I'm not a business owner, so this advice might be naive, but is there a reason you couldn't get a business loan from a bank instead of VC money? If you've got a

I'm not a business owner, so this advice might be naive, but is there a reason you couldn't get a business loan from a bank instead of VC money? If you've got a strong enough business (which it sounds like you do), I'm confident they'd be interested, and it's not like they don't have the cash to invest.