Wave Ventures

Venture Capital
63investments
1exit
$12.9Mraised by its portfolio in 12 months
35open roles in its portfolio

Overview

Wave Ventures is a Finnish early-stage venture capital fund run by a team of students and young investors. It backs exceptional Nordic founders at the pre-seed and seed stage, typically writing first tickets into technology startups and helping them with its broad network of talent and investors. The fund was founded in 2016 and is based in Helsinki, presenting itself as the largest next-generation venture firm in Europe.

Investor profile

Venture capital
Investments
63
46 of them startups
Hiring now
7
35 open roles
Rounds in 12 months
3
$12.9M raised
Exits
1
Focusshare of its companies
Artificial Intelligence 23%Financial Services 21%Software 12%Media & Entertainment 9%Commerce 7%Transportation & Logistics 7%Manufacturing 7%Events & Ticketing 7%
Where its companies are
Sweden 19%Finland 17%Denmark 8%Netherlands 5%United States 5%Germany 3%Norway 2%Estonia 2%
Stage of its companies
Pre-seed & seed 60%Series B 20%Series A 20%
Its companies, the freshest money firstAll 63 investments
SpiichSeed $3.2M · 1 mo ago FluencifyPre-Seed $4.3M · 2 mo ago Bahn ExpressVenture round $5.4M · 10 mo ago PaebblVenture round $25M · 2 yr ago ClairSeed $4.5M · 6 yr ago Schibsted22 roles Inven4 roles The Token Company3 roles Zettascale2 roles Ambio2 roles Pango1 role Boksi.com1 role
35 open roles at 7 of its companies
Hiring fastestroles opened in 30 days
Schibsted12 new roles in 30 days
New in the portfolioadded to its portfolio page in 6 months
Ossusadded Nov 3
Co-investorscompanies they hold together
Y Combinator 9 shared FiBAN 4 shared Failup Ventures 3 shared Peak Capital 3 shared Luminar Ventures 3 shared node.vc 3 shared Auxxo 2 shared byFounders 2 shared Alliance Venture Capital 2 shared Lagoon Capital 2 shared
Similar investorstheir companies share markets and countries
Lagoon Capital Peak Capital FiBAN Metavallon VC OVNI Capital InforCapital KfW Capital ImpactVC
Sources: its portfolio page, read Nov 3; 1 rounds in the press that name it

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Shared investors2
Lagoon CapitalVia a fund
30 portfolio companies: Vendep Capital, Nordic Science Investments, Enzo Ventures and 27 more
Peak CapitalVia a fund
162 portfolio companies: Foreword, Adeline, Lette and 159 more
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Helsinki Finland
HQ
About Wave
50-200 est. staff
Kampinkuja 2, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
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