Wavemaker Partners

Growsari is a tech-enabled B2B platform that helps the Philippines’ over one million sari-sari stores to get better service level, assortment, and access to new services, outfitting them with both the infrastructure and tools they need to transform themselves from simple FMCG outlets to comprehensive service hubs for the nation’s grassroots communities.

Lhoopa is a property technology (proptech) venture that leverages technology to address the affordable housing backlog in emerging markets, helping Filipino families achieve homeownership.

GoZayaan is an online travel agency that offers a platform for booking flights, hotels, tours, and visa services, aiming to make travel accessible and stress-free for everyone.

Neocrete is engineering concrete for the building needs of today and tomorrow - regenerative, low carbon and resilient to the impacts of climate change. Their technology activates low-carbon materials, such as fly ash, GGBS and natural pozzolans, boosting the amount of cement they can replace in concrete.

Nativo is a native advertising platform that provides solutions for advertisers and publishers to enhance their advertising strategies through programmatic buying and premium ad formats.

DataMasque provides synthetically identical customer data solutions that enable compliance and innovation without compromising data security. Their technology automates the discovery and masking of sensitive data, allowing enterprises to use realistic data for development, testing, analytics, and AI operations.

Atomionics is a Singapore-based startup building quantum sensors for subsurface exploration and universal navigation. Their technology combines quantum physics and AI to create high-resolution 3D models of the Earth's subsurface, enabling precise resource detection and minimizing environmental impact.

Uncork Capital is one of the original "micro-VC" firms that helped prove small, seed-focused funds could work at scale when Jeff Clavier started investing his family's savings in 2004 and raised one of the first institutional seed funds in 2007. The firm has stayed "small by design" over 20 years to preserve discipline at seed stage while being unusually hands-on without formulaic playbooks, building custom one-on-one plans for each company and refusing to pass declined founders to other VCs because they view it as a harmful negative signal.

1517 Fund is an "anti-establishment educational institution" that backs "dropouts, renegades, and sci-fi scientists" with a strong preference for founders without undergraduate degrees and deep-tech researchers working on ideas that would appear in science fiction. They operate as "the first believer" in companies at extreme inception, providing $50k-100k R&D checks before non-dilutive grants and running a pre-VC pipeline including micro-grants for weird projects, teen camps, and a 3,000+ hacker community they often know for years before writing checks.

Analytics-driven co-investor making rapid decisions (days–two weeks) using a proprietary predictive model, writing small flexible checks ($100k–$4M) across 100+ companies only alongside leads, avoiding board seats or friction.

Seed-stage, operator-first firm offering deeply embedded weekly working sessions and hands-on hiring, pricing and go-to-market support, backing non-central casting B2B founders using data/AI in fintech, vertical SaaS, healthcare.