What is DAO Maker (DAO)?
DAO Maker is building the go-to platform for retail venture investing in shares and tokens.
Providing low-risk participation frameworks is essential to reach global retail in venture capital, as most retail crypto users cannot afford to risk large portions of their money. By providing an opportunity to everyday people to safely grow their own capital, we aim to improve the quality of millions of lives, while simultaneously enabling a new funding source for innovation worldwide.
Over the past 3 years, DAO Maker has grown one of the largest ecosystems of quality retail crypto users; just in 2020, our platform signed on more than 75,000 retail users interested in early-stage ventures; lately this figure reached 200,000+ KYC'ed users. At the same time, we have been building a suite of services to attract high-quality startups to join the ecosystem and be accelerated in a decentralised, safe, and autonomous environment. Some of the industry's most notable developments currently use the technology solutions provided within our startup growth toolkit. To date, the demand for the products has well exceeded our ability to manage on-boarding flow, which is why we are currently working on permission-less, self-managed versions of our technology products.
DAO Maker's track record has defied market cycles. We have worked with projects to design solutions to raise capital in bear markets, supported enterprise blockchains to generate new product portfolios for growth, and created technology solutions that expand community empowerment in tokenised developments. Our consulting and technology services' revenue has been funnelled to our primary goal: creating a globally compliant fundraising platform for both crowdfunding and tokens.
Our approach to a fundraising platform is distinct from other platforms that target venture funding. We don't just connect retail venture funds to startups in need of capital. Instead, we create a platform that incorporates pluggable solutions to the problems early-stage ventures face after fundraising, alongside creating venture investment structures that make participation far safer for retail.
DAO Maker is on track to change the way personal finance works by breaking its boundaries. While retail or household portfolios have made record participation into the primary market, encouraged by a global desire for individuals to seek financial independence by putting their money to work, retail involvement in venture funding is bleak.
What is DAO Maker (DAO) marketing strategy?
DAO Maker is a company that has successfully operated in the funding, tech consulting, and product strategy segments of the cryptocurrency market for over three years.
DAO Maker benefits from the existing base of over 200,000 cryptocurrency users signed up to our current platform. This massive base of cryptocurrency holders, who are also interested in venture capital, is a powerful go-to-market.
While the existing base provides the critical mass needed to catapult this venture, the project aims to tap beyond the crypto market, and onboard new retail, by offering not a mere 8%-10% on DeFi and CeFi involvement, but a 10x to 100x multiple of this.
- 10% of principal (interest on principal) directed at a startup that achieves 10x is a 100% return on capital.
- 10% of principal (interest on principal) directed at a startup that achieves 100x is a 1,000% return on capital.
It is the opportunity of exposure to such venture capital returns that are necessary to capture the interest of mass retail. The current sustainable state of DeFi and CeFi returns has been 8% to 10%, a return that is already accessible in traditional finance, per the rolling 10-year return of the S&P500.
8% to 10% return on capital is not exciting, but a possible 1,000% through exposure to venture capital is exciting. It is also the only way to sustainably offer the potential of high accrued value in DeFi/CeFi. DAO Maker stands at the forefront of structuring such products and then targeting them for mass access.
FIAT tie-in with the Euro was committed earlier this year. We recently achieved the ability to legally support FIAT purchases on the platform. The company intends to acquire licenses for supporting USD, CAD, HKD, SGD, and AED as-well, with specific countries having exposure to tokens, and some countries having access to both per legal support.
What makes DAO Maker (DAO) unique?
Retail makes up less than 1% of the annual $300B venture capital market, even though early-stage investments are the leading wealth generator, as growth prospects are becoming increasingly limited by the time new companies listed on the market.
Personal finance is witnessing a golden era. Portfolio management has quickly evolved from a service provided by brokers and dedicated asset managers into an app on peoples’ smart-phones.
Fractional real estate, fractional stocks, tap-and-launch options, and virtually every other major asset is already easily in the hands of retail through simple apps. Venture capital, though, remains elusive for most retail. Yet, it is arguably the greatest tool for wealth creation.
