# Mela Ventures

> Mela Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 63%
- Fund size: $3.2B
- Last fund: Mar 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/melaventures/about/
- Website: https://melaventures.in/

Mela Ventures is a SEBI-approved AIF Category-2 fund for the early stage companies. With a goal to build next-gen entrepreneurs, the fund will focus on building a portfolio in areas, such as AI/ML, AR/VR, IoT, Cloud Migration and Deep Technologies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$2.5M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| Computer | 2 | 8% |
| Security | 2 | 8% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 25% |
| Series A | 6 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 15 | 63% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Parthasarathy N.S. | C0-Founder & Managing Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/parthasarathy-n-s- |
| Krishnakumar Natarajan | Co Founder & Managing Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krishnakumar-natarajan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Solinas Integrity | Solinas solves problems of water leakage and eliminates manual scavenging. Their products are being designed for Indian challenges with products like short-range and long-range pipeline inspection and robotic cleaning of septic tanks. They provide internal condition assessment and defect detection in pipelines, identifying and analysing leaks,corrosion, sediments, and dents in critical pipeline infrastructure using NDT techniques. | $5.5M | Series A | Aug 06, 2026 |  |
| Optimized Electrotech | Optimized Electrotech builds high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at India's most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. The company is currently raising funds for commercial production. | $3.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| Optimized Electrotech | Optimized Electrotech builds high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at India's most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. The company is currently raising funds for commercial production. | $3.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| Optimized Electrotech | Optimized Electrotech builds high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at India's most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. The company is currently raising funds for commercial production. | $3.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 27, 2026 |  |
| GalaxEye | GalaxEye enables businesses to make better Decisions & perform operations efficiently via Space Technology. | $4.8M | Series A | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| Flo Mobility | Flo Mobility builds an autonomous technology for electric two-wheelers vehicles. Flo Mobility was founded in 2018 and was headquartered in Banglore, India. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| iTuring.ai | CyborgIntell is an Enterprise AI Software company which automate the entire lifecycle of Data Science and Machine learning using AI, to accelerate the data to decision cycles for businesses. In the process, we solve challenges of Talent, time, Complexity of Data Science and Governance of machine learning models. We address the most prevalentproblem of operationalizing ML models into production in real-time through our ML DevOps and with Dynamic AI, our product is a self-learning system that tracks and updates models in real-time. | $5M | Series A | Jul 23, 2025 |  |
| Optimized Electrotech | Optimized Electrotech builds high-end Electro-Optic surveillance systems for Strategic and Commercial buyers. These products are researched and proven at India's most discerning clients for land and aerospace applications. The company is currently raising funds for commercial production. | $6M | Series A | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| VuNet Systems | VuNet Systems is founded by a group of professionals with decades of experience in designing and developing world class networking products. We have built an advanced Big Data Analytics product to better manage the complex IT infrastructure of enterprises.VuNet's game changing approach is to bring together and correlate real timeinformation across an entire IT infrastructure landscape of users, network, security and applications to provide unified visibility, operational and security analytics. | $6.9M | Series B | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Mindgrove | Mindgrove provides innovative Systems on Chips (SoCs) and hardware. | $8M | Series A | Dec 22, 2024 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [1Crowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1crowd) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Rainmatter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rainmatter-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Speciale Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speciale-invest) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Venture Catalysts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venturecatalysts) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Dallas Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dallas-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Mela Ventures invest in?

Mela Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Mela Ventures's check size?

Mela Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$2.5M at Seed and $3.5M–$8M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Mela Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Mela Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Mela Ventures?

The team at Mela Ventures includes Parthasarathy N.S. (C0-Founder & Managing Partner) and Krishnakumar Natarajan (Co Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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