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Find a round
Browse live funding rounds on the Dance Floors. Filter by industry vertical, funding stage, and which VC is hosting the dance floor.
Venture co-investment app · Case study
Live prototype
iPhone-first
2026
Co-invest alongside the venture funds shaping the future you'll inherit. Buy startup equity and hold it in your crypto wallet.
Disco Capital. We get everyone on the dance floor.
We get everyone on the dance floor.
01 — At a glance
- What it is
- A mobile app that lets everyday investors join the same venture rounds top funds lead, from as little as $100, and hold the tokenized equity in your crypto wallet.
- My role
- A solo, self-initiated concept. I ran research and concept, brand identity, a dark-mode design system, the 5-tab iPhone-first app, and the pitch deck.
- Build status
- HTML prototype live; React Native app in progress.
- Tools
- Figma, Illustrator, and Claude Code.
- Links
- disco-capital.com ↗ · Design system ↗
02 — The problem
The velvet rope around startup investing needs to go.
The best rounds are reserved for accredited investors. Roughly 24 million U.S. households qualify, and most of them aren't ultra-wealthy in the Sand Hill Road sense. They're everyday Americans with some assets who'd gladly put $5K–$10K behind founders they believe in.
Below them sits everyone else: millions of non-accredited investors kept out by regulation. At the front of that line is the generation that understands these companies instinctively: young builders who grew up crypto-native and AI-fluent, watching the future take shape while they're shut out of owning any piece of it.
What stops all of them is access.
It used to mean geography: you had to be in the room, near the Valley, on the right list. Startups build in public now, so Disco brings the opportunity online. You find founders, learn their story, and invest fractionally, with ownership settled by smart contract and nothing held by a middleman.
We're starting where the law already allows. Phase one serves the millions of accredited investors who were never given a clean product for smaller, high-conviction investments. Phase two drops the rope for everyone else, especially the young investors most ready to step onto the dance floor. The rules are already moving: the INVEST Act (H.R. 3383) passed the House in December 2025 and would let people qualify on knowledge and experience, not only wealth.
03 — How it works
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Invest in a few taps
Take a real equity stake in the startup. The fund running the round already set the valuation and terms.
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Hold it as an NFT
Your fractional equity lands in your wallet as a token you own outright.
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Get paid automatically
Chainlink oracles trigger the payout when a company exits, so you skip the paperwork and the wait on a fund admin.
04 — Inside the app
Five tabs, one idea: drop the velvet rope on venture capital.
Five bespoke icons drive the bottom nav: white when idle, a uniform hot-pink glow when a tab is active, so you always know where you are. Each one opens a screen below.
FLOORS
WALLET
PUNCH
SOCIAL
PROFILE
The home screen
A feed of active funding rounds.
The home tab, "Dance Floors," is a scrollable feed of rounds you can join right now. Each card carries the amount raised, the valuation, and the investor count, plus a funding-progress bar that glows in the round's category color.
It reads like a social feed rather than a trading terminal, and that was the point: the people locked out of venture were never short on interest, only on access, so a feed brings the rounds to them wherever they are.
Filtering
Filter by industry vertical, funding stage, or VC host.
Disco's real value is the fund behind a round, so the filter treats VC Host as a first-class dimension, alongside industry vertical and funding stage: Sequoia, a16z, Founders Fund, YC, and the rest.
Selection is the only thing that lights up. An unselected pill is a quiet outline; a selected one goes solid neon-green. Color earns its place by meaning "on."
The round
Every round reads like a story and ends in one tap.
Open a round and it unfolds top to bottom like a story. First who they are and what they're building, then the numbers that matter: valuation, raised, the minimum to get in. There's nothing to dig through and no jargon to decode.
Enter an amount and a live receipt does the math for you: the NFT tokens you'll receive, the fee, the network. The numbers are set in mono, green marks money moving in, and the whole sheet resolves to one glowing Invest button.
Wallet
Your portfolio, the way it should look.
Total value up top, three figures beneath it (invested, returns, holdings), and a performance line that glows green as it climbs. It shows everything you need at a glance and not much else.
It's the screen that turns "I own a slice of a startup" from an abstraction into something you check once a month, the way you'd read a progress report rather than a stock ticker.
The signature feature
Blend positions with fellow investors, without anyone selling.
The Punch Bowl is a peer-to-peer floor for the NFT positions. If you missed a round, or you're holding a piece someone else wants, you can blend a slice of your position with theirs and diversify without cashing out. Smart contracts handle the math and mint the blended position as a new instrument.
It's the one screen that leans pink and purple, the system's "action and negotiation" register, which sets bargaining apart from the calm green of holding.
Social
Founders build in public, so you see what VCs see.
Disco Social is where founders build in public, posting the videos, infographics, and investment materials a VC would normally see only in a private pitch. You follow their progress, get to know the team, and decide who's worth backing. When a founder opens a round, an alert tells you it's live and you can join. It's the front-row access that used to be VC-only, opened to everyone.
Profile
Your track record, charted.
Your profile turns a year of investing into a stacked neon bar chart, each sector keyed to its own color so you can see at a glance where your conviction went. Underneath sit ROI, monthly and yearly deltas, and a clean sector breakdown: the record of what you chose to back.
The charts are drawn from the system's own vocabulary, with no off-the-shelf library, so even the analytics feel like the brand.
05 — Decisions
What Disco is, and what it refuses to be.
The most important decision was what I chose not to build.
I chose not to make Disco a trading terminal. There are no 30-minute charts, no candlesticks, and nothing built to nudge you into buying and selling all day.
It's built for the opposite. You discover founders through a simple, scrollable feed, learn their story, get to know the team, and follow real progress. When you invest, you do it with intention. You're backing a team, not flipping a token, and then you hold, because you believe in the people and the vision.
Strip out the noise that tempts people to treat early-stage companies like day-trading assets, and what's left is conviction and long-term ownership.
06 — The system behind the screens
Six rules every screen obeys.
None of those screens are one-offs. They come from a single dark-mode design system I built first (tokens, type, components, charts, and a11y), governed by six principles:
Dark-first
Background is always near-black. Cards lift by elevation, not borders.
Glow is the accent
Bars, charts and active icons emit a soft glow. Glow signals "alive."
Mono numbers, always
Every figure renders in JetBrains Mono. A number in a sans face is a bug.
Color is meaning
Green = positive, pink = negative, cyan = link, yellow = warning. Never decoration.
Breathing room
24px card padding, 32px section gaps. Whitespace is the most underused tool.
Agent-native
Every surface has a structured-data twin, authored to be parsed by the app's AI agent.
Open the full design system ↗: principles, marks, palette, type scale, component gallery, chart vocabulary, and accessibility.
07 — Before the build
Sketched and wireframed in Figma before a single line of code was written.
08 — Explore