Our Team
David
Adderley
MANAGING PARTNER, CELTIC HOUSE VENTURE PARTNERS
“working with passionate founders is a privilege; the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to their success by providing capital and trusted counsel is the reward”
Since joining Celtic House in 2000, David has raised over $500 million from institutional investors and led operations for four venture capital funds and multiple special purpose investment vehicles. He has represented Celtic House on over 25 successful M&As and IPOs.
David has led investments in, and served on the board of, over a dozen start-up technology companies. David’s current investments include Creative Layer, Fantuan, Merqueo, MovableInk, Raven Connected, Shopper+ and Snappy.
Prior to joining Celtic House, David spent five years as a corporate and intellectual property lawyer at Gowling WLG.
Tom
Valis
MANAGING PARTNER, CELTIC HOUSE VENTURE PARTNERS
“the cloud gives you a sense of infinite opportunity; working with new teams realizes it”
Tom joined Celtic House in 1996 and has generated $2B of exit value as a lead VC investor across four institutional funds. He has focused his efforts on SMB SaaS throughout the 2010s, including Auvik Networks---one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in North America.
He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto and was a post-doctoral researcher at MIT. He was an early student of Dr. Geoff Hinton in the field that became Deep Learning.
He was the first Canadian to climb the Troll Wall and was a contributor to the development of sport climbing in Ontario.
C.J (Jie) Chen
MANAGING PARTNER, CELTIC HOUSE ASIA PARTNERS
C.J Chen is a Managing Partner of Celtic House Asia Partners. C.J oversees the fund’s operations and leads the fund’s consumer and logistic investments, focusing on leveraging network effects to re-imagine consumer purchases and business procurement across multiple industries.
Prior to Celtic House Asia Partners, C.J co-founded CentreGold Capital, a $25M seed-stage fund focused on consumer logistics and digital health. Throughout his career, C.J has made 15+ investments and is dedicated to supporting immigrant entrepreneurs in North America. C.J currently serves on the board at GrubMarket, Enovation, FanTuan, Saltalk, and Shopper+.
Born in China, C.J pursued studies at Harvard University before settling in Silicon Valley.
Larry Liu
MANAGING PARTNER, CELTIC HOUSE ASIA PARTNERS
Larry Liu is a Managing Partner of Celtic House Asia Partners and leads the fund’s investments in B2B SaaS and Industrials.
Prior to Celtic House Asia Partners, Larry founded GCI Capital, an early-stage B2B fund with international exposure in Canada, the U.S., Israel, and China. Notable investments include Envenio (Acq. by Juul), Applyboard and Quectel (603236. SS). Before GCI Capital, Larry co-founded EffiSolar, a renewable energy corporation focused on wind and solar energy plant development and financing in Canada and the U.S.
Larry got a BA specializing in Economics and Finance from the University of Toronto and an MSc in Business and Management from the University of Portsmouth.
Our Advisors
Cory Michalyshyn
“my favorite part of SMB SaaS is how it’s all about generating metrics and iterating; hypothesize, experiment, measure, adjust, repeat”
Cory is currently CFO at Fellow Insights, a high-growth SaaS company focused on workplace and remote-team productivity, having previously been a fractional CFO for several high-growth SaaS & Marketplace companies and spending 5 years as CFO & COO of Solink, where he played a lead role in their metrics-led pivot to a direct-sale SaaS model.
He qualified as a CPA while serving technology, VC & PE fund clients at Deloitte, and earned his Bachelor of Commerce at Queen’s University.
