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Wavemaker Partners
Venture capital firm · Founded 2003 · Active in 2026
Wavemaker Partners is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2003. The page below shows 10 Power Law outcomes from Wavemaker Partners's portfolio — 9 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Marketing · Other B2B Software · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Indonesia. Wavemaker ranks #236 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
The 10 Wavemaker Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA8
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UK1
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Indonesia1
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Marketing2
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Other B2B Software2
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Other1
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Robotics1
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Transportation1
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Fintech1
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Food1
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Series B+3
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Series A2
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Seed5
Wavemaker's 10 Power Law outcomes.
How does Wavemaker stack up?
Wavemaker in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds
% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
18 founders across the 10 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Yahoo! are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Wavemaker.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Wavemaker Partners
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Wavemaker 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
In the news
Latest news about Wavemaker Partners
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Wavemaker — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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