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
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.
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
- 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
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