Ask HN: How do you get to VCs if you don't live in the valley?

If you're in London a number of VCs run open-hours where anyone can come along and meet them.

You should think of joining an incubator in terms of: if we joined this incubator would they increase the value of our business by substantially more than 6% that they'll take (or whatever stake). And if so you should consider joining one.

Vancouver does have significant conferences, for example the GROW conference in August had a pretty high-profile list of speakers and attendees. There have been at least a dozen or so companies in Vancouver who've raised VC rounds this year.

Almost all successful startups and tech companies will have connections to VCs (regardless if they were venture funded or not), so one good route would be to network with the founders of the successful startups in Vancouver and get introductions to VCs from them.