WAVE Equity Partners

WAVE Equity Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm founded in 2013, specializing in investments that drive environmental and industrial impact. The firm focuses on early-growth companies whose proven clean technologies deliver meaningful bottom-line impact and environmental benefits for large industrial manufacturers. WAVE's portfolio includes companies in sectors such as clean energy, water, waste management, food, advanced materials, and recycling. The firm partners with founders and operational teams to help scale these companies, aiming to propel them to over $100 million in revenues. WAVE's investment strategy emphasizes full-stack innovations that combine breakthrough technologies in both software and hardware, addressing global challenges in essential markets like energy, food, water, and waste management. The firm is committed to achieving both financial returns and positive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts, believing that the most valuable companies of the future will be those where business purpose drives performance. WAVE's approach involves selecting promising sustainability innovators and pairing them with capital and expertise to maximize growth, return, and impact. The firm is currently investing out of its third institutional fund and has approximately $420 million under management as of December 31, 2022. WAVE's portfolio companies deliver true ESG impact by conserving energy, water, and other natural resources, creating new job opportunities in rural communities, reducing pollution and waste, and promoting ESG dialogue and ethics through various engagements. The firm's mission is to maximize returns for investors, growth for portfolio companies, and impact for all, by investing in sustainability innovators that solve environmental challenges on a global scale. WAVE's unique investment strategy focuses on realizing a decarbonized future by investing in companies that offer both efficacy and economics, aiming to transform industries rather than disrupt them. The firm believes that addressing environmental challenges requires reinventing every process, product, chemical, and molecule used, and that this can only be achieved by addressing the full stack of innovation, including hardware, software, and services. WAVE's portfolio companies aspire to deliver multi-dimensional impact in key areas such as conserving energy, water, and other natural resources, creating new job opportunities in rural communities, reducing pollution and waste, and promoting ESG dialogue and ethics through community, school, industry, and civic engagements. The firm's impact performance metrics are reported over 12 months of active portfolio operations, with data collected via surveys and interviews vetted for accuracy and reasonableness. WAVE's 2025 Impact Report provides further insights into how the firm's investments are delivering real environmental results across its portfolio. The firm's headquarters are located at 67 Batterymarch Street, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, United States. WAVE's contact information includes a phone number at +1 617-350-9808 and an email address at info@waveep.com. The firm's website is https://waveep.com, where more information about its investment strategy, portfolio companies, and impact reports can be found.