It's 100x worse if you are over the age of 45 regardless of gender. You can be profitable and growing and your grey hairs will turn off the majority of VC's. Agism is so accepted there's not even lip service paid to combatting it as there often is with founders of color or female founders.
If you're over 45 and really smart, you should already have great connections and/or capital built up using your personal investments. Actually what I realized when I was 30, is that at that point the only way I was able to get an interview was through my connections...through my ex collegaues I could get an interview with any company I wanted to in 1 day though (I just didn't try that first).
