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Track VC fund exits: 3 steps, 5 of 45 funds have 2+

By NAUT Research · · 9 min read

45 VC fund exits investor rows on NAUT with a portfolio exit, from 44 M&A records read 10 Nov 2026. Logos: Coinbase Ventures, 1confirmation, Pantera Capital, Multicoin Capital, LedgerPrime, Farcaster, bloXroute, Nomina (prev. Omni Network).

To track VC fund exits before you pitch, open the fund's page on NAUT and list the companies it backed, check each of those companies for an M&A-typed funding record and its date, then read that record against the buyer's own announcement. NAUT's data shows 44 crypto M&A records at 44 companies, dated 2 July 2026 to 6 November 2026 and read on 10 November 2026, with 45 investor rows credited with at least 1 of them and 5 credited with 2 or more.

Data note. Every count here was read from NAUT's own database on 10 November 2026, read-only. An exit is counted when a fund holds a backer row on an earlier round at a company that now carries an M&A-typed record, so it is NAUT's record of a deal rather than a record of what any fund was paid. 6 of the 44 M&A records store an amount, and none of the 4 records named in this article is one of them. No M&A record carries a buyer name field, and all 44 carry cryptorank as their stored source tag, while cryptorank.io returned a bot check to every fetch NAUT tried, so the buyers below were read from the buyers' own releases and from reports instead. 10 claims were put through a source check: 8 came back confirmed, and 2 came back different from NAUT's stored row and are left out of the copy with the difference named. That check covered 4 of the 44 companies, so the other 40 were never read outside NAUT. Nomina's and Farcaster's stored source URLs point at generic funding-round listing pages rather than a page about the deal, which is logged as a defect. NAUT Research wrote it.

How do you track VC fund exits on NAUT, step by step?

3 steps, and each one ends on a page you can send to a colleague.

  • Step 1, list what the fund backed. A fund page on NAUT carries its portfolio rows with the round type, the amount and the announce date on each. 1confirmation is the worked example here: 3 of its backer rows sit on rounds at companies that later picked up an M&A record.
  • Step 2, look for an M&A record on each company. The company page carries it with a date. bloXroute holds one dated 15 July 2026 and Farcaster holds one dated 15 October 2026.
  • Step 3, read the record against the buyer. The M&A record on each of these 4 companies carries a date and no buyer name, and none of the 4 stores an amount, so the buyer's own release is the second read. FalconX announced the bloXroute deal on 15 July 2026 and said in that release, "We believe the future of capital markets will be onchain." Reports of 15 October 2026 name Network School as the buyer of Farcaster from Neynar.

Step 3 is the one that saves a bad email. The source check on bloXroute's stored Series A row came back different from the 2019 coverage NAUT read, so this article prints no date and no amount for that round. A pitch that opens with a number a founder knows to be wrong is over in 1 line.

3 steps before you pitch a fund
  1. List the portfolio1confirmation holds 3 backer rows on rounds at companies that later took an M&A record.
  2. Find the M&A recordbloXroute carries one dated 15 July 2026, Farcaster one dated 15 October 2026.
  3. Read it against the buyerFalconX for bloXroute on 15 July 2026, Network School for Farcaster on 15 October 2026, both from the announcement rather than from NAUT.
  4. Work the round as well23 backer rows sit on Farcaster's seed round, so 1 exit opens 22 other doors.

Which funds on NAUT show 2 or more exits?

5 of the 45 investor rows credited with an exit are credited with more than 1. Coinbase Ventures is the only row with 3. Ranked by the number of exits NAUT credits to the fund:

Fund Exits Companies and date
3 , , ; latest 15 Oct 2026
2 , ; latest 15 Oct 2026
2 , ; latest 15 Oct 2026
2 , ; latest 16 Sep 2026
2 , ; latest 15 Jul 2026

The other 40 rows are credited with exactly 1 exit each. Every count in that table is NAUT's record of backer rows, so a fund that put money into one of these companies without a NAUT backer row on the round does not appear.

What do the 4 exit companies look like on NAUT?

These are the 4 companies behind all 11 of the fund-to-exit links in the table above. The buyer in the middle column comes from the buyer's own release or from reports of the day, never from the NAUT record, which stores the date and no buyer name.

