Founder-first cross-border M&A

A new chapter for what you’ve built.

Dojo helps Indian tech founders explore potential U.S. homes for their product and team—then supports the acquisition process and transition with care.

Tell us what you’ve built I’m looking to acquire

Founder-first M&A introductions and process coordination—not venture fundraising

Product Team Next home Doji, Dojo Fund's friendly tiger guide, waving while carrying a product blueprint
Meet Doji

A friendly guide for your next chapter.

Dojo is built for teams with

  • A working product
  • 2–25 builders
  • IP you control
  • Openness to a strategic outcome

For founders

Keep the people and product moving forward.

An acquisition is a major founder decision. We help you explore it without reducing your company to a codebase or your team to a cost line.

01

Team continuity

Work toward a home where the people who built the product can keep building together.

02

Product continuity

Position the product and its domain knowledge as an advantage worth carrying forward.

03

U.S. reach

Explore companies with the distribution and resources to expand what you started.

04

Thoughtful ownership

Explore equity and transition terms that reflect the real value being brought in.

These are goals we work toward, not promises; every transaction and equity package is different.

How it works

A thoughtful path from first call to new home.

One partner-led process, with the technical, human, and cross-border details kept in the same room.

  1. 01

    Start with your story

    We learn what you built, what makes the team special, and what a good outcome means to you.

  2. 02

    Get acquisition-ready

    We help clarify the product narrative, technical strengths, IP position, and transition needs.

  3. 03

    Explore aligned companies

    We look for potential U.S. matches where your product, expertise, and roadmap could create a genuine fit.

  4. 04

    Shape the transition

    We support process planning and coordinate with qualified legal and tax advisers through close.

Is Dojo right for us?

The best conversations start with honest fit.

We are most useful when there is something real to carry forward: a working product, committed builders, and a reason the combination should exist.

Talk through your situation

Likely a fit

  • Your product is live or meaningfully built
  • The core technical team wants to continue
  • Your IP is owned or can be cleaned up
  • You are open to an acquisition or team transition

Probably not yet

  • You are only looking for a venture round
  • The product is still just an idea or prototype
  • The founding team is not aligned on an outcome
  • Ownership or IP rights are materially disputed

For U.S. acquirers

Add a product and the people who know it best.

Meet technically credible Indian teams whose products and expertise map to a real roadmap need—with support for diligence and transition planning.

Share your acquisition brief

Working product

Evaluate functioning software, not just a hiring plan.

Embedded expertise

Bring in the builders who understand the architecture and domain.

Supported transition

Plan integration across product, people, IP, and geography.

Your partner team

Operators on both sides of the corridor.

Dojo is an operator-led process, not an anonymous marketplace. A managing partner joins when there may be a fit.

Rishi Sachdev California ↔ India

Managing Partner

Rishi Sachdev

Technical founder and operator across healthcare, consumer platforms, crypto, and seed-stage investing, with operating roots in California and Bangalore.

Read Rishi’s background
Bangalore, India

Managing Partner

Vishal Mercan

Technology operator with two decades in Bangalore, focused on engineering architecture, team design, local operations, and cross-border transitions.

Questions, answered

The things founders usually ask first.

Still wondering whether your situation is unusual? It probably is. That is what the first conversation is for.

Is Dojo Fund a venture fund?

No. Dojo focuses on strategic acquisitions and team or product transitions between Indian startups and U.S. companies. We are not offering a new financing round.

What kinds of outcomes can you support?

Depending on fit, a transaction may involve a product and team acquisition, an asset-for-equity structure, an acqui-hire, or an IP-focused acquisition. Final terms are specific to each buyer and company.

Does our team need to relocate?

Not necessarily. A team may be able to remain in India as part of a U.S. parent’s distributed organization. Location, employment, and integration plans are worked through during the process.

What happens to founder and team equity?

That depends on the transaction. We help articulate the value being transferred and coordinate term discussions, but equity form, vesting, tax treatment, and liquidity vary and require qualified advice.

How do you protect sensitive information?

We begin with high-level information. We can discuss an NDA with Dojo or a prospective acquirer before sensitive code, customer, or financial materials are shared.

Who handles legal, tax, and RBI requirements?

Dojo helps coordinate the workstream with qualified legal and tax advisers. Those professionals provide the formal advice and filings required for a specific transaction.

Start with an introduction

Tell us where you are. We’ll meet you there.

Share enough for us to understand the fit. Keep customer names, source code, and other sensitive details out of this first note.

Internal review

Your note goes into Dojo’s restricted-access review workflow.

No source code or sensitive customer data, please.