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Sudhir Rao

Managing Partner - India at Celesta Capital

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Overview 

Sudhir Rao is the Managing Partner - India at Celesta Capital, with a background in strategic planning, entrepreneurship, and corporate finance. With a strong track record in founding and managing various companies, he brings expertise in private equity, risk management, and business modeling to his current role, overseeing investment strategies and operations in India. Rao's career highlights include founding IndusAge Capital Managers LLP and IndusAge Advisors Ltd., as well as serving as a Non-Exec Chairman at Healofy and holding various board positions in companies like Stellapps Technologies Private Limited and Get My Parking.

Work Experience 

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Celesta Capital

  • Managing Partner - India

    2019 - Current

Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies.

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IndusAge Capital Managers LLP.

  • Founding Managing Partner

    2012

    IndusAge Capital Managers LLP. is the Investment Manager & Advisor to Technology Venture Funds that target investing in India-centric early to growth stage technology led ventures seeking to accelerate and scale up monetization of intellectual property globally.

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IndusAge Advisors Ltd.

  • Founder

    1999

    Current Role: Over the last 23 years as Founder of IndusAge, an Enterprise Innovation & ScaleUp Advisory Services organization, he compassionately invests time and capital as a minority shareholder, in catalyzing entities to exceptionally institutionalize sustainable and meaningful purposes. IndusAge is currently associated with over 25 companies in India, nurturing early stage start-ups to assisting larger entities in the areas of Innovation, Strategic direction, Performance & Capital Management and Stakeholder Relations and provides cross-border strategic advisory services to leverage Emerging Technologies. He participates as a Non-Executive Director on several Boards including RBL Bank, Aditya Birla Money Ltd., Radhakrishna Foodland Pvt Ltd( a leading Supply Chain Solutions company )and was an Independent Member of the Investment Committee of a US$ 350 Million private equity fund managed by Ascent Capital Advisors ( formerly UTI Ventures ).

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Healofy

  • Non-Exec Chairman ( Nominee )

    2022

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5C Network

  • Nominee Non-Executive Director

    2022

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Connect and Heal - CNH Care

  • Nominee Non Executive Director

    2021

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Stellapps Technologies Private Limited

  • Nominee Non-Executive Director

    2018

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Get My Parking

  • Board Observer

    2016

    GetMyParking digitises Parking by integrating the parking spaces in public, enterprise and private areas with consumers over a Mobile enabled Cloud based platform. They currently process about One Million tickets a month and have enable very large events like IPL Delhi, The Mahakumbh Mela at Ujjain and The Krishna Pushkarulu at Rajahmundry.

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Ketto

  • Nominee Non Executive Director

    2015

    Ketto is Asia's leading Crowdfunding platform that enables about 3000 NGOs and Personal campaigners to catalyze Donors to participate in their Fund raise campaigns and showcase their effort.

RBL FinServe

  • Independent Non Executive Director

    2020

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