Good points.

>I don’t know who needs to hear this

Plenty of people on this forum need to hear it. Because they think otherwise.

>but raising a ton of money is not success.

Yes. It's not even an accurate predictor of future success.

>With this large Series C, we have entirely de-risked capital going forward, which in turn assures our independence.

Independence from whom?

If they mean from everyone, they left out two important categories:

The Series C givers.

The other big C. Customers.