Drooms vs Ellty

Drooms Hub is a virtual data room platform for managing confidential projects, documents, stakeholders, and deal workflows. Drooms presents it for due diligence, M&A, fundraising, asset management, and non-performing loan portfolios. Its Q&A tool supports approval levels, attachments, and links among questions, answers, and documents; Notes & Highlights support collaborative document review. Listed AI features handle document redaction, naming, allocation, translation, and question answering. Access controls include SSO, two-factor authentication, and granular user- and document-level permissions. Drooms says data transfers use SSL with AES 256-bit encryption, data is processed and stored in European server infrastructure, and it holds ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 27018:2020 certifications. The company states 99.9% annual availability and advertises round-the-clock expert support, while Starter specifies 24/7 email support only. Web and iOS access are available; the mobile app supports document browsing, folder management, Q&A, chat, notifications, translations, and AI Assistant. Starter is free; paid plans are listed from €19/mo.

Ellty provides browser-based document sharing and virtual data rooms for fundraising, M&A, due diligence, and client work. Its document analytics show who opened a file, which pages they read, and time spent on each page. Users can set link expiration, require email verification or passwords, restrict downloads, and revoke access. Depending on the plan, data rooms include visitor management features such as NDAs, Q&A, folder permissions, analytics, and audit logs. Listed capabilities also include audit trails, document watermarking, Q&A workspaces, and e-signatures. Plans specify 50 GB of storage per user and a maximum single-file upload of 2 GB. Ellty says stored documents use AES-256 encryption and data in transit uses TLS 1.3. It describes AWS hosting with backups, threat detection, WAF, DDoS protection, and rate limiting. The service requires no installation and can be accessed in a browser on Mac or desktop computers. Ellty offers a free plan and a 14-day trial without a credit card. It states that its service is not directly SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified.