I have an idea for a digital product that I would use everyday, would spend thousands on every year, is addressing a very large, stale market with limited technology and inert competitors. Only catch is it revolves around the gun community. As I understand it, VCs cannot invest in these ideas. I’m building it as we speak but would like it to go faster and am exploring raising a round. But my only question is how? Everything I know from YC does not apply here. Any ideas?
I think VCs can invest in any legal realm they choose, although some may seek to avoid publicity because of de facto cancel culture in blue states.<p>Have you identified an existing, profitable product/service that you wish to disrupt with your product?<p>I'm curious. I co-founded what was the largest local grassroots RKBA group in the country in the 90s-2000s (originally an NRA Members' Council, we later disassociated from NRA to avoid problematic intra-NRA politics). Contact info in profile.
Gun products sound very US-centric... And even there, there is lots of anti-gun sentiment. Are you sure you want to exclude most if not all of Europe, half of the US, and potentially more from your addressable market?
From what I can see following YouTube videos is that there is a ton of innovation and small business activity around guns in the USA. Maybe approach one of the bigger companies in that space?