WAVE Equity Partners

Type

Venture Capital, Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

23

Average round size

26M

Portfolio companies

15

Rounds per year

2.09

Lead investments

8

Follow on index

0.35

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
ManufacturingPharmaceuticalInternet of ThingsIndustrialBiopharmaOil and GasNanotechnologyEnvironmental ConsultingBiomass EnergyPollution Control

Summary

WAVE Equity Partners appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston. The company was established in North America in United States.

The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 80 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 11-15 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Heatworks, Chasm Technologies. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Hardware, Robotics.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2 participants. Despite the WAVE Equity Partners, startups are often financed by Microsoft Accelerator Seattle, Microsoft Accelerator. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NXT Ventures, Helios Investment Partners.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
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Stage focus
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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
23
Lead investments
8
Rounds per year
2.09
Follow on index
0.35
Investments by industry
  • Manufacturing (11)
  • Industrial (5)
  • Pharmaceutical (4)
  • Biopharma (4)
  • Oil and Gas (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (16)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • France (1)
  • Germany (1)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
51M
Group Appearance index
0.74

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