BitDAO has no founders; the project is maintained by a group of contributors holding BIT tokens. By the way Bybit is an early contributor of BitDAO and has pledged recurring contributions to the BitDAO treasury which at 2021 rates exceeds 1B dollars per year. See: https://www.bitdao.io/analytics/

The protocol claim to have no teams or companies behind it — as it is a DAO — meaning that various individuals can propose changes to be made to the BitDAO protocol and it is up to the BIT holders (contributors) to vote on whether to accept or reject these suggested proposals. This project is supported by Peter Thiel, Founders Fund, Pantera, Dragonfly, Spartan, Bybit amongst others.

BitDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that wants to level the playing field for every person in the world by building a decentralized token economy. This protocol is one of the world’s newest and largest decentralized autonomous organizations focused on DeFi, and is managed by holders of BIT tokens.

One of the initiative's primary aims is to attract developer talent via token swaps and co-development efforts. The token swaps will enable the BitDAO treasury to accumulate a collection of the top crypto project tokens. BitDAO's vision is open finance and a decentralized tokenized economy. BitDAO hopes to support a broad range of projects including DeFi, DAOs, NFTs and gaming. Support will be in the form of research and development, liquidity bootstrapping and funding.