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Wave Capital

Founders David Rosenthal Riley Newman Sara (Tillim) Adler

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$6M
Portfolio companies 16
Rounds per year 2.86
Lead investments 3
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.20
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Internet
  • Power Grid
  • CleanTech
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy
Summary

Wave Capital is the famous VC, which was founded in 2017. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The fund was created by David Rosenthal, Riley Newman, Sara (Tillim) Adler. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consulting, Psychology. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Basis. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund.

The important activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4 partakers. Despite the Wave Capital, startups are often financed by ZhenFund, Wing Venture Capital, Valor Capital Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Moving Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bedrock Capital Partners.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ohana

$3M17 Jun 2024 New York, New York, United States

Float Health

Home Health Care
Hospital
Personal Health
$10M28 Mar 2024 Carlsbad, California, United States

Syntropy

Infrastructure
Internet
Network Security
14 Mar 2024 -

Camus Energy

CleanTech
Cloud Computing
Data Integration
Electrical Distribution
Energy
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
$10M13 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Twity

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Trading Platform
$1M30 Dec 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Locale

E-Commerce
Food Delivery
Grocery
Internet
$14M17 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Ethereum Push Notification Service

Blockchain
Internet
$10M14 Apr 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Huddle

Business Development
Finance
Graphic Design
$3M31 Dec 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

The Luupe

Advertising
Communities
Content
Marketing
Photography
$3M17 Nov 2021 New York, New York, United States
News
Thatch using $3M round to put travel creators on the map

– Thatch, a travel company, raised $3m in Seed II funding.
– The round was led by Wave Capital and joined by Freestyle VC’s Jenny Lefcourt and Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph.
– It brings Thatch’s total investment to $5.2m since the company was founded by West Askew, Abby West and Shane Farmer in 2018.
– The company intends to hire additional engineers, build out new content and launch new features for selling or earning tips on interactive guides that creators produce in the app.

Scarf exits stealth with analytics tools that help open source developers get paid

– Scarf is taking the first step toward changing that by giving developers greater insight into their work.
– The hope is that this information will allow developers to connect with commercial users and discuss paid services, such as support and customization.
– Scarf also disclosed that it has raised a $2m seed round from Wave Capital and 468 Capital, as well as angel investors Scott Belsky and Kevin Hartz.

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Total investments 20
Average round size 6M
Rounds per year 2.86
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 3
Follow on index 0.20
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.70

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Ohana

$3M17 Jun 2024 New York, New York, United States

Float Health

Home Health Care
Hospital
Personal Health
$10M28 Mar 2024 Carlsbad, California, United States

Syntropy

Infrastructure
Internet
Network Security
14 Mar 2024 -

Camus Energy

CleanTech
Cloud Computing
Data Integration
Electrical Distribution
Energy
Power Grid
Renewable Energy
SaaS
Software
$10M13 Feb 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Twity

Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Trading Platform
$1M30 Dec 2022 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Locale

E-Commerce
Food Delivery
Grocery
Internet
$14M17 May 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Ethereum Push Notification Service

Blockchain
Internet
$10M14 Apr 2022 Singapore, Central, Singapore

Huddle

Business Development
Finance
Graphic Design
$3M31 Dec 2021 Miami, Florida, United States

The Luupe

Advertising
Communities
Content
Marketing
Photography
$3M17 Nov 2021 New York, New York, United States
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