I don't want to be insulting here, but have you sat down with a partner at a VC before? You may be surprised to discover their skill is rarely deeply technical...

yes, I worked for a VC funded micro startup for 5 years

I was not impressed by any of the partners

(but hey they were better than the PE partners I worked for immediately after)

There's almost 0 skill required to plug in components meant to be plugged in to each other...