Overview
Wavemaker Partners is Southeast Asia's leading venture capital firm investing in early-stage Enterprise, Deep Tech, and Sustainability startups. Since 2012, it has backed 200+ companies across the region with over US$500 million in total committed capital, with exits generating over US$2 billion in enterprise value.
The firm operates three fund strategies: Wavemaker Ventures (early-stage), Wavemaker Impact (climate tech venture-building), and Wavemaker Growth (Series B+). It co-founded companies through Wavemaker Labs (robotics), including Miso Robotics.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
HQ
Managing Partner
Co-founder and General Partner
General Partner
AUM
Portfolio
Notable exits
Robotics co-founding arm
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Wavemaker Partners has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1112 total
- 2Serve Robotics1× joint7 total
- 3Uber1× joint35 total
Most recent
- with Serve Roboticsoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- Paul Santos Managing PartnerSEC-verified
- Eric Manlunas Co-founder and General PartnerSEC-verified
- Andy Hwang General PartnerSEC-verified
- Rachel Ng Partner, People & PlatformSEC-verified
Founders (2)
- Paul Santoscofounder
- Eric Manlunascofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Wavemaker Partners.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Wavemaker Partners in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Wavemaker Partners has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Serve Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1NVIDIA1× joint1112 total
- 2Serve Robotics1× joint7 total
- 3Uber1× joint35 total
Timeline
Every recorded move in Wavemaker Partners’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipServe Robotics financing (Uber & NVIDIA-backed)
2023-08-01Serve Robotics (which spun out of Uber in 2021) raised growth financing led by existing investors Uber, NVIDIA, and Wavemaker Partners ahead of its 2024 Nasdaq listing; NVIDIA later disclosed an ~10% stake. (month-precision date: APO began Aug 2023)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-05
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-05
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for Wavemaker Partners.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Wavemaker Partners from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
MFast Raises $6M Series A
Vietnamese fintech platform MFast raises $6M Series A led by Wavemaker Partners to launch its agent-based financial services network in the Philippines.
Wavemaker Partners Names Rachel Ng to Partner, People & Platform
Wavemaker Partners promoted Rachel Ng to Partner, People & Platform, overseeing platform functions including People, Communications, Finance, Legal, and Portfolio Management.
Wavemaker Partners Announces US0 Million First Close of Growth Opportunities Fund With US0M Target
Wavemaker Partners announced the US0M first close of its inaugural Growth Opportunities Fund targeting Series B+ investments in Southeast Asia, alongside a strategic rebranding…
Bifrost AI Raises $8M in Series A Funding - FinSMEs
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Airbus Ventures Invests in Bifrost AI to Accelerate Physical AI by Simulating Reality - Business Wire
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Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash - TechCrunch
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In Complex Deal, Serve Robotics Nabs $30M, Goes Public - Food On Demand
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Serve Robotics raises $30M, goes public in reverse merger - Restaurant Dive
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Serve Robotics goes public after $30M investment from Uber and NVIDIA - Mugglehead Investment Magazine
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Uber, Nvidia-backed delivery robot startup Serve Robotics to go public - TechCrunch
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Uber-Supported Serve Robotics Raises $30 Million for AI Robotic Delivery - PYMNTS.com
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Serve Robotics brings in $30M, lands reverse merger - The Robot Report
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Machine-readable surfaces
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- RSS feed: /companies/wavemaker-partners/feed.xml
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- REST API: /v1/companies/a8f3a055-29c5-40a0-9c70-9adcb7546092
- Revision history: /companies/wavemaker-partners/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious52/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Wavemaker Partners against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026