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Sriram Viswanathan
Managing Partner at Celesta Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Sriram Viswanathan is the Founding Managing Partner at Celesta Capital, a global venture capital firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a track record of successful investments in companies like Auradine and Recogni, he specializes in funding startups in sectors such as Semiconductors and IoT, focusing on stages ranging from Pre-seed to Series B.
Sriram's career highlights include serving as Chairman of the Board for multiple companies like Auradine and Recogni, and his successful investments in companies like Pixis and Movandi at various stages of funding.
Work Experience
Founding Managing Partner
2018 - Current
Global VC Firm
Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies.
Board Member
2024
Aurascape is a cybersecurity business that provides generative AI protection solutions against emerging cyber threats.
Raised $12,800,000.00 from AIspace Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Mark McLaughlin, Celesta Capital and StepStone Group.
Chairman of the Board
2024
Chairman of the Board
2022
Chairman of the Board
2021
Recogni is a system solution company that specializes in the design of high-performance, low-power AI inferencing
Raised $176,050,000.00 from Pledge Ventures, Juniper Networks, BMW i Ventures, TASARU Mobility Investments, DNS Capital, Banyan Ventures, Celesta Capital, Mayfield Fund and GreatPoint Ventures.
Chairman of the Board
2021
Board Member
2021
Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Raised $36,500,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP), Lytical Ventures, Celesta Capital and Nepenthe Capital.
Board Member
2020
Movandi is a wireless systems company tackling the technical challenges of 5G millimeter wave networks.
Raised $56,700,000.00 from 5G Ventures, 4G Capital, Alumni Ventures, Cota Capital, Celesta Capital, DNX Ventures and Sierra Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Board Member
2015