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To make it easy for people all over the world to build organisations together, online.
20% female employees
As Decentralized Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) become more common, there is a need for more tools and infrastructure to help them work and succeed. Colony is delivering this, as a protocol for self-organizing teams to collectively manage money, make decisions, and receive compensation.
Where a typical organization would store its rules for things such as seniority and ownership in documents, Colony allows DAOs to encode their rules in smart contracts deployed on Ethereum. This approach has the ideals of decentralization at its core – being trustless, open, and meritocratic. Users simply deploy the smart contract that will serve as the organization’s foundation. Then, people can join by invitation or application and contribute to projects, earning reputation tokens in return that impact both their budget and voting power.
The company has collected a range of use cases since launch, and boasts a roadmap of further development in areas including scalability and privacy. With the adoption of DAOs continuing to rise, Colony has positioned itself well to stand out as a strong option in the space and hopefully establish itself as an early leader.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Sep 2021
$12m
SEED
Jack du Rose
(Founder)CEO at Colony, and a Mentor with Outlier Ventures. Jack is a former jewellery designer best know for designing Damien Hirst's $100m diamond encrusted skull "For the Love of God".
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Every role here at Colony takes on the challenging projects, working together to craft user-centric solutions for a new era of collaboration and governance. The team is committed to redefining how people work together, embracing the complexities of decentralized ecosystems. Every day brings a new opportunity to be creative, be challenged and find new paths forward. It's a rewarding team to be a part of.
Design
Challenging work
Sep 2023
Autonomy is a huge part of everyone's role here at Colony. Everyone is entrusted with a high level of independence and ownership, and there is full transparency across the board, right down to open salaries and time-off etc. I have the freedom to make critical decisions, experiment with innovative concepts, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This autonomy accelerates the projects we work on, allowing me to deliver outputs that are meaningful and rewarding.
Design
Autonomy
Sep 2023
I have the privilege of leading projects that go beyond aesthetics; they have a real impact on how people collaborate and interact in decentralized organizations. Knowing that our work empower teams to work more efficiently, make fairer decisions, and achieve their own goals gives profound meaning to my work.
Design
Meaningful work
Sep 2023
Colony has open salaries, a strange concept for most, but one that, after you get used to it, works great as it eliminates the trust issues some workplaces instill. Salaries are determined by a standard formula and reward hard work.
Software Engineering
Fair compensation
Sep 2023
Working at Colony has allowed me to expand my horizons and pushed to the limit in order to deliver a complex and amazing product. All the while being supported by an amazing team of engineers who enabled me to deliver on the goals of the company.
Software Engineering
Intelligent people
Sep 2023
Working for Colony has great work life balance, allowing me to have a rewarding career as well as being able to focus on my personal hobbies. Another aspect that factors into this is the focus on growing as a developer/engineer by having your own budget to spend on bettering yourself.
Software Engineering
Focus on employee wellbeing
Sep 2023
Freedom/autonomy: you're given a lot of space and responsibility early on to just go and get on with the job. There's not a lot of formal management / hierarchy, so you're free to go and solve a problem and then come back when you have a solution. The team does have a pretty standard code review process in place, but that's as far as it goes in terms of oversight. And any bigger challenges can always be discussed as a group before you go off and solve it. Great if you like being given the time and space to solve interesting, difficult, and often un-stack-overflowable problems!
Software Engineering
Autonomy
Sep 2023
Transparency: salaries are internally transparent, and comp is tied to performance/responsibility not just tenure. If after one year here you've proven you can work independently and add value to the team, you'll be rewarded (speaking from experience!).
Software Engineering
Fair compensation
Sep 2023
Virtually all company decision making processes are open to all, either directly in the sense of being invited and/or expected to participate, or indirectly insofar as the all internal communication channels are visible to all and you can thus observe what's happening across the company (and speak up if you wish to!). Fortnightly all hands also increases company-wide communication lines, and there's a culture in Colony of transparently discussing key company metrics. Also, Colony is genuinely looking to improve its processes and therefore all feedback, especially constructive, is welcome and valued.
Software Engineering
Open and honest communication
Sep 2023
Colony is developing cutting-edge software for running organizations. Much more exciting than optimizing advertising clicks or finding ways to make rich people richer.
Software Engineering
Meaningful work
Sep 2023
As a remote team, everyone is given a lot of space to work on their projects. After five years I still enjoy logging on every morning and seeing what's going on.
Software Engineering
Autonomy
Sep 2023
Colony draws an interesting and international group of people. I always enjoy interacting with other teammates and hearing their opinions. Definitely not a basic group.
Software Engineering
Intelligent people
Sep 2023