Investor profile

Wavemaker Partners

Venture Capital · Founded 2003 · Santa Monica, United States

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Crossborder early stage vc firm, dual headquartered in la/singapore, focused on seed stage technology startup opportunities

329 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $1.9B invested · 500 investments · Investor rank #1,575 · Last investment 6/2026

Portfolio companies ↑ 17% 5y

329

Decacorns

Thoroughbreds

Portfolio analysis

Where Wavemaker Partners's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 329 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA139
Singapore103
Philippines15
Indonesia13
Vietnam8
India7
UK6
Australia5
Malaysia5
New Zealand5
Hong Kong4
Thailand4

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software68
Marketing66
Fintech45
Media33
Telecom28
Health20
Transportation20
Food17
Education16
Energy12
Travel12
Home Living11

By stage enteredCount

Seed220
Series A90
Series B+13

By growth stageCount

Early Growth202
Breakout Stage99
Late Growth23
Mature5

Portfolio market map

Inside Wavemaker Partners's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 329 tracked.

Playlist | Mindbody

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

$7.5B

ICON Technology

Real Estate · Unicorn

Portfolio founders

Where Wavemaker Partners's portfolio founders come from.

162 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States69
Singapore37
Indonesia10
India9
Philippines6
Australia5
United Kingdom5
Finland3
Thailand3
Vietnam3

UniversityCount

National University of Singapore8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
Stanford University5
University of Michigan5
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5
Institut Teknologi Bandung4
University of California, Berkeley4
Harvard Business School3
Harvard University3
Nanyang Technological University3

Previous companyCount

Citibank6
McKinsey & Company4
Procter & Gamble4
Boston Consulting Group3
Entrepreneurs First3
Meta3
Microsoft3
Yahoo!3
ABC Family2
Alta2

How Wavemaker Partners stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Wavemaker Partners.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.