DAO Maker is an Ethereum-based platform focusing on increasing retail participation in venture funding for blockchain startups. DAO is the ticker of the project's native ERC-20 token. DAO is used for governance, staking and investing in startups.
Due to the inherent risks of venture capital, retail participation in venture investment is barely 1%. However, DAO Maker's flagship product, DAO Pad, aims to change this. DAO Pad is a multi-investment platform that allows retail investors to participate in early-stage startups with controlled risks.
Additionally, DAO Maker offers pluggable software-as-a-service, or SaaS, solutions for startups to help them with support and growth, including incubation, operations and advisory services.
DAO Maker continuously innovates to provide scalability solutions for its clients. For example, it has developed technologies like YieldShield and Social Mining, a SaaS solution that allows tokenized startups to create decentralized community ecosystems.
With 75,000 retail investors signing up on the platform in 2020, DAO Maker is now one of the largest ecosystems of retail investors.
DAO price and tokenomics
DAO has a dynamic supply of 312 million tokens. Of the maximum DAO supply, 20% of tokens are allocated to the team, 25% are kept for sale, and 5% are reserved for advisors and future teams.
DAO Maker has dedicated 14% of DAO tokens for mergers and acquisitions, and 9% of DAO tokens will be utilized to fuel ecosystem growth. In addition, customer incentives and a DAO-managed foundation get a 10% share of tokens. The remaining 7% of DAO tokens will go to the project's foundation.
The promise of providing retail investors access to early-stage startups with controlled risk levels drives the demand for DAO and, consequently, the DAO price.
About the founders
DAO Maker was founded in 2018 by its current CEO, Christoph Zaknun, and CTO, Giorgio Marciano. Zaknun facilitated $100 million in funding for another project via an initial coin offering. Marciano has 15 years of experience in technology development, including working on a 15 million euro international project funded by the European Union.
DAO Maker has a team of over 20 people, with experts from fields like business development, cloud computing, marketing and blockchain.
DAO Maker has raised capital from notable angel investors such as Fantom, Pello Capital and Woodstock.
