NearPad is a San Francisco-based DeFi startup that functions as a launchpad, DEX aggregator, and yield aggregator for communities and developers. The platform provides open finance tools for crowdfunding, asset management, and yield optimization. NearPad plans to build a DAO-led DeFi hub on Aurora and aims to be the first DAO-led protocol on that network. The company intends to give its community complete control over how treasury and public funds are utilized. NearPad closed a $2.5M seed round to fund roadmap feature development, expand the development team, incubate projects, and support marketing. The team says the funds will help ship faster and optimize products while public raises and the treasury are governed by the community.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2021