Steve Melhuish

Founder & Investor I Climate & Social Impact

📍 Singapore, Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021
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Advisor & Investor
Oct 2021
Climate risk software solution to measure portfolio and asset level risks related to climate change. Intensel offers a climate analytics digital platform solution. Using AI, supercomputers, big data, and in-house PhD climate scientists and financial experts, Intensel has developed a scalable fintech solution to help clients – banks, real estate owners, insurance companies, and asset managers – identify and understand the financial impacts of climate change now and under future climate scenarios so that they may build more climate-resilient portfolios and stay ahead of imminent climate regulations. Intensel’s mission is to build a more resilient global economy with climate solutions that support real-time, accurate decision-making.
Advisor & Investor
Feb 2021
Rimm, which stands for "Real Impact Matters Most" provides an intuitive yet comprehensive SaaS platform that provides all companies, whether big or small, with intelligent tools for highly accessible and impactful sustainability management, reporting and optimization. Created and led by experts, the platform revolves around inclusivity and accessibility, focusing on unlocking an open world where sustainability is no longer elusive to the people.
Advisor & Investor
Feb 2020
Lumitics is a food waste technology company founded in Singapore in 2017. We offer Insight, a smart food waste tracker that leverages on sensors and their proprietary AI image recognition technology to weigh and identify what type of waste restaurants and kitchens throw away. We strive to empower commercial kitchens with big data analytics and business intelligence to reduce their food waste, cost, and environmental footprint. We are dedicated to help solve the Global Food Waste problem, one commercial kitchen at a time. Lumitics is supported by Enterprise Singapore, NUS Enterprise and Temasek Foundation.
Advisor & Investor
Nov 2019
At Ampd, we bring pure power to your challenging environments, transforming the construction industry into a more sustainable future for all. Our focus is on driving the energy transition, using state-of-the-art battery energy storage technologies, connectivity and data science to electrify, connect and optimize the industrial and construction sectors. We’ve developed the Ampd Enertainer™, an advanced and compact energy storage system (ESS) to replace the dirty, noisy and hazardous diesel generators that power the world’s construction. Know when, where and how your clean, quiet power is used. Get connected!
Advisor & Investor
Nov 2019
uHoo provides indoor air quality solutions to monitor and manage the air you breathe and provide you with real-time data and actionable insights to create healthier, safer, and more energy-efficient homes, offices, and buildings. We’re an Accredited Solution, by WiredScore, enabling our clients deliver SmartScore buildings.
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Advisor & Investor
Oct 2019
Hydroleap Pte Ltd is a technology startup in the water and wastewater treatment space. At Hydroleap, we are making the treatment process, chemical-free, cost-effective and easy to operate. We have achieved this by replacing expensive chemical treatment with a smart electrical treatment. We have developed a cutting-edge water treatment technology that works the best on high suspended solids (TSS), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) and turbid and dye wastewater. It is well designed for wastewater from construction, mining, tannery, textile, abattoir, food and beverage, oil & gas and semiconductor industries.
Advisor & Investor
Sep 2019
Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) bridges the gap between finance and development. IIX is a core member of the International Capital Markets Association, a strategic member of IMP Impact Measurement and Management Practice, and a part of the BAPPENAS Advisory Committee on Blue Finance. We are also proud to be affiliated with the World Economic Forum Social Enterprise Alliance, UNICEF Child Bond Working Group, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN). As a pioneer of impact investing, we build pathways to connect the Wall Streets of the world with the backstreets of underserved communities by measuring and unlocking investment capital. We achieve sustainable development and equitable growth through working with investors, entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners to raise capital, empowering stakeholders with rigorous advice/research for sound actions, and pushing the impact investing space from the margins to the mainstream. Our activities focus on three key pillars that we believe are crucial to creating a better world: promoting gender equality, driving climate action and building vibrant, resilient communities. With our work we aim to impact 100 million lives by 2025. IIX is based in Singapore and operates globally.
CEO & Investor
Nov 2006
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2022
Co-Founder, Co-Chair & Board Member
May 2022
British Tech Advisors (B.TA) is partnered with the British High Commission to bring together a curated community of top-tier investors, founders and experts to support UK tech scale-ups establishing themselves in the Asia-Pacific region. In Singapore, we are also partnered with EDB Singapore and are proud to have members from leading organisations such as Aglaia Family Office, Google Singapore, Iconiq Capital and Smile Group.
2021
Founding Partner
Oct 2021
Wavemaker Impact (WMi) is the first climate-tech Venture Build VC Fund in Southeast Asia. Our goal is to build and invest into a portfolio of companies by 2035 that has the potential to reduce 10% of the global carbon budget. We partner proven entrepreneurs to co-found 100x100 businesses - ventures that have the potential to reach US$100 million in high-margin recurring revenue and abate 100 million tons of CO2e emissions per year. Are you an experienced founder that knows how to build and scale businesses? Are you driven to make an impact on climate change but not sure how? Reach out to us. WMi provides the opportunity areas, domain expertise, corporate partnerships and capital to launch and accelerate your next climate-tech venture.
Advisor & Investor
Oct 2021
Climate risk software solution to measure portfolio and asset level risks related to climate change. Intensel offers a climate analytics digital platform solution. Using AI, supercomputers, big data, and in-house PhD climate scientists and financial experts, Intensel has developed a scalable fintech solution to help clients – banks, real estate owners, insurance companies, and asset managers – identify and understand the financial impacts of climate change now and under future climate scenarios so that they may build more climate-resilient portfolios and stay ahead of imminent climate regulations. Intensel’s mission is to build a more resilient global economy with climate solutions that support real-time, accurate decision-making.
Advisor & Investor
Sep 2021
Eco-Business is an independent media and business intelligence company dedicated to sustainable development and ESG performance. We publish high quality, trusted news and views in multimedia formats on business and policy developments around the world with a sustainability and ESG-focused lens. Our platform features more than a decade-long archive of information on sustainable development issues in the region and globally. Our content is categorised and searchable by the 17 UN Sustainable DevelopmentGoals(SDGs) and core sustainability topics, and we also provide a key platform for individuals and organisations to publish jobs, events, press release and research. We provide research and consulting on a wide range of issues which create strategic value for our partners and clients. We own and create thought-leadership platforms which inform policy making, improve business practices and foster collaboration among different sectors. Over the past decade, our stories and initiatives have gained international recognition and won multiple regional and international awards. We are guided by the sole objective of generating positive impact for society and the environment. Eco-Business is headquartered in Singapore, with a presence in China, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and correspondents in major cities across the world.
Advisor & Investor
Feb 2021
Rimm, which stands for "Real Impact Matters Most" provides an intuitive yet comprehensive SaaS platform that provides all companies, whether big or small, with intelligent tools for highly accessible and impactful sustainability management, reporting and optimization. Created and led by experts, the platform revolves around inclusivity and accessibility, focusing on unlocking an open world where sustainability is no longer elusive to the people.
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