Samudai
12 known investors
Singapore-based Web3 startup building an all-in-one coordination and productivity platform for DAOs.
Also known as Samudai.xyz
Investors · 12
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Samudai is a Web3 company that builds tooling for decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs). Its stated purpose is to organise information and provide tools that enable coordination through a single all-in-one platform, addressing the problem that DAO administrators and contributors spend disproportionate time on operational overhead.
The product roadmap described at the time of its 2022 pre-seed announcement covered a productivity suite for DAOs including a Web3-native project management framework, team graphs and an analytics dashboard, together with a roster of Web3 professionals and a reputation metric called Bushido intended to facilitate collaboration. Company profiles indicate the focus later broadened from governance and DAO operations tooling toward analytics and work-related products. Samudai is described as meaning 'a community', which the team positions as the centre of its mission.
Founding story
Samudai was founded by Kushagra Agarwal and Navin (Navin Kumar) in Singapore. The team describes itself as co-builders of the DAO future, and the name Samudai is said to mean 'a community'.
Business model
Samudai supplies software tooling to DAO organisations and their contributors through a single platform covering project management, coordination, analytics and reputation. The sources reviewed do not describe pricing or how the company charges for the platform.
Not disclosed in the available sources.
Traction
Publicly reported traction is limited. Inc42 lists the company as pre-seed stage with $2.5 million total funding across one round, an employee count of 2 (and 8 elsewhere on the same profile), web traffic of 197 and a Glassdoor rating of 5.00 from one review. YourStory lists fewer than 10 employees.
Latest developments
The most recent substantive source material remains the June 2022 pre-seed announcement. Directory profiles continue to list the company as active/private with pre-seed as its last funding stage and $2.5 million total funding.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Samudai is a small, early-stage entrant in the DAO tooling segment of Web3. Its investor list includes crypto-native funds and prominent angels, though third-party data profiles report a very small headcount and low web traffic.
The company positions itself as consolidating DAO operations into a single platform — combining project management, contributor interaction visibility, analytics and a contributor reputation metric (Bushido) — rather than requiring teams to stitch together separate tools.
Technology
The platform is described as Web3/blockchain-based, with a Web3-native project management framework, team graphs, an analytics dashboard and a reputation metric named Bushido used to score and surface contributors.
Go-to-market
The company planned a staged rollout: a private alpha to a small invited group of users around mid-July 2022 with feedback from early adopters, followed by a public beta later in 2022. Pre-seed proceeds were allocated to hiring, development speed and bringing the platform to market.
DAOs — specifically DAO administrators, core teams and contributors — along with Web3 professionals seeking collaboration opportunities.
Geography
Headquartered in Singapore (Central Region), with founders and coverage tied to the Indian startup ecosystem; also listed in a Southeast Asian startup directory.
History
Sources give inconsistent founding dates: Startup ASEAN records a founded date of 2022-03-11, while YourStory and Inc42 list 2021. Press coverage from June 2022 described the company as having been started 'this year' (2022) in Singapore by Kushagra Agarwal and Navin. In June 2022 the company announced a $2.5 million pre-seed round and outlined plans for a mid-July 2022 private alpha followed by a public beta later that year.
Risks & controversies
Available sources disclose no controversies. Data risks include conflicting founding dates and headquarters listings across directories, very small reported headcount and web traffic, and the fact that FTX Ventures, one of the round's named backers, appears among its investors; no source reviewed reports the outcome of the planned 2022 public beta.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 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.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsAt the time of the pre-seed announcement, Samudai said it planned to release a private alpha of its platform to a small group of users around mid-July 2022, followed by a public beta later in 2022.
Samudai announced a $2.5 million pre-seed round with participation from FTX Ventures, Sino Global Capital, Coinbase Ventures, A&T Capital, Lunar Ventures, NxGen, Paradigm Shift Capital, DWeb3 Capital, Builders Tribe and Superteam DAO, plus angel investors including Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal and Charles Songhurst. Proceeds were earmarked for team growth, accelerating development and bringing the platform to market.
$2.5M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Samudaistartup-asean.org · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Samudai do?
- Singapore-based Web3 startup building an all-in-one coordination and productivity platform for DAOs.
- Who are Samudai's investors?
- Samudai's investors include Coinbase Ventures.