Housing and office space
Companies live in residency housing and work from dedicated office space for the duration of the program, without paying rent to Dojo Fund.
India-operated companies only
A one-month residency for founders building in India.
Dojo Fund India houses selected companies, gives them free office space, and surrounds them with hands-on mentorship from operators, technical builders, and investors. We take 1% equity and compress months of network building into one focused residency.
- Length
- 1 month
- Equity
- 1%
- Focus
- India
Residency model
Live together, work together, and leave with a sharper company.
The residency is designed for concentrated execution. We remove housing and workspace friction, then bring the company into a daily operating rhythm with partner office hours, technical and product review, customer strategy, and investor preparation.
The program
What selected companies receive
Intensive partner mentorship
Rishi Sachdev and Vishal Mercan work directly with founders on product, hiring, technical execution, positioning, fundraising readiness, and operating cadence.
Network acceleration
We open our operator, founder, and investor network to help companies find customers, advisors, capital, and sharper market feedback.
Investor preparation
Teams leave with a stronger story, a more defensible plan, and warm investor paths where there is a clear fit.
Who it is for
Companies being run in India
Dojo Fund India is for founders who are operating in India, learning from Indian customers, and building companies that can use dense mentorship and fast network access.
- Pre-seed and seed-stage teams with a live product or urgent build velocity.
- Founders who want direct operator feedback, not passive programming.
- Companies where one month of concentrated access can change the trajectory.
Managing partners
Operators who work directly with founders
Managing Partner
Rishi Sachdev
Rishi is a technical founder and operator with experience across healthcare, consumer, crypto, telecom infrastructure, and early-stage investing. He is the CEO and technical founder of TalkDoc, an AI-powered behavioral telehealth platform serving Medicaid patients in California, where he has led product, engineering, clinical operations, and AI tooling.
His operating background includes Google Fiber, Coinbase, Rooster, Leftover, Adstage, EcoinClub, Bay Area Doctors / Csolutions Int., and Thinkware International. Across these roles he has built software platforms, growth systems, healthcare staffing infrastructure, founder tools, and products that moved from prototype to funded company.
Rishi studied Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley and has been an angel investor and advisor to pre-seed and seed-stage companies since 2014. His India-relevant work includes Thinkware International in Napa and Bangalore, where he helped scale a software distribution business and developed an early plan for an India-linked education concept.
Managing Partner
Vishal Mercan
Vishal has been working in the technology hub of Bangalore, India, for the past twenty years. He cofounded Thinkware International with Rishi Sachdev, and helped scale the company to $1,000 a day in profit, totally bootstrapped.
Apply
Send a concise company note.
Include the company name, founder names, where the company operates in India, what you are building, current traction, and why one month inside Dojo Fund India would matter.