They had their own token $RAUL. At some point, the total value was 1.4 million https://www.geckoterminal.com/eth/pools/0xe786c0da51a21c8f7ec91c9889e2df3f21ee1747?utm_source=coingecko&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=searchresults
I don't know when the token was released and how much investor money was collected, or maybe it just didn't go fast enough to cover all the costs.

At the time when the domain was seized, they posted on Twitter about the buyback https://twitter.com/BCRaul_it/status/1660607333511077889