Updated: June 13, 2026
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VC Fund
Venture Capital Firm
AI
BioTech

Celesta (fka WRVI)

San Francisco, USA

About the program

Location

Program details

Value add

Celesta's investment team includes 11 former Founder-CEOs, holds over 600 patents, has collectively started more than 40 businesses, and lead more than 250 M&A deals. We leverage that accrued “intellectual capital” to offer founding teams support throughout their lifecycle, helping to reduce growth “harmonics” – the ups and downs that slow progress – so they can accelerate their speed and level of success.

Investment offer

Check size$500,000 – $25,000,000
Can lead rounds
Yes
Lead preference
Sometimes
Details

Avg Check: $100K - $20M ·

Funding requirements

We invest in deeptech. Celesta's deep tech thesis is straightforward: invest with technical rigor at the infra layer, back real IP solving real problems, and partner with founders with deep domain expertise to build enduring companies. Our investments target four main areas: semiconductors and intelligent systems, next-gen infrastructure, bio-convergence, and tech-enabled industry transformation. We invest early (seed - series B) in strategic corridors in the USA, Canada, India. "