A research-first venture builder supporting collaboration software startups in web3. 🤝

What is RnDAO?

RnDAO is an innovation DAO, with a mission to empower humane collaboration.

We deliver research and build collaboration technology ventures such as organizational tools, community tools, DAO operations and governance tools. We have a unit that does research specifically on governance and group decision making, nurturing the decision making ventures.

Concretely, we focus on:

1. Public Goods Research:

2. Venture Building:

   TogetherCrew | Meet With Wallet | Harmonica | Microflow | SchoolDAO

3. Community Education:

   Published Research on Mirror

   RnDAO Talks on Youtube

   Events & Webinars schedule

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Decision Research in RnDAO

Our community of interest has:

• Published Decisions in DAOs - What Causes the Pain? based on 15+ in-depth interviews

`- Hosted webinars on governance and decision making, including:

• Launched 30+ public webinars sharing knowledge on humane collaboration`

Our community of interest has:

• Published [Decisions in DAOs - What Causes the Pain?] (https://rndao.mirror.xyz/TxGTNemp_c4uNeWGiubJbC3akaNfJIJYcbgQZrHLK10)based on 15+ in-depth interviews
• Supported the Cosmos Citizens’ Assembly project to pilot the first use of Citizens’ Assemblies in Web3
• Hosted webinars on governance and decision making, including:
  • Three vignettes on decentralization, distribution, and collective intelligence with Joshua Becker
  • Deliberation, decision-making, and libraries of knowledge with Jamie Joyce
  • Leadership Misconceptions In Self Management And Decentralized Governance With Francesca Pick
• Nurtured the Harmonica project and welcome new decision tooling ventures

And we are in this for the long haul.

What your support will help us build next

We believe that the most pressing pain in decentralized governance is the inability to scale effective deliberation. Currently for deliberation on a topic to be open to all DAO members, it has to held on text-based channels, asynchronously and 24/7, by anonymous or pseudonymous participants, with little or no structure.

We have been exploring ways to apply traditional and tested methods of deliberation (e.g Citizens’ Assemblies, Sociocracy 3.0) in the Web3 space manually. With AI-based tools to automate the facilitator’s cycle of asking, synthesizing, and echoing, we believe we can scale these approaches.

We are ready to test this hypothesis, and looking to raise funds to:

• Refine the interaction and usability of the Harmonica bot for large groups`

• Craft and code LLM prompts for 2-3 distinct facilitation methods`

• Test the different facilitation methods in participating communities`

• Publish our learnings on the performance and challenges in these scaled methods

What is RnDAO bringing to web3?

RnDAO is a swarm focused on the future of work.

The Ethereum ecosystem has developed very significant infrastructure, and now we can begin to focus on developing impactful applications.

But how? When a builder has identified the right problem, many lack the research skills to dive deep and the supporting community to pull them out of theoretical weeds. No wonder 75% of hackathon winners abandon their projects and 90% of accelerated startups fail.

RnDAO’s proven Venture Studio model finds, funds, and fosters projects that focus on collaboration tech. This work will seed a collaboration-tech product ecosystem that:

• Delivers commercially viable ventures that address societal challenges with impact in both Web3 and beyond
• Develops operational and governance excellence as a key capability for the broader web3 ecosystem

We've cultivated an expert community focused on collaboration challenges, from Oxford to INSEAD, Google, BCG, Aragon, Gitcoin, Polygon and beyond. We connect those passionate about reinventing collaboration with those knowledgeable about the intricacies.

At RnDAO, we focus on six key Pillars essential for future collaboration technology:

1. Decentralized Governance: Enables democratic decision-making.
2. Legal & Ownership: Aligns stakeholders through clear contracts.
3. Community & Culture: Promotes vibrant communities and sustainable growth.
4. Financial Management: Streamlines budgeting and resource allocation.
5. Operations & Talent: Manages human resources efficiently.
6. Communication: Ensures effective internal information flow.

"Improving human collaboration is perhaps the highest leverage activity we can undertake; it has a systemic impact on the major challenges we have as a species." - Daniel Ospina

Meet the Team

Daniel Ospina - Instigator Andrea Gallagher - Research Lead Yatan Blumenthal Vargas - Venture Support Lead Lino Velev - Business Development Lead Chris Bland - Marketing Lead`

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