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Anand Chandrasekaran

Founder (Crescendo AI, HiOctave AI). Investor (Celesta Capital, GC, 90+ seed checks, 8🦄s), Builder (Meta, Airtel, Five9). 1% better everyday.

San Francisco Bay Area

Investor
Angel
Advisor

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $1,250,000.00

Skills

Management
Product Management
Entrepreneurship
Engineering Management
Product Design
Driving Growth
Mobile Applications
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Board of Director experience
Internet Services
Mobile Devices
Start-ups
Strategic Partnerships
SaaS
Analytics
Venture Capital
Program Management
Strategy
Leadership
Cloud Computing

Education

Lists including Anand

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Based in SF

3077 people

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All Series A Investors

14748 people

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All Seed Investors

19691 people

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All Pre-Seed Investors

7972 people

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Pre-seed Investors in San Francisco

993 people

Investments

Stan

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

JEH Aerospace

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

QuriousBit

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Magma

Seed

Total Funding: $9.3M

ByteLearn

Seed

Total Funding: $78K

GetSupp

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Fold Health

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Fitmint

Seed

Total Funding: $2M

Orange Health Labs

Series B

Total Funding: $25M

OpsLyft

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Work Experience

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Celesta Capital

2024

  • Managing Partner

    2024

    Celesta is a deep tech VC with $1.1B AUM over 4 funds since 2013. Member of Management team & IC.

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Crescendo

2023

  • Founder

    2023

    First AI-Native contact center. Worked on company vision and product strategy. Helped raise capital from GC, Alorica and Celesta and bring together a stellar group of founders. Member, Board of Directors.

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HiOctave (HiO)

2025

  • Founder

    2025

    At HiO, we’re on a mission to help small and medium businesses deliver world-class customer experiences (CX) - by giving them AI superpowers once reserved only for the largest enterprises. Member, Board of Directors.

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FPL Technologies

2018

  • Seed Investor

    2018

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NoBroker.com

2016

  • Seed Investor

    2016

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MoEngage

2016

  • Seed Investor

    2016

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Titan

2024

  • Seed Investor

    2024

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invideo

2018

  • Seed Investor

    2018

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Monarch Money

2019

  • Seed Investor

    2019

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Carta

2019

  • Investor

    2019

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