Startups

Chainforest curates a diverse and cohesive ecosystem of exceptional individuals to learn, explore and build web3 together. Managing SLCF. SLCF is a seed-stage web3 VC fund managed by Chainforest, founded by Amit Mukherjee. Incubated Superlayer.

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Amit Mukherjee

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Utopia Labs

EnterDAO, building a gateway to the metaverse. It is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) building products to enable new markets within the Web3 metaverse economy.

EnterDAO

Coordinape is a scalable & permissionless platform for decentralized operations built by Yearn for the demanding needs of our community & emerging DeFi projects.

Coordinape allows decentralized teams and DAO’s without top down management or HR to autonomously allocate and reward contributors with funds, all done via sybil resistant social graphs. The project is currently still closed source, however the team are actively looking to engage with other DAO’s and organizations.

What is Coordinape, simply put anyone wishing to contribute to yearn (or their own DAO) can register (currently using github details), every epoch (for yearn 1 month), you can select the team members you have been working and interacting with, like yearn contributors.

Now each member has a set amount of allocation points, and can allocate points to the contributors they have worked with based on what they think of their contributions.

Now simply, during the epoch, yearn earns Y amount in fees / contributions / rewards / etc, this accrues to the Coordinate contributor contract, at the end of the epoch contributors can claim their grant based on their contributions in the epoch.

Coordinape

DMM DAO, DeFi Money Market DAO, acts as a bridge between Ethereum digital assets and real-world assets allowing holders to earn interest completely on-chain.

DeFi Money Market (DMM) is building a vibrant global community to provide a decentralized, transparent and permissionless environment to empower all citizens to once again earn interest on their currency backed by real-world assets represented on-chain. DeFi Money Market (DMM) acts as a bridge between Ethereum digital assets and real-world assets, allowing digital asset holders to earn interest completely on-chain in the way they are accustomed to, but driven by a secure and uncorrelated basket of real-world assets. The DMM protocol operates in a simple and transparent manner, enabling anyone to readily understand it as well as verify the veracity of the underlying assets and collateralization.

DMM DAO

Quidli is building solutions that drive more inclusion in the future of work, starting with making employee equity distribution easier. We're big proponents of enabling doers to become owners. And so today our focus is on helping small businesses manage and share their equity with their workers without wasting a lot of time and or money. 

Quidli is founded by a team of entrepreneurs with backgrounds in corporate law & finance and in tech startups (at Y Combinator, Techstars, and Rocket Internet companies). We understand all too well the limitations imposed on sharing equity today due to legacy systems and technologies. Our vision is to offer ownership management services for the next generation workforce.

Quidli is a micro-incentive rewards application for teams and individuals alike, a low cost, high reward project for the Ecosystem at large: It will offer a new way for teams and individuals to compensate one another quickly and easily. On NEAR, Quidli will increase the scope of usability of the $NEAR token.

Once NEAR tokens are added, Quidli will be able to integrate with present and future dApps as well as existing DAO infrastructure to add micro-rewards as an ‘option’ for ecosystem development going forward.

As a service, Quidli will offer a beneficial opportunity for new teams, guilds and DAOs in the NEAR ecosystem to compensate and reward different team members or contributors.

Micro-transactions for low fees, demonstrate the capacity of the NEAR blockchain to quickly and cheaply handle low cost transactions. Using Quidli as a case-study, the Ecosystem will be able to recruit other like minded projects into the future.

Quidli

FingerprintsDAO, a collector, curator and producer of fingerprints of the blockchain: smart contract art.

We curate and collect artworks that use smart contracts in exceptionally creative ways. We bring together artists and builders to produce fingerprints of the blockchain.

FingerprintsDAO

CSP DAO utilizes a decentralized approach to fundraising with dedicated marketing, development and research analysis.

We are community-driven and offer fair contribution rights to all investors. Our model gives equally shared allocation to NEBO token holders. We've tackled the gas war issue and it is now easy to invest in top projects with a capped allocation based on the number of NEBO tokens held.

The reach of CSP network goes way above anything the financial world has seen before. We support the projects we invest in by providing assistance with marketing, community growth, advisory along with access to our vast industry network and resources.

By combining the best elements of decentralized finance with fundraising, CSP DAO offers a unique blockchain system designed to address fair investment rights.

CSP DAO

Blackpool is a new fund operating within the NFT industry: managing a range of assets from sports cards to game items to digital art.

It is the first decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) built solely for NFT gaming and trading. Our strategies will be based on our long-term passion for gaming and art, as we combine professional data analytics and machine learning to provide the best returns for our users.

We will lead the way in providing financial derivatives to digital marketplaces, by offering services such as asset valuation indices, leasing, insurance mechanisms, and more.

BlackPool firmly believes in the long term value of scarce digital assets, and understand that a high level of specialisation in each NFT platform is required to maximise value creation. Therefore, we will always seek to employ expertise to improve our performance on each platform.

BlackPool generates cashflows and accrues value for the DAO by:

taking arbitrage opportunities between primary and secondary markets;
loaning out assets;
buying and selling assets based on news;
scouting for assets that will accrue in value and buying early;
in-game competition.

BlackPool is built by members of Stake Capital, Fabric Ventures and Stake DAO.

Blackpool

DAO Maker, Creators of Social Mining: The most advanced resource for organizing human capital in decentralized ecosystems.

We are pioneering organized decentralized ecosystems that efficiently leverage human capital with suitable value and benefits for blockchain & crypto projects and their community. The DAO Maker builds an ecosystem that enables any project’s community to effectively leverage their mutual resources for the betterment of their token. Each community members project-enhancing actions are rewarded based on the value-add assessed by the community of token holders. DAO Maker’s flagship is Social Mining, a system that offers the most advanced stem into a DAO. Social mining allows a project’s community to become a thriving self-managed organization of active investors. Whenever a token holder makes actions that advance the success of the project, the community votes on the value he/she deserves for that action. Such a system combats the socioeconomic Free-Loader Problem.

DAO Maker

DoraFactory, Build an open DAO-as-a-Service infrastructure for on-chain governance and open source ventures. Backed by DoraHacks.

Building robust infrastructures and killer DApps, developer communities are crucial building blocks of every blockchain ecosystem. Yet, present-day blockchain projects often lack lasting mechanisms and effective toolkits to manage and incentivize their open source developer communities. We believe that this problem can be solved by a crypto-native solution: a programmable DAO-as-a-Service infrastructure specialized in developer community management, curation and incentivization. Dora Factory provides an infrastructure with features that allow blockchain ventures to fully realize the potential of the hacker community. Designed as a layer-2 infrastructure on Polkadot and Ethereum, Dora Factory provides solutions to all Polkadot-native, Ethereum native projects and beyond.

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