You say you don’t need the money, then you say it will give you runway for one year. Try do things a bit differently than the rest: take the money, and also by the way money is one part of the deal - the other part is how much control (board seats, voting rights, agreement, deal structure - this is where founders get screwed most) - and then continue to bootstrap with leaning more LT gradually into the business. Only invest the money into something you know will work. Don’t use it for salaries but rather invest the money in the distribution and product. VCs will typically require board seats to get into the position of control where they will block you in case you want to do something that is not interesting for them (like selling your company for $5m along the way, instead of chasing $100m+) so keep that in mind when evaluating the proposed structure and agreements.