Colosseum-backed founders raise on MetaDAO.
Colosseum discovers and accelerates promising teams. MetaDAO gives those teams a public path to raise capital, distribute ownership, and govern with aligned incentives.
The Arena
Colosseum is where crypto's best founders compete and their startups are accelerated.
Colosseum is a leading crypto venture fund that runs the world's largest hackathons. Winners are accepted into the accelerator, raise through the STAMP, and list on MetaDAO — a single path from idea to public market-protected ownership.
FAQ
About STAMP
The STAMP framework is documented by Colosseum, and every sponsored raise on MetaDAO links its terms directly from the company page.
Existing private-round instruments were never designed for a world where the liquid token is the real ownership claim. STAMP gives founders a clear path from private capital to a public token launch, and gives early investors the market protections they need to commit.
Accelerated founders raising their first public round, and the early investors backing them who want their ownership expressed as a liquid, market-protected token.
A SAFE plus token warrant splits equity and token rights across two instruments with no public price. STAMP resolves directly into the company's public token launch, so ownership and market protections live in one instrument.
Allocations are set at raise time against the minimum-raise target and settle into the token once the launch completes on MetaDAO.
Lockups follow each company's published launch terms, surfaced on its MetaDAO company page before you commit.
About Colosseum x MetaDAO
Colosseum discovers and accelerates teams; MetaDAO gives them a public, futarchy-governed path to raise and distribute ownership. Sponsored teams move from the accelerator straight to a public raise.
Teams earn their place through Colosseum's hackathons and accelerator, judged on technical execution, market opportunity, and the strength of the founding team.
Acceleration from Colosseum plus the MetaDAO raise infrastructure — a public fundraise, tokenized ownership, and futarchy governance out of the box.
Raises happen in the open, in front of the people who want you to win, with market protections and on-chain governance from day one.
Proceeds flow to a DAO treasury governed by futarchy — token holders' markets decide how capital is deployed, not a closed cap table.
From winning the hackathon to launching a public ICO
Colosseum runs the hackathons. MetaDAO facilitates the fundraises. Together, the two platforms give a founder a clear path: ship in the hackathon, graduate into the accelerator on a STAMP, raise in public, and win.
