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TechCrunch | Arzooo raises $70 million to bring 'best of e-commerce' to physical stores in India

3D Print | With $35M Bioprinting Investment Prellis Biologics Takes on New CEO

FINSmes | Calumino Raises $10.3M in Series A Funding

CNN | This dairy-tech startup has created a step counter for cows

Celesta In the News

Vator News | Meet Nicholas Brathwaite, Managing Partner at Celesta Capital

TechCrunch | Eliyan raises $40M from Intel and Micron to build chiplet interconnections

Venture Capital Journal | Can anything stop the fundraising beast?

Mint | We want to double down on our investments in India

Economic Times | Digital diagnostic startup 5C Network raises $ 4.6 million

Silicon Angle | Exotanium raises $12M to optimize cloud efficiency while reducing costs by up to 90%

Celesta In the News

CNBC TV | Celesta Capital has doubled its investments in India over the last 10 years

Times of India | India-U.S. Corridor: The next big opportunity is Deep Tech

More than Meets the Eye: Examining Industry Transformers

Secrets of Scale: Q&A with Sudhir Rao, India Managing Partner

5C Network: Digitizing India's Healthcare Infrastructure

Why the India - U.S. Corridor Is Poised for Extraordinary Tech Growth

Tech Leaders to Know: Stellapps CEO Ranjith Mukundan

Secrets of Scale: Q&A With Senior Advisor Dr. Arogyaswami Paulraj

The Bioconvergence Boom: Leveraging Deep Tech to Revolutionize Healthcare

Tech Leaders to Know: Excision BioTherapeutics CEO Daniel Dornbusch

Prellis Biologics: Revolutionizing Antibody Discovery & Drug Development With Holographic Printing Technology

India, the World's Most Connected Market

Magnetic Insight: Forgoing Incrementalism, Revolutionizing Medical Imaging

Celesta In the News

Edge Podcast: Venture Capital Talk with Celesta Founding Managing Partner Nic Brathwaite

NASDAQ Trade Talks: What Capital Deployment Could Look Like in the Coming Months Into 2023 Pending Market Factors

Semiconductors: How India can take a cue from Israel to build a vibrant chip ecosystem

Venture Funding for Chip Startups Has Doubled In the Last Five Years Thanks to AI

Nicholas Brathwaite: Making An Impact With Deep-Tech Venture Capital Investment

Platform9: Why We Invested

Michael Marks on the Private Markets: Historical Data Tells A Realistic Story

Tech Leaders to Know: Very Good Ventures Founder David DeRemer

Very Good Ventures: Why We Invested

Q&A With Celesta Capital Partner Gani Subramaniam

Former Chairman & CEO of KPMG India, Arun Kumar Joins Deep Tech Venture Firm Celesta Capital

Q&A with Ginger Krieg Dosier, CEO of Biomason

Q&A With Celesta Capital Advisor Shaun Holt

Q&A with Celesta Capital Partner Terry Gilton

Tech Leaders to Know: Prellis Founder & CTO Melanie Matheu

How Sensors Power Digital Transformation in Medicine and Healthcare

Cloudleaf Announces $26 Million in New Investment and Rebrand to ParkourSC

Biomason Raises $65 million Series C to Accelerate biocement® Technology

Democratizing Thermal Imaging with Calumino

Q&A with Atonarp Founder & CEO Prakash Murthy

Sensors Enable Breakthrough Applications Across Multiple Industries

Prellis Biologics raises $14.5M, debuts a ‘human immune system’ in a dish

Stellapps: Why We Invested

Berkeley Lights Pre-Announced Outstanding Q3 Results

Q&A with Rizzle Co-Founder Vidya Narayanan

Positively Pixis

Pyxis One Raises $17M to Democratize Codeless AI in Marketing as a SaaS Offering

Volta CEO on building electric future, going public via SPAC

DataChat Closes $25M Series A Round to Continue Democratizing Data Analytics

Bullish on Baffle

WRVI Capital Changes Name to Celesta Capital

WRVI Capital Adds Three New Team Members

With New Chips, Aquantia Attempts to Boost Car Bandwidth

Whiterabbit.ai: Why We Invested

VWGoA, Aquantia, Bosch, Continental and NVIDIA form NAV alliance - Automotive Business Review

