# Meld ventures

> Meld ventures is a VC fund in Hamilton backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hamilton, Australia
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meld-ventures/
- Website: https://www.meld.ventures/

Meld Ventures is an Australian-based firm dedicated to backing the next wave of blockchain entrepreneurs.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 16 | 62% |
| Cryptocurrency | 10 | 38% |
| Financial Services | 10 | 38% |
| FinTech | 6 | 23% |
| Software | 4 | 15% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 88% |
| Grant | 1 | 4% |
| Series A | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 8 | 31% |
| United States | 6 | 23% |
| Italy | 1 | 4% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Cotton | Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-cotton-52f0 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vitruveo | Vitruveo is L1 blockchain for creators. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| xBacked | xBacked DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization focused on developing decentralized stable assets for the Algorand blockchain. The primary product is xUSD, a permissionless stablecoin fully backed by decentralized collateral. The organization aims to achieve capital efficiency in the stablecoin market on Algorand and beyond. xBacked DAOoperates with a mission to provide a stable and secure financial ecosystem through its innovative blockchain solutions. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Fluidity Money | Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Wayru | Blockchain-based Unified Global WiFi Network. | $2M | Seed | May 13, 2022 |  |
| Neomoon | Neomoon is a 100 percent digital bank based on stablecoin, under the Algorand Blockchain. With Neomoon, all Latin Americans can have an account in dollars. The money in those accounts will be protected from devaluation while they conduct their everyday business. | $850K | Seed | May 06, 2022 |  |
| Swell | Swell is the restaking chain, powered by Proof of Restake. The protocol is backed by the industry's best venture capital firms and angels. | $3.8M | Seed | Mar 14, 2022 |  |
| Pact | Pact is a fintech platform that offers deep liquidity and low transaction fees. With accessible smart contract functionality, transactions on Pact are available to users of all levels of wealth and experience. It provides integration of financial assets on a non-custodial, decentralized platform intended to be the home of liquidity on Algorand.Pact was launched in 2021. | $2.1M | Seed | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Prismatic | Prismatic offers tools for DAOs and crypto organizations. They provide tools for adaptive governance and treasury management needs. They offer multi-swig wallets, staking pools, voting on proposals on-chain, order-splitting, extendable smart contracts, and a shared address book for easy payments and payroll. | $2M | Seed | Jan 22, 2022 |  |
| Folks Finance | Folks Finance is the leading algorithmic capital markets protocol for lending and borrowing built and operated on top of the Algorand blockchain. Through the lending operations, Folks users can deposit liquidity and start earning a continuous economic return instantly. Through the borrowing operation, the users can request crypto loans by lockingdeposited funds as collateral. Folks Finance is the result of extensive research and engineering conducted by Blockchain Italia, a blockchain software house strongly focused on Algorand. The protocol innovations include a disruptive economic lending model designed for the soundness and security of the users, and the introduction of unique features such as staking of rewards, safety margins for cryptocurrency pairs, and an innovative liquidity provision system. | $3M | Seed | Jan 20, 2022 |  |
| Venue One | Venue One is a non-custodial blockchain predictions exchange that takes positions in sports, eSports, finance, events and more. | $3.4M | Seed | Jan 19, 2022 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/borderless-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algo-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Youbi Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/youbi-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Ellipti](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellipti) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Valhalla Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valhalla-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Algorand](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algorand) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Meld ventures invest in?

Meld ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Meld ventures's check size?

Meld ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Meld ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Meld ventures?

Public channels for Meld ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Meld ventures?

The team at Meld ventures includes Michael Cotton (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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