Melt Ventures
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Melt Ventures is an Australian early-stage venture capital fund focused on advanced manufacturing, clean tech, and IoT. It invests in Australian companies with global ambitions, typically leading rounds and providing follow-on capital.
Melt Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Australia. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in advanced Manufacturing, clean Tech, IoT and renewables and storage. Its stated cheque size is $100,000 and $1.5m.
“Melt Ventures believes hardware is the new software. We provide capital, expertise and advice to advanced manufacturing focused Australian startups with global ambitions.”
— Melt Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Invests in
- Australia
- Sectors
- Advanced Manufacturing, Clean Tech, IoT, Renewables and storage, Agriculture, Water, Waste and the circular economy, Climate tech
- Cheque size
- $100,000 and $1.5m
- How to reach it
- Its contact page on its own site
Team, as Melt Ventures publishes it
- Steph Hinds Managing partner
- Trent Bagnall Managing partner
- Alan Spicer Operations & Governance
- Vrinda Patel Compliance
- Clint Bruin Engineer in Residence
- Hamish Rogers Analyst
- James Douglas Venture Partner
- Nathan Kirchner Venture Partner
- Jason Faulkner Venture Partner
- Paul Howdle Venture Partner
- Les Delaforce Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on melt.ventures. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 22 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- BKR Capital 1 shared company: monday.com
- Digital Horizon 1 shared company: monday.com
- Entrée Capital 1 shared company: monday.com
- Fen Ventures 1 shared company: monday.com
- Founders Circle Capital, LLC 1 shared company: monday.com
- Goddess Gaia Ventures 1 shared company: monday.com
- High Street Equity Partners 1 shared company: monday.com
- InNegev 1 shared company: monday.com
- Innovation Factory 1 shared company: monday.com
- Protego Ventures 1 shared company: monday.com
and 12 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Melt Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://melt.ventures/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, thesis_quote, description, status, approach_url
- https://melt.ventures/approach/layer, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size
- https://melt.ventures/focus/sectors
- https://melt.ventures/investment-team/people
Record 8734 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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