UNW LLP : Calysta making waves in the aquaculture industry

The Canary Flex smart camera keeps tabs on your pets, kids, and potential burglars

The Bet on Movandi to Change mmWave 5G Networks

Source Photonics and Credo Semiconductor Demonstrate Single Lambda 100G Connectivity over 20km of Fiber with Compact TOSA and ROSA Assemblies

Sony says to buy Israel's Altair Semiconductor for $212 million

Sanofi using Berkeley Lights’ tech to catalyze cell line development

SambaNova Systems raises $676M Series D

SambaNova driving a multi-decade shift in computing

Recogni raises $48.9 million for AI-powered perception chips

Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA

Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding Led by Celesta Capital

New Berkeley Lights Workflow Speeds Up Drug Discovery

Movandi Wins Embedded Computing Design's "Best in Show" in the Wired and Wireless Communications Category

Movandi co-founder and co-CEO joins CNBC’s Disruptor 50 Summit

Movandi Announces $27 Million Series C to Accelerate 5G Network Deployments

MD Anderson and Berkeley Lights launch Optera Therapeutics to accelerate development of cell therapy

Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined ‘disaggregated’ server technology

Lightbits Labs Celebrates NVM Express® Ratification of NVMe™/TCP Transport Standard

KT to co-develop chipsets with US-based Aquantia for five-fold faster internet

Katana Graph raises $28.5 million to handle unstructured data at scale

John Chambers, Former Executive Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, Joins Cloudleaf as Strategic Advisor, Investor, and Mentor

Innovium Raises $77M in Series D

Infosys invests in drone firm ideaForge

ideaForge Technology set to raise Series A funding from global investors

Atonarp Announces 50m Series D Financing to Scale its Molecular Sensing

How An Acquisition Made By Amazon In 2016 Became Company's Secret Sauce

HERE, Altair Semiconductor partner on IoT tracking

Electronics Health Company ProteanTecs Emerges From Stealth With a $35 Million Investment

Dell, Microsoft Back CNEX Lab’s $23M Series D Round

Deep Tech Shines Amid Pandemic

DataChat Closes $4 Million Seed Round to Accelerate the Democratization of Data Analytics

Daiichi Sankyo Working with Berkeley Lights' Beacon OptoFluidic Platform for Cell Line Development

Credo Semiconductor Turns to ProPlus Design Solutions' NanoSpice for Advanced SerDes IP Designs

COVID vaccine is a bonanza for digital supply chain tracking industry

Cloudleaf to offer digital supply chain services in MENA region

Cloudleaf Secures $13 Million Series A Funding from Leading Investors

Cloudleaf Announces $26 Million Series B Funding

Cloudleaf Adds Supply Chain Expert Bill Read to Advisory Ranks

Clairvolex launches LEAP - a Next generation IP intelligence platform

Cirrus Logic Announces Agreement to Acquire Lion Semiconductor

CEO of SambaNova explains the firm’s approach to artificial intelligence

Celesta leads investment in supersonic jet

Secrets of Scale: What Investors Look for in Startup Founders

EE Times | Recogni’s 25-W Chip for AVs Processes High-Res Camera Streams

Bringing Space Within Reach: Why We Invested in Agnikul

Financial Express | Budget 2024: ‘Investing in development of deep tech ecosystem transcends immediate financial considerations’

CRN | The 20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies Of The 2024 Cloud 100

Your Story | Sunny Days Ahead: India's E-Mobility to Continue one Growth Trajectory in 2024

