What’s the company/project name?

Gardens

What’s the company/project website if any?

https://gardens.fund/

Do you have a demo? Please give the url:

https://app.gardens.fund/

What’s your company/project going to make?

Gardens is a community governance platform that uses modular conviction voting pools to solve many of the common pitfalls in web3 governance, ecosystem growth, and communal decision-making.

How does your project plan to leverage the Kleros Protocol?

Looking to integrate Kleros for proposal disputability in our governance pools.

Who are the founders? Include a 5 to 10 line bio of each founder.

Founders:

Paul Glavin

• 4 years experience in web3 governance, project management, operations, and growth.
• Significant contributions at 1Hive, Honeyswap, Gitcoin, Giveth, BrightID, Panvala, and Gnosis Chain.
• 2nd ranked delegate in Gitcoin ecosystem: https://delegate.gitcoin.co/
• 10 years experience in web2 growth and marketing roles at early stage companies, with 1 successful exit.
• 2 years VC experience

Felipe Novaes Roche

• Full stack web developer with 4 years web3 experience and 24+ years total dev experience.
• Significant contributions at 1Hive, Honeyswap, Celeste, and Public Marquee
• Smart Contract security expert and educational content creator
• 3 years subgraph development experience on The Graph

Mati0x

• Frontend developer with 4 years web3 experience
• Significant contributions at Blobscan and 1Hive
• Project Lead for Beez Faucet - sybil resistant token faucet

Corantin Noll

• Full stack web developer with 4 years web3 experience.
• Previously built 1Hive Quests, and contributed to Celeste, Honeyswap,
• 2 years subgraph development experience on The Graph

How long have you been working in crypto? What’s your motivation for working in this industry?

4+ years each.

Our aim is to build a future that is more free, fair, and humane. We're building to solve the world's public goods problem by building community governance that harnesses collective intelligence while protecting the community from bad actors and common pitfalls of token governance.

How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet?

3 years, through the 1Hive community of web3 builders.

How long have each of you been working on this project? Have you been part-time or full-time?

1 year full time.

How far along are you? Do you have a beta yet? Have you launched? If so, how many users do you have? Do you have revenue? (share all the relevant information about the level of progress/adoption of your project).

We are in pre-beta, currently deployed on Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, Gnosis Chain, and Polygon.

400+ unique users, 60+ communities, $400k TVL

See our growth dashboard on Dune: https://dune.com/paul2/gardens-v2

Fees are not yet turned on for our platform.

What's new about what you're making? Do you have competitors? Who are they?

Our modular conviction voting design for community governance optimizes for bottom-up decision-making. Similar governance tools are Tally, Snapshot, Gitcoin Grants Stack, Flow State, and Flows.wtf.

Most of these are optimized for top-down governance, which often suffers from administrative bandwidth, biased selection, and decision-makers too far removed from the problems they’re solving.