Company M&A date and buyer Backer rows
15 Oct 2026, Network School 29 on 2 rounds
15 Jul 2026, FalconX 11 on 3 rounds
16 Sep 2026, IRF 11 on 2 rounds
8 Jul 2026, N1 2 on 1 round

Only 8 of the 44 companies with an M&A record carry any backer row on NAUT at all, across 12 earlier rounds holding 59 backer rows between them. That is the practical limit of this method: it finds a fund's exits where NAUT already stores who was in the round.

How many backers sit behind each exit?

Backer rows NAUT stores on the earlier rounds at each exit company
  1. Farcaster29
  2. bloXroute11
  3. Nomina (prev. Omni Network)11
  4. 01.xyz2

Farcaster's seed round alone holds 23 of those 29 rows, which is why 1 exit at that company feeds 23 different fund pages on NAUT.

Why track VC fund exits before you pitch?

For a founder raising, the exit is the opening line that is about the fund rather than about you.

  • Fund portfolio exits date the fund's attention. 1confirmation holds backer rows on bloXroute's seed round of 22 March 2018 at $1,550,000 and on its Series A, and the M&A record on that company is dated 15 July 2026.
  • It tells you which thesis paid out on NAUT's record. 4 of the 5 repeat rows above are credited with bloXroute, an infrastructure company.
  • It gives you the co-backers. Farcaster's seed round, which coverage dates 13 July 2022 at $30,000,000, carries 23 backer rows on NAUT, so the fund you cannot reach has 22 neighbours who were in the same round.
  • It is cheap to check. A VC fund exit history on NAUT's record is 2 company pages and 1 announcement, so you know the date before you write the first sentence.

What this tells a BD team

  • Work the whole round. A single round record at an exited company can hand you 23 firms at once, as Farcaster's seed round does.
  • 01.xyz is the opposite case: 2 backer rows on 1 round. A company with a thin backer record is a company where the intro has to come from the team rather than from the cap table.
  • Dates do the qualifying. All 44 M&A records fall between 2 July 2026 and 6 November 2026, so every fund in this set has had a portfolio company change hands inside the last 5 months of NAUT's record.
  • Check the number before you quote it. NAUT's stored Series A figure for bloXroute did not match the source check, and a stored round date is worth 30 seconds against the announcement.

Related reading on NAUT: How to find crypto investors by round size: 28 funds, 4 steps and Coinbase Ventures portfolio: 152 companies tracked on NAUT.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

Yes. GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/1confirmation returns the fund with its team and its portfolio rows, each carrying the company, round type, amount, announce date and lead flag, which is the same record step 1 reads on the page, and GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/bloxroute returns one of the exited companies with its team. Each data call costs 5 credits on any plan, the parameters are documented at https://naut.so/docs/api and plans start at $49 a month for 3,000 credits at https://naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on those pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so you can start a 7-day trial and reach them the same day.

Track VC fund exits FAQ

How do you check a VC fund exit history?

Open the fund's NAUT page, list the companies it backed, then check each company page for an M&A-typed record and its date: on NAUT's data read 10 November 2026 that method credits 45 investor rows with at least 1 exit out of 44 M&A records at 44 companies. Confirm each one against the buyer's own announcement, because the NAUT record carries a date and no buyer name.

Which VCs have portfolio exits on NAUT?

Coinbase Ventures leads with 3, at bloXroute, Nomina (prev. Omni Network) and Farcaster. 1confirmation, Multicoin Capital, Pantera Capital and LedgerPrime hold 2 each, and the remaining 40 of the 45 investor rows hold 1 each.

Does NAUT say who bought the company?

No. None of the 44 M&A records read on 10 November 2026 carries a buyer name field and only 6 store an amount, so the buyer comes from the announcement: FalconX for bloXroute on 15 July 2026, IRF for Nomina on 16 September 2026, Network School for Farcaster on 15 October 2026 and N1 for 01.xyz on 8 July 2026.

Where can I find these funds and their contact channels?

Each of the 45 investor rows has its own NAUT page with its team and its portfolio, reachable as GET https://api.naut.so/v1/investors/<slug> for 5 credits a call. 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 and open the whole set of 5 repeat exit funds in an afternoon.

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