Lip-Bu Tan
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Lip-Bu Tan currently serves as chief executive officer of Intel Corporation and serves on the company’s board of directors. He was appointed to his position in March 2025.
He is the founder and chairman of Walden International, 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 formerly served as Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and now serves as Executive Chairman and has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004. He currently serves on the Board of Schneider Electric SE.
Focus Areas
Boards
“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.”
Q&A
News & Insights
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News & Insights
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Business Today | Ten Indian deep-tech start-ups that found a spot on the WEF’s top 100 emerging companies
Fortune | Nokia Helped Build the Mobile World. Now it Wants to Seed the Next One - From Inside Bell Labs
BusinessLine | Agnikul, CynLr, GalaxEye, ePlane Co Among Indian Start-ups in WEF’s 2025 Tech Pioneers
TechSurge Podcast: Betting Early on Zoom, Canva, and Crypto: Inside the Playbook of Visionary Solo VC Bill Tai
TechSurge Podcast: Blueprint for an AI Future - OpenAI Chief Economist on How AI Will Shape the Global Economy
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PR Newswire | Recogni and DataVolt Partner to Deliver the World's Most Energy Efficient AI Cloud Infrastructure
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TechSurge Podcast: Inside Nokia’s Strategy: CSTO Nishant Batra on Telecom’s Future, Brand Reinvention, and Betting on Bell Labs
Press Release | Auradine Expands Bitcoin Mining Solutions with ASIC chips, Range of Advanced Cooling Systems and Modular Megawatt Containers
Press Release | Excision BioTherapeutics Announces Publication Highlighting EBT-107 for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B in bioRxiv
TechSurge Podcast: Leading Through Chaos: John Chambers on Tariffs, Cyber Threats, & the AI Supercycle
TechSurge Podcast: China, Funding Cuts, & Campus Controversy: Is U.S. Tech Leadership Falling Behind?
Press Release | 1Cell.Ai, Formerly OneCell Diagnostics, Launches OncoIncytes Integrating Multi-Modal Data for Precision Oncology
The Block | Bitcoin Miner Manufacturer Auradine Raises $153 Million in Series C Funding Amid AI Expansion
TechSurge Podcast: Inside Microsoft's Trillion Dollar Playbook with Chief Strategy Officer Bobby Yerramilli-Rao
Press Release | Alveo Technologies Appoints Nobel Laureate, Dr. James Rothman, to its Board of Directors
TechSurge Podcast: Scaling the AI Era: Next-Gen Data Storage Solutions with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo
Value Chain Innovation Speaker Series at Stanford GSB: AI in Business - Investments and Opportunities for Value Creation
New Funding Announcement | Cartesian Kinetics Raises New Funding from F-Prime, Celesta Capital and Clear Ventures
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BusinessWire | Auradine’s New Hydro-Cooled Bitcoin Miner Sets Industry Standards with Maximum Performance and Superior Cost of Ownership
Venture Capital Journal | Celesta's new managing partner Anand Chandrasekaran seeks to mine growing India-US tech corridor
Global VC Panel with Anita Rehman | Explore the Global Venture Capital Ecosystem with Antler, Celesta Capital & LeapFrog | DGEMS 2024
TechSurge Podcast: Understanding the Elegant Math Behind Modern Machine Learning with Anil Ananthaswamy
Press Release | Alveo Technologies and Royal GD Form Long-Term Partnership to Expand Joint Offerings for Rapid, Molecular Animal Diagnostics at Point of Need
Technology Express | Saudi’s stc Group Partners with SambaNova to Launch Sovereign AI Cloud Platform
Press Release | Exostellar Raises Series A1 Funding to Make GPU Shortages Irrelevant with Autonomous Compute Orchestration
TechSurge Podcast: Adapting to Disruption - AI, Housing, Geopolitics, & More with Global Head of McKinsey Bob Sternfels
SiliconANGLE | Komprise introduces new sensitive-data management capabilities for AI and cybersecurity
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TechSurge Podcast: The Future of Wireless Networks, Academia Startups, & Intel: A Conversation With Dr. Andrea Goldsmith
Shaun Holt LinkedIn Blog | CA's emergency bird flu declaration and the US's first death from it begs the question: Why aren't we doing more as a nation to curb this catastrophe?
Crowdfund Insider | David Goldman of Celesta Capital Explains Why Investment Firms Have Taken Interest in AI and Infrastructure Development
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