So true. Actually anybody has a potential &quot;interest from VCs&quot;, because that&#x27;s what VCs do - they are interested, they look around, sniff, check, look at ideas. So anyone could say that they have the VCs interest in their stuff. 
The same is true for patens&#x2F;patent pending. Just don&#x27;s say this. If you said: we sold our patent for $xxx its completely different story.