Investing for a FutureFi world

Meld Ventures is an Australian based firm dedicated to backing the next wave of blockchain entrepreneurs. We support bold innovative projects across multiple industries including DeFi, Supply Chains, Commodities, NFT’s and Finance.

Meld Ventures sees a future powered by blockchain technology and creativity.

Founded by Michael Cotton & AJ Milne, who collectively bring a wealth of knowledge and success in the fintech, blockchain, collectables and commodities sectors. 

Meld Ventures invests in FutureFi. As strong believers in the future of technology, we support projects across multiple blockchain protocols.
Through our Ideation Lab, Meld Ventures additionally designs, develops, and launches new ventures to market. We focus on how individuals and businesses can interact in a future digital economy.

 

Meld Gold

The standard for digital gold, Meld Gold incorporates and empowers the entire gold industry to participate and take advantage of the benefits of a completely streamlined and automated supply chain. With the end result giving gold the ability to take its place as a currency once more through tokenised certificates built on Algorand.

 

Algomint

Allowing other assets such as BTC, USD and ETH to cross chain and be minted on the Algorand protocol. Giving these assets all the power of Algorand blockchain and opening up the options for onchain transactions.

 

Originals Only

The premium NFT mint, producing a range of standard NFT assets embedded with high value features enabling the next generation of digital ownership.

 

Otherverse

The world’s first Algorand based NFT marketplace, with a curated range of art and assets for collectors and investors alike.

 

Maple Finance

Maple is a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace allowing institutions to borrow from Liquidity Pools funded by the DeFi ecosystem and managed by experienced investors.

 

mStable

mStable unites stablecoins, simplifying lending, exchanging and swapping.

 

Giltfree

Enables physical gold to be used as a payment method via participating retailers. 

 

Algorand

Algorand builds technology that accelerates the convergence between decentralised and traditional finance by enabling the simple creation of next generation financial products, protocols and exchange of value.

 

Apollo Capital

Australia’s leading managed crypto fund, led by one of the most respected teams in the industry. 

 

Aikon

Allowing businesses and their customers to easily connect to a range of public blockchains removing many of the usual technical hurdles faced.

 

prePO

A decentralised trading platform allowing anyone anywhere to speculate on the value of any pre‑IPO company or pre‑token project.

 
 
 

Michael Cotton

Managing Partner

AJ Milne

Managing Partner

Amit Deshmukh

Partner – Tech

Dustine Pang

Partner – Finance