# Sudhir Rao

> Sudhir Rao is a Series A investor at Celesta Capital (Chennai) backing E-Commerce and Internet. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wrvi-capital)
- Location: Chennai, India
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 82%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raosudhir

Sudhir Rao is a Series A investor at Celesta Capital in Chennai focused on E-Commerce and Internet. Sudhir Rao is the Founder and Founding Managing Partner at IndusAge Partners. Rao is also the Founder of IndusAge Advisors Limited, and over the last 13 years has built it as an enterprise development advisory services organization. He is a non-executive co-promoter minority shareholder. As an Active Non-Executive Observer he focus on enhancingcustomer & organization capital to deliver superior triple bottom line returns to all stakeholders at IndusAge. Rao was the Founder Director of Karvy Investor Services Limited. He is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA) with a Bachelors Degree in Commerce (Honours) from Kolkata University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $4.9M–$7.5M |
| Series B | $6.5M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 27% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Apps | 1 | 9% |
| AgTech | 1 | 9% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Series B | 2 | 18% |
| Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Brick&Bolt | Brick&Bolt is an e-commerce marketplace providing end-to-end construction services with absolute trust and transparency. We ensure money safety through our escrow facility, transparency using technology, quality through in-house project management team and on-time through penalty clauses for any delays. If you looking for anybuilding/house construction, Brick&Bolt is the place to go to! | $4.9M | Series A | Jan 08, 2023 |  |
| Brick&Bolt | Brick&Bolt is an e-commerce marketplace providing end-to-end construction services with absolute trust and transparency. We ensure money safety through our escrow facility, transparency using technology, quality through in-house project management team and on-time through penalty clauses for any delays. If you looking for anybuilding/house construction, Brick&Bolt is the place to go to! | $4.9M | Series A | Jan 08, 2023 |  |
| Healofy | Healofy is an Indian parenting social network that provides pregnancy and childcare products. The company was founded in 2016 by Gaurav Aggarwal and Shubham Maheshwari and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. | $6.5M | Series B | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Healofy | Healofy is an Indian parenting social network that provides pregnancy and childcare products. The company was founded in 2016 by Gaurav Aggarwal and Shubham Maheshwari and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. | $6.5M | Series B | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Questt | Questt is an assessment/homework platform that automates homework assessment for teachers, saving 90% of their time, and gamifies assignments for students. | $6.7M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Questt | Questt is an assessment/homework platform that automates homework assessment for teachers, saving 90% of their time, and gamifies assignments for students. | $6.7M | Series A | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Arzooo.com | We are disrupting $80bn+ electronics retail market in India, largely dominated by fragmented physical retail (90% share), with Arzooo "Go Store" technology, removing barriers of scale and inventory, and making each retail store better than an e-commerce platform with the largest virtual selection and the best prices to in-shop consumers,higher profits to retailers, along with integrated financing and quick delivery capabilities. Arzooo has also become the gateway for fast growing emerging brands to launch into huge untapped offline channel. | $7.5M | Series A | Sep 27, 2020 |  |
| Arzooo.com | We are disrupting $80bn+ electronics retail market in India, largely dominated by fragmented physical retail (90% share), with Arzooo "Go Store" technology, removing barriers of scale and inventory, and making each retail store better than an e-commerce platform with the largest virtual selection and the best prices to in-shop consumers,higher profits to retailers, along with integrated financing and quick delivery capabilities. Arzooo has also become the gateway for fast growing emerging brands to launch into huge untapped offline channel. | $7.5M | Series A | Sep 27, 2020 |  |
| Stellapps | Stellapps designs dairy management software applications that leverage the power of technology to improve dairy supply chain parameters. The company's applications leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud, mobility and data analytics to improve agri-supply chain parameters, including milk production, milk procurement, cold chainanimal insurance and farmer payments, enabling dairy farms, dairy farmers and cooperatives to maximize profits while minimizing effort. | $14M | Series B | May 31, 2018 |  |
| Get My Parking | Get My Parking, is a B2B Platform-as-a-Service company. GMP's inter-operable open IoT Platform is designed to connect different types of parking inventory together on to a digital layer, making it future ready to meet changing mobility needs. Working across 16 countries, Platform connects with different make and type of parkinginfrastructure, giving complete visibility and control the Parking Operator/ City Council. Platform exploits synergies with various demand aggregators like mapping services, Auto OEMs, Corporate clients and Fleet Companies. | $1.1M | Seed | Feb 23, 2017 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/celesta-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Jabbar Internet Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jabbar-internet-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Celesta Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wrvi-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [3Lines](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3lines) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel-india) — VC Fund, 2 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 Sudhir Rao invest in?

Sudhir Rao invests primarily in E-Commerce, Internet and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sudhir Rao's check size?

Sudhir Rao typically joins rounds of $4.9M–$7.5M at Series A and $6.5M–$14M 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 Sudhir Rao participates in.

### When did Sudhir Rao last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sudhir Rao closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 11 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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