# Melt Ventures

> Melt Ventures is a VC fund backing Manufacturing, Renewable Energy and Energy. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://melt.ventures

Melt Ventures is a startup that provides financing, experience, and guidance to the manufacturing industry. They invest in high-growth companies in the advanced manufacturing sector.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $841k–$5M |
| Series A | $3.7M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 6 | 60% |
| Renewable Energy | 4 | 40% |
| Energy | 3 | 30% |
| Industrial | 2 | 20% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 20% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 30% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mynu Energy | Mynu Energy provides modular battery storage systems using repurposed EV batteries for commercial and industrial applications. | $299.9K | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Allegro Energy | Allegro Energy is a developer of energy storage technology focus on sustainable solutions for a zero carbon economy. | $11.7M | Series A | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| MGA Thermal | MGA Thermal they are developing novel materials, designing innovative technologies, and delivering thermal energy storage solutions. They are improving the electrical grid’s stability, residential and commercial space heating, industrial process and waste heat, and even electric vehicles. Their focus, is enabling intermittent renewable energysources such as the sun and wind, to provide base load electricity to the grid. | $3.7M | Series A | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| Refilled | Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles. | $841K | Seed | Nov 16, 2023 |  |
| Newera Bio | Newera Bio is an environmental friendly textile manufacturing firm making sustainable and innovative fashion industry. |  | Seed | Oct 26, 2023 |  |
| Refilled | Refilled is an eco-friendly company that offers smart drink dispenser vending machines to eliminate single-use plastic bottles. |  | Seed | Sep 18, 2023 |  |
| Endua | Endua is developing the next generation of renewable energy multi-day storage solutions to power communities, remote industries, and off-grid infrastructure at the flip of a switch - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. | $5M | Seed | May 22, 2023 |  |
| Safe Gauge | Safe Gauge is a smart maintenance tooling manufacturer. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Plasmaleap | Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| GreaseBoss | GreaseBoss offers hardware and software products that help machinery owners track and verify their machines are being greased which prevents equipment failure and reduces maintenance costs. | $1M | Seed | Mar 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Main Sequence Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/main-sequence-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [77 Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/77-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ampol](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ampol) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Brisbane Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brisbane-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grantham Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grantham-environmental-trust) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grantham Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grantham-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Melt Ventures invest in?

Melt Ventures invests primarily in Manufacturing, Renewable Energy and Energy startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Melt Ventures typically joins rounds of $841k–$5M at Seed and $3.7M–$12M 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 Melt Ventures participates in.

### When did Melt Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Melt Ventures closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 10 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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