Block Dojo to empower Ugandan entrepreneur with over £100,000

Block Dojo was well represented during the Blockchain Innovation Program (BPI), Uganda, by Jay Gujaral, the Managing Director, UK Satoshi Block Dojo. He explained that Dojo was focused on “democratizing knowledge,” and learning.

As a blockchain incubator, Dojo has a 12 weeks series of training for upcoming startups, explained Jay, to help build their ideas and more importantly turn theories of building successful businesses into real-world use cases.

The winner of Cohort 1 of the maiden edition of the Blockchain Innovation Program, Uganda, will be traveling to London to attend this 12 weeks of intense training as promised by the Dojo team.

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£10,000 in cash, and £100,000 in services

During the training at Dojo, the winner of Cohort 1 will be “put through an intense program, we’ll get you your first mentors, advisors,” Jay explained on a live zoom call. “We’ll teach you the basics of financial modeling.”

The winner will also be taught how to develop a company, and the basics of financial analysis, and will be granted access to premium blockchain services like development, and product design.

In the last 8 months, Dojo has helped train 17 teams through the 12 weeks incubator program with £500,000 raised altogether.

Dojo will support the winner of the BPI Cohort 1 with funding of £10,000 in cash and £100,000 in services. Jay also elaborated that as part of their commitment to seeing the business idea of the winner flourish, all leaders of Dojo will have a stake in the startup while Dobo will have a 10% stake in it.