These seem strange to me since I read OP's question as being specific to a founder who has raised money. If I was an investor and a founder took my money to hol

These seem strange to me since I read OP's question as being specific to a founder who has raised money. If I was an investor and a founder took my money to hold in gold bars or Bitcoin instead of engineer headcount or whatever else the business needed to be built by, I would find a way to get it back ASAP.