About Ride wave ventures
Ride wave ventures is a venture capital firm As of Jan 2026, Ride wave ventures is an active investor, having invested in 6 companies, with 1 new investment in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from High Tech to Enterprise Applications and Life Sciences. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Emobi A lot of funds co-invest with Ride wave ventures, with names like Gaingels sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.Key Metrics
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series B
Ride wave ventures' List of Top Investments
Ride wave ventures has a portfolio of 6 companies. Their most notable investmentis in American GeneTheir portfolio spans across United States, Canada, India and 1 more locations. They have invested in High Tech, Enterprise Applications, Life Sciences and 8 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series B stages. Here is the list of top investments by Ride wave ventures:Developer of lentivirus therapies for the treatment of cancer and other chronic human diseases. The company has developed drugs using its delivery platform. The product pipeline includes a liver cancer therapeutic lentivirus and an AIDS therapeutic lentivirus, as well as Parkinson’s disease therapeutic lentivirus, and a familial dysautonomia therapeutic lentivirus.
Key facts about American Gene
- Founded Year: 2008
- Location: Rockville (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $53.1M
- Employee Count: 25 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Gaingels, Alumni Ventures and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Nov 03, 2025, $*****
2. Emobi
AI-powered station management solutions for station operators. The platform offers features that includes infrastructure management, charging management, data refinement, and more.
Key facts about Emobi
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $3.9M
- Employee Count: 10 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Collab Fund, Goodwater Capital and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jan 28, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. SellerGeni
Platform offering AI-based E-commerce software suite solutions. It assists D2C brands and marketplace sellers in scaling their businesses by leveraging the strategies available. It deploys insights from the marketplace and employ market intelligence to support sales efficiency. Features include order clock, AI bidding engine, campaign analysis, SEO content enhancer, aisle dominator, and autopilot growth.
Key facts about SellerGeni
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Bengaluru (India)
- Annual Revenue: 0 - ₹10 Cr as on Mar 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $642K
- Employee Count: 72 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Faad Capital, Modulor Capital and 22 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Angel, Dec 15, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
4. Neutronpay
Platform offering payment gateway solutions to businesses. It provides a platform for payments and transactions. It offers a payment gateway for Bitcoin Lightning to enable peer-to-peer money transfers, online money transfers, cross-border transactions & more.
Key facts about Neutronpay
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Vancouver (Canada)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $3.75M
- Employee Count: 12 as on Apr 30, 2026
- Investors: Studio VC, Fulgur Ventures and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 26, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. Azteco
Azteco provides a cash collection based Bitcoin buying network. It has a network of retailer where one can go and buy Bitcoin vouchers. The buyer then enters this voucher number and Bitcoin address on the website to redeem the Bitcoin to wallets.
Key facts about Azteco
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $6M
- Employee Count: 11 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Visary Capital, Gaingels and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, May 18, 2023, $*****
Ride wave ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Ride wave ventures has invested in 6 companies over the last 5 years, with an average of 1 new investment annually in the last 5 years. As of Jan 2026, it has made 1 investment in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Emobi.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ride wave ventures' Investments by Stage
Ride wave ventures has made 4 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.99M and 1 investment in Series B stage with an average round size of $50M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 4 |
Series B | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ride wave ventures' Investments by Sector
Ride wave ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the High Tech, Blockchain - Industry Applications, Blockchain Technology, Enterprise Applications and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 6 Tech companies, 4 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 3 Software companies and at least 2 companies focusing on AI-Native.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
High Tech | 3 |
Blockchain - Industry Applications | 2 |
Blockchain Technology | 2 |
Enterprise Applications | 2 |
FinTech | 2 |
Others | 9 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ride wave ventures' Investments by Geography
Ride wave ventures has made most investments in United States (2), followed by Canada where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
United States | 2 |
Canada | 1 |
India | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Ride wave ventures' recent investments
Ride wave ventures has made 1 investments in 2026 so far - Emobi.Here are the most recent investments by Ride wave ventures:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 28, 2026 | United States | Seed | 4658 | [+8] | |
May 18, 2023 | United Kingdom | Seed | 9424 | [+6] | |
Jun 01, 2022 | Canada | Seed | 7877 | [+8] | |
Apr 22, 2022 | United States | Series B | 9713 | - | |
Dec 28, 2021 | India | Seed | 5987 | [+6] |
Co-investors of Ride wave ventures
Over the past 5 years, 45 investors have co-invested in Ride wave ventures's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Ride wave ventures: NIH, HHS and 2 others have invested in rounds before Ride wave ventures. There is 1 company where NIH has invested before Ride wave ventures and 1 company where HHS has invested before Ride wave ventures.
- Top Co-investors of Ride wave ventures: 29 investors entered a company along with Ride wave ventures. These include investors like Gaingels (2 companies).
- Invested after Ride wave ventures: A total of 12 investors have invested in Ride wave ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Langkawi Ventures (1 company), Faad Capital (1 company) and Kevin Bhatia (1 company).
