Crypto BD outreach sequence: 3 touches, X first, email last

NAUT tracks 2,006 founder, co-founder and CEO contacts holding a current role at a live company, and on 9 November 2026 its record carried an X handle for 1,513 of them (75.4%), a Telegram handle for 926 (46.2%) and an email address for 50 (2.5%). A crypto BD outreach sequence built on that coverage opens on X, follows on Telegram, and keeps email as a third touch for the 1 in 40 of those contacts whose record holds one.

Data note

• Read from NAUT's own database on 9 November 2026. Scope: 13,939 contact records with a current role at a live NAUT company, of which 8,635 carry an X handle, 6,868 a Telegram handle and 708 an email address. The role slices below come from the stored job title: 2,006 rows matching founder, co-founder or CEO, 88 matching business development or partnerships, and 209 matching an investment, general or venture partner title.
• Funded teams: 106 round records closed in the 365 days to 9 November 2026. The 60 most recent of them, closing between 10 January and 25 September 2026, were pulled in full and cover 53 companies. 14 of those 53 carry at least 1 founder or CEO contact on NAUT's record, and those 14 are the teams tabled here.
• A channel count is NAUT's record on 9 November 2026. A 0 means NAUT holds no handle of that kind for that person, never that the person has no such channel.
• Source checks: 2 claims from this article went to outside sources and both came back confirmed. Ranger's raise was confirmed against 2 reports with the wording located on 1 of them; the founder title was confirmed from an X profile and a YC founder page without the wording located, so it is paraphrased here. The other 13 teams in the table were never read outside NAUT.
• Flagged: the same outside check indicates Barrett Williams now lists Ranger among companies he founded previously, while NAUT's record still carries the role as current. The sequence below is worked as a timing example on what NAUT stores.
• Flagged: every round line in the table below is NAUT's stored round record, read from the database on 9 November 2026. A project page can render a company's raise from a different record: a check of 2 of the 14 pages found Ranger's showing an IDO of $8.0M dated 6 January 2026 and Unitas's an IEO of $50.0K dated 13 March 2026. Treat the stored record and the page as 2 reads of the same raise.
• Left out as a defect: NAUT holds a round record for a company dated 20 May 2028, a future date, so it falls outside the 365-day window used here.
• Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

Which channels does the crypto BD outreach sequence open on?

X first, Telegram second, email third. The order is set by what NAUT's record actually holds for the person you want, measured on 9 November 2026 across the 2,006 founder and CEO contacts and the 88 contacts whose stored title names business development or partnerships. The 2 count columns below are shares of those 2,006 and of those 88.

Ranked by coverage among the 2,006 founder and CEO contacts, X leads, Telegram sits second and email is a long way behind both. The ranking flips for the 88 BD and partnerships contacts, where Telegram is the widest channel at 65 of 88. 37 of the 2,006 founder and CEO contacts carry all 3 channels, so a full 3-channel sequence runs end to end on fewer than 2 in 100 of them. Among the 209 contacts with an investment, general or venture partner title, 153 carry an X handle, 67 a Telegram handle and 5 an email address.

Which funded teams can you run all 3 touches on?

14 of the 53 companies behind NAUT's 60 most recent round records carry a founder or CEO contact, 16 contacts between them: GRVT and River list 2 each, the other 12 list 1. 8 of the 14 have both Telegram and X on file for that person, 1 has all 3 channels, and 2 have no channel of any kind on NAUT's record.

Company	Round	Channels
Plasma	IDO on Sonar Launchpad, $50M, 25 Sep 2026	X
Pept AI	IDO Round on Bio Launchpad, $0.05M, 15 May 2026	Telegram, X, email
GRVT	Strategic Round, $2.2M, 19 Mar 2026	Telegram, X
Katana Network	IDO on Binance Wallet, no amount stored, 18 Mar 2026	Telegram, X
Unitas	Seed Round, $13.3M, 11 Mar 2026	No channel on file
IDOs Network	ICO Round on Uniswap, no amount stored, 5 Mar 2026	Telegram, X
USD.AI	ICO Round on Coinlist, $21M, 27 Feb 2026	Telegram
Apyx	Strategic Round, $0.3M, 27 Feb 2026	Telegram, X
Dreamcash	Seed Round, no amount stored, 13 Feb 2026	Telegram, X
River	Strategic Round, $12M, 22 Jan 2026	X
Akedo	Seed Round, $5M, 18 Jan 2026	No channel on file
Noise	Seed Round, $7.1M, 14 Jan 2026	Telegram
TroveMarkets	ICO Round, $2.5M, 11 Jan 2026	Telegram, X
Ranger	ICO on MetaDAO, $6M, 10 Jan 2026	Telegram, X

Unitas also holds a second round record, a Binance Wallet round in March 2026, so the 14 teams carry 15 round records between them. The channel column counts the founder or CEO contacts NAUT lists for that company, so 2 decision makers with 1 X handle between them reads as X.

How much did these funded teams raise?

$119.45M across the 11 teams with an amount on NAUT's record, from Plasma at $50M down to Pept AI at $0.05M. 3 of the 14 store no amount: Katana Network, IDOs Network and Dreamcash.

How does the crypto BD outreach sequence work on 1 funded team?

