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Building the founder discovery layer of the venture stack
Express InterestNo proof, no capital
No time to evaluate
No discovery infrastructure exists
Peer-reviewed research shows that information asymmetry is a primary constraint on how early-stage capital is allocated.
Relationships become collateral
Emotion overrides judgment
Cold Start funding non-existent
Peer-reviewed research shows early funding from strong social ties increases anticipated guilt and reduces founder risk-taking.
What if discovery didn’t depend on warm intros or geography — but on communities that already understand their founders?
Thousands of untapped communities
Communities understand their founders
Discovery happens everywhere simultaneously
A new mechanism anyone can play that separates discovery from capital formation. Community members stake conviction — not equity — to surface the best founders.
Where founders enter the system
How they get funded (grants via VentureStake allocation)
How they build proof/signal for future investors
Any future investment activity, if it occurs, happens separately and outside the VentureStaking discovery system.
VentureStaking® Arenas don’t just serve investors — they create a fundamentally better path for founders.
Grants funded by community belief
Real signal from people who understand your market
Unlock your first equity round
VentureStaking® doesn’t replace professional investors — it makes their jobs dramatically easier.
Founders validated by community signal before they reach your desk
Watch founders execute in real-time, long before the pitch deck arrives
Leverage collective intelligence from people closest to the market
Before building, we studied how everyday people actually make startup investment decisions. Fantasy Startup® is the research engine behind VentureStaking — and it’s already generating behavioral data.
Doriot is raising its Seed round publicly.
We are building infrastructure to organize early-stage venture discovery for communities beyond Silicon Valley. Raising in public is a natural extension of that mission — if we believe access should be wider, our own process should reflect it.
These are the structural convictions behind Doriot — and behind the decision to raise openly.
Venture participation has historically been confined to a narrow network. Doriot is building infrastructure where access is earned through insight and conviction, not through connections or geography.
Most investors encounter startups after value has already been captured. VentureStaking® organizes structured discovery at the earliest stage — before pricing, before rounds, before traditional gatekeepers arrive.
AI is expanding the number of capable founders faster than existing systems can evaluate them. Doriot provides the discovery layer — community-driven, compliance-first, and designed to scale with this new reality.
Real milestones from the journey so far. No vanity metrics. No projections. Just what has been completed and what is underway.
Doriot is building venture discovery infrastructure designed for communities, not just Silicon Valley. If that resonates, we welcome your interest.