The project was founded from the core as an enemy of whales.
If this is your main objective then you'll get no easy investors to take because most of the investors now are looking for a chance of easy take and that will happen if whales are around.
They use to go with the flow and following the whales actions towards the affect in each investment , if they find no easy target then why need to have interest in such project?
sorry but that is what I find in this case though yeah this can be wrong but lets see what is your faith towards investors .
Contrary to popular belief, whales also seek out such safe markets, because for every whale, there is another whale that is bigger. If you have a lot of money, you desire more security and stability.