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Simplifying investments in startups for time conscious investors

FounderCatalyst reduces legal complexity and shortens negotiation cycles, making your startup investments faster and easier.

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Your investment journey can be
made easier and faster.

As investors ourselves, we understand that fundraising can be time-consuming and unnecessarily complex for investors. At FounderCatalyst, we've streamlined and optimised the entire process - reducing admin, improving transparency, and ensuring legal clarity - so you can spend less time on paperwork and more time building meaningful relationships with founders.
1
Due diligence
Conducting due diligence on startups is often time consuming and costly.
2
Documentation
Lengthy legal documentation cycles delay your investments.
3
Security
Efficient access to commercial details and secure document storage is crucial.
4
Seamless
You need a seamless process to expedite investments.
5
Streamline
FounderCatalyst helps reduce your legal and commercial overhead, giving you more time to focus on your investments.
6
Cost
Ensure most of your investment powers the startup rather than paying expensive fees.

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FounderCatalyst ensures a time efficient investment experience

Investing in startups should be straightforward. FounderCatalyst manages the funding and legal processes end to end, so you can focus on making sound investment decisions without administrative delays.

Your investor journey on FounderCatalyst in 4 easy steps:

  1. Invitation : Founders define the round and invite investors to join, enabling a structured, clear process from the outset.
  2. Sign up: Follow the invitation to create your account and sign NDA, FCA investor disclaimer and term sheet.
  3. Review: Review the founder's documents and negotiate, with cycles of changes as necessary.
  4. Success: Agree terms and sign electronically.
  5. Admin: We'll issue you a share certificate and, if required, help the founder with SEIS/EIS compliance and certificates.

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Why investors trust FounderCatalyst

Why choose FounderCatalyst for your investments:

  • No fees for investors to sign up or use the platform.
  • Startups on FounderCatalyst are Investment ready: this reduces your due diligence time.
  • All legal and commercial documents are securely stored in one place.
  • Dynamic document updates keep legal cycles efficient.
  • Many startups on FounderCatalyst are elligible for SEIS/EIS - so your investment goes further.

Heartbeat: Stay on track with investor updates

Heartbeat ensures you're kept in the loop, giving founders a simple, consistent cadence and ready-to-use templates for investor updates. You stay informed, engaged, and confident - while your Information Rights are reliably fulfilled.

Learn about investor updates

What documents are produced?

The platform will produce and automatically populate the following legal documents:

  1. Initial Term Sheet
  2. Founder Service Agreement
  3. IP Assignment Letter
  4. Subscription and Shareholders' Agreement
  5. Articles of Association
  6. Final Term Sheet, summarising all key points agreed with confirmed investors
  7. Resolutions for both shareholders and directors
  8. Disclosure Letter (with the disclosure bundle also managed on the online platform)
  9. Share Certificates
  10. We also support the founder with SEIS/EIS compliance and certificates

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