[rjdagost]

My experience in trying to raise funding for a business model similar to yours had me asking the same questions. If you're not shooting for the moon in terms of business size, VCs (and thus accelerators) are just not interested. They claim that it takes just as much time to “administer” a large investment as a small one, and thus they are only interested in the companies that are swinging for the fences. There seems to be a financing gap for “mid-size” companies, ones that fall between small local businesses and companies seeking to be the next Google. There's probably a big opportunity in this niche.