Wavemaker Partners | LinkedIn Agree & Join LinkedIn By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. Skip to main content LinkedIn Top Content People Learning Jobs Games Sign in Join now Wavemaker Partners Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals Singapore, Singapore 37,394 followers Southeast Asia’s leading VC dedicated to building and investing in Enterprise, Deep Tech, and Sustainability startups See jobs Follow Discover all 63 employees Report this company About us Wavemaker Partners is Southeast Asia's leading venture capital firm investing in and building solutions in Enterprise, Deep Tech, and Sustainability. Since 2012, it has backed over 200 companies across the region, with over US$400 million in total committed capital across Wavemaker Ventures and Wavemaker Growth. The firm has also generated over US$2 billion in enterprise value through successful exits. Its notable limited partners include Pavilion Capital, Temasek Holdings, the International Finance Corporation, Cercano Management, and DEG (investment arm of Germany’s state-owned development bank KfW). Committed to trusted partnerships and sustainability, Wavemaker Partners empowers founders solving meaningful problems with unique, scalable, and defensible solutions. Today, 92% of the firm’s active portfolio startups in Southeast Asia contribute to at least one UN Sustainable Development Goal. For more information, visit wavemakerpartners.com. Website https://wavemakerpartners.com/ External link for Wavemaker Partners Industry Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals Company size 51-200 employees Headquarters Singapore, Singapore Type Partnership Founded 2012 Employees at Wavemaker Partners Ron Hose LinkedIn Member LinkedIn Member LinkedIn Member LinkedIn Member LinkedIn Member View 63 employees at Wavemaker Partners Sign in Welcome back Email or phone Password Show Forgot password? Sign in or By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. New to LinkedIn? Join now or By clicking Continue to join or sign in, you agree to LinkedIn’s User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy. See all employees Locations Primary 182 Cecil Street #17-01, Frasers Tower Singapore, Singapore 069547, SG Get directions Updates Wavemaker Partners 37,394 followers 5d Report this post Our General Partner, Andy Hwang, will be speaking on the panel “Navigating Complexity” at the upcoming Thomson Reuters Southeast Asia #SynergySingapore2026 on 16 July 2026 in Singapore. 🇸🇬 Moderated by Axel Threlfall (Reuters), Andy, together with Joanne Flinn, MSID-SRAD, MSc, BEc/Llb (The ESG Institute), Hongrui Mo (MET Group), and Johnson Poh (IMDA), will explore strategies for finding growth amid complexity. 🔗 Learn more about the event here: https://lnkd.in/evw-Xi83 We’re looking forward to a day of meaningful discussion. See you there! 7 Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners 37,394 followers 2w Report this post 📣 Congratulations to our portfolio company, Eazy Digital, on joining forces with Igloo, Southeast Asia’s full-stack insurtech company. The acquisition enables Eazy Digital to scale its platform with Igloo’s resources and technology, while its founder, Harprem Doowa, becomes Country Head of Igloo Thailand and Head of Tech Solutions APAC. 🌏 We’re proud to have supported Eazy Digital’s growth, and we look forward to seeing them build the future of insurtech in the region together. Eazy Digital 981 followers 2w Today marks an exciting new chapter for Eazy Digital. Eazy Digital has officially joined forces with Igloo, Southeast Asia's leading full-stack insurtech company. This partnership brings together Eazy Digital's expertise in agent and broker digitalization with Igloo's AI-powered insurance technology platform. Together, we are strengthening our ability to help insurers modernise operations, accelerate product innovation, and deliver better experiences for customers and distribution partners across Asia. As part of this milestone, our Founder and CEO, Harprem Doowa, will take on the role of Country Head of Igloo Thailand and Head of Tech Solutions, APAC, leading the next phase of growth for both businesses. To our customers and partners, it is business as usual, with even greater opportunities ahead. By combining our technology, talent, and regional reach, we are better positioned than ever to support the evolving needs of the insurance industry. Thank you to our clients, partners, investors, and team for your trust and support throughout the Eazy Digital journey. We look forward to building the future of insurance together. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eMSWzi78 #insurtech #insurance #digitaltransformation #eazydigital #igloo 14 1 Comment Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners 37,394 followers 3w Report this post 🚀 Congratulations ChemT Biotechnology! We look forward to continuing to work with the team that brings together technical and commercial depth, scientific credibility, and world-class bioprocess leadership. 🌏 Jie Sun Ling Wu Jie Sun 3w Edited Today marks a major milestone for us. I'm incredibly proud to share that ChemT Biotechnology has raised US$5 million within 18 months of launch, including a recently closed US$4 million Seed round led by Wavemaker Partners. 