Draft genome of *Daphnia galeata* shared with international collaborators and used for early access research purposes. This intermediate draft was produced using ONT Nanopore sequencing data (*D. galeata* clone G100-F1a) and assembled using CANU v1.8 and polished iteratively with Racon, Medaka, and Pilon. Improvements were assessed by BUSCO v3 and mapping success of Illumina derived WGS and RNAseq libraries from the same (G100-F1a) clone. The draft annotation was created using Maker.