# The Why: VitaDAO

**URL:** <https://gov.vitadao.com/t/the-why-vitadao/94>\
**Category:** Organization and Governance\
**Created:** [June 11, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://gov.vitadao.com/t/the-why-vitadao/94 "2021-06-11T00:33:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![VitaDAO](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/gov.vitadao.com/vitadao/32/9_2.png) [@VitaDAO](https://gov.vitadao.com/u/VitaDAO)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://gov.vitadao.com/t/the-why-vitadao/94/1 "2021-06-11T00:33:13Z")

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VitaDAO’s mission is to accelerate research and development in the longevity space by focusing on the two stakeholder groups most essential to its mission: patients and researchers. Currently, biopharma and research organizations do not represent these groups well. Biomedical research fundraising is time-consuming and its access limited to select groups of already well-funded organizations. There is a misalignment of incentives that encourages profit maximization by for-profit biopharma companies, and conversely not enough goal-oriented work is done by non-profit research organizations. VitaDAO fixes this by coordinating the actions of for-profits and non-profits. It is VitaDAO’s belief that by empowering more researchers, it can produce the most benefit to patients.