🎉 🎉 AI4S wasn't new. AI for healthcare wasn't new. Yet one of the most important parts of the life sciences value chain - #biomanufacturing - remained highly dependent on trial-and-error experimentation. Manufacturing doesn't sound particularly sexy, does it? Yet it sits behind many of the medicines that save lives every day. What fascinated us was the challenge itself: Cells don't speak human language. Understanding how they behave, respond to interventions, and ultimately can be guided toward better outcomes is an incredibly interesting AI problem. Eighteen months ago, ChemT was little more than an idea, a small team, and a conviction. Today, that conviction has grown into global partnerships, customers, revenue-generating products, and US$5 million in funding to accelerate the next phase of growth. 🚀 We're deeply grateful to our team, customers, investors, and partners for believing in our vision. This is only the beginning. If you’d like to sign up for our upcoming product release, please click here: https://lnkd.in/gx6A2ujy Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gQVbJnDX #ChemTBiotechnology #Biomanufacturing #AIinBiotech #Biologics #TechBio #FundingNews #VirtualCell Wavemaker Partners SEEDS Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health Draper University Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator Ling Wu Jie Sun Nicholas Gascoigne Charlie Cooney KhengNam Lee Weichang Zhou Anita Maheswar Shambhavi Mehra Loo De En Keow Woon Toh Yuehan Cao Cheng Kai liew Yue Guo Life Science Incubator BLOCK71 Global NUS Enterprise Singapore Management University Gabrielle Tan Lay Khim NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP) BioTools Innovator Arben Ventures AIN Ventures https://www.chemtbio.com/ View C2PA information 7 Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners 37,394 followers 1mo Report this post AI data centres demand enormous amounts of energy and land. One possible solution to this growing demand could be building data centres in space. 🌌 But orbital compute only works if you can get the data back to Earth. That’s where our portfolio company Transcelestial comes in. Transcelestial’s CTO Dr. Mohammad Danesh spoke to Bloomberg about the backbone they’re building: laser links between satellites, down to rooftop optical ground stations, forming a laser ring connecting orbit to Earth. 🚀 Lasers carry far more bandwidth, and the vacuum of space removes the weather and line-of-sight constraints that make optical links difficult on the ground. 📺 Watch the full Bloomberg segment, “The Race to Build Data Centers in Space” here: https://lnkd.in/gQAZFM4d Watch The Race to Build Data Centers in Space (Correct) - Bloomberg bloomberg.com 5 Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners 37,394 followers 1mo Report this post 🔍 When sustainability data is collected well, the benefit goes beyond compliance: it surfaces overlooked insights, establishes and strengthens competitive advantages, and holds up under scrutiny. 💡 This was one of the key takeaways from Zuno Carbon’s sustainability leaders roundtable, which we participated in last month together with ComfortDelGro, Kuok Group Singapore, Motul Asia Pacific, EnGro Corporation, and SMRT Corporation. 📊 Despite coming from different industries, sustainability teams are dealing with a shared set of operational challenges: growing reporting requirements, complex data collection, audit readiness, expanding scope handled by lean teams. The roundtable made clear that the upside of getting it right is just as significant. 🔗 Read the full insights in Zuno Carbon’s whitepaper: https://lnkd.in/gg9WNT77 Current sustainability landscape in Asia zunocarbon.com 6 Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners reposted this Wavemaker Ventures 306 followers 2mo Report this post Succession planning is becoming one of the most pressing challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore. Demographic shifts, talent shortages, and the ongoing Iran war are further complicating the process — widening the gap between owners ready to exit and capable successors. Our portfolio company Oneteam is featured in a recent The Business Times piece on this issue as a new breed of businesses offering succession solutions. Oneteam acquires SMEs and train employees to lead them, offering a path forward for owners looking to preserve their business and legacy. Read the full article by Therese S. here: https://lnkd.in/e_hXuRiv Higher bar, talent crunch complicate Singapore SMEs’ succession plans businesstimes.com.sg 7 Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners 37,394 followers 2mo Report this post Congratulations to the Featherless AI team on this US$20M Series A milestone 🚀 We're proud to be part of their mission to make open-source AI more accessible, sovereign, and reliable. 