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Wavemaker Partners

Founders David Siemer Eric Manlunas Paul Santos

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Total investments 566
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 357
Rounds per year 26.95
Lead investments 67
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.37
Exits 48
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Mobile
Summary

In 2003 was created Wavemaker Partners, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Asia if to be more exact in Singapore. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Singapore.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Software, Enterprise Software. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight DigitalGlobe, MINDBODY, SHIFT.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Wavemaker Partners, startups are often financed by Tech Coast Angels, Y Combinator, DFJ. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Draper Associates, Double M Partners, Canyon Creek Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 500 Startups, Tech Coast Angels, Sequoia Capital India.

The important activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 2 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Wavemaker Partners performs on 20 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Wavemaker Partners is 5-10 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by David Siemer, Eric Manlunas, Paul Santos. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CNV HOLDINGS

Information Technology
Software
$1M09 Apr 2024 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Aliena

Aerospace
Space Travel
$5M21 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Meiro

Advertising
Analytics
Big Data
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$3M16 Jan 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

LiveIn

Education
Internet
Marketplace
$8M27 Dec 2023 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Fasal

Agriculture
AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
$13M22 Dec 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Meatiply

Biopharma
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
$3M06 Dec 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

VAMA

Mobile Apps
$1M21 Nov 2023 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Tiger New Energy

Clean Energy
Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
$2M08 Nov 2023 Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Entropica Labs

Quantum Computing
Software
$4M07 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore
News
Malaysia-based Poladrone raises $4.29M seed round to protect crops

– Poladrone, a drone startup, raised $4.29m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Wavemaker Partners and joined by MTDC, ZB Capital Limited, and angel investors.
– The company plans to use the funding for hiring and to scale operations and to build more service centers in agricultural areas.

Portcast gets $3.2M to create more transparent and sustainable supply chains

– Portcast, a logistics operating system, raised $3.2m in pre-Series A funding.
– The round was led by Newtown Partners, with participation from Wavemaker Partners, TMV, Innoport and SGInnovate.
– Based in Singapore, Portcast serves clients in Asia and Europe.

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Total investments 566
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 26.95
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 67
Follow on index 0.37
Exits 48
Group Appearance index 0.69

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

CNV HOLDINGS

Information Technology
Software
$1M09 Apr 2024 Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Aliena

Aerospace
Space Travel
$5M21 Mar 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

Meiro

Advertising
Analytics
Big Data
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$3M16 Jan 2024 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

LiveIn

Education
Internet
Marketplace
$8M27 Dec 2023 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Fasal

Agriculture
AgTech
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
Machine Learning
$13M22 Dec 2023 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Meatiply

Biopharma
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
Food and Beverage
$3M06 Dec 2023 Singapore, Central Region, Singapore

VAMA

Mobile Apps
$1M21 Nov 2023 New Delhi, Delhi, India

Tiger New Energy

Clean Energy
Environmental Consulting
Renewable Energy
$2M08 Nov 2023 Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Entropica Labs

Quantum Computing
Software
$4M07 Nov 2023 Singapore, Central, Singapore
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