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Andreas Arnold is an industrial engineer, social entrepreneur, and expert in cooperative business models and financing. He serves on the board of Platform Coops eG and has long supported startups, founder teams, and companies working on social innovation and cooperative platform models.

To help shape the cooperative digital economy in Germany and Europe, Andreas is actively engaged in the Web3 space—particularly in the areas of blockchains and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

He previously led the digital transformation and marketplace development of the freelancer cooperative SMartDe eG, coordinated the marketplace strategy for the blockchain-based UBI project Circles, and advised its partner organization Circles Coop eG.

Most recently, he co-founded coopDAO, a new initiative building bridges between the cooperative economy and Web3 technologies.