How Block Dojo — the UK's leading blockchain accelerator — standardised legal workflows for 24+ founders, saving thousands in fees while achieving a 100% SEIS advance assurance success rate.

100% SEIS success 24+ founders supported £1,495 fixed fee per founder

Gareth Hawkins

Investment Director, Block Dojo

24+

Founders

100%

SEIS success

Cohorts

About Block Dojo

Block Dojo helps founders bring blockchain business dreams to life. As a global blockchain incubator, it accounted for 24% of UK blockchain start-up fundraises in 2022. Each year, 30+ founders join the Dojo for an intense 12-week programme that takes them from idea to incorporation, through financial modelling, MVP development, and pitch deck creation — all the way to their first pre-seed funding round.

Every founder receives an initial £10,000 cash investment and full immersion into a programme delivering more than £150,000 worth of support. But one critical step remained a challenge: putting legal paperwork in place to enable investment. That's where FounderCatalyst came in.

“Before FounderCatalyst not all our founders had SEIS Advance Assurance in place by the time investor week arrived. Ever since then, our success rate has been 100%.”

Gareth Hawkins

Investment Director, Block Dojo

How FounderCatalyst supports Block Dojo

Six ways FounderCatalyst transformed the programme's legal and fundraising workflows.

Instant data rooms

Within one day, every founder received an intelligent data room to build and manage legal documentation, fundraising paperwork, and capitalisation tables.

100% SEIS Advance Assurance

Before FounderCatalyst, not all founders had SEIS AA in place by investor week. Since partnering, the success rate has been 100%.

Hands-on founder guidance

Co-founder Sam Simpson ran webinars, answered individual questions at every stage, and supported founders as they iterated their value propositions.

Standardised documentation

All legal documentation was customised to each founder's brand while aligning with Block Dojo's investment terms and FunderBeam requirements.

Massive cost savings

Founders previously paid up to £8k at other platforms to raise £200k. FounderCatalyst's all-inclusive package costs just £1,495+VAT — a fraction of the price.

Investor-ready paperwork

Standardised documents familiar to angels, VC funds, and SEIS syndicates — so investors can come in and invest without creating their own base documentation.

How it happened

From onboarding to ongoing cohort support — here's how the partnership unfolded.

Day 1

Onboarded Cohort 3 in one day

FounderCatalyst was introduced as Cohort 3 came on board. Within a single day, every founder had an intelligent data room set up and ready to use.

Weeks 1–8

100% SEIS AA success rate achieved

With FounderCatalyst guiding every application, all founders had SEIS Advance Assurance confirmed before investor week — up from a partial success rate previously.

Weeks 4–10

Documentation aligned across partners

Legal documents were customised to respect Block Dojo's investment terms.

Ongoing

24+ founders supported across 3 cohorts

Cohorts 3, 4, and 5 all used FounderCatalyst, standardising the process and saving thousands in fees. Portfolio company HQNFTs secured full SEIS investment within one week of leaving the Dojo.

Fastest-invested Dojo graduate

Block Dojo portfolio company BlockRank Ltd (trading as HQNFTs) secured their full SEIS allocation from an investor within one week of leaving the Dojo — the fastest-invested graduate to date. All investments were executed through FounderCatalyst.

"FounderCatalyst was a breath of fresh air, saving us both time and money in closing our SEIS pre-seed round."

— Divya Prashanth & Janine Miles, HQNFTs