Tiger VC DAO: A tiger lies in every heart—everyone can be a VC
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Tiger VC DAO: A tiger lies in every heart—everyone can be a VC
This article will introduce a new venture capital DAO organization and explore how it uses NFTs to coordinate and structure community relationships.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsWritten by: Ma Bangde, TechFlowFlow
In 1942, renowned economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "creative destruction."
The core idea is that over time, capitalism tends to shift systems toward efficiency by phasing out old technologies and production methods, establishing new ones, ultimately driving economic growth.
For the traditional venture capital industry, Web3 represents a "disruptive innovation."
Venture DAOs break the original "centralized" structure, enabling any collaborative organization worldwide to form a venture fund. All assets involved are digital, traceable on-chain, and investment performance is verifiable—transforming VC from an exclusive product of places like Silicon Valley into a truly "global game."
Traditional VC is characterized by hierarchy, elitism, localization, and opacity, with investment decisions made by a small group—the so-called investment committee. Venture DAOs dismantle this "establishment," allowing all members within the DAO to participate in investment decisions.
Although traditional VCs still dominate Web3 project investments today, the practical development of venture DAOs such as Metacartel and The LAO has brought decentralized investing beyond theory.
Remember, we are still very early!
This article introduces a new venture DAO and explores how it uses NFTs to coordinate and structure community relationships.
What is Tiger VC DAO?
"Wealth comes from riding economic waves"—economic cycles determine personal fortune.
But these windows of opportunity are closing for ordinary people, as increasing amounts of Old Money flood into the crypto industry, using accumulated capital to seize opportunities once available to average individuals: traditional financial institutions, Web2.0 giants, wealthy elites... Objectively, monopolies are forming within the crypto sector, as their entry drives centralization—a trend contradicting the core narrative of "decentralization" in crypto.
The emergence of VC DAOs offers ordinary people a chance to counterbalance traditional centralized capital. Historically, individual investors lacked sufficient capital scale to participate in primary market investments or early-stage projects. Later-stage investing essentially means retail investors conceding profits to early backers.
Meanwhile, traditional venture funds also face internal pressure to innovate—operational needs such as talent acquisition, design, product development, marketing, and research were unmet under previous structures. As venture funds expand and boundaries between sectors blur, competition intensifies, prompting Sequoia Capital to lament that the old VC model is outdated.
Currently, VC DAOs exist in three forms: Investment DAOs, Incubation DAOs, and Service DAOs—with Investment DAOs being the most mature.
Compared to traditional venture funds, an ideally functioning Investment DAO enjoys strong network effects, where members' expertise enables better project evaluation and value-added support.
Tiger VC DAO is part of this venture capital revolution—an Investment DAO that drastically lowers the barrier for ordinary individuals to engage in early-stage investing. Its mission is to give everyone equal access to cryptocurrency investments.
Co-founded by a group of seasoned crypto practitioners—including venture capital firms, security auditing agencies, investment researchers, and KOLs—Tiger VC DAO aims to build a decentralized VC for everyone through DAO governance.
Additionally, its DAO-organized community brings together programmers from computer science, accountants from finance, investors from the financial world, leveraging diverse member backgrounds to maximize collective benefit through crowd intelligence.
While one person's power may be small, sand accumulates into towers—collective strength brings greater influence, priority access, and higher capital returns.
To date, Tiger VC DAO has attracted nearly 20 early Builders, including Hash Sir (Chairman of a Nasdaq-listed crypto company), Cooper (managing a $100M Crypto VC fund), and Chiling.Zeng (prominent angel investor behind Soul, FanDeng Reading, and other star projects). According to public information from the Tiger VC DAO community, more and more crypto research experts are joining its Research Guild, which now totals 25 members—including Wen Xiangfei, founder of IT桔子 (a leading IT investment information platform), and multiple crypto investment leads from international investment banks.
Tiger VC DAO plans to issue 1,999 Tiger NFTs in the near future to kickstart early DAO development. Whitelists will be primarily granted to Builders capable of contributing to the Tiger VC DAO community, hence referred to as the "Builder Round."
NFT PASS + DeFi
In the DeFi space, VC DAO has a synonym: DeVC (Decentralized VC).