TechCrunch | More than 40 investors share their top predictions for 2024

NextGen Tech Leader: SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang

Medical Device Network | Alveo announces new distributor partnerships for EMEA region

ideaForge: Helping First-Time Founders Take Flight

Nokia and Celesta Capital Announce Major Strategic Partnership for Acceleration of Deep Technologies

Fast Company | Why bio-cement could become the next big bumper crop

Q&A with Partner Steve Fu

Sand Hill Road Podcast | Celesta Capital's Michael Marks Talks Global Supply Chains, Manufacturing, & More

Startup Outlook India | Celesta's Arun Kumar: Investors in Startups Need to Balance Caution and Optimism

Private Equity Wire | Staging a Return: Venture Capital’s AI Fueled Rejuvenation

The Hindu Businessline | Winner Changemaker 2023: Digital Transformation

ET Now | Celesta Capital to Double Investment in India

Q&A With Celesta Founding Managing Partner Nic Brathwaite

The Times of India | An Indian inventor who has impacted almost all on Earth

Celesta In the News

Forbes India | Celesta Capital: At a sweet spot in India's deep tech startup landscape

The Economic Times | Celesta Capital to play on front foot on startup investments

The Times of India | India, US plan to put people at centre of technological revolution, says Eric Garcetti

TechCrunch | India's Agnikul gets $26.7M to prepare for commercial space launches

Q&A With Celesta Capital Partner Anita Rehman

What's Next for the Global Semiconductor Market | TechSurge 2023

Bloomberg Businessweek Podcast | Celesta Capital's Michael Marks discusses VC investing in the deep technology space

NextGen Tech Leader: Recogni CEO Marc Bolitho

Silicon Angle | New Baffle Data Protection for AI secures private data in generative AI projects

TechCrunch | Pixis, an AI-powered full-stack marketing platform, raises $85M

Global Investor and Operating Executive Anita Rehman Joins Deep Tech Venture Firm Celesta Capital as Partner

TechCrunch | Exostellar raises $15M to help companies optimize their cloud spend

PR Newswire | Recogni Announces Pegasus PCIe Card for Autonomous Mobility Solutions

Nasdaq TradeTalks | Celesta Capital's Michael Marks on the VC Investing Environment in Deep Tech

Fortune | How a crypto startup raised $81 million with no product, no customers, and just a pitch deck

Silicon Valley Journals | Finicast Raises $12.8M in Seed Funding for Collaborative Enterprise Planning Platform

Bitcoin.com | Auradine Unveils Teraflux, New Line of US-Crafted Bitcoin Mining Rigs Providing Up to 270 TH/s

NextGen Tech Leader: ideaForge Co-Founder and CEO Ankit Mehta

Q&A with Celesta Founding Partner Michael Marks

Financial Times | Startups seek to challenge Nvidia's dominance over AI chip market

San Francisco Business Times | S.F. biotech Excision inches closer to potential HIV cure with key move by FDA

The New Stack | Flutter Fever: Adoption Grows and Spreads to Embedded Devices

Tech Trends Outlook: A Conversation with Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf | TechSurge 2023

Business Wire | Alveo Technologies Announces Partner Program and Portal, New Enablement Software Suite, Further Empowering Partners in Co-Development of Advanced Molecular Diagnostics

mint | India's only listed drone-maker is flying high

CNBC | IdeaForge Technology Lists On Dalal Street | IPO Listing

CNBC | India's drone sector has lucrative investment opportunity: Celesta Capital

Semiconductor Review | Nicholas Brathwaite: What Is Driving the Next Wave of Disruptive Semiconductor Companies?

