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Mustafa Al-Bassam

Co-Founder and CEO at Celestia

Details

Mustafa Al-Bassam is the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, a UCL Blockchain Scaling Ph.D. He is also a co-founder of Chainspace, which was acquired by Facebook.

Investments

Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
Seed -- $ 4 M
Oct 17
-- -- --
Aug 27
-- -- $ 3 M
Jul 31
Series A -- $ 37 M
Jun 25
Seed -- $ 5 M
Apr 30
Pre-Seed -- --
Nov 22, 2023
Seed -- $ 5.5 M
Nov 08, 2023
Series A $ 420 M $ 42 M
Apr 20, 2023
Followers 42.81 K
Following 246
Top Followers
+561

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Nick White

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John Adler

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