Take Ranger, a decentralized trading platform on NAUT and the oldest round in the pull. Per NAUT's round record it closed an ICO on MetaDAO on 10 January 2026 at $6M, and 2 outside reports on the sale put the target at a minimum of $6M. Ranger's own project page renders the raise differently, as an IDO of $8.0M dated 6 January 2026, so read the page before you quote a figure back at a founder. The timing of the sequence below does not turn on which of the 2 you take.

NAUT lists 1 decision maker on the row, Barrett Williams, stored as Co-Founder. His record carries a Telegram handle and an X handle, and no email address. That is the shape 8 of the 14 teams are in, and it sets the sequence:

• Touch 1, day 0, X. The channel the record holds, and the one 1,513 of the 2,006 founder and CEO contacts share. Reference the round, not the product.
• Touch 2, day 2, Telegram. On file here, as it is for 926 of the 2,006. 1 line, the specific ask, no deck.
• Touch 3, day 5. No email on NAUT's record for this contact, which is the case for 1,956 of the 2,006, so the third touch goes back to X with a different angle, or to the company account NAUT stores for the row, @ranger_finance.

The founder title above is the point to check before you send. The outside check run for this article indicates he now names a different company first and lists Ranger among ones he founded previously, so a pitch built on the January round would land late.

What this crypto BD outreach sequence means for a BD team

• Build the list from the channels, then write the copy. 2 of the 14 funded teams have no founder channel at all on NAUT's record, so they are a company-account play or a warm intro, not a 3-touch sequence.
• Email is the weakest of the crypto outreach channels to open on: 50 of 2,006 founder and CEO contacts carry one, and 2 of 88 BD and partnerships contacts.
• When your counterpart is a BD or partnerships lead rather than the founder, flip touches 1 and 2. Telegram covers 65 of those 88 contacts and X covers 59.
• Sequence against the round date. The 14 teams here closed between 10 January and 25 September 2026, and Plasma's $50M on 25 September is the freshest reason to reach out in the set.

What this means for a founder raising

• Your own founder contact channels are how an investor reaches you, and the same counts apply in reverse: 50 of 2,006 founder and CEO records on NAUT carry an email, so an investor who only emails will miss most teams.
• Keep X and Telegram current on your NAUT page. 37 of the 2,006 contacts carry all 3 channels, and that is the group a sender can run a full sequence against.
• Investor-side partners are reachable the same way: of the 209 contacts with an investment, general or venture partner title, 153 carry an X handle against 5 with an email address.

Related reading on NAUT: Telegram outreach: 5 cold openers, 6,610 handles on file and Web3 sales playbook: 5 days, 49 founders, 3 channels each.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=co-founder with Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns the people search this article's role slices are cut from, and each record carries jobTitle, twitterHandle and the flags hasEmail, hasTelegram and hasLinkedin, which is what a channel count reads. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/ranger returns 1 of the 14 teams with its team list, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people/{id}?include=private reveals that person's email, telegram and LinkedIn at 10 credits the first time and 5 after that, against 5 credits for a data or search call; the docs are at naut.so/docs/api and the plans at naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for these people unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and open them.

Crypto BD outreach sequence FAQ

How do I sequence crypto BD outreach across channels?

Open on X, follow on Telegram 2 days later, and send email on day 5 only where the record holds an address. On NAUT's 2,006 founder, co-founder and CEO contacts, read on 9 November 2026, X covers 1,513 (75.4%), Telegram covers 926 (46.2%) and email covers 50 (2.5%).

Which channel works best for reaching a crypto BD lead?

Telegram. Of the 88 NAUT contacts whose stored job title names business development or partnerships, 65 carry a Telegram handle, 59 carry an X handle and 2 carry an email address, as of 9 November 2026.

How many crypto founders can you run all 3 touches on?

37 of the 2,006 founder, co-founder and CEO contacts on NAUT carry an email address, a Telegram handle and an X handle together, as of 9 November 2026. Among the 14 funded teams tabled here, 1 is in that position, Pept AI.

Where can I find funded crypto teams and their founder contact channels?

NAUT's project and people pages hold them: 14 of the 53 companies behind its 60 most recent round records carry a founder or CEO contact, 16 contacts in total, 8 of the 14 with both Telegram and X on file as of 9 November 2026. The same data comes back from GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=co-founder, and verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reveal the channels.

How current is NAUT's channel data?

Every count here was read from NAUT's database on 9 November 2026, and each count covers only records with a current role at a live company. A stored role can still lag, which is why the worked example above flags its own: the outside check on Barrett Williams indicates he has moved on from Ranger.

Sources

• NAUT's own database, read on 9 November 2026: contact records with a current role, their stored job titles, and whether each carries an email address, a Telegram handle and an X handle; round records closed in the 365 days to that date; and the founder and CEO contacts at each company behind the 60 most recent of those rounds.
• Ranger's $6M ICO on MetaDAO, closed 10 January 2026 as NAUT's round record stores it, against the IDO of $8.0M dated 6 January 2026 that its project page renders: BingX, with Phemex as a second source.
• Barrett Williams as a co-founder of Ranger, and the later move the data note flags: his X profile, with his Y Combinator founder page as a second source.
• NAUT API calls, credits and plans: naut.so/docs/api and naut.so/pricing.