Your question has several aspects to it. Get funded where? in SV? or in the US generally? Cambridge, MA is an option - there is a great ecosystem here. Altho

Your question has several aspects to it. Get funded where? in SV? or in the US generally? Cambridge, MA is an option - there is a great ecosystem here. Although my understanding is that east coast investors are more "conservative" than west coast early-stage investors and VCs.