Cool newsletter! It's exciting to see the overlap of HN and synthesizers and music production. I frequently see articles here about sound design related concepts.
Warm introductions are the key. Find a couple of target funds and see who they recently invested in. Try to reach out to the founders of those companies for advice / chat. Ask if they can give you an introduction to one of the funds and give them a forwardable blurb with your deck. Once you get a meeting with a well-respected firm, they will likely be willing to introduce you to other VC firms.
This is just my 2 cents based on working as contractor at a VC in San Francisco. Like most things, there's many other ways to get your foot in the door.
If you already have authentication and authorization in front of every service in your internal network (unlikely), it's as easy as making everything routable from the internet.
If not (more likely) you need to start there, which will improve your security posture incrementally, even if the beyondcorp project gets cancelled along the way.
I will add that in the case of authentication before each service, it is important that it does not happen in the application itself, but before reaching it, which usually means either network centralization (e.g. Teleport) or authentication proxy (Traefik + forward auth + proxy, GCP identity-proxy, AWS Verified Access). It is also important to centralize the identity provider, of course, which in the times of SAML / OAuth is easily achievable even for small organizations.
FWIW I'm a product designer and I try onboarding for dozens of different products every month to make sure I'm aware of the latest and greatest patterns. I love your approach to self-serve onboarding for connectors.
