Angel List has never been an option. You still need, and always have needed, "warm introductions" from other connected people to gain even a modicum of interest

Angel List has never been an option. You still need, and always have needed, "warm introductions" from other connected people to gain even a modicum of interest. It's effectively Facebook for the already-connected. As others in this thread have pointed out, just bootstrap. It's what we did, and as a consequence we don't answer to any of the rent-seeking parasites of the finance world.