Anand C.

Partner @ Celesta Capital and Founder of Crescendo & HiO || Formerly Partner @ General Catalyst, 80+ seed investments, 10🦄s || Built Products @ Meta/Airtel/Five9.

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 41 investments📅 25 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
41
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25
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10
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Seed Investor
2025
At Cerv Property Solutions, our mission is to make property care effortless, elevated, and enduring. We deliver expert, tech-enabled service with a white-glove touch—simplifying upkeep, enhancing value, and earning the trust of homeowners and property managers alike. Through proactive support, clear communication, and a commitment to lasting relationships, we empower our clients to spend less time managing their spaces and more time enjoying them.
Seed Investor
2024
Titan is an AI Holding Company transforming the IT services sector with its Augmented AI platform.
Seed Investor
2023
At Jeh Aerospace, we help the global aerospace industry access reliable, high-quality manufacturing by combining the best of India’s precision engineering capabilities with a strong presence in the United States. Our focus is simple, deliver mission-critical aerospace components that meet the highest industry standards, on time, every time. With an AS9100 Rev D certified manufacturing facility in Hyderabad, India, and leadership based in the US, we operate where innovation meets execution. From aero-engine parts to aerostructures, we serve aerospace OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers who demand performance without compromise. Our growing team of engineers, machinists, and program managers are united by one goal — building resilient and responsive supply chains for the next generation of aerospace programs. If you’re looking for a manufacturing partner who delivers with precision and reliability, let’s connect.
Investor
May 2022
FarMart is an AI-native platform powering commerce and finance across the AgriFood and Energy value chains. We build AI agentic commerce workflows that connect farms & processors with businesses across the globe.
Investor
Jan 2022
Insurance and healthcare, on a mission to add 20+ healthy years to life. Founded in 2018, Loop Health is Indias first Health Assurance company that combines health insurance with preventive healthcare to keep your employees and their families healthy, while providing for them when they are sick. That means plans and benefits you understand, tools that save you time and money, and excellent doctors who are there to keep your team healthy before they end up in the hospital. We’re on a mission to bring quality and value back together in healthcare. Join us on our mission here - https://jobs.lever.co/loop-health
Investor/Advisor
Aug 2021
Observe.AI is transforming customer service with AI agents that speak, think, and act like your best human agents—helping enterprises automate routine customer calls and workflows, support agents in real time, and uncover powerful insights from every interaction. With Observe.AI, businesses boost automation, deliver faster, more consistent 24/7 service and build stronger customer loyalty. Trusted by brands like Accolade, Prudential, Concentrix, Cox Automotive, and Included Health, Observe.AI is redefining how businesses connect with customers—driving better experiences and lasting relationships at every touchpoint.
Seed Investor
Mar 2021
We help Sales & Support agents unleash their full potential. Our Modern Communication Stack for customer facing teams saves upto 12 hours a week per agent by helping them get faster, stronger, and sharper. We’ve helped 16 million+ sales and support agents from around 6000+ companies adapt better to the remote transition. The SaaS Labs Communication Stack includes: JustCall - Cloud Phone JustCall IQ - Conversation Intelligence Helpwise - Shared Inbox Dialworks - Sales Training Platform Callpage - Callback Automation Atolia - Collaborative Workspace Callroot - Phone Call Tracking Tool EasyCalendar - Appointment Scheduler To learn more about SaaS Labs, visit https://www.saaslabs.co/ To join our growing team, visit https://www.saaslabs.co/careers
Investor
Mar 2021
Deel is one platform for payroll, HR, benefits, mobility, performance, and device management across 150+ countries. Built on owned infrastructure, powered by AI, and supported by thousands of local experts, Deel helps businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Trusted by 40,000+ customers, and created to become a global brand people love. Learn more at deel.com.
Seed Investor
Jan 2021
Orange Health is Indias leading on-demand diagnostic lab. Our vision is to make healthcare seamless for consumers in their homes by enabling doctors to treat their patients in real-time. To do this, we provide 60 min at-home testing for over 2,000 tests along with fast results. Consumers love this, and have rated Orange Health 4.9/5 on Google - among the highest-rated diagnostic labs in India! We combine the latest consumer tech experience with the veracity of high-quality healthcare, giving consumers a mind-blowing experience, where they say its easier than ordering a pizza Launched in Bangalore, Gurgaon & Noida. Coming soon to every city! Backed by leading global investors, we have a team of experienced leaders, operators, engineers, medical professionals, and more - all of whom love making healthcare better for people like you and us! We are a team that loves our work and play. We love people with varied interests. We have hockey players, pianists, competitive swimmers, marathoners, science geeks, gamers, mountaineers, sailors, models, bikers, singers, boxers, vada-pav lovers, coffee afficionados, chocoholics and more. Come add to this list!