The terminology reflects two different camps within VC DAOs: one rooted in DeFi protocols, the other incorporating NFTs into its roadmap. The rise of the latter signals maturity in the NFT sector, where NFTs help DAOs establish early community structures.
NFT PASS is currently one of the hottest trends in the NFT space—holding an NFT PASS issued by a community grants access to specific rights and benefits.
In the realm of VC DAOs, Tiger VC DAO stands out by integrating NFT PASS functionality.
Tiger VC DAO will launch its first NFT pre-sale on May 20th targeting community Builders to initiate early DAO construction. Each Tiger NFT will cost 0.1 ETH to mint, with a total supply of 1,999 during the initial pre-sale. Notably, Tiger VC DAO plans to enable USDT as a minting option since USDT—not ETH—will serve as the primary currency for external investments. Using USDT also enhances stability for the VC pool’s capital.
The Tiger NFT serves as a PASS card for Tiger VC DAO. Holding the NFT entitles users to a share of treasury investment returns. Once the community reaches a certain size, Tiger VC DAO plans to issue a governance token, with NFT holders receiving airdrops. Governance tokens will grant proposal and voting rights.
Notably, Tiger VC DAO adopts the dual-token mechanism seen in DeFi protocols and plans to launch an Invest Token. This token is not a governance token, is pegged 1:1 to USDT, and cannot be traded. It allows users to co-invest in projects or stake for yield. When users invest using Invest Token, the treasury automatically converts it into USDT for deployment while deducting a 2% fund management fee into the treasury.
However, only users holding Tiger NFTs have the right to purchase Invest Tokens for Tiger VC DAO’s co-investment fund.
The first pre-sale limits Tiger NFT issuance to 1,999 units, but future expansion of the community won’t be capped. After completing the pre-sale and operating for some time, Tiger VC DAO will release a second batch of NFTs to grow the community, capping the total supply at 10,000 Tiger NFTs.
Transformation of the Micro VC Model
Venture capital stands at the edge of transformation. Traditional venture funds must address fundraising, investing, management, and exit strategies. VC DAO operations rely on blockchain infrastructure and are managed via cryptocurrencies.
Tiger VC DAO’s entire fundraising, investing, managing, and exiting cycle will revolve around NFTs as the core element.
Initial funding for Tiger VC DAO comes mainly from ETH generated through Tiger NFT sales. Specifically, these ETH funds will be allocated across three areas: investing in Beta-type stable crypto products, injecting capital into the VC fund (for primary market investments and Alpha asset allocation), and covering daily operational expenses. The allocation ratios and investment targets will be determined by proposals voted on by Tiger NFT holders—addresses among the top 50 NFT holders have proposal rights, while others only have voting rights.
Investment opportunities will primarily originate from the community, identified and proposed by members. After discovery, members can submit project proposals, each undergoing a 5-day voting period. A project receives funding only if support votes exceed opposition votes and voter addresses represent over 20% of total addresses. Projects approved by community vote receive priority funding from the treasury VC pool.
Capital management will be handled through a treasury system. Treasury funds come from NFT sales revenue, royalties, and investment gains/losses: 70% of ETH from NFT sales and 70% of NFT royalty income go directly into the treasury; upon profitable investments, 20% of returns enter the treasury, while during losses, 70% of remaining funds return to the treasury.
Michael Steinberg, founder of venture firm Reciprocal Ventures, believes that cryptocurrencies enable rapid growth of micro DAOs because blockchain investments can yield returns of tens of times. At its core, VC DAO is a "fundamental transformation" of angel networks or syndicates.
VC DAOs are sprouting up like mushrooms after rain, and forward-looking venture funds are already betting on this track. As foundational infrastructure improves, VC DAO models diversify. What kind of market response will Tiger VC DAO generate with its innovative combination of VC DAO + NFT PASS + dual-token mechanism?
Stay tuned for the roar of the tiger!
*This article is sponsored by Tiger VC DAO.
References:
Tiger VC DAO Official Website: tigervcdao.com
Twitter: @tigervcdao
Discord: https://discord.gg/aKfSACWT
Telegram: https://t.me/tigervcdao
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