that might use it to cross-sell other products.

The platform pulls metrics automatically from integrations like Stripe, Mercury, and Brex, so founders don’t have to manually compile investor updates from multiple dashboards. It also covers sending investor updates via email, creating and sharing pitch decks, managing a fundraising pipeline, and maintaining a cap table — the core workflow of running a raise and keeping investors informed afterward.

Built in Go with a Next.js-style web frontend, Malak is white-label by design and deployable on your own domain, whether self-hosted on your own infrastructure or used via Malak’s hosted cloud option. The project is 100% open source under AGPL-3.0.

What You Get

• Automatic metrics collection from integrations like Stripe, Mercury, and Brex instead of manual investor-update compilation
• Investor update sending via email, plus pitch deck creation and sharing
• Fundraising pipeline management and cap table ownership in one platform
• White-label, self-hostable deployment on your own domain, or a hosted cloud option

Common Use Cases

• Sending regular, metrics-backed investor updates without manually pulling numbers from multiple SaaS dashboards each time
• Managing a fundraising pipeline and tracking investor conversations through a raise
• Self-hosting investor and financial data instead of trusting a third-party platform that may monetize it elsewhere
• Sharing pitch decks and dashboards with investors under your own branded domain instead of a vendor’s

Under The Hood

Architecture Malak’s Go backend models the investor-relations domain directly as first-class types — fundraising.go, contact.go, deck.go, dashboard.go, share.go, integration.go — with corresponding _enum.go files for status/state machines per entity, rather than a generic CRM schema stretched to fit. Third-party data sources live under internal/integrations, isolating Stripe/Mercury/Brex-specific logic from the core domain models, and a web/ui frontend consumes the API documented via Swagger.

Tech Stack Go for the backend and CLI (cmd/cli), with a web frontend under web/ui, Docker/Docker Compose for deployment, and a generated Swagger API spec. blocknote.go suggests a block-based rich text editor (BlockNote) is used for composing decks or updates.

Code Quality The repo integrates Codecov for coverage tracking and Go Report Card for static analysis, and includes dedicated test files for core domain logic (dates, images, plans, users, BlockNote content) — reasonable signals of test discipline for a project of this size, though overall GitHub activity shows fairly low recent commit velocity.

What Makes It Unique Rather than being a generic CRM adapted for fundraising, Malak’s entire schema is purpose-built around the investor-relations workflow — fundraising pipeline, cap table, decks, and automated metrics ingestion — and ships as a genuinely self-hostable, white-label alternative to tools that typically only exist as closed SaaS.

Self-Hosting

Licensing Model AGPL-3.0 licensed — the README states the project is “100% Opensource,” with self-hosting and cloud hosting offered as equal deployment options.

Self-Hosting Restrictions None found; the project explicitly positions full data and feature ownership as a self-hosting benefit versus SaaS competitors.

Cloud vs Self-Hosted Malak offers an optional hosted cloud version for teams that don’t want to run their own infrastructure, alongside the self-hosted, white-label option.

License Key Required No.