# Wavecrest Growth Partners

> Wavecrest Growth Partners is a VC fund in Boston backing Software and SaaS. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 79%
- Fund size: $290M
- Last fund: Jul 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavecrest-growth-partners
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wavecrestgrowth
- Website: http://www.wavecrestgrowth.com/

Wavecrest Growth Partners is a growth equity firm focused on investments in high-growth, profitable B2B technology companies. The firm targets investments in high-growth companies with proven products and business models and brings to bear a differentiated combination of investing and operating experience and networks to help accelerate growth andprofitability. It refers to invest in companies that have over 20% in annual growth and $5 to $30M in bookings or revenue.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Private Equity | $66M–$104M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $15M–$29M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 34% |
| SaaS | 8 | 21% |
| FinTech | 3 | 8% |
| Automotive | 3 | 8% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 8% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 9 | 24% |
| Private Equity | 7 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 11% |
| Series A | 3 | 8% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 14 | 37% |
| Canada | 3 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Lawrence | Partner & Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-lawrence-8520 |
| John Lawrence | Partner & Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-lawrence |
| Vaibhav Nalwaya | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vaibhav-nalwaya |
| Anthony Giannobile | Prinicipal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthony-giannobile-2c94 |
| Deepak Sindwani | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deepak-sindwani |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| STAY App | STAY app is the leading Smartphone platform for Hotels & Resorts. Provide your guests with the most innovative mobile experience in the market for their stay. |  | Private Equity | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| RealTime Reservation | RealTime Reservation provides cloud-based software solutions designed for the hospitality industry. The platform enables hotels and resorts to manage real-time inventory, streamline operations, and enhance guest experiences. It offers tools for reserving amenities such as cabanas, shuttles, and golf, allowing guests to book services pre-arrival.The system also helps businesses maximize ancillary revenue through efficient management and integration with property management systems (PMS). |  | Private Equity | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Carpool Logistics | Ship + Track Cars. Fast. | $12M | Series A | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| Trolley | Trolley (formerly Payment Rails) is the payouts platform for the internet economy.Our vision is to unlock the collective economic opportunity of the internet – for everyone – by building a truly global payouts ecosystem.Through our powerful platform and API, Trolley enables businesses to reach workers from all corners of the world and offercreators, on-demand workers, and suppliers the ability to bring their specialized talents to a global market.Businesses use Trolley to automate and manage payouts, collect recipient tax and banking information, and mitigate fraud and risk. The payouts solution of choice for hundreds of businesses, Trolley has made payouts to over 1.1 million different musicians, artists, makers, vendors, and suppliers around the world. | $22.9M | Series B | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Trolley | Trolley (formerly Payment Rails) is the payouts platform for the internet economy.Our vision is to unlock the collective economic opportunity of the internet – for everyone – by building a truly global payouts ecosystem.Through our powerful platform and API, Trolley enables businesses to reach workers from all corners of the world and offercreators, on-demand workers, and suppliers the ability to bring their specialized talents to a global market.Businesses use Trolley to automate and manage payouts, collect recipient tax and banking information, and mitigate fraud and risk. The payouts solution of choice for hundreds of businesses, Trolley has made payouts to over 1.1 million different musicians, artists, makers, vendors, and suppliers around the world. | $22.9M | Series B | Nov 13, 2024 |  |
| Volante Technologies | Since 2001, Volante has been focused on addressing the challenges of financial message integration and payments on-boarding, processing and orchestration. With a broad range of over 85 financial institutions and corporates as clients in 26 countries they provide the business agility needed to be competitive and thrive in the digital payments age byquickly dealing with the complexities of change, and taking advantage of business opportunities as they arise.All Volante products are born from a heritage of payments and financial message integration, and are rich with innovative functionality as a result of best practice driven R&D over the past 16 years. This means that their products coupled with their growing and maintained library of hundreds of international and domestic message standards plugins and transformations enable projects to be completed in months not years, or weeks not months, while insulating core systems from change. |  | Debt Financing | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Volante Technologies | Since 2001, Volante has been focused on addressing the challenges of financial message integration and payments on-boarding, processing and orchestration. With a broad range of over 85 financial institutions and corporates as clients in 26 countries they provide the business agility needed to be competitive and thrive in the digital payments age byquickly dealing with the complexities of change, and taking advantage of business opportunities as they arise.All Volante products are born from a heritage of payments and financial message integration, and are rich with innovative functionality as a result of best practice driven R&D over the past 16 years. This means that their products coupled with their growing and maintained library of hundreds of international and domestic message standards plugins and transformations enable projects to be completed in months not years, or weeks not months, while insulating core systems from change. | $66M |  | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Volante Technologies | Since 2001, Volante has been focused on addressing the challenges of financial message integration and payments on-boarding, processing and orchestration. With a broad range of over 85 financial institutions and corporates as clients in 26 countries they provide the business agility needed to be competitive and thrive in the digital payments age byquickly dealing with the complexities of change, and taking advantage of business opportunities as they arise.All Volante products are born from a heritage of payments and financial message integration, and are rich with innovative functionality as a result of best practice driven R&D over the past 16 years. This means that their products coupled with their growing and maintained library of hundreds of international and domestic message standards plugins and transformations enable projects to be completed in months not years, or weeks not months, while insulating core systems from change. | $66M | Private Equity | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Cardata | Cardata's software simplifies the administrative tasks associated with vehicle reimbursement programs and helps companies save money. Using proprietary data and technology, Cardata delivers IRS compliant and non-taxable vehicle reimbursements.Cardata offers fully managed and IRS Compliant non-taxable vehicle reimbursement programs. Withdatabases in both the United States and Canada, Cardata reimbursements are accurate and fair. We provide dedicated support to ensure excellent service. | $74.1M | Private Equity | Sep 28, 2023 |  |
| RapidWorks | Developer of a concrete pumping software created to optimize processes in the concrete pumping industry. The company provides a software for the concrete pumping industry which is used to dispatch and manage concrete pumping jobs in United States and Canada enabling pump operators to save time and reduce efforts. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 02, 2023 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MassMutual Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/massmutual-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [BNY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bny) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BNY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bnymellon) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Sixth Street](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sixthstreet) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Wells Fargo Strategic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wells-fargo-strategic-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ABRY Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abry-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Wavecrest Growth Partners invest in?

Wavecrest Growth Partners invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Funding Round and Private Equity stage. Most of the 38 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 Wavecrest Growth Partners's check size?

Wavecrest Growth Partners typically joins rounds of $66M–$104M at Private Equity and $15M–$29M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Wavecrest Growth Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Wavecrest Growth Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Wavecrest Growth Partners?

The team at Wavecrest Growth Partners includes John Lawrence (Partner & Chief Financial Officer), John Lawrence (Partner & Chief Financial Officer) and Vaibhav Nalwaya (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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