Mela Ventures

Mela's portfolio encompasses India's leading, early stage startups across Space, AI, hardware, Aerospace, EnterpriseTech, and Robotics

Mela Ventures’ FoundrPwr initiative hosts in-person events to nurture entrepreneurship through expert knowledge sharing.

General Aeronautics, incubated at IISc, designs drones and AI analytics platforms for societal and security applications.

iTuring.ai helps BFSI enterprises use their data to make smarter and faster decisions through its end-to-end zero-code DSML (domain-specific modeling language) platform.

Mela Ventures provides a checklist of skills for startup founders, emphasizing sustainable growth beyond product-market fit.

Mela Ventures advocates for early adoption of governance norms by founders and boards to support long-term business legitimacy.

Mela Ventures shares insights from entrepreneurs, investment theses, and sector analyses, including AI in banking and Indian IT trends.

Mela Ventures led funding for SimYog, an IISc-incubated EMI/EMC simulation and testing platform.

Mela Ventures co-leads funding rounds and invests in startups like Solinas Integrity and Flo Mobility.

Mela Ventures led a $6.5 million funding round for GalaxEye Space, an IIT Madras-incubated satellite imaging startup.

Mela Ventures appointed R Kalyan Sundar as Head of Finance and Legal to lead financial strategies and startup scaling.

Mela Ventures is led by a experienced industry veterans who bring their hard-won insights and expertise to investing.

Krishnakumar Natarajan co-founded Mindtree in 1999, scaling it to a $2.5 billion company and building industries through entrepreneurship.

Parthasarathy NS co-founded Mindtree in 1999, transforming it from a startup into a global IT company over four decades.

Prachi, VP of Investments at Mela Ventures, focuses on research-driven early-stage investments and execution support.

Mela Ventures is an early stage venture fund that backs B2B startups across DeepTech, ClimateTech, and EnterpriseTech.

Mela Ventures invests exclusively in B2B startups across Enterprise SaaS, DeepTech, and ClimateTech, with checks of $2–3 million.

Backing fearless founders across DeepTech, ClimateTech, and EnterpriseTech. Mela Ventures invests $2-4 Million in early stage B2B startups.