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Wave

Fintech · Toronto, Canada · Founded 2009

Makes running a small business better by providing free accounting, invoicing, affordable credit card processing (payments) and payroll

Valuation $100–500M
Revenue $50–100M
Headcount 100–500
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Power Law Colt$25–100M revenue

Talent graph

Wave's talent

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Employees mapped 279 incl. 7 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 31 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 7 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

13 investors on Wave's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
OMERS Ventures
Series A 6 investors entered at this stage
OurCrowd
CRV
Tom Williams
Sweet Capital
Larry Braitman
Splash Capital
Series B+ 6 investors entered at this stage
NAB - National Australia Bank
BDC Capital
Social Capital
Royal Bank of Canada
Portage Ventures
Initialized Capital

Wave mafia

Startups founded by Wave alumni

Former Wave employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Relay FinancialEst. 2018
Yoseph WestCanada
Signal score91
RailsEst. 2023
Satraj BambraCayman Islands
Signal score81
GreenhouseEst. 2012
Mamoon HamidUnited States
Signal score80
OpenCareEst. 2012
Cameron HowiesonCanada
Signal score67
GrowclassEst. 2020
Sarah StockdaleCanada
Signal score63
TheWaveVREst. 2016
AAAdam ArrigoUnited States
Signal score63
Hibiki RunEst. 2022
Jingnan (Jing) ChenCanada
Signal score45

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Global footprint

Where Wave has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
🇨🇦 Canada · Toronto HQ
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Web traffic by country
6.7M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States65.4%
🇨🇦 Canada15.5%
🇿🇦 South Africa5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.1%
🏳️ Puerto Rico0.9%
Top 5 markets shown

Capital deployed

Wave's 9 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Wave appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2013–2022. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

9 deals across Wave's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Wave's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        9 of 9 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Wave

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Wave on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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