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Investor profile

Arun Kumar

Managing Partner, Celesta (fka WRVI)

About

Arun Kumar brings an unusually broad leadership background to venture capital, having served as Chairman & CEO of KPMG India leading 30,000+ professionals, co-founded three Silicon Valley startups, and held top U.S. government positions as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service. He invests with a distinctive trade-and-geopolitics lens shaped by his policy experience, analyzing global supply chains and US-India strategic alignment to identify where deep-tech value will be created while positioning himself as a bridge between U.S. and Indian innovation ecosystems. Arun Kumar brings an unusually broad leadership background to venture capital, having served as Chairman & CEO of KPMG India leading 30,000+ professionals, co-founded three Silicon Valley startups, and held top U.S. government positions as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service. He invests with a distinctive trade-and-geopolitics lens shaped by his policy experience, analyzing global supply chains and US-India strategic alignment to identify where deep-tech value will be created while positioning himself as a bridge between U.S. and Indian innovation ecosystems.

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Investment focus

Stages
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
AI
BioTech
Chips
Data
Deeptech
Hardware

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $20M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA
India
Israel
Canada
LatAm
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Africa
ANZ
MENA