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Dework provides web3-native project management and contributor coordination tools for decentralized autonomous organizations, enabling teams to create bounties, manage contributor credentials, and pay workers using DAO tokens.
Also known as dework.xyz
Founders & leadership
Investors · 9
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$5M disclosed across 1 of 4 rounds · 2021–2022
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Dework is a web3-native project and task management platform aimed at decentralized autonomous organizations and their contributor communities. The product lets project leaders publish roadmaps and task lists, attach bounties to tasks, review applicant profiles and work history before assigning work, and pay contributors in on-chain tokens, including an organization's own DAO token. Contributors use the platform to find open tasks and accumulate a portable web3 profile and credential history from completed work.
The platform integrates with tools common to crypto-native organizations: Discord (task discussion threads, bounty notifications, and role-based access gating), GitHub (syncing issues, branches and pull requests with Dework tasks), and wallets and treasuries including Gnosis Safe, MetaMask, WalletConnect and Phantom. Batch payment through Gnosis Safe is offered to reduce gas costs, and access to projects can also be gated by token holdings.
Press coverage has described the product as a combination of Trello and LinkedIn for web3, framing it as a job marketplace and collaboration layer for crypto gig workers as well as a coordination tool for DAO internal and external teams.
Founding story
Dework was founded in 2021 by CEO Lonis Hamaili and David Fant.
Business model
Dework provides a software platform used by DAOs and their contributors to manage tasks, bounties and token-based payments. The sources do not describe pricing or how the company monetizes the platform.
Traction
As of the May 2022 seed announcement the company reported roughly 11,000 users, with organizations including CityDAO, OpenDAO and PolygonDAO named among them. Seedtable lists six employees.
Latest developments
The most recent funding event documented in the sources is the $5 million seed round announced in 2022; a third-party startup database profile updated in 2026 continues to list the company as active with six employees and $5 million in total funding.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Dework positions itself as coordination infrastructure for DAOs, listing users such as CityDAO, The Open DAO, 0xPolygon DAO, Aragon DAO, Nation3, Gitcoin, Bankless DAO, Developer DAO, Juicebox DAO, 1Hive, Shapeshift DAO, Krause House, Harmony, DIA DAO, Metaguild and Poapathon. Third-party rankings place it among Stockholm and Swedish blockchain startups.
Combines task and bounty management with contributor profiles/credentialing and native on-chain payment in any token, including a DAO's own token, with Discord and GitHub integrations and Gnosis Safe batch payouts.
Technology
Web-based task management application with on-chain payment functionality supporting arbitrary tokens, Gnosis Safe batch payments, and wallet connections via MetaMask, WalletConnect and Phantom. It also offers Discord integration for discussion, notifications and role-based access gating, GitHub synchronization of issues, branches and pull requests, and token-holding-based access control.
Go-to-market
The company markets directly to DAOs and project leaders through its website with self-serve project creation, a bounty explorer for contributors, a Discord community, and scheduled demos.
Decentralized autonomous organizations and other crypto-native projects that coordinate distributed contributors, plus individual web3 contributors and gig workers seeking bounty work and on-chain work credentials.
Geography
Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden; the product serves distributed, online DAO communities.
History
Founded in 2021, Dework raised a pre-seed round at the end of that year and then a $5 million seed round announced in mid-2022, co-led by Paradigm and Pace Capital. At the time of the seed round the company operated with a three-person core team supplemented by contributors, and stated the new capital would fund team expansion.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsStockholm-based Dework raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Paradigm and Pace Capital, joined by angel investors including Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Adam Jafer and Fredrik Hjälm. Proceeds were earmarked for expanding beyond the then three-person core team.
$5M source ↗
Dework raised a pre-seed round in late 2021, prior to its seed financing; amount and investors not disclosed in the source.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
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- Deworkdework.xyz · web
5 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Dework do?
- Stockholm-based Dework builds web3-native project management, bounty and payment tooling for DAOs.
- Who are Dework's investors?
- Dework's investors include Paradigm, Balaji Srinivasan, Orange DAO, Pace Capital, Sandeep Nailwal.
- How much funding has Dework raised?
- Dework has disclosed $5M raised across 1 of its 4 known rounds.