Investor went quiet: 4 steps, 19 of 37 backers past a year

An investor went quiet after the intro, so date the silence before you chase it: open the fund's NAUT page, count the days since its last announced round, then weigh that against the gap the fund normally leaves between rounds. NAUT's records, read on 10 November 2026, hold 37 published investor rows as backers of Monad's $225M round announced 8 April 2024, and 19 of those 37 have no dated round in the last 365 days while 9 joined another inside the last 30.

How this was measured: on 10 November 2026 NAUT read every backer row on that single round, and for each backer every other funding round it is recorded in. The round carries 39 backer rows. 2 of them stay out of the 37 because NAUT does not hold them as investment firms: Beam (prev. Merit Circle), a gaming network row, and Caladan, a service provider row. For each of the remaining 37 this article uses 3 figures from NAUT's own data: how many dated rounds the fund is recorded in, the median number of days between those rounds, and the days from its most recent dated round to 10 November 2026. A round here is the deal, never the cheque, since what a single fund put in is rarely public. A round counts only when NAUT holds an announce date for it, so a fund's own NAUT page can list more rows than the count in the table below. 5 outside claims about this company and these rounds were put through a source check on 10 November 2026, and the 37 funds' own round records were not: 1 claim came back confirmed with the wording found on the page, and 4 came back different from the claim, which is why every gap below is a day count from NAUT's own records. Sources carries the detail.

What to do when an investor went quiet: the 4 steps

The sequence runs on 2 numbers you can read off a NAUT fund page in a minute: the date of the fund's last announced round, and the typical gap between its rounds.

• A date on its own says little. 945 days of silence at a fund with 1 dated round means something different from 460 days at a fund with 96.
• The fund's median gap is the yardstick. Inside it, the pause sits with your deal rather than with the fund's pace.
• The fund's next announced round is the trigger for the investor follow-up, because it is dated, public and proof that money is moving.
• A firm cannot read a message. A named person at the firm can.

Step 1: date the silence

Open the fund's NAUT page, read the date of its most recent round, then count. Across Monad's 37 investor backers the spread on 10 November 2026 is wide: 9 inside 30 days, 16 inside 90 days, 2 between 91 and 365 days, and 19 past 365 days. 7 of the 37 have no dated round after Monad's own, which is 945 days of silence on NAUT's record: Edessa Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Hailstone Labs, Hermeneutic Investments, Makers Fund, Manifold and Shoe on Ventures.

That is a statement about what NAUT tracks, never a verdict on the firm. A fund can write a cheque without an announcement, and some of these rows belong to firms that moved to later stages or to other asset classes. The day count is the prompt to check, and the check is the fund's own site and X account.

Step 2: compare it with the fund's own cadence

31 of the 37 are recorded in 2 or more dated rounds, so each of those has a median gap between rounds. 14 of the 31 are still inside their own median, which puts them on schedule and makes the quiet specific to you. 17 are past it, and 14 of the 17 are more than 3 times past it. The 2 readings pull apart fast: CMS Holdings has a 5-day median across 96 dated rounds and 460 days of silence, roughly 92 times its own pace, while Castle Island Ventures has a 124-day median across 8 dated rounds and a last round 13 days ago.

The 6 funds with a single dated round, Monad's own, have no median to measure: Edessa Capital, Hailstone Labs, Hermeneutic Investments, Makers Fund, Manifold and Shoe on Ventures. For those the fund's site and X account are the only read on whether it is still deploying.

Step 3: time the follow-up to the fund's next announced round

A fund that has just announced a round is deploying, is talking to press, and has handed you a dated reason to write. That is the moment to re-engage an investor who stopped replying. 15 of Monad's 37 investor backers announced another dated round inside 30 days of 8 April 2024: Amber Group 3 days later, Coinbase Ventures and CoinFund 7 days later each.

The wait differs by fund. Paradigm took 381 days from Monad to its next dated round, at Nous Research, and nothing dated after it, which is 564 days as of 10 November 2026 against a 103-day median across 20 dated rounds. Castle Island Ventures, Nascent and eGirl Capital all reappear 478 days after Monad on the same deal, Stable. A founder watching those 3 funds had 1 trigger in 16 months, then 3 funds back in the market on the same day.

Step 4: change the person and the channel

Silence from 1 inbox is not silence from the firm. Open the fund's NAUT page, read the people on it, and pick a second name whose title says they decide: Partner, General Partner, Managing Partner, Founder. Then move channel. NAUT lists which channels it holds for each person, so a note that died in email can go to Telegram or LinkedIn instead.

Company pages work the same way in the other direction. Monad's page lists its 3 co-founders, Keone Hon, James Hunsaker and Eunice Giarta, which is how a fund or a BD team reaches that team instead of its support address. Anyone listed can ask NAUT to remove their page at https://naut.so/legal/data-deletion.

How do you tell if an investor went quiet, or the whole fund did?

Put the days of silence next to the fund's own median gap and the 2 cases separate cleanly. 17 of the 31 funds with a measurable cadence are past their median on 10 November 2026, the deepest of them Greenoaks Capital at 945 days against a 685-day median and Paradigm at 564 against 103. The yardstick itself moves by fund, which the chart below shows on the 11 backers here with 40 or more dated rounds on NAUT, the rows where a median rests on enough deals to mean something.

7 of those 11 deeply recorded funds are past their own median on 10 November 2026, CMS Holdings widest at 460 days against 5. A fund inside its median, such as Coinbase Ventures at 5 days of quiet against an 8-day median across 126 dated rounds, is answering someone, so there the message is the thing to change, and in the rows above it the timing is.

Which of Monad's 37 investor backers are still writing cheques?

