Fund One.
We invest in early-stage tech founders. Bringing capital, CTO-level insight and support to help them scale.
“At Meliora, we believe AI is a cognitive revolution not just another technology wave. Faster, broader, and more human than any industrial transformation before it.”
AI redefines how value itself is created, not just through replacement, but reinvention. Future value flows to those who use intelligence, both human and artificial, to accelerate financial returns.
An investment opportunity measured not in billions, but in trillions.
The opportunity
Why now.
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AI exceeds Energy & Education: investment forecast to grow over 30% to $1.30tn by 2029.
Source/s: IEA, Bank of America Global Research, Goldman Sachs
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VC investment doubling YoY: Vertical AI investment in 2026 is forecast to double from $8.9bn in 2025.
Source/s: Digital Cooperation, Crunchbase, and Menlo Ventures
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AI adoption in the last 38 months: weekly active users of AI – less than 20% of active smartphone users.
Source/s: Open AI, Alphabet, Anthropic, and Meliora
The edge
Why
Capital is table stakes. What matters is an operator network across Technology, Media and Telecommunications, region-scale reach from Sydney to Singapore, and clients who can buy what the portfolio builds.
Commercial
We get contracts, not just contacts.
Our client network doesn't just open doors for the portfolio. It signs work orders. First customers and revenue before the next round.
Advisory's clients, telcos, broadcasters and enterprises, deploy portfolio products inside transformations we already run. A signed contract moves a valuation further than any warm introduction.
Focus
We are deep in TMT, by design.
We invest where we operate: Technology, Media and Telecommunications, with vertical AI across all three.
Every partner here has built, bought or run platforms at scale across the three industries. We back founders in markets and industries we know from the inside.
Region
We unlock APAC.
4B+ consumers across the region, from Tokyo to Jakarta, and the fastest growing market for AI adoption. Sydney and Auckland are the corridor.
Offices in Sydney and Auckland, arcs to Singapore, Tokyo, Bangkok, Manila and Jakarta. We walk portfolio companies into the region's enterprises and their boardrooms.
Operators and builders
Meet your team.
Meliora Ventures blends builders, operators, and investors that know how to identify businesses that scale.
Proven outcomes
Our track record.
Selected exits:
Chronosphere
$3.35bn USD, acquired by Palo Alto Networks. NASDAQ: PANW. Nov 2025 via Cardinia VC.
Australian Financial ReviewAussies sell their tech company to US giant for $5b
Shazam
$400m USD, acquired by Apple Inc. NASDAQ: AAPL. September 2018.
The GuardianGame that tune: Apple snaps up Shazam for reported $400m
Omny Studio
Acquired by Triton Digital. NYSE: IHRT. Jun 2019 via Cardinia VC.
ExchangeWireTriton Digital announces acquisition of Omny StudioCurrent investments:
Cadmus
May 2025 via Cardinia VC.
Business News AustraliaCadmus backed by Seek Investments and Glitch to uphold integrity of student learning in an AI world
Edrolo
June 2022 via Cardinia VC.
Startup DailyTeaching aid platform Edrolo raises $40 million Series BThe thesis
Where we invest.
CTO-led by design. We prioritise technical founders who build disruptive products that scale fast and accelerate investor value.
Vertical AI
Vertical AI products and apps. Example investments from the Meliora advisory and investment committee members: Agentic – via Advance VC · Agentic – via Catenai VC.
SaaS
Software as a service. B2B + B2C. Example investments from the Meliora advisory and investment committee members: Data – via Direct Investment · Data – via Cardinia VC.
Technology
Tech with AI as a differentiator. Example investments from the Meliora advisory and investment committee members: Creator – via Direct Investment · Fintech – via Cardinia VC · Reporting – via Cardinia VC.
By the numbers
Fund One snapshot.
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Target size, USD
Pre-Seed
Stage
0
Sectors, Vertical AI, SaaS, Tech
0–15
Investments at $100k – $250k
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Reach, AMER, 45% rest of world
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Investment period, months
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Signal, not noise. Meet MvSE.
MvSE, the Meliora Ventures Signal Engine, tracks thousands of companies across 11 live data feeds and collapses them into one conviction score. The discovery edge behind Fund One.
