Tekin Salimi was a former lawyer who joined Polychain Capital in 2017 before creating his crypto investment firm DAO5

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Founded in 2022 by Tekin Salimi, a former corporate lawyer and alumnus of the crypto venture giant Polychain, dao5 previously raised a $125 million debut fund, which it has fully deployed into crypto startups, including the layer-1 blockchain Berachain and the decentralized AI project Bittensor.
Salimi joined Polychain, the venture firm founded by early Coinbase employee Olaf Carlson-Wee, in late 2017
Founded in 2022 by Tekin Salimi, a former partner at Polychain Capital, dao5 made early bets on projects including Story Protocol, Bittensor, Berachain and EigenLayer.