Sorry to hear, Kyle! But keep in mind: good ideas always survive, you just need to find the right business model for them. Maybe Basis didn't work as a VC funded business from day one. But take Foxglove again: they came out of the open-source release of webviz from Cruise. That's how they "bootstrapped". Would love to see what would happen if you worked inside another company that wants to build their own middle-ware but also knows that they do not need to own it and would benefit from more users (because more "test coverage", more developers, more extensions). Then, after a couple of year, it might be ready enough where other companies can try it and get value very quickly (and much faster than they could now).