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The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is a government initiative designed to encourage investment in early-stage startups by offering tax reliefs to investors. Understanding how these tax reliefs work can help investors maximize their benefits. Also see our comprehensive SEIS/EIS Guide....
Here is our step-by-step guide to onboarding on the platform as an investor....
If you have an existing large captable or you've got lots of investors to invite to the platform as part of a funding round, then we can automate this process to avoid doing it manually line by line....
It is possible to drop one or more of the following onboarding steps on a per-investor basis:...
Yes, certain family members can invest in a company under the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) or Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) during a "friends and family" funding round. However, not all family members are eligible....
Founders considering external funding sources often worry about the impact of investment, particularly the potential loss of control over a business they have spent years building....
All Documents on Founder Catalyst are produced in PDF format, however, we do understand that you may be required to provide copies in Word format; there are a couple of ways you can do this....
We produce a set of ten document types that will be required by both you and any potential investors as follows:...
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