No, there was no crowdsale, but there was a "pre-mine" dev fund of sorts when the codebase was switched IIRC. I believe it is the Shift Team account in the explorer; https://explorer.shiftnrg.org/topAccounts
Wow so one of them owns half of the entire supply? SMDH
No, first of the list is Bittrex exchange, you can see the description in the column Owner