I've been trying to raise for a foundation model focused on commercial real estate investment analysis for a few months. I come from a Wall St. and university AI research background doing exactly what I'm raising for. I also have a team of very experienced PhD's that will be handling the technical build. We have an illustrative prototype and a lot of experience building more traditional ML/DL models (even some foundation models for other domains), but don't have a working version of the foundation model for our use case (it's going to require a decent amount of resources even for an early prototype of this). However..... I've been hearing a lot of "you're too early" responses from VC's, even early-stage. I know some of these could be gentle brush-offs, but some I know well and I believe they're being straight with me. I've raised money for more traditional investment vehicles, but not VC/tech/startup.…