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Your founder Ali should have just received an email from justin@arkhaus.miami. Can you please check and confirm if you would like to participate? We are finalizing the partners in the next week.","author_name":"Sam Payrovi","votes":0,"created_at":"2022-11-17T16:15:08Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/ekchat#question-225828","answers":[]},{"id":223010,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:223010","question":"We want to know what you see your valuation will look like in 3 years also the income and balance statements Not to say much, I think we are very much interested in this project but then we are not opting for the crowdfunding route. We were wondering if you have provisions to accept alternative financing which should save time of WAITING SO LONG for your target to be met. With that we can cover over 50% of your target raise. 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