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    The LAO

    New York, New York, United StatesFounded 2020

    The LAO is a member-directed, for-profit venture DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) structured as a Delaware LLC that invests in early-stage Ethereum and blockchain projects. Launched by OpenLaw in April 2020, it enables accredited investors to pool capital and vote on investment decisions on-chain.

    50% of their portfolio is in Crypto & Web3. Their most common stage is seed (42% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $8.4M (across 37 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    36

    Fund Size

    $40M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    SG

    Sergey G.

    Investor / Member

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    38 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    RRelay ProtocolUnknown$14MJan 2025
    Transak logoTransakSeed$660KJan 2025
    Maple Finance logoMaple FinanceSeed$5MAug 2023
    Transak logoTransakSeries A—May 2023
    Pine Protocol logoPine ProtocolSeed$3MDec 2022
    Fleek logoFleekSeries A$25MDec 2022
    Cow Protocol logoCow ProtocolUnknown$23MMar 2022
    Sovrun logoSovrunSeries A$10MJan 2022
    3Box logo3BoxSeries A$30MJan 2022
    PPalm NFT StudioSeries B$27MDec 2021
    Snapshot Labs logoSnapshot LabsUnknown$4MNov 2021
    Debridge logoDebridgeUnknown$5.5MSep 2021
    Ondo Finance logoOndo FinanceSeed$4MAug 2021
    Zerion logoZerionSeries A$8.2MJul 2021
    DDexGuruSeed$1MApr 2021
    ConsenSys logoConsenSysUnknown$65MApr 2021
    SubQuery logoSubQuerySeed$1.8MJan 2021
    Art Blocks logoArt BlocksUnknown$6MJan 2021
    Dora Factory logoDora FactoryUnknown$17.5MJan 2021
    FFloat ProtocolUnknown$1.2MJan 2021
    Idle DAO logoIdle DAOSeed$1.2MJan 2021
    Superfluid logoSuperfluidUnknown$5.1M—
    LabDAO logoLabDAOSeed$3.6M—
    Tinyman logoTinymanUnknown$2.5M—
    Astaria logoAstariaSeed$8M—
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    Last updated: 20 October 2026