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Celesta Capital

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Celesta Capital is a global deep tech venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Founded in 2013, it invests in companies developing advanced hardware, AI, and bioconvergence technologies.

Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, United States, founded in 2013. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in semiconductors, AI, bioconvergence and healthcare. $1.1B under management and 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.

“We invest in leading-edge infrastructure technologies throughout the stack, targeting three primary use cases.”

— Celesta Capital, own website
Layer
Direct investor
Type
Venture capital
Stage
Seed – Growth
Headquarters
Silicon Valley, United States
Invests in
global
Sectors
semiconductors, AI, bioconvergence, healthcare, cloud infrastructure, intelligent hardware, software, life sciences
Founded
2013
Assets under management
$1.1B
Portfolio
100 companies

Team, as Celesta Capital publishes it

  • Nicholas Brathwaite Founding Managing Partner
  • Michael Marks Founding Managing Partner
  • Sriram Viswanathan Founding Managing Partner
  • Lip-Bu Tan Founding Managing Partner
  • Matthew Marsh Managing Partner, CFO
  • Anand Chandrasekaran Managing Partner
  • Arun Kumar Managing Partner
  • Steve Fu Partner
  • Terry Gilton Partner
  • David Goldman Partner
  • Charles Lespérance Partner
  • Sudhir Rao Senior Partner

Names and roles exactly as listed on celesta.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.

Co-invests most often with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 254 co-investors found.

  • Leo Capital 10 shared companies: venturebeat.com, yahoo.com, indiatimes.com, finsmes.com…
  • BOLD Capital Partners 9 shared companies: businessinsider.com, yahoo.com, finsmes.com, betakit.com…
  • Defy.vc 9 shared companies: businessinsider.com, venturebeat.com, yahoo.com, indiatimes.com…
  • Transmedia Capital 9 shared companies: businessinsider.com, venturebeat.com, yahoo.com, indiatimes.com…
  • AI Ventures Management, LLC 8 shared companies: businessinsider.com, venturebeat.com, yahoo.com, fastcompany.com…
  • Anzu Partners 8 shared companies: businessinsider.com, eetimes.com, betakit.com, fastcompany.com…
  • Red Cell Partners 8 shared companies: businessinsider.com, yahoo.com, datacenterdynamics.com, finsmes.com…
  • TDK Ventures 8 shared companies: yahoo.com, indiatimes.com, datacenterdynamics.com, finsmes.com…
  • Endiya Partners 7 shared companies: yahoo.com, indiatimes.com, eetimes.com, inc42.com…
  • Cota Capital 7 shared companies: upscaleai.com, velaura.ai, canary.is, movandi.com…

and 244 more — the graph.

Where this comes from

Every fact above was read from a page Celesta Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.

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Record 2317 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high

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