🔗 Read their Series A blog post here: https://lnkd.in/gBGNdmca Eugene Cheah 2mo Edited Two and a half years ago, my co-founders and I made a bet: that the future of AI shouldn't run on a single model, a single chip, or a single cloud — and that someone needed to build the neutral layer that makes the alternative real. Today we're announcing our $20M Series A, co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures, with BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Wavemaker Ventures. The mission: AI Independence. Right now, AI is concentrating. A few labs control the models. Even fewer companies control the compute. The ecosystem calls itself open but still funnels power, pricing, and access through bottlenecks the rest of us don't get to choose. Open-source is the only real check on that — and it only works if the infrastructure to run it actually exists. So we built it. The unglamorous parts. The scheduling. The hot-loading. The decoding optimizations. The 30,000-model catalog that nobody asked for at first — and that everyone now relies on. We are key contributors to RWKV, an open-source architecture that challenges transformer dominance. Through Recursal Labs we keep pushing the open frontier. We don't just serve open AI — we advance the science that makes it better. What this round means: → We can move faster on the open-source agent runtime — so builders can ship the next generation of AI apps without depending on closed APIs. → We can take our enterprise work into more regions, more clouds, more jurisdictions. Sovereignty isn't a feature; it's the architecture. → We can prove out the fully open hardware stack with AMD — production AI shouldn't depend on any single vendor's compute. The investor mix here matters. AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures co-leading. BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, Wavemaker Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital alongside. Hardware capital, sovereign capital, mobility and industrial capital — all betting that the next decade of AI runs on infrastructure that's open from model to metal. Thank you to our investors for backing the harder version of this story. To our team across San Francisco, Toronto, Singapore, and Europe — you make every good model usable. To every builder, model creator, and enterprise running on Featherless — you're the reason this matters. THE FUTURE CAN’T BE BLOCKED. Any Model. Anywhere. Anyone. Yours. Watch the film and read the full story. Link in the comments. We're hiring. DM me. 5 Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners reposted this The Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition 3,991 followers 3mo Edited Report this post 🌎 B. Paul Santos, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Wavemaker Partners, highlights why Urban SustaInnovator (USI) is key for deep tech founders in Singapore: 🌎 The USI Accelerator equips founders with a commercial mindset, helping them understand what customers want, the value they can create, and the right business models or go-to-market strategies. 🟢 With board members representing investors, corporates, government, and academia, USI gives founders a 360° perspective to successfully grow and scale their deep tech startups. 🔗 Learn more at https://iie.smu.edu.sg/usi SMU Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Mimicrete, MacroCycle Technologies, The SMART Tire Company, Inviscid AI (YC W26), PRONOE, Sesame Sustainability, Qarbotech, Sun Sun Lim, Rony J Palathinkal, Koh Foo Hau, Can Pi, James Lee, Jan-Georg Rosenboom, Qiu Ziming, Jim Owens, Paul Sizaire, Earl Cole, Stwart Peña Feliz, Dr. Liz Zijing Li FCIOB, Chor Chee Hoe, Donna Daritan 陳為利, Alvin Tam, Wendy Hong, Jinzhou Yi, Ereen Toh #UrbanSustaInnovator #Sustainability #Innovation #Startups #Singapore #SMU #SMUIIE #USI #GlobalStartups #LKYGBPC #DeepTech …more Paul Santos, Wavemaker Partners - USI Programme Management Committee (PMC) 47 Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners reposted this Wavemaker Ventures 306 followers 3mo Report this post Congratulations to Groundup.ai on reaching a major milestone with a landmark US$10 million+ contract, their largest to date 🚀 This builds on the momentum from its US$4.25 million Series A in April 2025. More than just the number, this signals a broader shift. The global industrial sector is moving towards cognitive maintenance, where AI not only predicts, but also reasons, diagnoses, and guides. Groundup.ai’s Cognitive Maintenance solution helps industrial players reduce unplanned downtime, extend machine lifespan, and unlock deeper operational insights. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gtCv8dK7 Leon Lim🚀 Alex (Groundup) Wong Groundup.ai Secures Landmark USD10M Contract to Revolutionise Industrial Reliability with Cognitive Maintenance https://groundup.ai 15 2 Comments Like Comment Share Wavemaker Partners 37,394 followers 3mo Report this post “Why are there so few exits in Southeast Asia?” It’s a fair question, but the reality is more nuanced. We believe that strong exits are still on the cards, but expectations may have been set too high, too soon. Valuations surged, round sizes grew, funds got larger — and naturally, exit expectations followed. So how did we get here? Our Managing Partner, B. Paul Santos, shares his perspective in The Business Times. 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