# Dario Meli

> Dario Meli is a pre-seed investor at Food.ee (Vancouver) backing Logistics and Content Creators. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Food.ee](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/food-ee)
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Nov 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariomeli
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/quikness
- Website: http://quiet.ly
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dmeli

Dario Meli is a pre-seed investor at Food.ee in Vancouver focused on Logistics and Content Creators. Dario Meli is the Executive Chairman of Quietly Media Inc. He previously worked at Music Direction as a Partner. Dario Meli attended the Vancouver Film School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$2.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Logistics | 2 | 25% |
| Content Creators | 2 | 25% |
| Marketing Automation | 2 | 25% |
| SEO | 1 | 13% |
| Fuel | 1 | 13% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 3 | 38% |
| United States | 2 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Go Oil | Go Oil is an innovative, fully online on-demand mobile oil change service that offers customers convenience and transparency. Launched at a 55-hour business pitch competition, the company has a vision of providing consumers instant access to oil changes and other vehicle Maintenance items. Utilizing a low-cost, rapid-start technology-basedfranchise model, Go Oil Today has franchise and corporate-owned mobile service vans across Canada and the United States, positioning the company as a leader in the industry. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Kiwi Grocery | Kiwi Grocery is an online application for grocery and food products. They offer same-day delivery services. Their application can be found online. It also provides transparent pricing and weekly price checks. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| Go Oil | Go Oil is an innovative, fully online on-demand mobile oil change service that offers customers convenience and transparency. Launched at a 55-hour business pitch competition, the company has a vision of providing consumers instant access to oil changes and other vehicle Maintenance items. Utilizing a low-cost, rapid-start technology-basedfranchise model, Go Oil Today has franchise and corporate-owned mobile service vans across Canada and the United States, positioning the company as a leader in the industry. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Apr 20, 2021 |  |
| Creator.co | Creator is a SaaS powered marketplace that connects hundreds of brands with millions of Influencers to drive commerce at scale. SMBs to fortune 500's depend on Creator to scale performance focused influencer marketing campaigns. Thousands of Creators join for free every month for an opportunity to collaborate with brands and drive commercefocused campaigns. | $692.5K | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Bold Metrics | Bold Metrics is building a sustainable future by reducing product returns and informing better design practices. The leading fit technology company headquartered in San Francisco, Bold Metrics uses A. I and machine learning technologies to empower apparel brands to reduce returns, boost conversions, and improve sustainability. Their SaaS solutionsprovide a simple, scalable way for brands to predict customer body measurements accurately while connecting customers to better-fitting clothing and generating powerful, actionable insights to supercharge the supply chain and reduce a brand's environmental footprint.Used by trusted brands to reduce fit-related returns, from size recommendations that take into consideration a customer's body shape and fit preference, to enterprise-level solutions that optimize manufacturing from design to distribution, our technology improves the customer experience both in-store and online. | $2.5M | Seed | Aug 31, 2017 |  |
| Bold Metrics | Bold Metrics is building a sustainable future by reducing product returns and informing better design practices. The leading fit technology company headquartered in San Francisco, Bold Metrics uses A. I and machine learning technologies to empower apparel brands to reduce returns, boost conversions, and improve sustainability. Their SaaS solutionsprovide a simple, scalable way for brands to predict customer body measurements accurately while connecting customers to better-fitting clothing and generating powerful, actionable insights to supercharge the supply chain and reduce a brand's environmental footprint.Used by trusted brands to reduce fit-related returns, from size recommendations that take into consideration a customer's body shape and fit preference, to enterprise-level solutions that optimize manufacturing from design to distribution, our technology improves the customer experience both in-store and online. | $1M | Seed | Jan 19, 2015 |  |
| vidIQ | vidIQ is the first YouTube audience development and management suite that helps brands and agencies grow their views and subscribers. vidIQ is an end-to-end solution that assists YouTube marketers at every step of their workflow, including uploading their videos at the best time of day, connecting brands with their top influencers, YouTube SEO,monitoring viewer and engagement analytics across Twitter and Facebook, bulk description editing, comment moderation, and Facebook fan page syndication.vidIQ was founded in January of 2012 by ex-Viddler founder Rob Sandie, Todd Troxell, and James Cross. It is backed by some of the biggest names in angel investment, including Mark Cuban, Scott Banister, and David Cohen, among others. | $2M | Seed | Feb 26, 2013 |  |
| vidIQ | vidIQ is the first YouTube audience development and management suite that helps brands and agencies grow their views and subscribers. vidIQ is an end-to-end solution that assists YouTube marketers at every step of their workflow, including uploading their videos at the best time of day, connecting brands with their top influencers, YouTube SEO,monitoring viewer and engagement analytics across Twitter and Facebook, bulk description editing, comment moderation, and Facebook fan page syndication.vidIQ was founded in January of 2012 by ex-Viddler founder Rob Sandie, Todd Troxell, and James Cross. It is backed by some of the biggest names in angel investment, including Mark Cuban, Scott Banister, and David Cohen, among others. | $2M | Seed | Aug 01, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Elementum Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elementumventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Geekdom Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/geekdom-fund-l-p) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LOI Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loi-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accelerate Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accelerate-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aventrock Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aventrock-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Techstars Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bullet-time-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Food.ee

VC Fund · Vancouver, Canada

Food.ee is a fun and simple service which delivers meals, snacks, cakes and alcohol to your office! All you need to do it 1. Pick a price point 2. Choose your food type 3. Build a menu. Its that easy.

5 contacts available at Food.ee.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dario Meli | Co Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dario-meli |
| Corey Shankman | City Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corey-shankman |
| David Tedman | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-tedman |
| Joe Gaudet | Director Of Software Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-gaudet |
| Jon Cartwright | Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-cartwright |

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## FAQ

### What does Dario Meli invest in?

Dario Meli invests primarily in Logistics, Content Creators and Marketing Automation startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dario Meli's check size?

Dario Meli typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.5M at Seed and $300k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dario Meli participates in.

### When did Dario Meli last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dario Meli closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 8 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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