Meridian Capital
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Meridian Capital is a VC fund in London focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. We are focusing on projects in early and growth stages, helping entrepreneurs develop world-class projects on blockchain technology.
- Total investments:
- 22
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
Last updated:
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Industries Meridian Capital invests in
BlockchainCryptocurrencyFinanceFinTechApps
Stages Meridian Capital invests in
SeedVenture - Series UnknownPre-SeedSeries AFunding Round
Countries Meridian Capital invests in
United KingdomSeychellesSpainFranceAustralia
Round sizes
Seed $1.6M–$21M
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$21M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 10 (45%)
- Cryptocurrency 5 (23%)
- Finance 3 (14%)
- FinTech 2 (9%)
- Apps 1 (5%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series A 1 (5%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 3 (14%)
- Seychelles 2 (9%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
- France 1 (5%)
- Australia 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| NFTPad allows creators to mint deflationary NFTs in minutes, auction them, or raise liquidity to be traded in-game or on AMMs such as PancakeSwap and Uniswap. This company is focused on blockchain, gaming, art, and defi. | Seed / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| DROP is an entertainment service intended to give a new shape to the music industry. They are defining the future of music ownership, distribution, and publishing via NFT standards, decentralized governance, and automated finance, providing audio creators with a new shape and sustainable future with their innovations. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Cryptomeda is a gaming ecosystem that uniquely blends NFT collectibles, DEFI mechanics, and iconic crypto characters into an exciting fantasy world. To tie the world together, all economic activity is facilitated by one unified currency — TECH. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2023 | ||
| Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects. | $21M / Seed / Nov 30, 2021 | ||
| DAOLaunch is a decentralized platform that connects investors and startups directly on the blockchain by introducing innovative fundraising solutions to the startup ecosystem. Users can effortlessly create and support new startups across all borders, and participate in transparent, flexible and fair financing round regardless of being a crypto ornon-crypto startup.The problemThe startup investment industry is largely lead by Venture capitalists and institutional investors, they can leverage their capital, using network and connections as well as their brand, able to negotiate better investment conditions to make substantial ROI. The majority of those deals are conducted in a closed and private environment.Retail investors don't typically have access to these kinds of deals. For example, if you invested in Coinbase seed round, there would have been 5000X ROI. By the time of listing, VC's have already made a substantial investment and token unlock schedules, often deter smaller investors. Most recently, retail Investors are more attracted to democratic funding method, some Startups have considered the "Fairlaunch" funding method for that reason. However, Fair Launch is not a practical method to release a token, let alone fund a business. It's unreasonable to expect adoption from mass-retail investors and for them to provide not only funding, but also connections and marketing, a core part of what VCs provide today, which is often worth just as much as capital to a project. Now, democratic and practical startup investment approach is demanded, to bring more competitiveness and innovation to startup industry.How will DAOLaunch solve this problem?Our solution at DAOLaunch is to offer an open and competitive environment - the Decentralized Venture Capital concept. DAOLaunch offers preferential investment conditions depending on their investment performance recorded on the blockchain. Recorded investment platforms are not editable, DAOLaunch investors can brand themselves as Decentralized Venture Capitalists and they can negotiate investment terms like traditional VC firms do these days. We aim to change the structure of closed investment deals to an open and more competitive deal structure that takes place on the blockchain. This will drastically expand the startup industry.Highly Functional Financial Product Creation Platform and Grant SystemDAOLaunch provides a highly functional and comprehensive financial product creation platform. This platform enables anyone to seamlessly create and support new products in financial markets across all borders, regardless of its status as a crypto or non-crypto startup. No coding knowledge is required - easily build new financial products that have real demand. The DAOLaunch grant system called the IBO (Initial Buy-Back Offering) is a brand new concept of a reimagined standard of startup launch methodology. The grant process is conducted by a fully decentralize voting process where the native tokens of selected startups are directly purchased through a Buy-Back system from DAOLaunch after they're listed on the market using our allocated grant. The tokens purchased through our Buy-Back automatically burn. We secure the best investment conditions for the Decentralized Venture Capital ecosystem through blockchain technologies. We are a pioneer in shaping a new market On DAOLaunch, you can mint decentralized venture capital NFTs (DVC-NFT), vote, and record the investment performance on blockchain, whilst negotiating better investment terms. DVC-NFTs also allows you to create your own token index portfolio as an NFT. Users can deposit their seed tokens in the contract like a VC entity on NFT.Trade/Lend VC portfolio on the NFT marketplaceCreate your VC portfolio as an NFT. Trade or lend your VC portfolio to earn capital or interest without losing ownership of it. Until now, the funds invested into startups could not be used effectively until the lockup period was over. But with the DVC-NFT, even when the token is locked you can make a profit by trading or lending the DVC-NFT itself. DAOLaunch aims to create a new market in the crypto decentralized finance economy. | $1.6M / Seed / Nov 11, 2021 | ||
| Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects. | Seed / Oct 15, 2021 | ||
| DAOLaunch is a decentralized platform that connects investors and startups directly on the blockchain by introducing innovative fundraising solutions to the startup ecosystem. Users can effortlessly create and support new startups across all borders, and participate in transparent, flexible and fair financing round regardless of being a crypto ornon-crypto startup.The problemThe startup investment industry is largely lead by Venture capitalists and institutional investors, they can leverage their capital, using network and connections as well as their brand, able to negotiate better investment conditions to make substantial ROI. The majority of those deals are conducted in a closed and private environment.Retail investors don't typically have access to these kinds of deals. For example, if you invested in Coinbase seed round, there would have been 5000X ROI. By the time of listing, VC's have already made a substantial investment and token unlock schedules, often deter smaller investors. Most recently, retail Investors are more attracted to democratic funding method, some Startups have considered the "Fairlaunch" funding method for that reason. However, Fair Launch is not a practical method to release a token, let alone fund a business. It's unreasonable to expect adoption from mass-retail investors and for them to provide not only funding, but also connections and marketing, a core part of what VCs provide today, which is often worth just as much as capital to a project. Now, democratic and practical startup investment approach is demanded, to bring more competitiveness and innovation to startup industry.How will DAOLaunch solve this problem?Our solution at DAOLaunch is to offer an open and competitive environment - the Decentralized Venture Capital concept. DAOLaunch offers preferential investment conditions depending on their investment performance recorded on the blockchain. Recorded investment platforms are not editable, DAOLaunch investors can brand themselves as Decentralized Venture Capitalists and they can negotiate investment terms like traditional VC firms do these days. We aim to change the structure of closed investment deals to an open and more competitive deal structure that takes place on the blockchain. This will drastically expand the startup industry.Highly Functional Financial Product Creation Platform and Grant SystemDAOLaunch provides a highly functional and comprehensive financial product creation platform. This platform enables anyone to seamlessly create and support new products in financial markets across all borders, regardless of its status as a crypto or non-crypto startup. No coding knowledge is required - easily build new financial products that have real demand. The DAOLaunch grant system called the IBO (Initial Buy-Back Offering) is a brand new concept of a reimagined standard of startup launch methodology. The grant process is conducted by a fully decentralize voting process where the native tokens of selected startups are directly purchased through a Buy-Back system from DAOLaunch after they're listed on the market using our allocated grant. The tokens purchased through our Buy-Back automatically burn. We secure the best investment conditions for the Decentralized Venture Capital ecosystem through blockchain technologies. We are a pioneer in shaping a new market On DAOLaunch, you can mint decentralized venture capital NFTs (DVC-NFT), vote, and record the investment performance on blockchain, whilst negotiating better investment terms. DVC-NFTs also allows you to create your own token index portfolio as an NFT. Users can deposit their seed tokens in the contract like a VC entity on NFT.Trade/Lend VC portfolio on the NFT marketplaceCreate your VC portfolio as an NFT. Trade or lend your VC portfolio to earn capital or interest without losing ownership of it. Until now, the funds invested into startups could not be used effectively until the lockup period was over. But with the DVC-NFT, even when the token is locked you can make a profit by trading or lending the DVC-NFT itself. DAOLaunch aims to create a new market in the crypto decentralized finance economy. | Seed / Sep 23, 2021 | ||
| Pollen is a first of its kind decentralized, next-gen index where the community holds all the power. Welcome to DeFi 2.0—A new way to interact with the financial markets of the future. | $5M / Seed / Sep 02, 2021 | ||
| Defina Finance is a fascinating blockchain game that combines the concept of DeFi and NFT. Players are able to buy or collect various NFT Mystery Boxes to get heroes & weapons as well as fight and enhance their characters to learn skills in numerous game scenarios. | Seed / Aug 30, 2021 | ||
| Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0. | Series A / Jul 12, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Meridian Capital invest in?
Meridian Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Meridian Capital invest in?
Meridian Capital typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$21M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Meridian Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Meridian Capital took part in.
When did Meridian Capital last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Meridian Capital closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 22 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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