# Orange DAO

> Orange DAO is a VC fund backing Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. See 274 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 274
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orange-fund
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/orangedaoxyz
- Website: https://orangedao.xyz/

Orange DAO is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. Orange DAO supports past, present, and aspiring Y Combinator founders who are building the future of the crypto ecosystem. The company believes that founders and builders are best suited to spark, advance, and distribute opportunities to anyone hungry for a fairer future. Orange fund is the venture partner of Orange DAO.Founded in 2021 and itsheadquarters is located in San Francisco, California.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 51 | 19% |
| Blockchain | 46 | 17% |
| Software | 28 | 10% |
| FinTech | 23 | 8% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 5% |

98 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 81 | 30% |
| Seed | 67 | 24% |
| Private Equity | 13 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 12 | 4% |
| Series A | 2 | 1% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 66 | 24% |
| Canada | 3 | 1% |
| Singapore | 3 | 1% |
| Australia | 2 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |

16 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Don Ho | Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-ho-9910 |
| Ben Huh | General Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-huh |
| Brian Li | Investor and Builder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-li-570e |
| cryptpal singh | Executive | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cryptpal-singh |
| Don Ho | Founder | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-ho-5dd6 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apaluma | Apaluma builds sets of APIs that any developer, business, or government agency can access. Through our AI and machine learning model, we are able to standardize datasets and turn them into actionable insights. | $5.6M | Seed | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| BuyerBeats | BuyerBeats is an AI workforce platform for SMEs that captures purchasing signals, executes sales workflows, and interacts consumers. | $2M | Seed | Jun 19, 2026 |  |
| Alien | Alien develops decentralized digital identity infrastructure focused on privacy-preserving proof of humanity and trust online. It builds a blockchain-based human network that uses biometric verification, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized protocols to authenticate unique humans and AI agents. The platform enables human verification, access tohuman-only spaces, and accountable AI systems. | $7.1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Watch.fun | Watch.fun is a platform that offers ticket-based entries for luxury watch giveaways. | $8.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 26, 2026 |  |
| Superset | Superset operates as a uniform execution layer for stablecoins within the DeFi ecosystem | $4M | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Kontigo | We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app. | $20M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| Kindred | Kindred Labs is building the default interface for human–AI interaction — always-on, trusted companions that unify productivity, commerce, and emotional connection into a single relationship. As the only AI company officially trusted by 25+ iconic IPs, including Sanrio, Warner Bros., LINE Friends, and Pudgy Penguins, Kindred Labs sits on a uniquecultural and distribution moat powered by billions of existing fans worldwide.Kindred’s growth has been consistently explosive: the company has attracted millions of registered users within weeks of opening access, climbed into the Top 10 on DappRadar with hundreds of thousands of on-chain daily and monthly active users and millions of on-chain transactions in a single month, and driven an NFT free-mint that organically reached above a 1.3 ETH floor, alongside outsized gains in brand mindshare and category visibility (including a #1 gainer ranking on Kaito).Backers and partners include SEI Foundation, Protocol Labs, 0G Foundation, Techstars, Orange DAO, Sky Mavis, CoinMarketCap Labs, Nvidia Inception, ElevenLabs, and others. Kindred Labs is founded by Max Giammario, whose M.A./Ph.D.-level research focuses on human–AI interaction, and is built by a team of experts from companies such as Apple and Disney. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| RISE Chain | RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization | $3.2M | Seed | May 19, 2025 |  |
| Inco | Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting. | $5M | Seed | Apr 24, 2025 |  |
| ORO AI | ORO facilitates the transformation of data into advanced forms of intelligence, representing the next generation of analytical capabilities. | $6M | Seed | Apr 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 274 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [MH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mh-ventures) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Protocol Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/protocol-labs) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Tribe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tribe-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Goodwater Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goodwater-capital) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Orange DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/orange-dao) — VC Fund, 11 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Orange DAO invest in?

Orange DAO invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Software startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 274 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Orange DAO?

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### Who are the partners at Orange DAO?

The team at Orange DAO includes Don Ho (Founder), Ben Huh (General Partner) and Brian Li (Investor and Builder), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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