[gameprogrammer] Seeking funds

Hello,

I hope this is not off-topic for this list, but I think it's not.

Maybe some of you know, I'm the founder of a "large" MMORPG project.
At the present time, we are all (about 15 individuals) working for free (having game company stocks in exchange), at an average of 40% of full time (yea, we all have to earn money to live). We've been working for 1 year now, and we plan to release the game in 4 years.
The project is going very well, but now, we need to concentrate on it (stop having to work aside), and for that, we need, guess what… money.
We decided to create an investors presentation (a PDF of about 20 pages, explaining keys elements of the game), alongside with this presentation, a website will be available. But we don't know who would be interested in this.
Even if I have a bit of experience with running a company, as I've been running mine for 9 years, I never had to find investors.
After a quick calculation, we would need about $5'000'000 to have everything going smoothly. We need to hire about 4-5 artists full-time to finish the game. Now, we have very talented people, but without money, it's impossible for them to work full-time. This sum also includes hardware and a couple of other things, but it's mostly people salaries. Of course, we don't need it immediately, right now, it's more about $200'000 to start hiring people.
So… here I am, asking you all, as you are from this industry, how to proceed. Any comment, pointer, anything (you can even say I'm crazy), very much appreciated. 


Best regards

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kuon

http://kuon.goyman.com
http://goyman.com


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