You have the wrong perception when it comes to this matter because it isn't really that necessary to have big accumulated amount of funds.
Success vary on the team itself if they would push through on making the platform stable and do its job into the public.The only wrong thing here
is that project owners aren't really that serious enough to that extent where they do only just target out on collecting their investors money and ran it off.
Very few things in crypto actually relies on a lot of funds unless you intend to pay for results (that is, have a lot of paid marketing and PR options like paid ads, sponsored articles etc).
And this is why I don't trust in the least now people who needs funds to develop something. Satoshi didn't need funds, why should others? Right?