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Celery

Summer 2012 · Inactive

Celery is a platform for pre-orders (www.trycelery.com). Accept…

Location: San Francisco, US

Team size: 11

About

Celery emerged from Y Combinator in 2012 with one goal: to help you sell your great ideas, better. Filling a void in e-commerce, Celery has become the single-stop for innovative brands – large and small – to take pre-orders, crowdfund independently, and to continue selling before and after items are in-stock. Today, Celery has helped thousands of businesses launch their way by providing the tools to crowdfund and pre-sell independently. Celery is founded by a team crowdfunding and e-commerce experts and alums from MIT, Stanford, Groupon, LinkedIn and Foursquare, and is venture-backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Elementum Ventures, Max Levchin, SV Angel, and other top investors.

Founders

  • Chris TsaiFounder/CEO

  • Peter ShihFounder/CTO

    VP Engineering and repeat technical founder who takes products from 0→1 and then scales teams, systems, and processes. Experience across mobile, social, payments, commerce, media, supply chain, and healthcare. Hands-on early in architecture and code; post–product–market fit, focused on org design, hiring, execution, and cross-functional leadership.

  • Brian NguyenFounder/CPO