I don’t mean to suggest it’s not sleazy—I think it’s sleazy by default. VC writing is not to be trusted.
Our investors (Spark, Amplify, Coil) are different to most, in that our partners are all highly technical.
Engineers, coders, CTOs who read the same research papers and attend the same technical conferences (CIDR, VLDB, SIGMOD, HYTRADBOI etc.).
In fact, that's how we met.