Venture Program

The Wavemaker venture program launched in September 2023 and is for very early-stage ventures in the Southern California and Baja California regions that have not yet gone to market and may not even yet be incorporated.

The program offers personalized technical, legal, market and management advice from a network of world-renowned UC San Diego natural and social scientists and engineers, serial entrepreneurs, VC and angel investors, and some of the country’s best active and retired lawyers.

We help founders optimize their use of time and capital and provide them with attainable pre-market milestones that help them overcome the valley of death and achieve revenue or seed investments by the end of the program.

Wavemaker Labs does not take any equity or royalties from participating ventures.

2023-24 Wavemaker Lab Ventures

Cloquia, a research and academic management platform founded by a UC San Diego faculty member in political science	Electriflow Finance, an EV charging finance company founded by a San Diego entrepreneur	Ask Mendel AI, a LLM for bioinformatics company founded by a former Mount Sinai professor who relocated to San Diego to build his company
Watrics, a water purification optimization company founded by a team based in Tijuana Mexico	ChakraTech, a company introducing a novel biodegradable plastic, was founded by a post-doc researcher in chemical engineering	WildGenomics, a pest management technology company founded by a UC San Diego MBA student and Ph.D. in molecular biology

Applications Are Now Open

Applications for the second cohort of the Wavemaker venture program are now open. Apply by Oct. 5. 

Apply Now

For more information, please contact Liz Lyons.