One year after its launch, The Meliora Company has grown into a broad telco, media and technology (TMT) platform spanning senior advisory, venture investment, with proprietary brands, and products.
The company was founded in June 2025 by former Shazam advisor, Seven West Media, and Singtel Optus executive Clive Dickens. Meliora is marking its first year with the first close of specialist AI fund Meliora Ventures Fund One and the launch of proprietary investment signals engine MvSE.
“Meliora was built for leaders working through faster technology, commercial and organisational change than older consulting models were designed to support,” Dickens said.
“The traditional model was built around long discovery cycles, big expensive teams, and static decks. Leaders today need senior deeper subject matter experience and much more momentum.”
In its first year, Meliora Advisory has delivered more than 60 international C-suite in person AI briefings across 40 cities in 12 countries. It has supported senior leaders across telco, media, and technology as they respond to AI-led disruption, product transformation and rapidly changing commercial models.
Meliora Ventures Fund One is a specialist AI-focused investment fund targeting CTO-led start-ups across Vertical AI, Generative AI products and SaaS technology with a clear AI differentiator.
The new fund has now reached first close, establishing Meliora Ventures as a formal investment business alongside the company’s advisory work.
The Meliora Company partner Mel Lee said: “We are seeing amazing companies, incredible founders and new products being built faster around AI. Through our advisory work, we know what senior leaders and enterprise customers are trying to solve. Meliora has also launched MVSE, a proprietary new investment signals engine designed to support Meliora Ventures’ sourcing, market intelligence, investor engagement, and access to the Meliora investment thesis.
“MVSE gives Meliora Ventures a proprietary way to capture signals, track market intelligence and support investor engagement around the fund,” The Meliora Company partner Lonergan added.
“For us, it is also a signal of the kind of company Meliora is building: one that does not only advise, but also invests, creates and builds.”
Meliora launched on June 4th, 2025. The company now has four partners including Clive Dickens, Jack Lonergan, Mel Lee, and Will Hedberg as part of Meliora Ventures and 18 associates across APAC, EMEA and AMER markets.
