Do you really need VC money to put a proxy in front of other APIs? For what exactly? Marketing? What exactly you want to maket? You're already known.

Infrastructure? For proxying requests more infrastructure? You could just pay Cloudflare.

More engineers? But you yourself are the stret seller for the same snake oil that engineers aren't anymore necessary

So what that 100 million dollars are for?

ig this reply by co-founder of openrouter is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340940