In 2020, Dennison Bertram and Rafael Solari looked at the chaos of decentralized governance and saw something most people missed: potential. Not the kind you stick on a pitch deck and hope VCs bite. The kind that reshapes infrastructure. Legal structures are relics, slow, expensive, and allergic to transparency.Tally’s betting that DAOs will outgrow their legal shells and run leaner, faster, and freer with code as constitution.
Now they’ve locked in $8 million in Series A fuel from heavy-hitters like AppWorks, Blockchain Capital, 1kx, Placeholder VC, CyberFund, BitGo, and Bloccelerate VC. Not a token gesture, this is conviction capital aimed at fixing what’s broken in web3 governance. Tally’s stack isn’t just clean UX slapped on crypto, it’s the backbone of over $81 billion in on-chain assets and the lifeblood behind Uniswap DAO, Arbitrum, ZKsync, Eigenlayer, Wormhole, Hyperlane, and Obol. These aren’t your local town halls, they’re digital nations in formation.
DAO governance didn’t fail because people don’t care. It failed because the tools sucked. Tally’s fixing that. They're turning passive token holders into stakeholders who show up, weigh in, and walk away with more than stickers and good intentions. Staking meets voting in a way that makes participation profitable, and not just ideologically. You want to govern, you earn while you do it. It's the DAO version of sweat equity, minus the sweat.
This raise isn't just about scale. It's about philosophy in action. Tally is building what Dennison calls “the software layer for on-chain organizations,” a full-stack answer to a problem that’s long outgrown spreadsheets and social forums. Governance, treasury, upgrades, delegation, composable staking, it’s all there, clean, composable, and battle-tested across Ethereum and Solana.
The market sees it now. Institutional capital is warming to DAOs, thanks in part to regulatory fog finally lifting in the U.S. And Tally? They’re ready to capitalize, not by chasing hype, but by laying bricks. One protocol at a time.
Tally didn’t get here on vibes. They got here on volume. Over $1 billion in user-led transactions. Hundreds of thousands onboarded. Every stat is a vote of confidence, not from investors, but from the people who actually use the damn thing.
So yeah, you could say this $8M round is just the tally mark on a long climb. But that would miss the point. This isn’t a scorecard. It’s the blueprint.
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