CELESTIA (TIA) raised $1.5 million in seed funding by selling 159,000,000 tokens at a price of only $0.0094 per token. MUSTAFA AL-BASSAM, co-founder of CELESTIA, stated that in 2019, the project faced multiple rejections from investors, and it took several months for the team to convince the first investor, GEORGE LAMBETH, to participate. At that time, GEORGE was still a college student. GEORGE LAMBETH is a co-founder of DIVERGENCE VENTURES and currently a member of the DAO5 team. In addition to CELESTIA, GEORGE has also participated in seed funding rounds for ARBITRUM and AVALANCHE.

Wu learned that a community user tweeted that Celestia (TIA) raised $1.5 million in seed funding, selling 159,000,000 tokens at a price of only $0.0094 per token. In response, Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia, stated that in 2019, Celestia was rejected multiple times by investors, and it took the team several months to convince the first investor, George Lambeth, to participate. At that time, George was still a college student. According to Rootdadata's data and personal profile, George Lambeth is a co-founder of Divergence Ventures and currently a member of the dao5 team. In addition to Celestia, George has also participated in seed funding for Arbitrum and Avalanche.

CELESTIA has completed a seed round of financing of $1.5 million, with the lead investor being a university student.