According to the Gate.io News bot, the crypto venture capital firm dao5 has completed the second phase of its fund raising, totaling $222 million, as reported by Fortune. The firm was founded in 2022 by former Polychain investor Tekin Salimi.
The first phase of the $125 million fund by dao5 has been fully invested in encryption startups, including the Layer-1 blockchain Berachain and the decentralized AI project Bittensor. Tekin Salimi revealed that the first phase fund has achieved a 1x DPI, completing the return of the invested principal.
The new fund attracted about 15 limited partners to participate, mainly from family offices and high-net-worth individuals. The fund will focus on investing in institutional applications such as stablecoins and asset tokenization.