Waze

Transportation · Mountain View, United States · Founded 2008

Waze is a social navigation app that leverages mobile technology and an active global community

Headcount 100–500

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier

Talent graph

Waze's talent

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Employees mapped 444 incl. 7 AI specialists

Founders /100 quality score

Key operators 26 quality /100

Potential founders likely future founders

Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups

Talent movements in · out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

7 investors on Waze's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 6 investors entered at this stage

Vertex Holdings

Qualcomm Ventures

Kleiner Perkins

Magma Venture Partners

BlueRun Ventures

Horizons Ventures

Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage

Springpact

Waze mafia

Startups founded by Waze alumni

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

VivlaEst. 2021

Carlos Emilio GomezSpain

Signal score87

VisIC TechnologiesEst. 2010

DWDaniel WainmannIsrael

Signal score79

AttestableEst. 2025

SPShahar PapiniIsrael

Arik GilonUnited States

Signal score65

YOUTILIGENTEst. 2018

Avichai BelitskyIsrael

Data BlanketEst. 2022

Gur KimchiUnited States

Johann MolinariFrance

Signal score58

BONDEst. 2013

Andy EllwoodUnited States

Signal score54

DiscoverCloudEst. 2012

Nicolas ParienteIsrael

Signal score52

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Global footprint

Where Waze has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

35 countries with
team presence

🇮🇱 Israel47.3%

🇺🇸 United States14.9%

🇺🇦 Ukraine4.4%

🇵🇱 Poland4%

🇫🇷 France3.1%

Top 5 of 35 shown

Web traffic by country

15M monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States21.7%

🇧🇷 Brazil12.9%

🇫🇷 France5.1%

🇲🇾 Malaysia4.9%

🇮🇱 Israel4.5%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

Waze’s patent portfolio

Estimated portfolio value

$2M

5 active families in the valuation dataset.

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · PatSnap. Portfolio estimates and the family records below have different coverage.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Waze

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Waze 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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