DAO Maker was founded in 2019 by Christoph Zaknun, Giorgio Marciano, and Hatu Sheikh, with Malte Christensen joining later as COO. Zaknun, who studied medicine and has a bachelor's degree in robotics, moved into the crypto space in 2017 and became one of the early participants in the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) space. He co-founded TGE Alpha Corp in 2018 and helped set up ICO DOG, a marketing agency. DAO Maker has launched several successful projects, including Orion Protocol, My Neighbor Alice, LaunchX, and DAFI Protocol. The platform's native token, DAO, is non-inflationary and has a maximum supply of 312,000,000 coins, with a circulating volume of 143,942,531 DAO as of March 2023.