Celtic House Venture Partners
Venture capitalOttawa · Seed–Late Stage · 6 people tracked
Investment thesis
Celtic House Venture Partners invests at the early growth stage in exceptional founding teams building category-leading technology companies. It focuses on businesses that have already demonstrated product-market fit and that embrace a tools-driven approach, applying new cloud-based AI technologies to the evolving needs of enterprises. The firm emphasizes helping companies scale in an AI-driven landscape. Alongside its partner Celtic House Asia Partners (founded 2019 by Larry Liu), it has built a broad portfolio across North America and Asia, leveraging networks that include immigrant founders. Its track record spans more than 75 technology companies and over 30 IPO and M&A transactions across two decades.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 6 people
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What they invest in
from 18 of 26 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×8SaaS ×8Enterprise Software ×7Cybersecurity ×5IoT ×4Cloud Computing ×3Consumer ×3FoodTech ×2
HQs:Canada×5United States×4Germany×1
Investments · 26 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 12022 · 12019 · 13 dated
Co-investorsOSK Ventures International
Intel designs and manufactures semiconductor processors for data center, consumer, and embedded applications, including Xeon server processors, Arc graphics processors, and mobile processors.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsSanta Clara, US
April Miller Boise(Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer)Michelle Johnston Holthaus(Chief Executive Officer of Intel Products)Christoph Schell(Executive Officer)David A. Zinsner(Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer)Lip-Bu Tan(Chief Executive Officer & Director)
BoardJames J. Goetz(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersGen CapitalKluz VenturesNorwest Venture PartnersPlayground GlobalPrefix Capital+2 more
AT&T is a telecommunications provider offering wireless mobile plans, smartphones, and related connectivity services to consumers.
ConsumerHardware
Co-investorsData Point CapitalForgePoint CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Notable CapitalAdara VenturesGGV Capital+3 more
Cisco provides networking, data center, and security technology for enterprises, including infrastructure to run traditional and AI workloads and tools to keep organizations running against cyberattacks and outages.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareIoTSan Jose, US
John ChambersinChuck Robbinsin
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersAllegisCyber CapitalAviv Venture CapitalBantam GroupCastile VenturesCollab+Currency+31 more
Award-winning IT management software provider with AI-powered agents for network and infrastructure management.
Auvik is a cloud-based AI-powered IT operations platform that helps managed service providers and IT departments monitor and manage networks, SaaS applications, and endpoints.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareIoTWaterloo, CA
Alex HoffMarc MorinDavid YachDouglas Murray(Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsBDC Fund Investments (Fund-of-Funds)BDC Venture CapitalCeltic House Asia PartnersGolub GrowthOpenView Venture PartnersRho Capital Partners+2 more
Movable Ink offers AI-driven personalization software, including its Studio and Da Vinci products, that automatically generates and curates content, send times, and frequency to personalize customer messages such as email at the moment of engagement.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSWaltham, US
Gregory Leibon(Executive Officer, Director)Ken MacAskill(Executive Officer)James Glover(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersEscalate Capital Partnersm]x[v CapitalMI VenturesRunway Venture PartnersStage 1 Ventures+4 more
Burnaby, CA
Yaofei Feng(Founder)
Co-investorsCeltic House Asia PartnersOyster Ventures
Walldorf, DE
Co-investorsActivant CapitalCamber PartnersCross Creek AdvisorsMK CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersNotable Capital+3 more
Snappy is a technology platform for restaurants that combines order management, sales tracking across locations, and a CRM with customer profiles.
FoodTechRetail TechSaaSToronto, CA
Ricky Wang(Founder)
Co-investorsCeltic House Asia Partners
Mappedin provides indoor mapping software that transforms building floor plans into interactive digital maps for wayfinding, operations, and analytics across venues of any size.
Enterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaS
Co-investorsBetatron Venture GroupCeltic House Asia Partners
Overlay builds a consumer robotics device combining hardware with AI-powered software and computer vision to automatically apply makeup, calibrating each look to the user's facial geometry, skin tone, and preferences.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerRobotics
Co-investorsBetaworks
Quadshift acquires and operates vertical software platforms serving regulated and essential industries, using AI enablement and a shared central team across its portfolio companies.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSAurora
John Paterson(CEO)Dave Gurney(Director)Paul Coffey(Director)Donato Ardellini(Director)
Raven offers production monitoring software that helps manufacturers identify and reduce operational inefficiencies, such as improving changeover processes.
Advanced ManufacturingIoTSaaS
Co-investorsChartline Capital PartnersMomenta Ventures
Raven provides road intelligence technology combining AI video telematics, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) connectivity, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that turn vehicles into real-time data nodes.
AI & Machine LearningIoTMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsGraphite Ventures
Co-investorsEnterprise Equity
Co-investorsCanadian Business Growth FundCeltic House Asia Partners
Snappy is a gifting platform that integrates with Microsoft Teams, enabling users to send and receive gift notifications directly within Teams workspaces.
ConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSNew York, US
Dvir Cohen(Co-founder)Hani Goldstein(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsNotable CapitalSaban VenturesXRC83NorthCeltic House Asia PartnersHearst Ventures+1 more
TrendAI (Trend Micro) provides enterprise cybersecurity through its TrendAI Vision One platform, which unifies endpoint, network, cloud, and identity security with XDR visibility, threat intelligence, and AI-focused threat protection.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Co-investorsConnetic Ventures
UNI-ONE operates a food supply chain platform in Canada, offering global sourcing, warehousing, and delivery of grocery items, produce, meats, beverages, frozen products, and seafood.
B2B MarketplacesFoodTechLogistics & Supply ChainVancouver, CA
Co-investorsCeltic House Asia Partners
UniUni provides technology-driven last-mile parcel delivery services for e-commerce companies of all sizes, operating through a network of independent contractor drivers and package handlers.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainVancouver, CA
Peter Lu(Founder)inKevin Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersCeltic House Asia PartnersDCM VenturesLanchi VenturesVision Plus Capital
Exits · 2
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioHitachiOTC: HTHIFIntel,NASDAQ: INTC
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesTrend Micro · finance.biggo.com · Aug 13, 2026
Snappy · trysignalbase.com · Jul 17, 2026
Overlay · m.riverbender.com · Apr 9, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Celtic House Venture Partners made?
- Celtic House Venture Partners has 24 tracked investments.
- What stage does Celtic House Venture Partners invest at?
- Celtic House Venture Partners invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth, Late Stage stages.
- What is Celtic House Venture Partners's typical check size?
- Celtic House Venture Partners typically writes checks of $1.5M – $5.1M.
- What sectors does Celtic House Venture Partners focus on?
- Celtic House Venture Partners focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Data & Infrastructure, Developer Tools, E-commerce, Enterprise Software, FoodTech, Hardware, Logistics & Supply Chain, New Materials, Retail Tech, SaaS, Semiconductors.
- Where is Celtic House Venture Partners located?
- Celtic House Venture Partners is headquartered in Ottawa, CA.
- Who does Celtic House Venture Partners co-invest with?
- Celtic House Venture Partners most often shares deals with Celtic House Asia Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Access Venture Partners, among 73 tracked co-investors.
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