I suggest you simultaneously pursue the buyout and continue trying to raise your funding. Neither event is 100% likely to succeed, hence do both. If it turns o

I suggest you simultaneously pursue the buyout and continue trying to raise your funding. Neither event is 100% likely to succeed, hence do both. If it turns out you get to choose which one happens, that's a nice choice to have. And please strongly credit other posters' observations about 'bird in hand vs. two in bush'. If the buyout were 100% probable, my advice would be to do that. There isn't a shortage of opportunities and personal financial security will increase the range of those that are feasible for you.