Celtic House Venture Partners
Venture capitalOttawa · Seed–Late Stage · 6 people tracked
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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 20 of 28 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×9Enterprise Software ×9SaaS ×9Cloud Computing ×5Cybersecurity ×5Consumer ×4IoT ×4Hardware ×3
HQs:Canada×9United States×5Germany×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 8 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×23 founders×2
Investments · 28 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2023 · 12022 · 22019 · 14 dated
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
Robert NoyceinGordon MooreAndrew GroveApril Miller Boise(Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer)inMichelle Johnston Holthaus(Chief Executive Officer of Intel Products)inChristoph Schell(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersGen CapitalKluz VenturesNorwest Venture PartnersPlayground GlobalPrefix Capital+5 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
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 Hoff(Co-founder & Board Advisor)inMarc Morin(Co-founder)inDavid Yach(Co-founder)inDouglas Murray(Chief Executive Officer)in
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)inKen MacAskill(Executive Officer)James Glover(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsContour Venture PartnersEscalate Capital Partnersm]x[v CapitalMI VenturesRunway Venture PartnersStage 1 Ventures+4 more
Corsa Security automates the deployment and management of virtualized network firewalls for large enterprises and service providers.
Circular EconomyCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSaaSOttawa, CA
Co-investorsRoadmap Capital Inc.
Burnaby, CA
Yaofei Feng(Founder)
Co-investorsCeltic House Asia PartnersOyster Ventures
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)in
Co-investorsCeltic House Asia Partners
Mappedin digitizes indoor spaces using a platform for spatial data management and enables customers to create indoor mapping experiences across various verticals and use cases.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwarePropTechSaaSWaterloo, CA
Hongwei Liu(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetatron Venture GroupCeltic House Asia PartnersEdison Partners
Maxwin is a browser-based online casino platform aimed at an international audience, offering slots, live dealer games, and crash games from providers such as Pragmatic Play, Evolution, NetEnt, and Hacksaw Gaming.
ConsumerCrypto & Web3Gaming
Co-investorsUlu Ventures
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
Overlay is a decentralized protocol offering perpetual markets for long-tail crypto assets, including emerging tokens, pre-CEX assets, and narrative-driven assets that traditional venues cannot support.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investors1kxParaFi Capital
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)inDave Gurney(Director)Paul Coffey(Director)Donato Ardellini(Director)
Co-investorsBDC Capital Corporation
Raven is an Industry 4.0 technology platform that helps manufacturers capture, analyze, and act on production data in real time to improve shop floor operations.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaS
MartinBraden
Co-investorsChartline Capital PartnersMomenta Ventures
Raven is an all-in-one fleet management platform that combines AI-powered dashcams, GPS tracking, and vehicle diagnostics to provide real-time fleet visibility and driver coaching.
AI & Machine LearningIoTLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaSCanada, CA
Co-investorsGraphite VenturesExport Development Canada (EDC)
Snappy is a gifting platform that integrates with Microsoft Teams, enabling users to send and receive gift notifications directly within Teams workspaces.
B2B MarketplacesConsumerEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkHR TechMarketing TechSaaSNew York, US
Dvir Cohen(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)Hani Goldstein(Co-Founder and CEO)in
Co-investors83NorthNotable CapitalSaban VenturesXRCCeltic House Asia PartnersFINTOP Capital+3 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 is a food supply chain and ecommerce platform operating across Canada that serves Korean and Asian food businesses, restaurants, and supermarkets.
B2B MarketplacesE-commerceFoodTechLogistics & 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 VenturesHat-Trick CapitalLanchi VenturesVision Plus Capital
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AuvikFinastraGigyaRemxSemiconductor IPO on TSXshopper plus
Exits · 4
2 IPOs · 2 acquisitions · showing 3HitachiOTC: HTHIFIntel,NASDAQ: INTCCoherent Pathacq. by Movable Ink
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Trend Micro · finance.biggo.com · Aug 13, 2026
Snappy · trysignalbase.com · Jul 17, 2026
Mappedin · memoori.com · Apr 13, 2026
Overlay · m.riverbender.com · Apr 9, 2026
Overlay · m.riverbender.com · Apr 9, 2026
Overlay · m.riverbender.com · Apr 9, 2026
Quadshift · privatecapitaljournal.com · Apr 1, 2026
Auvik Networks · waterlooedc.ca · Sep 23, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Celtic House Venture Partners made?
- Celtic House Venture Partners has 28 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited.
- 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, Cross Creek Advisors, among 82 tracked co-investors.
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