I know this is heresy around here, but have you looked at F#? It's functional, has type inferencing, even in the dev environment, straight forward parallel versions of functions (pmap vs map), async IO, amazing dev tools, a REPL inside of Visual Studio, access to all of the .NET libraries. And, chances are, it's going to be around for a while.
You're absolutely on the right track. As startups struggle to hire, new startups should be looking to off loading more and more of their work to more productive programming languages.
You're absolutely on the right track. As startups struggle to hire, new startups should be looking to off loading more and more of their work to more productive programming languages.