Rene Reinsberg and Marek Olszewski, who were executives at web hosting company GoDaddy, along with Sep Kamvar and Marek Olszewski, an MIT professor and Google executive, co-founded Celo in 2017.
Between 2018 and 2020, Celo raised over $46.5 million by selling approximately 120 million CELO tokens in both private and public token sales. Leading investors include venture capital firms a16z Crypto, General Catalyst and Social Capital.
