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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.

Most shared portfolio companies with

Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 254 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.

  • 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high

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