Seed fundraising, founder-first
We connect seed-stage founders raising $750k–$1M with angel investors and VCs—for a $300/month retainer and a 7% success fee only when your round actually closes.
We operate only in markets where fundraising introductions require no securities licence
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Why Dojo
Traditional banks won't touch a $1M round. Unregistered agencies in licensed markets can put your whole raise at legal risk. We built the third option.
| Comparison criteria | Traditional investment bank | Unregistered outreach agency | Dojo Fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly retainer | $15k–$25k | $2k–$5k | $300 |
| Success fee | 5–8% on close | Often charged where it isn't legal to charge one | 7% on close |
| Regulatory posture | Licensed, built for late-stage mandates | Operating unlicensed in regulated markets—legal & rescission risk for your round | Operates only where introductions are lawful without a licence |
| Typical raise size | $10M+ | Anything they can invoice | $750k–$1M |
| Built for | Growth & late-stage companies | Their own pipeline | Seed-stage founders |
Retainer and fee ranges are indicative of typical market practice and vary by firm and mandate.
How it works
One partner-led process. We do the outreach and the coordination; you keep building your company.
We pressure-test your narrative, deck, and valuation until they hold up in an investor meeting.
We build a target list of accredited angels and VCs who actually write cheques at your stage and sector.
Interested investors are routed straight to your calendar. No cold spray, no bcc blasts, no spam.
We support term sheets and SAFEs through close. Our success fee is only due when the money lands.
Calculate your raise
The biggest difference isn’t the success fee—it’s the cash you burn before a single cheque clears. Drag the slider to compare.
With Dojo Fund
$1,800
retainer over a 6-month raise
+ $52,500 success fee, due only at close
With a traditional bank
$90,000
in retainers over the same 6 months—win or lose
+ a similar success fee at close
Upfront cash you keep with Dojo
$88,200
Illustrative only. Assumes a $15k/month traditional bank retainer; actual fees, terms, and timelines vary by firm.
Pricing
No tiers, no setup fees, no minimum term. You pay a coffee-budget retainer while we work, and a success fee only if we deliver.
The Dojo raise plan
Retainer
$300 per month
On success
7% when your round closes
The success fee applies to funds actually received by your company. If your round never closes, it is never due.
Markets we serve
In many countries, taking a success fee for fundraising introductions requires a securities licence. We read the statutes market by market—not the blog posts—and we operate only where it doesn’t. Every live market below comes with hard guardrails—offeree limits, professional investors only, no client funds—that we treat as walls, not suggestions.
Live now. Advising a private company on its own raise and introducing it to identified angels and institutional investors is not a SEBI-licensed activity—private placements of unlisted securities sit outside SEBI’s purview.
Offers go only to pre-identified investors, within the Companies Act Section 42 limit of 200 offerees per year. No public solicitation. Funds always flow directly from investor to company.
Live now. Swiss licensing attaches to services provided to investors—not to a company raising its own round. Issuer-side capital-raising support falls outside FinSA’s licensed perimeter, per FINMA’s published practice.
We advise companies only and never investors, hold no funds or securities, and keep every round a private placement to professional investors within Swiss limits.
Live now. The Financial Markets Conduct Act has no licence category for introducing companies to investors, and advice given solely to wholesale clients—angels, VCs, investment businesses—requires no licence.
Wholesale investors only, with eligible-investor certificates on file for every round. Bespoke introductions, no platform, and we never touch investor money.
Live now. Colombia licenses intermediation in the public securities market. A targeted private raise to identified professional investors sits outside that perimeter—no Superintendencia Financiera licence applies.
Fewer than 100 identified offerees per raise, no open solicitation and no platform, and funds always flow directly from investor to company.
Live now. Peru’s securities law expressly excludes private offers from its reach—licensed intermediaries are mandatory only for public offers.
Targeted, personal outreach to a limited circle of institutional and sophisticated investors. No advertising, no platform, no client funds.
Live now. Argentina’s 2024–25 capital-markets reform created an express private-offer safe harbour (CNV Resolution 1088/2025)—compliant private placements need no CNV authorization or licensed agent.
Up to 50 qualified and 30 non-qualified investors contacted per round, sales to at most 35, written private-offer notices, and no public promotion of any kind.
Live now. Kenya’s Capital Markets Act carves private-company securities out of its licensing perimeter—compliant private offers need no licensed intermediary.
Private companies only, at most 100 identified offerees per raise, no public advertising, and we never handle client money.
Under legal review. Brazil, Mexico, Israel, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Georgia are working through our regulatory review now. We list a market only once we’re confident this model is lawful there.
Founders in these markets can join the waitlist through the application form—we’ll reach out the moment their market clears.
Where we don’t operate
The United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Turkey, South Africa, and Chile all require broker-dealer or equivalent registration for success-fee fundraising intermediation—so we don’t take clients incorporated there and we don’t introduce companies to investors in those jurisdictions.
This reflects Dojo Fund’s own regulatory review as of July 2026 and is not legal advice—please confirm with counsel in your own jurisdiction before you raise. The list will grow as further markets clear our review.
Your partner team
Dojo is an operator-led process, not an anonymous marketplace. A managing partner runs every raise personally.
California ↔ India
Managing Partner
Technical founder and operator across healthcare, consumer platforms, crypto, and seed-stage investing, with operating roots in California and Bangalore.
Read Rishi’s backgroundManaging Partner
Technology operator with two decades in Bangalore, focused on engineering architecture, team design, and getting early-stage companies investor-ready.
Questions, answered
Still wondering whether your situation is unusual? It probably is. That is what the first conversation is for.
No, and we’re deliberate about it. We provide fundraising support and introductions only in markets where that activity does not require a securities licence. We do not operate in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, or other jurisdictions where success-fee fundraising intermediation requires registration.
In the US, receiving transaction-based compensation for introducing investors generally triggers SEC/FINRA broker-dealer registration. Rather than pass those compliance costs on as a $20k/month retainer, we serve founders in markets where a low-cost model is lawful.
Everything except the win: pitch and deck refinement, valuation guidance, building your investor target list, running outreach, and managing warm introductions. The 7% success fee covers the win.
Only when investment funds are actually received by your company from an investor we introduced. No close, no fee—and the retainer you’ve paid is all you’ll ever owe.
Never. Funds flow directly from the investor to your company’s bank account under your own documents. We never hold client funds or securities.
No—and you should be suspicious of anyone who does. We vet applications carefully and only take on raises we believe we can deliver, but every round ultimately depends on your company and the market.
Angel investors and venture funds who invest at pre-seed and seed, matched to your sector, stage, and geography. We route interest to your calendar; you always decide who joins your cap table.
Apply for capital raising
Tell us enough to judge the fit. No pitch deck yet? Apply anyway—getting you deck-ready is step one of the process.
Every application goes to a managing partner, not a form bucket.
Application received
A Dojo partner will review your application personally and reply within a few days if there is a potential fit.