📢 RnD Ventures Newsletter 2025/45
📢 A new name, a new chapter
We’re evolving! RnDAO is now RnD Ventures.
Same mission, sharper focus.
What started as a collaborative DAO has grown into a full venture studio and product ecosystem helping founders build the future of collaboration technology. “RnD” stands for Research & Development - the foundation that allows us to build high-quality, sustainable ventures shaping the future of work.
While our name evolves, our collaborative DNA stays the same. We continue to govern transparently and co-create with our global community. This is not the finish line, but the next chapter.
Continue visiting rndao.io for now - our new home is coming soon!
🎉 New Release: The Networked Firm
Over the past six months, our team collaborated with Allo Capital to explore how organizations and capital allocation are evolving in the age of AI and blockchain.
The result is The Networked Firm: Capital Allocation in the Age of Blockchain and AI - a field guide to the next era of work and collaboration.
This book unpacks how collapsing coordination costs are reshaping the firm as we know it, making cognition and trust increasingly cheap and programmable. Through clear theory and real-world case studies, it offers a roadmap for founders, investors, and builders navigating this transformation.
The book will be released in both digital and print versions on November 20; pre-order now!
📖 Learning Together
New week, new insights! From thought pieces to practical advice, our community keeps the learning flowing.
Here are some pieces shared recently in our Discord channels:
- 6 Rules to Keep Winning: Replit's CEO shares his counterintuitive playbook for long-term success, from obsessive survival tactics to the power of compounding.
- Outbond: An AI Copilot for Sales: A LinkedIn post introducing Outbond, a new platform that lets anyone build high-converting outbound workflows, just by chatting with AI.
- Why Your Perfect Product Isn't Enough to Win: Unpacking the critical difference between what you build and what you offer to the market.
🎤 Devconnect ARG 2025
Devconnect is almost here, a time when people across the Ethereum and web3 space come together to share ideas and build what’s next. Our team will be there too, and we’d love to connect with others exploring the future of work and collaboration.
If you’re an investor, founder, researcher, or someone interested in collaboration technology, don't hesitate to connect with Daniel Ospina and explore how we can build together.
💡 Updates from Our Ventures
Contribo
Contribo teamed up with Siavash, founder of Recruvia (an AI recruitment platform) who’s been building solutions to tackle the challenges of hiring developers. At the same time, the team is wrapping up a campaign focused on understanding hiring problems in general , and has visualized the findings so everyone can explore them easily.
Readers can explore the data themselves here and share their findings with Contribo in Discord.
The team has also begun experimenting with an approach that allows developers to seamlessly create quick summaries of their daily contributions. Snippets coming soon!
FairAI
FairAI has started updating the messaging on its website, incorporating insights gathered during the Düsseldorf event. The discussions there helped the team clarify how potential clients describe their challenges and which aspects of the offering draw the most attention.
The current focus is on adjusting the structure and wording of key texts to reflect these findings, with an emphasis on more consistent terminology and examples that better align with how the audience frames their needs.
👥 New Faces at RnD Ventures
This week, five new members joined, including:
- An entrepreneurial leader with a decade of experience scaling startups and driving product, operations, and go-to-market strategies
- A builder from a credit protocol and PayFi platform tokenizing receivables for supply chain finance
- A founder of a wearable tech startup using neurostimulation and EEG to enhance focus and relaxation
- A product designer
- A founder and CEO of a cybersecurity company
Want to join our growing startup ecosystem? RnD Ventures is looking for:
- Business Developers | Grant Writers | Researchers | Developers | Marketers
Even if you don’t fit these roles but are passionate about CollabTech, we’d love to have you!
Join our Discord and introduce yourself today.
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