# Nicholas Brathwaite

> Nicholas Brathwaite is a Series A investor at Celesta Capital backing Artificial Intelligence. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wrvi-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 66%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicholas-brathwaite/4/192/422

Nicholas Brathwaite is a Series A investor at Celesta Capital in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Nicholas Brathwaite is the Founder and Managing Partner at Celesta Capital at Celesta Capital. He attended the University of Waterloo.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8.5M |
| Series A | $8M–$17M |
| Series B | $17M–$68M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 6 | 16% |
| Big Data | 4 | 11% |
| Analytics | 4 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |
| Automotive | 3 | 8% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 24% |
| Series B | 9 | 24% |
| Seed | 4 | 11% |
| Series C | 2 | 5% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 5% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 29% |
| India | 2 | 5% |
| Japan | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stathera | Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices. | $55M | Series B | Jun 30, 2026 |  |
| Normal Computing | Normal is rethinking semiconductors from the ground up.Normal EDA - Normal deploys AI software to accelerate complex hardware engineering with zero defects – all in one unified EDA platform.Normal ASICs - With the help of Normal EDA, and our closest semiconductor partners, we are building thermodynamic computing hardware that could reduce AIenergy consumption by 1000x.Normal helps enterprises deploy AI into their highest-stakes applications, where AI can reason reliably, autonomously understand its own limits. Normal’s AI application development platform is powered by a novel full-stack probabilistic machine learning infrastructure driven by thermodynamic physics. | $50M | Series B | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Normal Computing | Normal is rethinking semiconductors from the ground up.Normal EDA - Normal deploys AI software to accelerate complex hardware engineering with zero defects – all in one unified EDA platform.Normal ASICs - With the help of Normal EDA, and our closest semiconductor partners, we are building thermodynamic computing hardware that could reduce AIenergy consumption by 1000x.Normal helps enterprises deploy AI into their highest-stakes applications, where AI can reason reliably, autonomously understand its own limits. Normal’s AI application development platform is powered by a novel full-stack probabilistic machine learning infrastructure driven by thermodynamic physics. | $50M | Series B | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Exostellar | Exostellar provides a platform that enables users to enhance cloud computing for greater cost efficiency by utilising its exclusive licence to patent-pending technologies created at Cornell University and combining artificial intelligence and machine learning. | $15M | Series A | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Stathera | Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices. | $14.8M | Series A | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Stathera | Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices. | $14.8M | Series A | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Normal Computing | Normal is rethinking semiconductors from the ground up.Normal EDA - Normal deploys AI software to accelerate complex hardware engineering with zero defects – all in one unified EDA platform.Normal ASICs - With the help of Normal EDA, and our closest semiconductor partners, we are building thermodynamic computing hardware that could reduce AIenergy consumption by 1000x.Normal helps enterprises deploy AI into their highest-stakes applications, where AI can reason reliably, autonomously understand its own limits. Normal’s AI application development platform is powered by a novel full-stack probabilistic machine learning infrastructure driven by thermodynamic physics. | $8.5M | Seed | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Normal Computing | Normal is rethinking semiconductors from the ground up.Normal EDA - Normal deploys AI software to accelerate complex hardware engineering with zero defects – all in one unified EDA platform.Normal ASICs - With the help of Normal EDA, and our closest semiconductor partners, we are building thermodynamic computing hardware that could reduce AIenergy consumption by 1000x.Normal helps enterprises deploy AI into their highest-stakes applications, where AI can reason reliably, autonomously understand its own limits. Normal’s AI application development platform is powered by a novel full-stack probabilistic machine learning infrastructure driven by thermodynamic physics. | $8.5M | Seed | Jan 09, 2023 |  |
| Exostellar | Exostellar provides a platform that enables users to enhance cloud computing for greater cost efficiency by utilising its exclusive licence to patent-pending technologies created at Cornell University and combining artificial intelligence and machine learning. | $12M | Series A | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Exostellar | Exostellar provides a platform that enables users to enhance cloud computing for greater cost efficiency by utilising its exclusive licence to patent-pending technologies created at Cornell University and combining artificial intelligence and machine learning. | $12M | Series A | Nov 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celesta-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wrvi-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Micron Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/micron-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [First Spark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-spark-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ArcTern Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arctern-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Celesta Capital

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Celesta Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs and disruptive technology companies. Their management team and investment professionals leverage over 400 years of accumulated investment and operational experience and bring to their portfolio companies a deep and unmatched network of value-added strategic relationships.Celesta Capital invests globally and has offices in California, Israel, India, and China

5 contacts available at Celesta Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Marks | Founding Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-e-marks |
| Anand Chandrasekaran | President, Co-founder, and Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anand-chandrasekaran |
| Andrew Kau | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-kau |
| Arun Kumar | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arun-kumar-8 |
| Ganapathy Subramaniam | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ganapathy-subramaniam-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicholas Brathwaite invest in?

Nicholas Brathwaite invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Nicholas Brathwaite's check size?

Nicholas Brathwaite typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.5M at Seed, $8M–$17M at Series A and $17M–$68M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Nicholas Brathwaite participates in.

### When did Nicholas Brathwaite last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicholas Brathwaite closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 38 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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