Wavemaker Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Los Angeles, United States

Total investments

574

Average round size

3M

Portfolio companies

362

Rounds per year

27.33

Lead investments

71

Follow on index

0.37

Exits

48

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise Software

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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Investor highlights

Industry focus
B2B/EnterpriseMedia/ContentConsumer/RetailDeep TechClimate tech Show 1 more
Stage focus
Series ASeries BSeed
Geo focus
BahrainCambodiaCanadaChinaCyprus Show 35 more

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
574
Lead investments
71
Exits
48
Rounds per year
27.33
Follow on index
0.37
Investments by industry
  • Software (129)
  • E-Commerce (86)
  • Information Technology (70)
  • Internet (70)
  • Mobile (63)
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Investments by region
  • United States (233)
  • Singapore (194)
  • Indonesia (22)
  • Philippines (37)
  • Pakistan (5)
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Peak activity year
2017
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
38M
Group Appearance index
0.69
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
2.67
Strategy success index
0.70

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BayaniPay 13 Jun 2024 Financial Services, FinTech, Banking Seed 3M United States, California, Manhattan Beach

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