Today, we are proud to announce that Syndicate has raised $800K from 100 early users, partners, and friends in its community (full list below). Syndicate’s community raise is an important first step in democratizing our own platform and making Syndicate community-owned.

Our community raise was completed in less than a week via Syndicate itself: 100 early community members invested in Syndicate via an SPV-like Syndicate DAO launched on our platform and protocol.

DAO-powered Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) are just one of many applications (Community DAOs, Ecosystem Funds, NFT Funds, Economic Empowerment DAOs) for Syndicate that are rolling out now and in the weeks ahead.

Progressively Decentralizing to Our Community

If Syndicate’s aim is to democratize investing, it’s important that we live by our values and—as best we can—take the steps needed to democratize and decentralize Syndicate itself. The Community Raise is just the first step of many we will be taking to both grow and democratize the platform over time.

The 100 community members who are now early investors in Syndicate include:

• Early contributors
• Early users
• Current and future partners
• Current and future collaborators
• Syndicate NFT owners

We’re excited to continue growing our community in the months and years ahead.

Join the Revolution

We are starting a movement to change investing for the better, for everyone. We’ve launched the IDEO Founder Collective, Terra Ecosystem Incubator, Delphi INFINFT, Komorebi Collective, Fiat Lux DAO, and Audacity—and we’re getting ready to roll out our private beta in stages soon.

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Community Raise Participants

Alana Podrx, CEO, Eve Wealth
Alex Masmej, CEO, Showtime
Alexis Gauba, Co-Founder, Opyn
Ameer Suhayb Carter, Mint Fund
Anastasia Andrianova, CEO, Akropolis
Andrew Steinwold, Managing Partner, Sfermion
Aya Kantorovich, FalconX
Baek Kim, Hashed
Balaji Srinivasan, ex Coinbase, ex Earn, ex a16z
Beryl Li, Co-Founder, Yield Guild
Blake West, Co-Founder, Goldfinch
Bo Shao, Co-Founder, Evolve
Bobby Ong, Co-Founder, CoinGecko
Brian Flynn, CEO, Rabbithole
Calvin Liu, Compound, Divergence
Carlos Gomes, Forefront, Mint Fund
Christy Choi, ex Binance
Colleen Sullivan, CEO, CMT Digital
Cooper Turley, Audius, Variant
Courtney Chow, Battery, ex IDEO CoLab
Cuy Sheffield, Visa
Dave Kim, Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Derek Hsue, Co-Founder, Reverie
Do Kwon, Founder, Terra
Driss
Erik Syvertsen, GC, AngelList
Erikan Obotetukudo, Founder, Audacity
Gabby Dizon, Co-Founder, Yield Guild
George Lambeth, Divergence, Balancer
Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR
Jacob Horne, Founder, Zora
Jake Chervinsky, GC, Compound, Variant
James Foley, Co-Founder, Cowri
James Young, CEO, Abridged, Collab.Land
Jason Choi, Spartan Group, Blockcrunch
Jazear Brooks, Co-Founder, Sifchain
Jean-Cedric
Jeff Garzik, Co-Founder, Vesper
Jeff Morris Jr., Chapter One, ex Tinder
Jeremy Allaire, CEO, Circle
Jess Sloss, SeedClub
Joon Ian Wong, ex CoinDesk
Joris Delanoue, Co-Founder, Fairmint
Joyce Yang, Founder, Global Coin Ventures
Julia Lipton, Founder, Awesome People Ventures
Justin Ridgely, BlockFi
Justine Humenansky, Playground, Fiat Lux DAO
Kaito, Bspeak!
Kazufumi
Kenny White, Founder, Cowri
Kevin Chou, Founder, Rally, Forte, Kabam, Gen.G
Kevin Nielsen, CEO, Boardroom
“Fully Allocated”, Default
Kieran Warwick, Founder, Illuvium
Kinsa Durst, Republic
Kristie Huang, Komorebi, she256
Larry Sukernik, Co-Founder, Reverie
Leighton Cusack, Co-Founder, PoolTogether, PleasrDAO
Li Jin, Founder, Atelier Ventures
Luis Cuende, Co-Founder, Aragon
Mark Roszak, Founder, 1121 Law
Matthew Roszak, Co-Founder, Vesper
Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer, CoinShares
Micah Johnson, Creator, Aku
Mike Sall, CEO, Goldfinch
Mike Zajko, CoinList, Free Company
Mildred Idada, Founder, Open Web Collective
Min Teo, Ethereal Ventures, ConsenSys Mesh
Morgan Beller, NFX, ex Libra, ex a16z
Nathalie McGrath, ex Coinbase
Nathan McCauley, CEO, Anchorage
Nathaniel Whittemore
Nitya Subramanian, Celo
Noah Jessop, Co-Founder, Nine Realms
Patrick Chang, Founder, Dispersion
Prabhakar Reddy, Co-Founder, FalconX, ex Accel
Rahul Vohra, CEO, Superhuman
Raj Gokal, COO, Solana
Ramon Recuero, Founder, Babylon
Regan Bozman, Dove Mountain Partners, ex-Coinlist
Rene Reinsberg, Celo
Robbie Bent, Ethereum Foundation
Ryan Selkis, CEO, Messari
Sasha (Aliaksandr) Hudzilin, NEAR
Scott Moore, Co-Founder, Gitcoin
Sebastian Delgado, Co-Founder, Fei
Sina Habibian, Ethereum Foundation
Sriram Krishnan, Advisor, Calm, ex Tinder, ex Spotify
Stani Kulechov, CEO, Aave
Steve Blank, Professor, Stanford University
Steve Weinstein, Professor, Stanford University
Thibauld Favre, CEO, Fairmint
Todd Goldberg
Tom Bedecarre, Stanford University, ex AKQA
Tyler Ward, Co-Founder, Barnbridge
Vanessa Slavich, Celo
wsbmod, Wall Street Bets
Xochitl Cazador, Celo, she256