Some AI cannot have access to data set that's "ours" because it makes little sense.

We are trying to cluster user personalities and match it with our text corpus cluster in order to find the best documents matching the user's personality. For us Wikipedia raw data suffices since it's counterproductive to use proprietary searchable text corpus.

While the VCs viewpoint is totally understandable from their perspective, always chasing money & valuation gets aggravating for us startups.