ValleyDAO is an organization dedicated to addressing critical climate and food challenges through funding and incubation of academic research, and community building in the field of synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology. It leverages the coordination principles of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and new technologies like Intellectual Property Non-Fungible Tokens (IP-NFT) to make synthetic biology research funding faster, cheaper, and democratic while also ensuring the maximum real-world impact of the resulting technologies.