WAVE Equity Partners Growth Equity Strategy Grant
In context
This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and large companies, at Series A, Series B and growth stage and scale-up and mature. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country.
Growth equity investments in industrial decarbonization companies across food, energy, water, and waste management sectors, backing hardware, software, and services innovations that compete cost-effectively with incumbent technologies. Targets profitable, scalable ESG-impact businesses at the intersection of venture capital and private equity.
About this grant
WAVE Equity Partners is a growth equity investor that describes its strategy as neither venture capital nor private equity. Its stated thesis is that industrial incumbents across food, energy, water, and waste management need transformation rather than disruption, and that climate solutions must address the full stack of hardware, software, and services. WAVE says it backs companies whose solutions are both more effective and more affordable than incumbent technologies, with economics that are competitive without incentives. The page describes the firm's approach to portfolio companies, which it expects to deliver multi-dimensional ESG impact including conserving energy, water and natural resources, creating jobs in rural and lower-to-moderate income communities, reducing pollution and waste, and advancing women and minority advocacy. Portfolio examples listed include wind turbine optimization, data centre power management, food safety monitoring, grid sensing, alternative engines, indoor farming, efficient water heating, green cleaning chemistry, water recycling, nano-engineered batteries, advanced materials, carbon capture, and cold chain services. This page describes an investment firm and its portfolio. It does not describe a grant programme, a call for applications, or funding available to external applicants. The only action offered is requesting an impact report or subscribing to a newsletter.
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Key requirements
- ✓Focus on industrial decarbonization across food, energy, water, and waste management
- ✓Hardware, software, or services innovations that are cost-competitive with incumbent technologies
- ✓Companies requiring transformation rather than disruption; scalable and profitable business models
- ✓ESG-impact alignment with clear sustainability outcomes
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Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for WAVE Equity Partners Growth Equity Strategy?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; startup, sme, large-company.
Relevant sectors
About this sector
Industrial decarbonisation funding helps heavy industry cut emissions through electrification, fuel switching, process change and efficiency. Support is often capital-intensive and tied to a specific site, with feasibility studies leading to larger deployment calls. Applicants need emissions baselines, engineering studies and a plan to keep production running during the change.
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