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September 16, 2026

University of Alberta and Deep Tech VC Firm Celesta Capital Launch Partnership to Accelerate Startup Commercialization

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University of Alberta and Deep Tech VC Firm Celesta Capital Launch Partnership to Accelerate Startup Commercialization

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May 11, 2023
NY Times | U.S. Focuses on Invigorating 'Chiplets' to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech
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May 3, 2023
The Times of India | Ayushman Bharat Digit Mission is a Catalyst for Healthcare Innovations
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May 2, 2023
Q&A with Partner David Goldman
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May 1, 2023
Tech Trend Outlook: A Conversation With Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy | TechSurge 2023
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April 24, 2023
Bloomberg | Betting on Bacteria to Fix the Cement Industry's Emissions Problem
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April 24, 2023
Forbes India | Startup Fridays S4 Ep11: Arun Kumar at Celesta on tough times revealing resilient founders, great investments
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April 18, 2023
MarTech Series | Baffle Streamlines Data Protection for Databases
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April 17, 2023
The Economic Times | Arzoo has first mover advantage despite ONDC
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April 17, 2023
CNBC | India's Push for Drone Manufacturing

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Reflections on Photonics and the AI Data Center
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September 16, 2026
Reflections on Photonics and the AI Data Center
AI’s Inference Economy Is Starting to Take Shape
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September 9, 2026
AI’s Inference Economy Is Starting to Take Shape
Where Investors Are Betting in AI Hardware
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August 19, 2026
Where Investors Are Betting in AI Hardware
Building the Hardware of the AI Compute Era
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August 4, 2026
Building the Hardware of the AI Compute Era
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April 23, 2026
Backing the Foundation Layer: the Celesta Capital Investment Thesis
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April 9, 2026
Inside Deep Tech Market: What the Data Tells Us In 2026
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March 10, 2026
What Is Deep Tech? A Playbook for Investors and Founders
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December 16, 2025
Looking Past the Hype: Deep Tech Perspectives for 2026
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November 17, 2025
Unlimited Power: Why We’re Backing PowerLattice

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October 21, 2026
Solving AI's Data Movement Problem: A Conversation with Eliyan
Meet Tushar Krishnan: Backing India's Deep Tech Moment
Profiles
September 14, 2026
Meet Tushar Krishnan: Backing India's Deep Tech Moment
Breaking the AI Power Wall: A Conversation with Powerlattice
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August 11, 2026
Breaking the AI Power Wall: A Conversation with Powerlattice
Meet Kyle Jackson: Turning Canadian Science Into Scalable Companies
Profiles
August 11, 2026
Meet Kyle Jackson: Turning Canadian Science Into Scalable Companies
Meet Jennifer Erskine: Building Deep Tech Ambition in Canada
Profiles
August 11, 2026
Meet Jennifer Erskine: Building Deep Tech Ambition in Canada
Profiles
May 28, 2026
Founder Q&A: Building the AI Business Partner for SMBs
Profiles
April 7, 2026
Helping Founders Build Purpose-Driven Companies: Ambassador Jonathan Kaplan Joins Celesta
Profiles
March 5, 2026
Moving Beyond the Training Tax: How Tensordyne Unlocks Advantage in Inference
Profiles
January 29, 2026
From Lab to Field: Bringing Molecular Diagnostics to the Point of Need

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FedEx CEO on Physical AI, the Big Bet on Data, and the Two Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Problem
Podcasts
November 3, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: FedEx CEO on Physical AI, the Big Bet on Data, and the Two Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Problem
Patrick Pilarski: Alberta Plan Co-Author On Reinforcement Learning & AI-Powered Prosthetics
Podcasts
October 21, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: Patrick Pilarski: Alberta Plan Co-Author On Reinforcement Learning & AI-Powered Prosthetics
Gaming Chip Pioneer Raja Koduri on China's AI Cost Advantage and Moving Beyond the GPU
Podcasts
September 29, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: Gaming Chip Pioneer Raja Koduri on China's AI Cost Advantage and Moving Beyond the GPU
The Race to Build the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Chip Company
Podcasts
September 16, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: The Race to Build the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Chip Company
The Nobel Winner Who Built Google's Quantum Computer: Why I'm Building NVIDIA of Quantum
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September 1, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: The Nobel Winner Who Built Google's Quantum Computer: Why I'm Building NVIDIA of Quantum
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on 40 Years of Contrarian Bets in Semiconductors
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August 11, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on 40 Years of Contrarian Bets in Semiconductors
The Moving Bottleneck: Networking, Power, Memory, and the Race to Win AI
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July 28, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: The Moving Bottleneck: Networking, Power, Memory, and the Race to Win AI
Physical AI, Quantum, and Bio-Innovation: Inside Canada’s Research Frontier
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July 15, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: Physical AI, Quantum, and Bio-Innovation: Inside Canada’s Research Frontier
Google's Chief Technologist on Intelligent Search in the Age of AI
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June 30, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: Google's Chief Technologist on Intelligent Search in the Age of AI

