The third choice
in valuation.

A firm that combines the best of both worlds.

MELD was founded to fill the gap — delivering institutional-quality work with the personal attention and transparent pricing that overhead-laden firms can't offer. We have worked with the nation's leading startups, venture funds, and advisory firms because the model works.

I spent five years in a research lab at the University of Washington studying cell and molecular biology. That might seem like an odd start for someone who now runs a valuation firm — but it's the reason MELD exists.

Research taught me how to build models that hold up under scrutiny. How to defend a methodology when someone is actively trying to poke holes in it. How to be honest about what the data actually says, not what you wish it said. When I moved into valuation, I realized most of the industry wasn't doing that. I saw firms selling templates dressed up as analysis, and national firms selling overhead dressed up as expertise.

So I built the firm I wanted to hire. One where the person who signs the report is the person who did the work. Where we invest in technology to handle what computers are good at — pulling data, running comps, building models — so we can spend our time on what actually requires judgment. Where clients know what they're paying and why.

Sixteen years and over ten thousand valuations later, that's still the idea. No rotating staff. No black-box pricing. Just rigorous, defensible work from people who take it personally.

Daniel Eyman

CEO & Founder, MELD Valuation