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Orange DAO Fellowship W25 Application Form

Applications are open! The early admission deadline is September 15th, 2024.
Orange DAO’s Winter 2025 (W25) batch starts in early January. It is a 12-week sprint designed to help you find product-market fit and grow your crypto business. The program culminates with Demo Day where you have the chance to pitch hundreds of top crypto investors.

You will be offered $100,000 of funding when you are accepted into the program — even before the program begins.
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Founder Info

Name

Email

Telegram

How many founders does your company have?

How many founders does your company have?

Company Info

Company Name

Website

Required Questions

The following are all the required questions. The next page contains only optional questions.

All answers have a 500-character limit. Please be specific with your answers and use bullet points if possible.

Founders' Background

Please focus on how your background or experience gives you a 10x advantage over others to answer the following questions:

How do you know you can ship this product?

Please mention who writes the code. If you've built a crypto-related product before, mention it here.

Do you have any experience working at startups?

Tell us any previous startups/projects you founded or worked on. Are you a repeat founder? What was the traction of your startup? Have you previously raised money for your startup? Any exits?

LinkedIn Profile of all founders.

Name: link to the LinkedIn profile.

Idea

What is your one-liner?

Max 100 characters.

What are you building?

Tell us more about your product.

What do you know about your customers or market that others don't?

If you have competitors, what makes you unique? Please explain why this is the right moment (e.g., new customer trends, technology, approach) to launch your business.

Traction

When did you start working on this?

Accuracy to the month is acceptable.

What is the most important metric for your product?

Please use a measurable metric and be specific,

What is your progress?

Optional Info

The remaining questions are optional. Completing these will increase your chances of being accepted.

Upload a one-minute video introducing the founders.

Upload your fundraising materials.

Make sure that it's publicly viewable.

How much capital have you raised for this company?

Include all capital raised from investors, accelerators, grants, or hackathons.

Describe your ideal customers. How do you know they need this?

Who are your customers and why do they care about what you're building?

What convinced you that this is a big opportunity?

How do you make money?

What is your business model? Are you B2B or B2C?

Provide their GitHub repo or profile link.

How do you expect the Orange DAO Fellowship to help you?

If any of your founders have been backed by YC before, link their Bookface profile.

Where are you based?

City/Country.

How did you find us?

How did you find us?