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Waze

Transportation · Mountain View, United States · Founded 2008 Unicorn

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

Headcount

100–500

Current team size

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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026

Investors

7 investors on Waze's cap table

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

Series A 6 investors entered at this stage

BlueRun Ventures

Magma Venture Partners

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 score84

VisIC TechnologiesEst. 2010

DWDaniel WainmannIsrael

Arik GilonUnited States

Signal score77

Data BlanketEst. 2022

Gur KimchiUnited States

Signal score71

BasketEst. 2013

Andy EllwoodUnited States

Signal score65

YOUTILIGENTEst. 2018

Avichai BelitskyIsrael

SPShahar PapiniIsrael

Signal score53

PopworkEst. 2019

Johann MolinariFrance

Signal score52

DiscoverCloudEst. 2012

Nicolas ParienteIsrael

Signal score52

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Global footprint

Where Waze has talent and traffic

AI talent share

1.6% of workforce is AI talent
(7 of 442 staff)

Core AI00%

Other AI71.58%

Non-AI workforce43598.42%

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 States21.4%

🇧🇷 Brazil11.9%

🇨🇴 Colombia4.4%

🇫🇷 France4.4%

🇲🇾 Malaysia4.3%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$2M patent portfolio · 4 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$2M

25.4× smaller than top peer AutoNavi ($45M)

4 active patent families

Where Waze innovates Real-time computingOptimal routeMarine navigationTransport engineeringTraffic volume

Where Waze concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Waze and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

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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