# DAO Maker

> DAO Maker is a VC fund in Belle Vue backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 55 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Belle Vue, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 55
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/daomaker/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TheDaoMaker?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
- Website: https://daomaker.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DAO-Maker-107069907301403/?ref=page_internal

DAO Maker is a VC fund in Belle Vue focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. DAO Maker creates growth technologies and funding frameworks for startups, while simultaneously reducing risks for investors

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$4.8M |
| Pre-Seed | $500k–$3.4M |
| Initial Coin Offering | $700k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 27 | 49% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 9 | 16% |
| Gaming | 8 | 15% |
| Finance | 7 | 13% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 33 | 60% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 8 | 15% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 5 | 9% |
| Singapore | 5 | 9% |
| Vietnam | 3 | 5% |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 5% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |

19 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christoph Zaknun | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christoph-zaknun |
| Giorgio Marciano | Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giorgio-marciano-154f |
| Malte Christensen | Chief Sales Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/malte-christensen |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tea-Fi | Tea-Fi is an all-in-one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that turns complexity into opportunity. | $850K | Initial Coin Offering | Feb 14, 2025 |  |
| web3intelligence | web3intelligence is a digital assets platform leveraging the combined power of digital assets, Big Data, and artificial intelligence (AI) to help institutions and retailers build wealth in the decentralized finance (DeFi) world. | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 25, 2024 |  |
| Finceptor | Finceptor is a capital, liquidity, and community bootstrapping platform natively built for Web3 protocols to access token financing at pre-token, token launch, and post-token stages. Finceptor offers token launch and Liquidity-as-a-Service (LaaS) products, enabling crypto projects to issue liquidity vaults, tokens, and bonds to access liquidmarkets and communities of real backers. | $700K | Initial Coin Offering | Dec 18, 2023 |  |
| Hackless | Hackless is a blockchain security platform. It produces novel security solutions like Wallet Rescue and Sentinel. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Edu3Labs | Edu3Labs combines education and blockchain technology to create a platform where content creators, learners, and NFE token holders can all benefit. Edu3Labs is a new and innovative way to make learning more engaging and rewarding for everyone.Also, Edu3Labs is a brand-new blockchain ecosystem aimed at the education sector, with the mission ofboth giving ownership and rewarding all parties in the ecosystem. The Edu3Labs ecosystem, which currently has an education and publishing-focused NFT marketplace and metaverse platform, is also planning to provide blockchain solutions to educational institutions.A short description of Edu3Labs; A new learning experience created by the integration of the online education sector and the blockchain technology. | $1.1M | Initial Coin Offering | Dec 08, 2023 |  |
| SuiPad | SuiPad is an IDO&INO platform, with selected projects, flexible whitelist, and fair level as the core positioning. | $1.6M | Seed | Apr 26, 2023 |  |
| Paragraph | Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5 | $1.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 24, 2022 |  |
| Magic Square | Magic Square (founded 2021) is a unified, integrated, interoperable space for users to discover and experience community-vetted crypto apps, and for crypto app developers to market and monetize their best applications.The Magic Store is the fundamental element of the Magic Square project. Within the Magic Store, there are multiple workingelements that dictate the communication between many moving parts.OverviewMagic Square is a multifaceted system that covers all the UX bases: The Magic Store guides users to discover the highest quality crypto apps with built-in integrated DeFi. Users sign in to all of their apps with one SSI secured Magic Connect leading to their personalized Magic Spaces: where crypto-app experiences begin and end. Users and Creators discuss and collaborate in a dedicated Magic Community space.The Magic Square interface includes three main components: The Magic Store, Magic Spaces, and Magic Connect. Each of these serves a di!erent function for the three groups who use the platform: crypto application users (Users), crypto application developers (Creators), and new community validators (Validators).Each of these groups plays a unique role in the Magic Store interface, with a unique set of actions and responsibilities. Users must enter the system and obtain a secure persona with their secure Magic Connect login credentials. Creators must successfully deploy apps to be validated by the Validators, who vote on the new apps entering the ecosystem. | $3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Astra | Astra Protocol offers on-chain dispute resolution system by adding a legal assurance layer to block-chain-based smart contracts. | $9M | Initial Coin Offering | Apr 22, 2022 |  |
| Astra | Astra Protocol offers on-chain dispute resolution system by adding a legal assurance layer to block-chain-based smart contracts. |  | Seed | Apr 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 55 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [X21 Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/x21-digital) — VC Fund, 15 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Blocksync Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blocksync-ventures) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Genblock Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genblock-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Magnus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/magnus-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does DAO Maker invest in?

DAO Maker invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Initial Coin Offering stage. Most of the 55 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is DAO Maker's check size?

DAO Maker typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$4.8M at Seed, $500k–$3.4M at Pre-Seed and $700k–$11M at Initial Coin Offering. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds DAO Maker participates in.

### How do I contact DAO Maker?

Public channels for DAO Maker include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at DAO Maker?

The team at DAO Maker includes Christoph Zaknun (Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer), Giorgio Marciano (Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer) and Malte Christensen (Chief Sales Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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