THE MELT Building physical products is hard
The failure rate for hardware development is high, the process is often slow, and the costs associated are significant. The Melt has been designed to target these challenges and help startups and corporates rapidly prove, prototype, pilot and produce successful hardware products. It includes: The Melt Accelerator for startups: is a supportive program with funding, access to tools and equipment, network connections, business mentoring and technical services to help startups build great hardware products and launch a successful business. Unlike traditional accelerator programs, The Melt has a rolling intake because every startup is at a different point along their commercialisation journey. The Melt Labs for corporates: is R&D-as-a-Service that helps companies deliver their strategic product development agenda. Melt Labs follows a proven product development process to accelerate corporate innovation. Put simply, if your small or large company is grappling with assessing which project is best to invest resources, time, and money into, our team can help you decide. New product development is key to the growth and sustainability of most companies, so we help you to get new products quickly and efficiently into the market without losing focus on “business-as-usual”. Melt Ventures: provides capital, expertise and advice to advanced manufacturing focused Australian startups with global ambitions.
THE MELT LABS Strategic product development for companies, large and small.
New product development is key to the growth and sustainability for most companies. But how do companies know which initiatives to invest in? How do companies get it done quickly and efficiently without losing focus on “business-as-usual”? Melt Labs provides R&D-as-a-Service to help companies prioritise their new product initiatives and effectively get them into the market. Melt Labs is the proven process, expertise and equipment that helps companies with the ability to liberate internally “trapped” hardware projects and IP to save time and money, mitigate risk, and improve operations or get new products into the market quicker. The Melt harnesses the collective experience, capability, and expertise of running 30+ Corporate Accelerators for some of Australia’s most well-known companies.
Learn MoreMELT VENTURES Powers the creation of the World’s best products
Melt Ventures believes hardware is the new software. We provide capital, expertise, and advice to advanced manufacturing focused Australian startups
with global ambitions. We back companies who are building something remarkable in energy, agriculture, IoT and advanced manufacturing. If you need an investor who will back you from idea to exit and will help you build your company, team, and products then we want to hear from you.
THE MELT EDUCATION Education programs, micro-credentials, and real work experience.
The Melt is creating an education continuum for the next generation of STEM professionals, advanced manufacturers, innovators and entrepreneurs to help grow the startup ecosystem and fill the Industry 4.0 and tech jobs of the future. We provide student and entrepreneur education programs, advanced manufacturing micro-credentials and industry links to obtain real work experience with our startup alumni and corporates. Our 4E’s staged approach focuses on enthusiasm, exploration, experience, and expertise.
Learn MoreMELT VENTURES The expertise you need
We’ve partnered with market leaders to bring you the collective skills, expertise, tools, capability and investment you need to build and commercialise your product. The Melt partners include:
– Safearth: specialist electrical engineering company providing world class services and products
– Dantia: Lake Macquarie’s economic development company and experts in delivering high-end shared workspaces
– Slingshot: Australia’s largest, most-recognised corporate accelerator program
– CoVentured: helps corporates increase efficiencies, lower costs, find new product lines and solve the problems internal teams or existing suppliers can’t.
The result is a combination of key elements for creating the Australian jobs and businesses of the future – industrial prototyping lab, hardware startup accelerator, coworking and incubation, investment, innovation consulting and training. It is the recipe for success for Australia’s next product innovators and corporate leaders.