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Komorebi DAO with Manasi Vora and Medha Kothari

Liquid - Web3 Crypto Investing

Release Date: 08/03/2021

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For the show today, we are thrilled to have Manasi and Medha of Komorebi DAO.  Manasi is the VP of Strategy and Ops at Skynet Labs. Prior to this role, Manasi conducted research at the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and was the Director of MIT Bitcoin Expo. She is also the Founder of Women in Blockchain whose mission is to increase diversity in the crypto space through education and community building. 
 
Medha Kothari is a software engineer for cLabs, building out the Celo Protocol, as well as runs she256, a 501c3 dedicated to increasing diversity in the blockchain space. She helped start 2 DAOs, Komorebi Fund which is an investment DAO, and FiatLux, a DAO focused on funding technological academic research.  For this interview, we'll be discussing Komorebi DAO, which is an investment fund that Manasi and Medha recently brought together with a powerhouse roster of investors, founders and builders.

Komorebi is focused on investing in female and non-binary founders and in this episode, we are discussing the origins of the DAO, the team's investment approach and thesis directly from the founders of Komorebi.
 

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-  what's the inspiration behind Komorebi dao?
- can you talk about the structure of Komorebi?
- talk about some of the folks in Komorebi, I think people don't realize what an amazing group of people you've together
- how is governance setup?
- what are the top 3 lessons you've learned from running a DAO and building on SyndicateDAO that you'd like to share with folks?
- how does the dao get hands-on and help founders? how do YOU typically help founders?