Celesta VC

Celesta Capital is a Silicon Valley-based deep tech venture capital firm founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices and portfolio presence spanning the US, India, Israel, and China. The firm manages $1.1B in assets across 100+ investments and focuses exclusively on deep tech companies at the intersection of science and engineering. Its three primary investment theses are: platforms enabling mass adoption of emerging technologies (semiconductors, AI applications, cloud infrastructure, intelligent hardware systems); bioconvergence innovations merging biology with hardware and AI/ML (drug discovery, diagnostics, therapeutics, imaging); and technologies transforming large industries with low legacy tech adoption, including construction, agriculture, healthcare, and education. Celesta typically writes checks of $5M–$50M, targeting early-stage companies, and currently operates its fifth fund (Celesta V), which is open. The firm is led by partners with deep operational and technical backgrounds and positions itself as a hands-on partner — actively supporting go-to-market strategy, team building, and customer introductions. Founders working on hard science and engineering problems in AI, semiconductors, digital biology, or industrial transformation — particularly those with US-India corridor relevance — will find Celesta an active and engaged institutional backer.