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Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Wavemaker Management, LLC
Wavemaker Management, LLC
This firm files as 3 advisers on wavemaker.vc: Wavemaker Pacific Partners Pte. Ltd., Wavemaker Partners. Each keeps its own CRD, funds and filings; the grouping is the website each swore to on Form ADV and is recomputed every pass.
Wavemaker: Southeast Asia Early-Stage VC investing in Enterprise, Deep Tech, and Sustainability startups solving key regional problems.
venture manager, reported GAV $30.5M across 1 vehicles
Importance
39
elevated
Active deployment
30
moderate
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
12
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Santa Monica, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 1438 9TH ST., Santa Monica, CA, 90401adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 310-310-2410adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- http://wavemaker.vc
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Jan 23, 2020
- Private funds reported
- 3 (3 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $146Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- Owners on Schedule A
- Frontera Group, LLC (Owner), D
- business email
- esm@wavemaker.vcwavemaker.vcpublished by the subject
- business email
- pitchsea@wavemaker.vcwavemaker.vcpublished by the subject
- business phone
- 310-310-2410adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
49 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, enterprise software, biotech, climate, deep tech, hardware, cybersecurity, proptech, logistics, industrial, media, b2b
- Stages
- seed, series a, series b, early
- Geography
- asia, emerging markets, europe, global, silicon valley, singapore, southeast, usa
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
unknown 98%Other Technology 2%
lead rate 100%follow-on rate 0%new logos, 12 months 49
Funds and vehicles
1 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wavemaker Partners V LP | Fund | 2018 form d first sale | Harvest | $30.5M Jan 23, 2020 | 19 | $4.3M of $75.0M | Jun 13, 2018 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
24 current, 0 departed
Belle Naval
AnalystAnalyst, Portfolio Management
Janelle Dy
AnalystAnalyst, ESG
Paolo Manlunas
AnalystAnalyst, Investment
Wan En Lim
AnalystAnalyst, Investment
Chris Le
AssociateAssociate, Investment
Sam Tongco
AssociateAssociate, Portfolio Management
Yanna Arcilla
AssociateAssociate, Investment
Andy Hwang
General partnerGeneral Partner
Eric Manlunas
General partnerCo-founder and General Partner
James Buckly Jordan
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Jul 1, 2019
Paul Santos
General partnerGeneral Partner · since Jul 1, 2019
Eric Manlunas
Managing partnerManaging Partner · since Jul 1, 2019
Paul Santos
Managing partnerManaging Partner
Trusted Partnership
OtherInvestment
Wavemaker Ventures
OtherOur Investment Thesis
David Allen Siemer
PartnerPartner · since Jul 1, 2019
Danika Ariadna
PrincipalPrincipal, Investment
Joel Ang
PrincipalPrincipal, Investment
Manuel Ravago
PrincipalPrincipal, Portfolio Management
Phuong Tran
PrincipalPrincipal, Investment / Head of Vietnam
Camille Escalante
Vice presidentSenior Associate, Portfolio Management
Junius Said
Vice presidentVice President, Investment
Shannon Tan
Vice presidentSenior Associate, Investment
Ysabela Narvasa
Vice presidentSenior Associate, ESG
Investments on record
49 edges, 47 companies, 0 partner-attributed
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
12 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Maam GP Pty Ltd 3 shared · recurringSpell Capital Partners, LLC 1 shared · one timeMadrona Venture Group, LLC 1 shared · one timeRockstart Management Company, LLC 1 shared · one timeDallas Venture Capital 1 shared · one timeLionbird (ventures) Ltd. 1 shared · one timeKorea Investment Partners 1 shared · one time · they led 1Cercano Management LLC 1 shared · one timeVertex Management Ltd. 1 shared · one timeAccess Venture Partners Denver, CO 1 shared · one timeTemasek 1 shared · one timeEnterprise Singapore 1 shared · one time · we led 1
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
4 dated events
- Jan 23, 2020Wavemaker Management, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jan 23, 2020Wavemaker Partners III LP first reported on Form ADV by Wavemaker Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $64,119,669Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactWavemaker Partners III LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jan 23, 2020Siemer Ventures II LP first reported on Form ADV by Wavemaker Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $51,094,903Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactSiemer Ventures II LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jan 23, 2020Wavemaker Partners V LP first reported on Form ADV by Wavemaker Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $30,548,349Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactWavemaker Partners V LPSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 12, 2026Micro VC (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $30.5M across 1 vehicles
Evidence
30 observations from 2 sources