Seed Investor
2021
Inversion is developing low-cost, high cadence re-entry vehicles. Returning cargo & resources will be essential for humanity to continue to grow within low-earth orbit and beyond. We believe in a future where returning from space is as common as launching to space. Join us: https://boards.greenhouse.io/inversionspace
Seed Investor
2021
Eeki Foods’ vision is a world where pesticide-free vegetables are affordable and accessible to everyone. So, we have developed our patented growing chambers that provide an ideal growing environment for the plant’s root zone without using any growing media. As a result, we can grow tasty and nutritious, pesticide-free vegetables that are sold at Indian market prices. And now, we’re building large-scale, climate-proof farms across the country to achieve our goal.
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Investor
Dec 2020
Pipe makes embedded financial solutions accessible to growing businesses inside the software they use every day. Underwriting is based on live transaction and business data, removing the hurdles of traditional business financing. How does it work? Eligible merchants: Receive a pre-approved or pre-qualified offer, based on their revenue Verify a few business and ownership details Then accept as much of their offer as they need and get back to doing what they love, running their business Pipe can help turn your software into a one-stop shop for your customers and help them gain access to the capital they need to thrive.
Seed Investor
Jun 2020
Exotel is your AI transformation partner for customer engagement and experience. Trusted by over 7000 clients globally across various industries, we facilitate over 25+ billion annual conversations through omnichannel, voice, agents, and bots. Exotel’s AI-powered solutions empower agents, bots and customers alike, enhancing interactions with conversational intelligence and optimising resources to deliver exceptional CX and business growth. Exotel wins when you Win.
Investor
Mar 2020
Carta powers interconnectivity in private markets — uniting data, people, and workflows in one connected system. We connect founders, investors, and limited partners through software purpose-built for private capital. Trusted by 50,000+ companies in 160+ countries, Carta’s platform of software and services lays the groundwork so you can build, invest, and scale with confidence. Carta’s Fund Administration platform supports 8,500+ funds and SPVs, representing nearly $185B in assets under management, with tools designed to enhance the strategic impact of fund CFOs. Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance and Best Workplaces in the Bay Area lists, Forbes’ list of the Worlds Best Cloud Companies, Fast Companys Most Innovative list, Inc.s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list, and is certified as a Great Place to Work for 2025-2026 (3 years running!). For more information, visit carta.com.
Seed investor
2020
Global health-tech platform helping patients manage chronic ailments & women’s health issues with lifestyle changes
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2025
Founder
Jul 2025
We are HiOctave (or HiO) - Where AI efficiency meets human empathy in customer experience for Small and Medium businesses.
Seed Investor
2025
At Cerv Property Solutions, our mission is to make property care effortless, elevated, and enduring. We deliver expert, tech-enabled service with a white-glove touch—simplifying upkeep, enhancing value, and earning the trust of homeowners and property managers alike. Through proactive support, clear communication, and a commitment to lasting relationships, we empower our clients to spend less time managing their spaces and more time enjoying them.
2024
Managing Partner
2024
Celesta is a global multi-stage venture capital firm, enabling innovators and business builders at the frontiers of deep tech. Celesta was founded and is led by Nicholas Brathwaite, Sriram Viswanathan, and Michael Marks, technology industry veterans with decades of investment and operations experience as CEOs, senior management, and board directors at global organizations, including Flextronics and Intel. Celesta primarily invests in early-stage deep tech, companies with high potential hardware and software technologies that have a clearly identified market application. Building businesses is our passion at Celesta. Through our unique mix of extensive operating experience, unrivaled network access, multi-dimensional investment experience, and deep technical expertise, we empower founding teams to develop differentiated technologies and grow globally impactful companies. Celesta Capital is headquartered in Silicon Valley and maintains an office in Bangalore.
Seed Investor
2024
Titan is an AI Holding Company transforming the IT services sector with its Augmented AI platform.
Founder & Vice-Chairman
2024
There’s huge potential in the new chapter of AI-powered customer service. But it will only be captured by companies that can shake up the industry models that hold back innovation. We’re a group of founders who have worked in customer experience for years. Our tech and our people have served billions of customers and provided exceptional service across the world. Crescendo is our vision for finally changing what’s held us back before. We’re combining the most advanced AI technology with the best human agents to provide a blended experience. We’re eliminating the separation between the contact center and the technology provider. With everything orchestrated together, we can dramatically accelerate improvements to agent and customer experience. That means customer service that’s more in sync, easier to manage, and more tightly integrated than ever before. And our customers will only pay for positive outcomes. It’s a brilliant harmony of AI and CX.
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