Meltem Demirors founded Crucible Capital, a seed-stage crypto venture fund focused on digital infrastructure, energy, compute, and capital markets, and works there as General Partner. She filed SEC Form D notices in August 2024 to raise two funds totaling $75 million, with Crucible Capital Fund 1-A targeting $30 million and Crucible Capital Fund I targeting $45 million, serving as Managing Member of the General Partner for both. Meltem Demirors's Twitter Score is 879 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing her at rank #41 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform.
Meltem Demirors previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares from May 2018 until January 2024. Earlier in her career, she was on the founding team at Digital Currency Group, where the firm grew from 40 to 200 portfolio companies and from 2 to 4 subsidiaries during her tenure. She entered the crypto industry in 2015, having previously worked in oil and gas trading. Meltem Demirors also serves as Director of the University of Oxford's Blockchain Strategy Programme, has lectured at MIT and Oxford, and describes herself as an active angel investor in more than 100 startups.
Meltem Demirors submitted written testimony to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee in July 2019 on Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency Libra and is a regular commentator on crypto markets and policy, with 297,060 followers as of July 2026 and 46,309 posts on X. Her known investments include Yield Alliance - LVVA Ecosystem, Zapper, Liquity, Synternet, Vesper Finance, PartyDAO, Recall and Polymarket. She is mentioned by 1,540 accounts across 3,788 total posts on the platform.
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