Investments
“I invest and work alongside founding teams who, through grit and determination, are building important and valuable companies with disruptive innovations. I am committed to being a long term, trusted partner to help mentor entrepreneurs and nurture companies from idea to successful IPO and beyond through active board involvements including value added services such as domain knowledge, experience, and network access. This is my investment philosophy and it reflects my 100+ successful IPO results.”
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Lip-Bu Tan
Founding Managing Partner
Prior Experience
Lip-Bu Tan is the founder and chairman of Walden International (“WI”), a leading venture capital firm; and a founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, where he is a General Partner for funds I, II, and III. He concurrently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Schneider Electric SE and SoftBank Group Corp.
Focus Areas
5G
AI/ML
Data Storage
Data Infrastructure
Semiconductors
Boards
Schneider Electric
SoftBank
Eta Compute
Fungible
HiDeep
Innovium
Katana Graph
Komprise, LightBits
Prosimo
Proteantecs
SambaNova Systems
VDOO
Vayyar Imaging
CNEX Labs
Credo
Dustphotonics
Education
M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, MIT MBA, University of San Francisco B.S., Nanyang University in Singapore
Lip-Bu Tan
Founding Managing Partner
Prior Experience
Lip-Bu Tan is the founder and chairman of Walden International (“WI”), a leading venture capital firm; and a founding managing partner of Celesta Capital, where he is a General Partner for funds I, II, and III. He concurrently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Schneider Electric SE and SoftBank Group Corp.
Focus Areas
5G
AI/ML
Data Storage
Data Infrastructure
Semiconductors
Boards
Schneider Electric
SoftBank
Eta Compute
Fungible
HiDeep
Innovium
Katana Graph
Komprise, LightBits
Prosimo
Proteantecs
SambaNova Systems
VDOO
Vayyar Imaging
CNEX Labs
Credo
Dustphotonics
Education
M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, MIT MBA, University of San Francisco B.S., Nanyang University in Singapore
Investments
“I invest and work alongside founding teams who, through grit and determination, are building important and valuable companies with disruptive innovations. I am committed to being a long term, trusted partner to help mentor entrepreneurs and nurture companies from idea to successful IPO and beyond through active board involvements including value added services such as domain knowledge, experience, and network access. This is my investment philosophy and it reflects my 100+ successful IPO results.”
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