Budget Justification For Use Of Launch Funds

VitaDAO is a global collective on a mission to fund novel longevity research and democratise IP - making it accessible to patients across the globe. VitaDAO will hold a launch event to release its governance tokens to DAO members and raise funds for the VitaDAO community-governed treasury. The VitaDAO community aims to raise $2.5M to fund two things:

  1. Assets
  2. Projects

ASSETS

Assets are IP like patents. The value of a patent can be in the $Ms or $Bs. VitaDAO has opportunities to take minority stakes in existing assets, such as those from Revivo Therapeutics.

PROJECTS

Projects are university or non-profit-led research where VitaDAO can obtain a license to the IP generated. VitaDAO has exclusive license to the IP assets generated in its 1st project with the Scheibye-Knudsen lab at University of Copenhagen.

AUCTION

$2.5M to fund at least 5 projects (NOTE: These numbers are subject to change. We are making them public for discussion purposes)

  • Assets: $20K per patent filing.
    • Each project is expected to generate at least one patent filing.
  • Projects: $250K per project
    • Covers 6-12 months of project costs.
  • Follow-on: $100 - $250K per follow-on costs to the biggest projects.

CAVEATS AND FUTURE PLANS

A constraint on the total amount of funding that goes to the research itself is that universities charge on average 60% overhead. For starters, VitaDAO is focused on small molecule drugs. Later it may consider other categories of assets such as genetic medicines, diagnostics, software, and datasets.

VitaDAO wants to be a leader like Gitcoin in showing the world that cryptocurrencies can be used for good with non-profits too. Following VitaDAO’s launch sometime in the late summer/fall of 2021, VitaDAO is considering a partnership with Gitcoin supporting non-profit research into longevity.

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