Today's guests are Sakuro Imayama and Reza Datoo of DAOlaunch. DAOLaunch is a decentralized platform that connects investors and startups directly on the blockchain by introducing innovative fundraising solutions to the startup ecosystem.  Users can effortlessly create and support new startups across all borders, and participate in transparent, flexible, and fair financing rounds regardless of their economic background.

The startup investment industry is largely led by Venture capitalists and institutional investors.  They leverage their capital, network, connections, experience as well as their brand. By making successful deals and establishing their name in a given industry means they are able to negotiate better investment conditions to make a substantial ROI. The majority of those deals are conducted in a closed and private environment.

Retail investors don't typically have access to these kinds of deals. From coinbase seed round to IPO there was a 5000% ROI. Insane.

In both traditional equity markets and crypto, by the time of public listing, VCs have already made a substantial investment and token unlock schedules often deter smaller investors. Recently, retail investors are more attracted to a democratic funding method, some Startups have considered the "Fairlaunch" funding method for that reason.

However, Fair Launch is not a practical method to release a token, let alone fund a business. It's unreasonable to expect adoption from mass retail investors and for them to provide not only funding but also connections and marketing, a core part of what VCs provide today which is often worth just as much as capital to a project. Now more than ever, a democratic and practical startup investment approach is demanded, to bring more competitiveness and innovation to the startup industry.

Our solution at DAOLaunch is to create an open and inclusive competitive environment - the Decentralized Venture Capital concept.

DAOLaunch offers retail investors preferential investment conditions depending on their investment performance recorded on the blockchain. Recorded investments are not editable, as all negotiations are on-chain. DAOLaunch investors can brand themselves as Decentralized Venture Capitalists and much like traditional VCs do today, they can negotiate more favorable investment terms.

DAOLaunch aims to change the structure of shady behind-closed-door investment deals to an open and more competitive deal structure that takes place on the blockchain. This will drastically shake up the startup industry.

Check out DAOlaunch here: https://daolaunch.net/

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