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**What Is DAO Maker (DAO)?**

DAO Maker is a platform that aims to redefine venture capital for the masses, by providing scalable technologies and funding support to tokenized startups.

This venture capital fund was first conceptualized in 2017. It has since evolved to create low turnout frameworks, which has enabled many retail investors and individuals to become active in venture capital. When funding through DAO Maker, the risks for both parties – the investors and the startups – are significantly reduced.

The DAO Pad is a multi-investment platform that allows DAO Maker’s community members to stake DAO tokens into the Venture Yield, which allows them to participate in early public rounds of funding, thereby incentivizing the most loyal and active members. Furthermore, the Venture Yield provides up to 22% APR paid out in $DAO to its stakers.

DAO Maker energizes the community and encourages them to participate in the progress and expansion of the projects hosted on the platform through social mining. Social mining allows startups to leverage token holders to become successful decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). This improves the economic output of token holders, reduces free-ridership issues and turns flippers into holders. It also offers various risk levels to accommodate a wide range of risk appetites, thereby significantly expanding the audience.

**Who Are the Founders of DAO Maker?**

DAO Maker started with two people – Christoph Zaknun and Hatu Sheikh. Later, Nicholas Pelecanos joined to manage the Market Making services.
Before creating DAO Maker, Christoph had previously studied mechatronics. However, he was a medical student at the time of the invention. Currently, the team consists of more than 20 people.

Christoph Zaknun, the current CEO of DAO Maker, is the founder of the company. Following a successful foray into the world of cryptocurrencies and investments in Bitcoin Cash, he began concentrating his efforts on learning and developing blockchain technology. This culminated in the creation of ICO Dog – a platform for investing in pre-sales. Following his initial success with the platform, he met Hatu Sheikh, who he co-founded DAO Maker with in 2018. As a CEO, Chris keeps the company glued together. He manages the company's risk profile, optimizes the capital allocation, project expansions gives the vision of the firm, and maintains proper communication.

Hatu began co-managing a $3.4M county budget in Long Island in 2016. In 2017, he worked at the American University in Dubai. In 2018, he began his career in the blockchain sector. Hatu joined the blockchain space in January 2018 and initially marketed clients of AmaZix, but soon switched to marketing clients of Block72. By the end of 2018, he launched his own marketing agency for various wallets, exchanges, and late-stage projects. In 2019, he joined ICO DOG, a fundraise marketing agency. In 2020, he co-founded, with Christoph, DAO Maker, the blockchain accelerator. In 2021, he became an advisor to a roster of DeFi and gaming.

Nicholas, CFO at DAO Maker, first joined the blockchain space in 2015 when as a University student he started QUTTIC a student trading and investing club focused on Cryptocurrencies. By mid 2017 he had grown the club into the largest student trading club in Australia. Due to the demand from outside of Universities in October of 2017 Nicholas started STIA a cryptocurrency trading company advising HNW and companies on primary and secondary market transactions. In 2019 STIA partnered with NEM ecosystem where Nicholas and his team drastically increased daily trading volumes of the XEM token, helped launch the XYM token and over saw the management of a billion dollar treasury. In Mid 2021 Nicholas was offered the CFO position in DAO Maker, inspired by the rapid growth and innovative culture of the company Nicholas accepted. Within this roll Nicholas now advises several DAO Maker ecosystem projects on treasury and trading related matters.

**What Makes DAO Maker Unique?**

DAO Maker is built to serve retail investors looking to grow their capital but cannot afford to risk large portions of their money. Over $29 million of funds were raised on the platform for companies, which has a combined market capitalization of over $2 billion.

DAO Maker token sale framework is called Strong Holders Offering (SHOs): It is a cash-flow-positive and self-funded company since late 2018, crossing $32M in revenue in 2021 from technology product offerings, consulting services, incubations and enterprise offerings

DAO Maker is considered a complete solution, especially in crowdfunding, community building and blockchain marketing. It features all the supportive resources and technology one would expect. Let’s take a look at some of the services:

**Marketing:** Clients can take advantage of various marketing services provided by DAO Maker; some of these marketing include SEO, influencer marketing, guerrilla marketing and paid promotions. In addition, the platform collaborates with the leading Key Opinion Leaders to give its clients widespread exposure.

**Community:** Strong communities provide growth benefits to a project while also acting as a defense against the project’s reputation being tarnished. DAO Maker offers vital services such as consistent and high-quality content, story creation, explainer videos, community management and more. The aim of these is to assist blockchain-based systems in the development and expansion of their communities.

**The architecture of tokens:** In light of the importance of tokenomics, DAO Maker has entered the field to play a significant role in the project’s tokenomics. It provides a comprehensive token metric that considers the economic and monetary policy of the underlying token in addition to other factors.
Public SHOs: DAO Maker is the first launchpad to offer public launches, which allows users to most participate in early project without holding any $DAO tokens. Anybody with a USD value above $2500 on his wallet across all EVM chains is able to participate.