Meltem Demirors
Chief Strategy Officer @ CoinShares
New York, United States
Meltem Demirors is a seed investor at CoinShares in New York focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Meltem Demirors is Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, an investment firm that manages $750M in assets, and is a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. Meltem oversees the firm’s managed strategies group and its New York office, and leads corporate development as a board director. Previously, shewas part of the founding team of Digital Currency Group. She teaches at MIT and Oxford, and serves on the WEF Blockchain Council. Meltem leads CoinShares' venture strategy and is an active angel investor, having invested in over 150 companies in the digital currency ecosystem since 2015.
- Total investments:
- 81
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Meltem Demirors invests in
Stages Meltem Demirors invests in
Countries Meltem Demirors invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$12M
- Pre-Seed
- $885k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $5M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 30 (37%)
- Cryptocurrency 28 (35%)
- Financial Services 17 (21%)
- FinTech 15 (19%)
- Software 13 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 43 (53%)
- Series A 14 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 13 (16%)
- Funding Round 5 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 36 (44%)
- Canada 5 (6%)
- Singapore 4 (5%)
- Switzerland 4 (5%)
- France 2 (2%)
Investments
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OranAI offers a comprehensive AI marketing solution that addresses operations, strategy, content production, and insights.OranAI concentrates on sectors including consumer electronics, fashion, FMCG, and cosmetics that have large budgets and quick decision-making cycles. | $33M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | |
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Shatterdome Energy operates as a financial infrastructure layer for the modern energy and power sectors. The company focuses on transforming distributed energy resources—including solar, wind, battery storage, and flexible load—into tradable financial assets and market-moving derivatives. | $3.5M / Pre-Seed / May 21, 2026 | |
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Supra Elemental Recovery develops a technology platform to selectively recover high-purity critical minerals from dissolved industrial waste streams. The company initially focuses on gallium and scandium, which are important to semiconductor, aerospace, energy, defense, and communications applications. Its process uses proprietary reusablecartridges that capture and release elements in sequence, aiming to refine multiple elements from multiple feedstocks. The technology is also being evaluated for elements such as cobalt, lithium, and lanthanides used in batteries, magnets, and electronics. Supra works with partners that supply waste feedstock or purchase recovered critical minerals. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Feb 03, 2026 | |
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Ornn is developing the financial infrastructure and price discovery layer for a compute-intensive AI economy. | $5.7M / Seed / Oct 28, 2025 | |
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Rover is a liquid staking protocol on Botanix that exchanges Bitcoin for rovBTC. | $4.1M / Seed / May 20, 2025 | |
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SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering. | Pre-Seed / May 13, 2025 | |
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Our mission is to make blockchain infrastructure economical and accurate, ultimately lowering the barriers to entry for Web3 engineers. | $6M / Seed / May 12, 2025 | |
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Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner. | $3.9M / Seed / Dec 10, 2024 | |
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Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain. | $3.9M / Seed / Oct 30, 2024 | |
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Nillion is a computer and network security company that provides node operation that signifies implications for data, security, and privacy. The company decentralized public network based on a new cryptographic primitive called Nil Message Compute (NMC). | $25M / Oct 30, 2024 | |
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Co-Investors
About CoinShares
CoinShares is an investment firm. Their technology and infrastructure helps to enable access investment in the digital economy. They provide financial products and services for investors. Their proprietary capital markets support crypto investors, electronic trading, and risk management. They have a track record of regulated investment managementin digital assets.
CoinShares Contacts
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Lisa Avellini
Deputy General Counsel
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Arnaud Dartois
General Manager, Deputy Head of Consumer Solutions EMEA
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Jean-Charles Dudek
Head of Consumer Solutions EMEA
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Jean-Marie Mognetti
Chief Executive Officer
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Meltem Demirors
Chief Strategy Officer
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FAQ
What does Meltem Demirors invest in?
Meltem Demirors invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 81 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Meltem Demirors's check size?
Meltem Demirors typically joins rounds of $2M–$12M at Seed, $885k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $5M–$30M 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 Meltem Demirors participates in.
When did Meltem Demirors last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Meltem Demirors closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 81 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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