It’s possible to achieve inspired environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact without sacrificing financial returns. Wave Equity Partners exists to do just that on behalf of our portfolio companies and our investors.
As an impact investing firm, our mission is to maximize returns for investors, growth for portfolio companies and impact for all. We achieve this by investing in sustainability innovators that solve our greatest environmental challenges on a global scale.
Our earth’s resources are limited. The time is now to do what it takes to protect our planet for future generations. At Wave Equity Partners, we don’t play small. Instead, we target full-stack innovations that combine breakthrough technologies in both software and hardware.
As a result, we can accelerate global progress to a sustainable future by making clean energy and other essential resources available to all.
Perhaps it’s a generation shifting solution that improves energy efficiency by 50%, treats millions of cubic meters of water, or captures millions of metric tons of CO2. Innovations like these inspire the work we do each day. The companies we invest in are responsible for developing the innovations that continue to lead us toward a healthier more hospitable planet.
Our team delivers decades of combined experience in both the investment and energy industries. With our know-how and a track record of bringing investors and partners together, we deliver scalable growth to each of our portfolio companies.
Innovators in essential markets such as clean energy, air, water, food, advanced materials and recycling suffer from a severe capital mismatch. Private equity firms don’t invest in companies at the early stages of growth and venture capitalists focus on software companies rather than hard-tech companies.
Wave Equity Partners is different. We use our expertise to select the most promising and disruptive sustainability innovators in these essential markets and pair them with capital and expertise to maximize growth, return and impact.
Purpose-driven companies offer the greatest return potential. We believe the most valuable companies of the future will be those where business purpose drives performance.
Return means nothing without ESG impact. Wave invests in essential industries, including clean energy, air, water, food, advanced materials and recycling that are critical for a healthy planet. We continuously seek hard-tech innovations that make a meaningful environmental impact.
That which is not profitable is not sustainable. An investment is only profitable and sustainable if it generates a strong ESG impact at lower cost to the end consumer.
Relationships are built on trust and collaboration. With our portfolio companies, we strive for complete alignment of values and goals before making an investment decision. And with our investors, we prioritize transparency and clarity at all stages of funding.
WindESCo is a provider of wind turbine optimization systems intended to ensure that every wind turbine is optimized for maximum energy. The company’s systems maximize assets’ performance, energy production, and reliability to ultimately discover the hidden value of renewable energy plants, enabling clients to increase revenue by increasing annual energy production.
In a world where energy demand escalates alongside digital growth, QiO Technologies offers a beacon of innovation. Their DC+ software, powered by advanced machine learning, intelligently fine-tunes power management in data centers at the granular level of CPU operations. QiO technology is a testament to their capability to significantly enhance energy savings while ensuring peak performance.
Novolyze is a developer of a tech-enabled system designed to empower food and beverage companies to enhance food safety and quality performance. Their surrogate microorganisms technology specializes in food safety microbiology. It offers monitoring of steam pasteurizers, sterilizers, dryers, roasters, extruders, and ovens, enabling food companies to produce and provide clean food products to customers.
MICATU is a provider of next-generation optical sensing solutions for the measurement of voltage, current, vibration, and temperature for next generation grid intelligence solutions. Its solutions provide enhanced data fidelity, accuracy, precision, and the ability to sense harmonic disturbances in the grid before they become a problem for grid operators.
MayMaan is at the vanguard of addressing the 21st century’s critical global energy challenges. Their commitment to creating alternative energy solutions led them to develop an innovative engine/fuel combination. Their award-winning technology, running on a mix of 70% water and 30% ethanol, is set to replace traditional Internal Combustion Engines with a commercially viable, energetically superior, and less polluting alternative.
Living Greens Farm has developed and commercialized an efficient semi‑automated system for indoor farming of leafy crops such as lettuce, spinach, kale and other crops. Like other indoor farms, LGF uses 98% less land, 95% less water than traditional farms, and eliminates pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals. In addition, it has been able to grow superior, robust, full sized plants at low cost.
Intellihot is a leading manufacturer of high-efficiency water heating systems for commercial and industrial markets. Their on-demand gas/propane-fired heaters operate at 95% efficiency, surpassing traditional products. Intellihot’s reliable and space-saving solutions reduce operating expenses by 30-60%, cut capital expenditures by 50%, and contribute to a sustainable future.
Based in Leipzig, with a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Leuna, Intelligent Fluids employs and partners with top notch researchers to conduct cutting edge research and launch groundbreaking innovation. They have pioneered green impact chemistry for cleaning. A new era of professional cleaning materials for industrial applications that combine the highest performance with sustainability.
Gradiant is a water recycling company with broadly patented processes to purify and recycle toxic water with a global customer base in multiple industries, including desalination, power generation, textiles, oil and gas, leather tanning, and mining. After spinning out of MIT in 2013, the Company has quickly established a diverse business footprint while significantly impacting the world’s water supply.
Factorial is a manufacturer of nano-engineered batteries designed for electric vehicles, homes, and critical applications. The company’s batteries increase energy density and improve capacity, have an extended life, and recharge faster than any other existing material, enabling battery manufacturers to use more environmentally friendly, safer, and less expensive materials.
CHASM produces a range of advanced materials, including carbon nanotubes, transparent conductive films, and nanometal inks, which are used in various applications, such as cement production, EV batteries, antennas, heaters, and flexible electronics. In addition to their advanced materials, CHASM also offers development and manufacturing services to help their customers bring their products to market quickly & efficiently.
Carbon Clean is a developer of carbon capture technology designed to help industries decarbonize and leverage the growing value of captured carbon. The company’s technology offers an energy-efficient process that provides improved capture rates and delivers industrial-quality carbon dioxide for reuse or sequestration, enabling clients to have easy, affordable, and scalable carbon capture.
AeroSafe is a leading provider of ‘Cold Chain as a Service’ (CCaaS) to ensure safe, sustainable delivery and effective use of pharmaceuticals. Its reuse program includes high-tech reusable thermal packaging, outsourced supply chain services, and a temperature monitoring control tower, reducing carbon usage and landfill by 65% and 90%, respectively, compared to traditional Styrofoam containers.