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Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories
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September 11, 2026
Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories
Corporate Venturing Insider #127 with Sriram Viswanathan from Celesta Capital
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August 28, 2026
Corporate Venturing Insider #127 with Sriram Viswanathan from Celesta Capital
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July 8, 2025
MARA Fireside: Rajiv Khemani - Auradine, Bitcoin Mining & Silicon Valley Mindset
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June 23, 2025
Silicon Angle | Rewriting the Rules of AI Infrastructure for the Agentic Era
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May 19, 2025
AI INFRA SUMMIT 2025 | Capital at the Core: Investors on What’s Next for AI Infra
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March 31, 2025
Value Chain Innovation Speaker Series at Stanford GSB: AI in Business - Investments and Opportunities for Value Creation
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March 14, 2025
IgniteGTM Fireside Chat with David Goldman | Trends and challenges in AI infrastructure
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March 3, 2025
Global VC Panel with Anita Rehman | Explore the Global Venture Capital Ecosystem with Antler, Celesta Capital & LeapFrog | DGEMS 2024
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January 22, 2025
CNBC | CNBC Sanctuary: Can Nvidia's AI dominance in chips be challenged?

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Portfolio
February 20, 2020
John Chambers, Former Executive Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, Joins Cloudleaf as Strategic Advisor, Investor, and Mentor
Portfolio
September 6, 2019
Cloudleaf Announces $26 Million Series B Funding
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August 25, 2019
Atonarp Inc. Announces $33 Million Series C Funding Round Completion
Portfolio
June 26, 2019
Fungible raises 200 million led by softbank vision fund to help companies handle increasingly massive amounts of data
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May 7, 2019
Cloudleaf Adds Supply Chain Expert Bill Read to Advisory Ranks
Portfolio
April 24, 2019
Innovium Raises $77M in Series D
Portfolio
April 2, 2019
Electronics Health Company ProteanTecs Emerges From Stealth With a $35 Million Investment
Portfolio
March 31, 2019
Clairvolex launches LEAP - a Next generation IP intelligence platform
Portfolio
March 11, 2019
Lightbits Labs raises $50 million for software-defined ‘disaggregated’ server technology

Celesta News

University of Alberta and Deep Tech VC Firm Celesta Capital Launch Partnership to Accelerate Startup Commercialization
Celesta News
September 16, 2026
University of Alberta and Deep Tech VC Firm Celesta Capital Launch Partnership to Accelerate Startup Commercialization
Celesta News
December 16, 2025
A New Partnership to Fast-Track Research from Lab to Market
Celesta News
October 8, 2025
Nicholas Brathwaite Announced as McMaster University’s Next Chancellor
Celesta News
September 2, 2025
Leading Global and Indian Investors Launch India Deep Tech Investment Alliance
Celesta News
July 9, 2025
Celesta Capital Bolsters Leadership Team to Accelerate Deep Tech Growth
Celesta News
July 4, 2025
Fortune | Nokia Helped Build the Mobile World. Now it Wants to Seed the Next One - From Inside Bell Labs
Celesta News
June 25, 2025
Forbes | Nokia Bell Labs Is Commercializing Its Historic IP Portfolio, Starting With Heathcare
Celesta News
May 15, 2025
Nokia and Celesta Capital Launch Astranu to Advance Healthcare Imaging Technology
Celesta News
March 25, 2025
Introducing New Celesta Partner Charles Lespérance

Podcasts

FedEx CEO on Physical AI, the Big Bet on Data, and the Two Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Problem
Podcasts
November 3, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: FedEx CEO on Physical AI, the Big Bet on Data, and the Two Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Problem
Patrick Pilarski: Alberta Plan Co-Author On Reinforcement Learning & AI-Powered Prosthetics
Podcasts
October 21, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: Patrick Pilarski: Alberta Plan Co-Author On Reinforcement Learning & AI-Powered Prosthetics
Gaming Chip Pioneer Raja Koduri on China's AI Cost Advantage and Moving Beyond the GPU
Podcasts
September 29, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: Gaming Chip Pioneer Raja Koduri on China's AI Cost Advantage and Moving Beyond the GPU
The Race to Build the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Chip Company
Podcasts
September 16, 2026
TechSurge Podcast: The Race to Build the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Chip Company

Portfolio News

Portfolio
August 12, 2025
PR Newswire | Normal Computing Announces Tape-Out of World’s First Thermodynamic Computing Chip
Portfolio
August 4, 2025
Times of India | Tuticorin to get three defense, space tech investments worth more than 5,600cr
Portfolio
August 3, 2025
Business Today | Ten Indian deep-tech start-ups that found a spot on the WEF’s top 100 emerging companies
Portfolio
July 30, 2025
The Miner Mag | Auradine Shipped $73M Worth of Bitcoin Miners to MARA in H1 2025

Celesta News

Celesta News
December 16, 2025
A New Partnership to Fast-Track Research from Lab to Market
Celesta News
October 8, 2025
Nicholas Brathwaite Announced as McMaster University’s Next Chancellor
Celesta News
September 2, 2025
Leading Global and Indian Investors Launch India Deep Tech Investment Alliance
Celesta News
July 9, 2025
Celesta Capital Bolsters Leadership Team to Accelerate Deep Tech Growth