Contrary to what some people will have you believe, a project of this magnitude will take 1 to 1.5 years to build up. The team are Ivy League and Top 30 Universities globally and have the worked for top corporate firms, hedge funds, banks and investment managers, they didn't just wake up one day and went let's do this. The founder started developing with smart contracts before Ethereum was funded, Codius is older than Ethereum...
So, yes funding is important to maintain the milestones on a road map, but we don't need to give up as the IEO was never a priority, it is just an opportunity to avoid lengthy discussions with VCs, after all they will also discount the equity they purchase, similar to what exchanges do or discounts on token purchases.
When you see the interest that we get, even before creating a BTT account or creating ICO tracker profiles etc, we don't have to worry for the time being.
We will publish the POC on the website end of the month to show how the algorithms & AI/ML models are currently performing.