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Mela Ventures
Venture capital · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Asia Pacific
Mela Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Bengaluru that makes first institutional investments of $2–4 million in B2B technology startups. It invests in 3–5 companies a year and supports founders with strategic, operational and technical guidance alongside capital.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsb2bdeeptechenterprisetechclimatetechcategory creatorstechnology moat
Your fit with Mela Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsMela Ventures lists 18 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 80% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (24%), Industrial & Manufacturing (18%) and Consumer (9%). 89% of its companies are based in India. It invests most often alongside 1Crowd, Rainmatter and Athera Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Mela Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Mela Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 18. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 20% |
| Series A | 80% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 46th | 18 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 58th | 20% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 96th | 28% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 31th | 24% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 24% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 18% | 7% |
| Consumer | 9% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 9% | 15% |
| Fintech | 9% | 12% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 1Crowd | 5 |
| Rainmatter | 3 |
| Athera Venture Partners | 2 |
| Dallas Venture Capital | 2 |
| Dholakia Ventures | 2 |
| Imagine H2O | 2 |
| Valour Capital | 2 |
| 8X Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Mela Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Mela Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Nov 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 11 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 7 Nov 2024 | Series A |
Round details for Mela Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Mela Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
18 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company engineers waste biomass into purpose chemicals, materials, and energy. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Nov 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Doppelio provides a platform for testing connected products | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| FirstHive provides an enterprise data decisioning and intelligence engine platform that unifies customer data and enables real-time decisioning and activation | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Flo Mobility provides autonomous construction robots for material movement and fleet control | Robotics & HardwareReal Estate & Construction | May 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| GalaxEye develops and operates satellites for Earth imaging, including the Mission Drishti satellite with SAR and MSI sensors. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2024Series A | Page + round | |
| General Aeronautics is delivering advanced aerial technologies and addressing the challenges for Agriculture, UAV Design and Healthcare | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Indra treats wastewater at source using electricity-driven ElectroX systems | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Infilect provides retail analytics using image recognition technology | ConsumerConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Intugine provides real-time multimodal visibility for supply chain solutions | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| iTuring provides an integrated AI platform for regulated industries | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Knolskape helps organizations build performance readiness with AI-powered experiential technology | EducationAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Mindgrove is a fabless semiconductor design company building efficient and reliable System on Chips (SoCs) for the world. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides surveillance and security solutions using artificial intelligence and other technologies. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Apr 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| SimYog provides EMC simulation products to anticipate and address EMI/EMC roadblocks before they derail delivery | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Solinas provides robotic pipeline inspections and digitization services for water and sanitation infrastructure | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Aug 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Tessol provides sustainable cold chain technology solutions for various industries, including food and pharmaceuticals. | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Voiro connects sales, operations, inventory, reporting, finance, and revenue workflows in one intelligent media OS, helping ad businesses grow revenue, protect it, and operate at scale. | Media & EntertainmentFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| VuNet Systems provides a business centric observability platform to monitor and track transactions, applications, infrastructure, and logs | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- melaventures.in
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 7 Nov 2024
- Companies checked
- 18
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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