Rather than thinking about things you can't realistically change (sex/race), I would think about other things - e.g., is your company the sort of thing that VC'

Rather than thinking about things you can't realistically change (sex/race), I would think about other things - e.g., is your company the sort of thing that VC's want to fund? And, do you really want VC? If your business is VC-friendly, and you want to go on the VC ride, then yes, you should go for it. Even if you don't get funded, or even if funding doesn't go the way you want it to, you will learn a lot of interesting stuff and make a lot of good connections. I went through the VC cycle 2x in the first dot-com boom and learned a tremendous amount from it. (Including a lot of skepticism about whether or not VC is a good path for founders - it is absolutely not the only good path.) This article does a reasonable job of helping identify which companies might be VC-compatible and which aren't: https://medium.com/point-nine-news/the-rise-of-non-vc-compatible-saas-companies-47054f1f3b29 https://medium.com/point-nine-news/the-rise-of-non-vc-compat...