Christopher Celeste
Founder & Managing Partner @ Hatch
Christopher Celeste is a seed investor at Hatch focused on Video and EdTech. Christopher is a Partner with Hatch Partners, an organization that helps entrepreneurs bring ideas to market by offering coaching, connections, and capital. He is also CEO of Tackk, a company whose mission is to empower everyone with the ability to instantly create, publish and share beautiful content on the web. Christopher Celeste has spentmore than twenty years catalyzing ideas in politics, marketing and business.Born in New Delhi, India and raised in a large political family in Ohio, Christopher grew up in and around political campaigns. After graduating with honors from Stanford University in 1988, Christopher returned to Ohio and helped to found and lead Participation 2000, a non-traditional political action committee designed to train young organizers. Christopher’s affinity for “campaigns” took him from politics to advertising where he spent fifteen years in various marketing agencies, eventually serving as president of several firms including Resource (www.resource.com), a national technology marketing firm, where he managed offices in Columbus and San Francisco. During this period Christopher played a key role in the e-commerce launch and web fashion show for Victoria’s Secret that garnered international attention and was named ADWEEK’s Marketing Event of the Year. In 2004, Christopher became a Founder & the first President of FindawayWorld, whose core product is Playaway, the world’s first preloaded digital audio book format (www.playaway.com). Called a “genius idea” by Oprah Magazine and the “simplest way to get from the bookstore to Chapter One” by the New York Times, Christopher helped to lead Findaway from a start-up idea to a profitable, Inc 500 success. In 2010, after selling his interest in Findaway, Christopher shifted his attention to Hatch, whose mission is to provide coaching, connections & capital to early-stage entrepreneurs.Christopher and his wife – fellow entrepreneur Nancy Kramer – have six children between them. While Christopher serves on several boards, he spends most of his free time with family, writing about leadership or helping friends and fellow entrepreneurs catalyze new ideas.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Video 2 (40%)
- EdTech 1 (20%)
- Mobile 1 (20%)
- Internet 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (40%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
- Convertible Note 1 (20%)
Investments
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| Tackk helps you easily create content and share with friends all in one place. It’s a fun, social tool that allows you to share creativity and have conversations using photos, video and other media. | Convertible Note / Dec 05, 2014 | ||
| Tackk helps you easily create content and share with friends all in one place. It’s a fun, social tool that allows you to share creativity and have conversations using photos, video and other media. | Convertible Note / Aug 25, 2014 | ||
| Tackk helps you easily create content and share with friends all in one place. It’s a fun, social tool that allows you to share creativity and have conversations using photos, video and other media. | Series B / Feb 18, 2014 | ||
| Tackk helps you easily create content and share with friends all in one place. It’s a fun, social tool that allows you to share creativity and have conversations using photos, video and other media. | $1.4M / Seed / Sep 30, 2013 | ||
| Tagasauris is the developer of a patent-pending human-assisted computing platform designed to “teach” computers the content of a picture or video and how that content relates to the rest of the web. This technology quickly and cost-effectively turns ordinary (“dumb”) visual content into rich searchable media at web-scale and is already being usedby corporate customers including Disney, AOL, and ABC. Clients benefit from improved engagement, traffic, and discoverability (e.g. Tagasauris increased website traffic for one client 5,000%+ after tagging 1.8M photos in one early use case). The company employs experts in the fields of linked data, dynamic semantic publishing, and human-assisted computing and is championed by one of the original members of the Watson team at IBM. Tagasauris was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, United States. | Seed / Dec 07, 2011 |
Co-Investors
About Hatch
Hatch Partners is a venture capital firm that caters to early stage companies with capital, coaching, and networking opportunities. Hatch Partners was founded by Christopher Celeste and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Blake Squires
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Robert Hatta
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What does Christopher Celeste invest in?
Christopher Celeste invests primarily in Video, EdTech and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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