Forbes India | Buoyed by strong IPO response, ideaForge Technology eyes scalable and profitable growth

Tech Leaders to Know: Stathera Founder George Xereas

Examining the Venture Landscape with VC Industry Leaders | TechSurge 2023

Inc42 | US-India Business Council Hosts Startup-Focused Defense Exhibition to Promote Innovation

Benzinga | Calumino Named 2023 Best of Sensors Award Winner

The Economic Times India | Ideaforge IPO expected to fuel drone startup's flight

Q&A with Partner Arun Kumar

Fast Company | Boom Supersonic reveals new partners and engine details, bringing its Mach 1.7 passenger jet closer to reality

EE Times Europe | Sriram Viswanathan: Chips Acts' Role in Reshaping a Global Industry

CNBC | Global Dialogues: Spotlight on India-US Relations, Opportunity & More

eeNews | Ex-Google engineers’ probabilistic, AI startup raises seed funding

Creating Reliable and Transparent AI: Why We Invested in Normal Computing

The Economic Times India | Critical and emerging technologies new frontier of India-US cooperation, says former Obama admin official

Analytics India Magazine | Open Source Opens Funds for Semiconductor in India

Times Now | Celesta Capital: Plans to Double Down On Investments In India

Q&A With Kara Swisher: The Road Ahead for Tech | TechSurge 2023

Meet Stathera: Resetting the $9B+ Timing Chips Market

Betakit | Stathera Closes $20 Million CAD Series A To Commercialize Semiconductor Timing Tech

Crunchbase | US Semiconductor Startup Funding Slows Even As AI Beckons

Axios | Internet Infrastructure Firm Auradine Raises $81 Million

Driving the Mass Adoption of a Decentralized Web – Why We Invested in Auradine

CNBC | IdeaForge Soars To New Heights: India's Top Drone Company Wins Disruptor Of The Year Award

NY Times | U.S. Focuses on Invigorating 'Chiplets' to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech

The Times of India | Ayushman Bharat Digit Mission is a Catalyst for Healthcare Innovations

Q&A with Partner David Goldman

Tech Trend Outlook: A Conversation With Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy | TechSurge 2023

Forbes India | Startup Fridays S4 Ep11: Arun Kumar at Celesta on tough times revealing resilient founders, great investments

Bloomberg | Betting on Bacteria to Fix the Cement Industry's Emissions Problem

MarTech Series | Baffle Streamlines Data Protection for Databases

CNBC | India's Push for Drone Manufacturing

The Economic Times | Arzoo has first mover advantage despite ONDC

AIthority | SambaNova Boosts Leadership Team with Duo of Industry Veterans

Digit.FYI | Optima Partners with H2O.ai for Financial Services Solutions

Tech Leaders to Know: Exostellar Founder Hakim Weatherspoon

Report: Economic Growth and Strategic Alignment Between India and Silicon Valley

Times of India | India presents tremendous opportunity in areas of deep tech and technology driven transformation.

Celesta In the News

Venture Capital Journal | What's driving deep tech?

Forbes | AI framed as 'amplifier of human intelligence' at recent TechSurge Summit.

The Hindu | Drone maker ideaForge Technology files IPO papers with SEBI

WSJ | VC support growing for bioconvergence startups.

The Economic Times | Industry group says India semiconductor distribution centres necessary for supply chain.

Tech Crunch | Komprise raises $37M to help companies index, manage and transform data.

TechSurge Global Deep Tech Summit Announces All-Star Roster of Speakers from Tech, Venture, and Government

Business Standard | Arun Kumar Op-Ed: Globalisation in reverse gear: Opportunity for bold US-India partnership?

YourStory | Proptech startup Brick&Bolt raises $10M from Accel and Celesta Capital.

Celesta In the News

Economic Times | Celesta Capital eyes to invest in India's semiconductor sector

Celesta Capital Announces Partnership with The Sultanate of Oman

CRN | The 10 hottest semiconductor startups of 2022, featuring Celesta portfolio companies Alif Semiconductor and Eliyan.

Forbes India | Startup Fridays S3 Ep11: 'Strategic investors can make or break a deep tech venture, choose wisely, time it right' — Sriram Viswanathan

Yahoo! Finance | Alveo Technologies Announces New Executive Leadership, Open Platform Strategy

TechCrunch | Weka announces $135M investment on $750M valuation to change how companies move data

TechCrunch | Eliyan raises $40M from Intel and Micron to build chiplet interconnections

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