funding.md

Sources Of Funding For Projects

Business Models

Web3 Revenue Primitives by Kevin Owocki

Open Business Models by Kyle E. Mitchell

FEM Forum topics tagged w/ "business models"

Funding by Firms and Foundations

These are organizations which have large amounts of ETH to support projects with, and a process in place to fund.

Funding Taxonomy & Issues for Ethereum Ecosystem by Boris Mann

1. Grants to get things started
2. Long term funding for research & maintenance
3. Sustainability for individuals and small teams
4. Operational & financial support

Ethereum Foundation - EF

• Wave 5 Blog Post - describes current priorities and recent recipients.
• Wave 5 Grants Application

Web3 Foundation - W3F

• Website
• Wave 1 Blog Post
• Application - involves a PR on a GitHub repo

Ethereum Community Fund - ECF

• Website
• Application

Tachyon Accelerator by ConsenSys

• Website
• Application

Gnosis Ecosystem Fund - GECO

• Website
• Application - involves a PR on a GitHub repo

Aragon Nest

• Website
• Application - involves a PR on a GitHub repo

Status.im Incubator

• Website

Bounty Networks

Gitcoin

• Website
• Explorer

Bounties Network

• Website
• Explorer

Funding via DAOs by Self-Organized Groups

Giveth Decentralized Altruistic Community - Giveth DAC

• Website / Documentation
• Introduction
• Loomion Discussion Board
• Twitter

Moloch DAO

• Website
• Introduction
• GitHub Repo
• Twitter

MetaCartel DAO

• Introduction - Part 1

Fund Governance Tools

Budget Box

• Introduction by Colony
• Decentralized Capital Allocation via Budgeting Boxes - white paper