# Catia Cesari

> Catia Cesari is a seed investor at Volta Circle (Geneva) backing Farming and Recycling. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Volta Circle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/volta-circle)
- Location: Geneva, Switzerland
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/catiacesari/

Catia Cesari is a seed investor at Volta Circle in Geneva focused on Farming and Recycling. Catia Cesari has over twenty years of executive experience working in corporate development for firms in a range of industries. Over her career, she has grown investment portfolios and led mergers between US and European firms including GE, GE Energy, Gucci Group, and JAB holding. Catia Cesari was most recently senior vice president for corporatedevelopment of COTY Inc, a company with a $10 billion listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Ms. Cesari earned a master’s degree in economics and management from the University of Florence in 1991 and became CPA-certified in 1992. She began her career as a senior auditor for KPMG, a global business consultancy, which was then supporting GE in acquiring Nuovo Pignone. Moving to GE and London in 1994, she structured and negotiated complex deals. During her time at GE she received additional training in financial management, and completed the six-sigma program becoming a certified master black-belt. Moving to Gucci Group, Catia Cesari served as director of mergers and acquisitions, overseeing the acquisition of 10 brands over 18 months. During her time at Gucci Group, she received training in structured finance at George Washington University and became Financial Service Authority certified in London. In 2004, Ms. Cesari helped to found the First Reserve Corporation offices in London, expanding the corporation’s revenues in Europe past the billion-dollar mark. She moved to the Swiss-based firm JAB Holding in 2006, acting as vice president of corporate development for several of it subsidiaries.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farming | 1 | 50% |
| Recycling | 1 | 50% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |
| Environmental Engineering | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MittiLabs | Mitti Labs is a deeptech company that leverages AI, satellite technology, and field operations to permanently reduce methane emissions from rice farming. By doing this, we unlock the potential of rice-based carbon credits for measurable climate action at scale. Loved and consumed by half the world’s population daily, rice farming has GHG emissionsequivalent to the global aviation industry, due to methane. Our work transforms a critical agricultural sector into a high-integrity source of climate impact, water savings, and farmer income. We empower smallholder farmers across the global south to adopt climate-smart practices that are measurable, traceable, and economically rewarding. Backed by leading investors, our team is building the infrastructure to scale climate-smart rice farming and unlock real impact from the ground up. | $9.5M | Series A | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| MacroCycle Technologies | MacroCycle is developing a technology to curb the usage of fossil fuel derived plastic through a circular, sustainable and zero-carbon plastic upcycling process. The company's proprietary process based on the synthesis of cyclic macromolecules enables us to produce virgin-grade recycled PET from plastic waste at lower energy use thantraditional processes. | $6.5M | Seed | Feb 06, 2025 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Aramco Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aramco-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cisco Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cisco-foundation) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightspeed India Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners-india) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clean Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clean-energy-ventures-cev) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Francis Family Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/francis-family-funds) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Godrej Industries Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/godrej-industries-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Volta Circle

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Founded in 2019, Volta Circle is an early-stage evergreen VC investor, based in London and backed by a single LP. The firm invests in technology-driven startups across three core verticals covering food systems, circularity and climate, with a mission to enable founders to create maximum value, scale, and impact. The team is based between Geneva,Milan, London and Bangkok.

3 contacts available at Volta Circle.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aradhana Lohia Sharma | Co-Founder and Co-Chairwoman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aradhana-lohia-sharma |
| Catia Cesari | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catia-cesari |
| Suchitra Lohia | Co-Founder and Co-Chairwoman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suchitra-lohia |

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## FAQ

### What does Catia Cesari invest in?

Catia Cesari invests primarily in Farming, Recycling and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Catia Cesari last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Catia Cesari closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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