# WAVE Equity Partners

> WAVE Equity Partners is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Nanotechnology. See 25 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 25
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 48%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/wave-equity-partners
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/WAVEequity
- Website: https://waveep.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/waveep/

WAVE Equity Partners is a VC fund in Boston focused on Manufacturing and Nanotechnology. WAVE partners with early-growth innovators whose cleantech solutions bring immediate financial and environmental impact to global industries

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $5M–$40M |
| Series B | $8M–$22M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 20% |
| Nanotechnology | 3 | 12% |
| Internet of Things | 3 | 12% |
| Battery | 2 | 8% |
| Consumer | 2 | 8% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 24% |
| Series B | 5 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 16% |
| Series C | 2 | 8% |
| Private Equity | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 44% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| France | 1 | 4% |
| Estonia | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bob Roeper | Co-Founder & Director Emeritus | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bob-roeper |
| Haskell Crocker | Managing Director & Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/u-haskell-crocker-ii |
| Kathrine Kowalik | Director, Investor Relations | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kathrine-kowalik |
| Mark Robinson | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-i-robinson |
| Mark Robinson | Co-Founder & Managing Director | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-robinson-5 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DataHive AI | DataHive delivers for AI companies hard-to-collect web data - collected, labeled, and ready for model training. If you are building in AI and need data for model training (text or multi-modal), check us out. We will deliver an initial pilot dataset for free - to ensure it is exactly what you need. Learn more and request your pilot dataset atwww.DataHive.ai | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 01, 2025 |  |
| AeroSafe Global | AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperaturesensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies.AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals. | $43M |  | Aug 29, 2023 |  |
| AeroSafe Global | AeroSafe Global develops and produces aerogels and related materials for temperature-sensitive shipping needs in the United States. Its products are used in various thermal insulation applications to transport biomedical, pharmaceutical, and other temperature-sensitive products. The company provides a reliable, simple, and sustainable temperaturesensitive supply chain solutions to the world’s leading biopharma companies.AeroSafe Global delivers cold-chain services for the biopharma industry that results in zero temperature excursions for every client, every product, every time. With proprietary packaging, logistics, and operational services, the company builds customized solutions that ensure the safe delivery of temperature-sensitive biopharmaceuticals. | $78M | Private Equity | Aug 29, 2023 |  |
| MayMaan Research | MayMaan Research is to develop environmentally friendly technologies that will cut emissions and expenses for a more sustainable future. Maymaan has developed engine technology that is 70% water and 30% ethanol. | $30M | Series A | May 02, 2023 |  |
| intelligent fluids GmbH | Intelligent fluids GmbH is a technology company designing innovative high performance cleaning fluids that are unique in the world. Intelligent fluids® are based on a groundbreaking, patented technology that combines gentle ingredients to create highly dynamic phase fluids tailored to specific needs. The highly effective fluids achieve theiroutstanding performance due to physical effects, no chemical dissolving or etching takes place. The fluids are therefore safe for users, equipment and environment and, thus, clearly distinguishes themselves from classical, solvent-based chemicals.In the main markets, microelectronics and industrial maintenance, specific product portfolios for different fields of application are created and extended continually. Fields of application include stripping, material separation and cleaning, especially the removal of dirt, residues, coatings and lacquer. Intelligent fluids® are particularly used in the sectors of microelectronics, electronics, optics, printing industry, industrial maintenance and upkeeping as well as building protection. In addition, there are future potentials in the fields of functional skin care and dental cosmetics.Intelligent fluids® are synonymous with effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability. They offer convincing advantages concerning process optimizations and cost savings. Furthermore, the innovative technology employed in intelligent fluids® is safe for users, equipment and environment. It is a long-awaited response to the ecological and economical challenges of their time. Intelligent fluids® – enabling the post-solvent era.In addition to the development of fluids for its own product line, intelligent fluids GmbH also designs products in the context of joint development agreements as well as on the basis of private label agreements. | $10.6M | Series B | Mar 11, 2023 |  |
| QiO Technologies | QiO Technologies is an artificial intelligence (AI) sustainability technology company that offers a sustainability suite to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Its Foresight Sustainability Suite gathers data from industrial assets such as kilns, furnaces, boilers, and compressors, as well as cooling systems and data center servers. The product uses AIto identify and implement real-time actions that optimize energy efficiency and resource use, allowing customers to reduce GHG emissions, energy use, production costs, and waste quickly. Foresight Sustainability Suite automates real-time ESG reporting, allowing every customer to track and report Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. | $9.9M | Series B | Feb 16, 2023 |  |
| Carbon Clean Solutions | Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective.Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plantsand industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power plants or retrofitted to existing ones.Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers. | $148M | Series C | May 11, 2022 |  |
| Novolyze | Novolyze is a Food Safety company. They offer solutions to help the food industry manufacture safer food, while ensuring strong compliance with international Food Safety & Quality standards. Their research work mainly focuses on evaluating the inactivation of foodborne pathogens under different kinds of stress (heat, etc.). Based on thisexpertise, they have developed the first range of dried, ready-to-use surrogate bacteria, an innovation that allows the food industry to test the efficacy of microbial kill steps / intervention steps in real-life conditions. At Novolyze, they are at the forefront of Food Safety. Their cross-functional team of experts, mainly composed of food microbiologists and process engineers, is able to assist at multiple stages of a project. Novolyze relies on state-of-the-art infrastructures, installed in a pharmaceutical-grade environment at their R&D Center in Dijon, France. | $15M | Series A | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Carbon Clean Solutions | Carbon Clean Solutions is an innovation company specializing in carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery technology for industrial purposes. CCS APBS breakthrough technology significantly reduces the operating costs and environmental impacts, thereby, making CCS technology cost-effective.Carbon Clean Solutions provides proprietary technology to power plantsand industrial utilities for removing up to 90% carbon dioxide from the flue gases. Patented carbon capture technology developed by Carbon Clean Solutions, involves capturing carbon dioxide using proprietary regenerable advanced solvent combined with improved energy integration CO2 capture process. Low cost, energy-efficient APBS CO2 capture technology can be embedded in new power plants or retrofitted to existing ones.Carbon Clean Solutions operates multiple research teams and facilities across the globe and is commercializing its innovative energy=efficient CO2 capture with global customers. | $8M | Series B | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| CHASM Advanced Materials | CHASM’s mission is to develop and manufacture advanced carbon nanomaterials, leveraging our innovative product platforms to create a safer, more connected, and more sustainable world.The company's objective since its establishment in 2015 has been to create innovative materials with the potential to greatly improve performance, cost, andsustainability for global solutions. CHASM is defined by the best carbon nanotube (CNT) technology available, along with their exceptional capacity to incorporate nanotubes into game-changing applications. | $15.3M | Series C | Aug 03, 2021 |  |

10 of 25 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does WAVE Equity Partners invest in?

WAVE Equity Partners invests primarily in Manufacturing, Nanotechnology and Internet of Things startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is WAVE Equity Partners's check size?

WAVE Equity Partners typically joins rounds of $5M–$40M at Series A and $8M–$22M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds WAVE Equity Partners participates in.

### How do I contact WAVE Equity Partners?

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### Who are the partners at WAVE Equity Partners?

The team at WAVE Equity Partners includes Bob Roeper (Co-Founder & Director Emeritus), Haskell Crocker (Managing Director & Co-Founder) and Kathrine Kowalik (Director, Investor Relations), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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