It should be haram to raise before u have the product live and running. Given the cost of execution has gone down, raising anything before u have something live is bs….

Hardware related startup’s are a different thing and we all know how much capital intensive it is to produce at scale. I worked briefly on building drone tech for the Indian army before going full time in crypto and the heavy regret of things not working out for me on that side makes me never look into how far things have come in that world 😶‍🌫️