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- Angel investor / HNWI who has some passion for it yes. Would skip VC.
Do you need to raise money? Only raise it if you need it.
by bix6 - There are also traditional small business loans.by apothegm
- If you are talking about capital to take over an already-operating business, then there are plenty of sources. If you are talking about people who fund pre-revenue software companies that aren’t venture scale ideas, unfortunately there aren’t many of these. Your best bet would be friends and family.by chadash
- You can do send emails to 50 funds and apply to YC for example. Based on the feedback you receive you can decide what to do next. It can be that you do not see how to grow business beyond $50M but at this stage VCs invest in founders, not ideas.