Eight DAOs and collectives supporting web3 builders
Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing roughly 70 web3 leaders on the Crypto Altruism Podcast. Throughout these conversations, there has been one key theme that has consistently emerged. Many of these incredible leaders first got involved in web3 because they were excited about the technology. Ultimately, however, the reason they stayed was because of the incredible community in web3.
One of the many reasons as to why that they loved the sense of community in web3 is because of the high level of support and opportunities to uplift that exist in web3. This includes community circles, incubators, granting opportunities, and resources for builders those looking to make their mark in web3.
In this blog post, we highlight eight collectives and DAOs supporting web3 builders with education, funding, networking, and support.
1. Seed Club – Seed Club is a network of DAO builders that offers a 12-week intensive accelerator program where they help builders prepare for capital and community formation milestones. To date, they have run four cohorts of this program, with 60+ alumni DAOs including Refraction, Cabin, and more!
2. ReFi DAO Founders Circles – ReFI DAO offers a series of founder-led support circles for web3 builders working in the areas of Climate, DEIJ, and DeSci. The program runs for 8 weeks, culminating after Gitcoin Grants Round 16. In their last cohort, they supported 72 Founders across 11 circles, with active Gitcoin Grants among the Founders reaching $432,000.
3. Gitcoin Grants – Gitcoin offers a grant funding program for web3 Public Good projects leveraging Quadratic Funding, which allocates a higher level of matching funds to the most popular programs as supported by the community. In their latest round of Funding, which wrapped up in September 2022, roughly $4.4M in funding was distributed to public good projects.
4. Meta Cartel – MetaCartel Ventures is a for-profit DAO that funds early-stage Decentralized Applications (DApps). MetaCartel uses a community-oriented approaching to investing, with investments being directed by members of the DAO. They also offer MCON, a conference focused on bringing together builders in web3 for “valuable conversations, learnings, and experimental growth all about DAOs.” To date, some of the web3 projects supported include ARTXV, wgmiDAO, Kokonut Network, and more.
5. Web3 University – Web3 University is “bringing together organizations from across web3 to create the largest community learning blockchain education.” They offer a series of free courses including a 10-week self-paced program to become an advanced web3 developer, and a course on building your first NFT dApp.
6. wgmi – wgmi was built with the mission of “educating up-and-coming community professionals and leaders in the Web3 space.” This includes a Community Manager Bootcamp, a robust knowledge hub for web3 builders, and a Discord server dedicated to helping onboard the next generation of web3 leaders.
7. LearnWeb3DAO – LearnWeb3DAO has a goal of building “a grassroots organization that creates fully-fledged developers and brings them into the ecosystem. We advocate for women, people of colour, and other underrepresented groups in tech, with the mission of creating as many Web3 developers as possible.” They offer a series of free courses based on experience level, and maintain a community directory of web3 developers.
8. Web3 Academy – Web3 Academy is dedicated to guiding entrepreneurs, businesses, and creators into web3. This includes their “Web3 Rabbit Hole” course, a free course on the “foundational components of Web3 so you can confidently build, work, use or invest in the fastest growing technology in history,” as well as a Discord for builders, and a podcast.
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