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    Celesta Capital

    San Mateo, California, United StatesFounded 2013

    Celesta Capital is a global deep tech venture capital firm that focuses on breakthrough innovations in sectors such as semiconductors, intelligent hardware systems, AI applications, cloud infrastructure, and bioconvergence. The firm's strategy involves making early-stage, conviction-based investments in companies with long-term vision and providing hands-on support to help them scale globally.

    Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (4 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is series-b (48% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $91.3M (across 31 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    31

    Fund Size

    $1.1B

    Top Stage

    Series B

    Last 12 Mo

    4

    Team

    NB

    Nicholas Brathwaite

    Founder and Managing Partner

    CL

    Charles Lespérance

    Partner

    RD

    Riddhi Daftary

    Principal

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    31 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Normal Computing logoNormal ComputingSeries C$50MMar 2026
    Movandi logoMovandiSeries B$40MOct 2025
    HiOctave logoHiOctaveSeries A$15MOct 2025
    Upscale AI logoUpscale AISeed$100MSep 2025
    OOneCell DiagnosticsSeries A$16MNov 2024
    Crescendo logoCrescendoSeries C$50MOct 2024
    Auradine, Inc. logoAuradine, Inc.Series B$80MApr 2024
    Recogni logoRecogniSeries C$102MFeb 2024
    Agnikul logoAgnikulSeries B$26.7MOct 2023
    Pixis logoPixisSeries C$85MSep 2023
    Exostellar logoExostellarSeries A$15MSep 2023
    Auradine, Inc. logoAuradine, Inc.Series A$81MMay 2023
    EEliyanSeries A$40MNov 2022
    AArzoooSeries B$70MJun 2022
    Magnetic Insight logoMagnetic InsightSeries B$17MJun 2022
    Platform9 logoPlatform9Series B$26MJun 2022
    PPrellis BiologicsSeries B$14.5MDec 2021
    H2O.ai logoH2O.aiSeries E$100MNov 2021
    DataChat, Inc. logoDataChat, Inc.Series A$25MSep 2021
    Brilliant logoBrilliantSeries B$40MAug 2021
    SSambaNovaSeries D$676MApr 2021
    SambaNova Systems logoSambaNova SystemsSeries D$676MApr 2021
    Recogni logoRecogniSeries B$48.9MFeb 2021
    NUVIA logoNUVIASeries B$240MSep 2020
    DDatometrySeries B$17MFeb 2020
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    Top Co-Investors

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    Nepenthe LLC3 shared
    Sierra Ventures2 shared
    Stepstone2 shared
    MVP Ventures2 shared
    DNS Capital2 shared
    Capricorn2 shared
    BlackRock2 shared
    GIC2 shared
    Walden2 shared

    Last updated: 15 April 2026