ABOUT

Origami is the Best DAO Operating System for Ambitious Communities.

Our mission is to help ambitious communities create the world’s most valuable DAOs.
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We believe that DAOs will help the next billion users find their economic tribes by gathering people who want to build strong, growing communities. Origami supports these groups through our open and effective framework for growing DAOs.

Our Story

It all started with a WhatsApp group. Our four founders and other Y Combinator alumni used it to talk about crypto projects, fun NFT investments, and what would happen if networks could be owned and governed by people, instead of corporate giants.

Our CEO open-sourced a “DAO Charter” template document that became the foundation of many DAOs today. That opened our founders’ eyes to what large groups of people could do to build towards a common goal. Together, they could raise more money, find better investments, and build faster than they could alone. Plus, it was fun. They wanted to do more together.

Johnny, Matt, Ben & Stephen

Origami founders

As it all came together, other DAO creators asked for advice. They need guidance, introductions, documents, and user-friendly software.

That’s why four of the DAO creators founded Origami. They realized that together they had all the skills needed to help other communities create and grow their DAOs.

To organize their relationship, they formed a DAO called Orange. The early days were full of challenges, while complying with regulations, creating a scale system to ensure thousands of more founders could join, and keeping their Discord from melting down to chaos.

As they overcame each challenge, Orange DAO grew to over 1,300 founders, raised $80 million, and invested in over 130 crypto projects. They even created a Fellowship program to educate future web3 entrepreneurs.