Venture capital is the next frontier in personal finance. The market is currently either crypto native or select mass retail that participates in crowdfunding. It is a functionally flawed approach as the current risk scale is beyond the capacity of most retail.
DAO Maker brings the simplicity and ease of participation that retail seeks to venture capital. Simultaneously, the downside-capped nature of the venture investment opportunities it opens aligns with the risk-averse nature of retail.
What is DAO Maker (DAO) roadmap?
DAO Maker (DAO) revenue streams
DAO Maker is a cash-flow-positive and self-funded company since late 2018.
DAO Maker crossed $1.7M in 2020 revenue, from technology product offerings, consulting services, incubations, and enterprise offerings.
dTeams
- Atlas: Subscription model
- Express: Percentage of volume
Managed Funding - Tokens
- Percentage of raise
- Percentage of token supply
Platform for Compliant Raise - Tokens
- Percentage of raise and/or tokens
- Flat Compliance Fee
Platform for Compliant Raise
- Percentage of raise
- Percentage of shares
- Flat Compliance Fee
Services
- Lending: 5% fee on interest paid on margin used for DYCO
VB Exchange
- Token: trading fee
- Shares (accredited only): 1% - 2% fee
How does DAO Maker (DAO) work?
DAO Maker has been working on launching a single platform that offers venture funding in tiered risk levels. In the meantime, we have put our theory of retail being excited to participate in venture funding if the risk level can be reduced.
The first DYCO, which was essentially a risk-capped venture opportunity, quickly raised $3.5M from retail and then hit extreme oversubscription. The DYCO captured market participation at a time when token funding was at an all-time low, and most VCs had told us the raise would go dry.
This was before the DeFi hype-rally. However, we were confident that the problem was not a lack of retail interest, but a need for risk reduction to fit the risk tolerance levels of most retail. The DYCO's success is proof that capping risk in venture capital is the pathway to bringing mass retail interest into venture funding.
We are launching a FIAT-enabled compliant platform for venture funding, both crowdfunding and tokens. It involves tiered levels of risk to cater to the varying levels of risk appetite that retail has. The platform will include:
- Venture bill for near-zero risk, but with reduced rewards
- Dynamic Coin Offerings for capped risk while maintaining most of the reward
- Refundable Strong Holder Offerings & Strong Holder Offerings for public sales of tokens that have successfully closed a private round
- Standard Offerings for token issuance without any protection, for retail with maximum risk appetite
The platform will support FDIC-insured stablecoins and FIAT, with the first one being the Euro. User access to shares or token offerings will depend on their jurisdiction, but most countries will be able to access both.
Our intent is to create a single platform that offers retail early stage exposure to startups that are working on the future of everything from finance and insurance to healthcare and transportation. Some of these are best if issued with shares, while others are best if issued with tokens. While their nature as early stage ventures will carry risk, the framework with which the platform will conduct the fundraise will enable varying levels of downside protection.
The DYCO already has some popularity within the cryptocurrency space.The Dynamic Coin Offerings allows a startup to raise funds while holding them accountable by giving DYCO participants the right to claim refunds at specific milestone dates. This means the project has to perform at a level that keeps their community convinced in the project's prospects and longevity.
The rSHO, or refundable Strong Holder Offering, is a funding focused at seeding projects with communities if they have filled private rounds with VCs.
The Venture bill is going to be our new flagship product, an almost risk-free investment for risk-averse crypto users.
DAO Maker not only offers structured a funding platform, but very valuable solutions for community development and governance:
Social Mining: it allows companies to categorise acquired holders, and to further vet, train, and deploy these users as skilled contributors to the ecosystem.
dTeams: is Social Mining on Steroids. A direct plug in for companies yearning for rapid progress, resembling the ideal infrastructure boost and allows easy monitoring through it's universally applicable CRM approach.
Staking 2.0 : A permission-less toolkit, which allows tokenised startups to monitor and grow the secondary market involvement of their users. It is powered by our chain analysis tools, with the addition of new resources that make participation in liquidity mining safer and free of smart contract risk.
Elrond, Ecomi, NEM and Avalanche are some of the examples of how DAO Maker fosters community and valuation growth through its different solutions.