9 of them have a dated round inside the last 30 days. The table ranks all 37 by the days since each fund's last dated round, longest silence first. The columns are the fund, the dated rounds NAUT holds for it, its median gap in days, and its days of quiet. Where the days of quiet run past the median, the fund is behind its own pace; the 6 funds with a single dated round have no median to measure against, shown as n/a.

Fund	Rounds	Median	Quiet
Edessa Capital	1	n/a	945
Greenoaks Capital	2	685	945
Hailstone Labs	1	n/a	945
HIHermeneutic Investments	1	n/a	945
Makers Fund	1	n/a	945
Manifold	1	n/a	945
Shoe on Ventures	1	n/a	945
Superscrypt	3	292	942
Tess Ventures	2	7	938
Bodhi Ventures	2	157	788
Bankless	11	13	727
Galaxy Digital (Ventures)	28	53	687
Figment Capital	30	27	664
Presto Labs	8	38	624
Paradigm	20	103	564
eGirl Capital	2	478	467
CMS Holdings	96	5	460
HTX Ventures	73	14	441
Animoca Brands (Ventures)	25	34	434
GSR	98	9	354
SevenX Ventures	67	13	243
Electric Capital	28	60	48
DBA	2	905	40
Big Brain Holdings	68	8	39
Breed VC	2	908	37
Mirana Ventures	60	14	35
Wintermute	44	19	35
Robot Ventures	38	35	34
Archetype	4	448	26
CoinFund	43	34	15
IOSG Ventures	58	21	15
Castle Island Ventures	8	124	13
Nascent	27	29	13
Amber Group	53	21	8
Faction	10	27	8
Flow Traders	6	38	8
Coinbase Ventures	126	8	5

Read the rounds and median columns together. A 908-day median at Breed VC rests on 2 dated rounds and says almost nothing about the next 6 months, while a 9-day median at GSR rests on 98 dated rounds and makes 354 days of quiet a real signal.

When an investor went quiet, when should the follow-up land?

On the fund's next public event, inside the week it happens. Timing beats volume once an investor stopped replying. The counts above give the odds: 15 of the 37 backers announced another round within 30 days of Monad's, so at most funds a trigger arrives fast, and Paradigm at 381 days is the case where a founder needs a reason of their own.

3 things make a follow-up land better than a reminder does. Name the fund's new round and why your company sits next to it. Carry 1 number that moved since the intro. Ask for a decision rather than a meeting, so a no arrives fast and the row closes.

Who do you write to at a fund that has gone quiet?

The person whose title says they commit capital, and a second one if the first stays quiet past the fund's median gap. Each fund page on NAUT carries its team, its dated rounds and the dates this article counts from, so a shortlist of 37 funds turns into a list of named people in a single pass.

Related reading on NAUT: Cold email templates for investors: 5 for 557 crypto funds and How to ask for a warm introduction in crypto: 5 templates.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/paradigm returns that fund with its team and its portfolio rows, each row carrying the company, roundType, amountUsd and announceDate, which are the fields every day count in this article is built from, and the same call with any slug from the table returns that fund's history. It costs 5 credits, the price of any data or search call, plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits on https://naut.so/pricing, and the documented parameters sit at https://naut.so/docs/api. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people at those funds unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial at https://naut.so and write to a second decision maker the same day.

Investor went quiet FAQ

What to do when an investor goes quiet after an intro?

Count the days since the fund's last announced round, weigh that against the fund's median gap between rounds, time your follow-up to its next announced round, then write to a second decision maker on another channel. On NAUT's data of 10 November 2026, 19 of the 37 investor backers of Monad's $225M round have no dated round in 365 days, so for more than half of them the silence is wider than any single deal.

How long should I wait before following up with a crypto VC that stopped replying?

Use the fund's own pace rather than a fixed number: the median gap between rounds across these 37 funds runs from 5 days at CMS Holdings to 908 days at Breed VC. A fund still inside its median, like Coinbase Ventures at 5 days of quiet against an 8-day median, is active, so there the follow-up is about your deal.

Does a quiet fund mean it stopped investing?

It means NAUT holds no dated round for it, which is coverage rather than a verdict: 19 of Monad's 37 investor backers are past 365 days, and 7 of them have nothing dated since the round itself on 8 April 2024, 945 days before 10 November 2026. Check the fund's own site and X account before you write it off.

Where can I find these 37 funds, their round dates and their contact channels?

Each fund's NAUT page carries its dated rounds, their dates and the people on the team, the directory is at https://naut.so, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/castle-island-ventures returns the same rows for any 1 of the 37. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial at https://naut.so and reach the partner directly.

Which of Monad's backers have been quiet the longest?

7 of the 37 have no dated round on NAUT after Monad's round of 8 April 2024, which is 945 days as of 10 November 2026: Edessa Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Hailstone Labs, Hermeneutic Investments, Makers Fund, Manifold and Shoe on Ventures.

Sources

• NAUT's own database, read on 10 November 2026: the 39 backer rows on Monad's $225M round announced 8 April 2024, the 37 of them NAUT holds as investment firms, and every other funding round those 37 funds are recorded in, each with its announce date.
• Monad's earlier $19M seed round, confirmed on 10 November 2026 against TechCrunch, 14 February 2023, which reports a $19M seed round raised by the team behind Monad.
• The source check of 10 November 2026 covered 5 claims about this company and these rounds, and none of the 37 funds' own round records. 4 came back different from the claim: the next round after Monad for Paradigm is dated 1 day later by The Block than by NAUT, and the Stable round is dated 1 day later by CoinDesk than by NAUT, so each of those gaps could be 1 day longer. A check of Keone Hon's own X profile and of a Monad release describes him as a co-founder and GM of the Monad Foundation, while NAUT's record stores a different title, so this article calls the 3 of them co-founders and nothing more.
• The day counts, median gaps and round counts here are computed from NAUT's data, never returned by an API call.