Early Stage Funding.

By India’s Best Angels.

Our Investment Focus

India Focus

We invest in Indian startups, targeting the Indian market or global markets; it doesn’t matter where they are incorporated.

Sector Agnostic

We invest in startups across all sectors, that leverage technology to uniquely solve a problem

Early Stage

We invest across the spectrum of Early Stage, starting from Seed to Series-A. We lead in Seed rounds and co-invest in Pre-A/Series A rounds.

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OUR INVESTMENTPortfolio

B2B2C commerce platform for interior building materials

Artificial intelligence-based multilingual dubbing platform

Create, grow & earn through group chats

Community group buying for daily use products like Groceries

Innovative model to cover healthcare expenses

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AS SEEN IN Media Coverage

The Hindu Business Line
Mistry Store raises $2mil in seed funding
October 19, 2022
Inc42
SaaS startup FitBudd has secured $3.4 Mn in a seed funding round from Accel India
October 12, 2022
Entracker
DubDub.ai raises $1mil from Waveform Ventures & Accel Atoms
September 14, 2022
Live Mint
CityMall raises $75mil led by Norwest Venture Partners. Valuation tops $300 mil
March 30, 2022
Inc42
Kenko Health raises $12mil in Series A led by Sequoia Capital India
February 15, 2022

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Arun Tadanki

Lead Investor

Arun is the Lead Investor at Waveform Ventures who focuses on evaluating trends and identifying investment opportunities. He also invests a significant amount of time in helping his early-stage portfolio companies.

Arun has over two decades of experience in leadership roles in the Internet / Technology sectors across India and broader Asian markets. He has invested in several startups in his individual capacity before starting the syndicate under the Waveform Ventures brand.

He was the Managing Director at Yahoo! Southeast Asia & India and prior to that, he was President (Asia-Pacific & Middle East) at Monster Worldwide. Arun is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad and IIT, Madras

Arun is a professional DJ and plays regularly in Gurgaon, India. He plays various genres including Rock, Retro, Bollywood & International club hits.

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WHAT OUR FOUNDERS SAY Testimonials

“Arun is a perfect partner to get onboard for an early stage startup. He is humble and has an extremely hands-on approach to help. It has been a true delight to work with him.”

Angad Kikla,
Founder & CEO, CityMall

Courtesy: Forbes India

“Arun has been an angel (literally) to Mitron. Arun has helped us with his knowledge, experience and connections.”

Shivank Agarwal & Anish Khandelwal,
Founders, Mitron

“Rarely, you come across an extraordinary business leader like Arun. He has an ability to quickly decode data and market signals to identify opportunities for growth. Any founder would be extremely fortunate to have Arun on their cap table.”

Kshitij Jain,
Founder, Joveo

“While Arun himself brings tremendous experience, he also connects us to highly experienced industry leaders which is invaluable. His founder empathy makes it easy to discuss any issue”

Aanand Srinivas,
Co-Founder, StayQrious

“Arun is more like a mentor than an investor. One can discuss any issue with him openly. He always gives us solid advice on the trickiest of issues. Great to have him on Kenko's side”

Aniruddha Sen & Dhiraj Goel,
Founders, Kenko Health

“Arun believed in Zuddl since day 0. His early support has helped us grow to where we are today. He has truly been more than an investor.”

Bharath Varma & Vedha Sayyaparaju,
Co-Founders, Zuddl

“Arun is one of the first folks who believed in FitBudd. Along with being an investor, he is also our friend, mentor and a great sounding board. His immense experience, as a techie and as an investor, brings a lot of value for founders.”

Saumya Mittal, Naman Singhal & Pranav Chaturvedi,
Founders, FitBudd