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WAVE Meditation is a technology company.
WAVE Meditation delivers a multi-sensory guided meditation system, featuring a dedicated app, a vibrating bolster, and headphones. Its core product utilizes haptic feedback via tactile transducers in a physical pillow, synchronizing vibrations with unique musical scores and guided narratives. This immersive method significantly enhances user focus and engagement in meditation.
Mason Levey founded WAVE Meditation from the insight that many find traditional silent meditation challenging. Levey saw music's power to inspire and physical vibrations' ability to foster presence. This led to developing a system leveraging both auditory and tactile stimuli, making mindfulness more accessible.
WAVE targets individuals needing alternatives to conventional meditation, especially those struggling with mental quietude. Users achieve a less intimidating, more consistent meditation experience, promoting calm. The company envisions broadening access to mindfulness through engaging, multi-sensory technology, making sustained practice achievable for a wider audience.
WAVE Meditation has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round.
WAVE Meditation has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
WAVE Meditation has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
WAVE Meditation's investors include Chesterfield Fund, MaC Venture Capital, NFX, Operator Ventures, Brad Bao, Sahin Boydas, Sina Afra, Yagiz Sozmen.
WAVE Meditation is a technology company building a subscription-based app and hardware platform that combines guided sound meditation with music to make mindfulness accessible and engaging, particularly for millennials deterred by traditional silent meditation.[1][2][3] It serves beginners and experienced users seeking motivation alongside calm, solving the problem of meditation's low adoption (only 14% of Americans meditate) by blending music, breathing instructions, and physical sensations via a vibrating "Wave Bolster" pillow.[2][4] The company launched with $5.65 million in pre-seed funding, featuring over 80 original tracks composed by Grammy-nominated artist Matt Wong, designed to feel like a music app rather than a typical meditation tool.[1][2]
WAVE was co-founded by Mason Levey (CEO) and his partner (co-founder Warsh), who previously built Y7, a popular yoga studio chain in New York City and Los Angeles that disrupted traditional yoga by incorporating hip-hop and candlelight to attract newcomers.[2] Drawing from Y7's success in lowering barriers to wellness, Levey and Warsh identified meditation's misconceptions—its association with silence and stillness—and launched WAVE to create a "gateway" experience using music and hardware.[2] The idea emerged as their second joint project, coinciding with a $5.65 million seed round announcement and product launch, aiming to mainstream meditation through a lifestyle brand approach.[1][2][4]
WAVE rides the exploding digital wellness trend, where meditation apps tap into post-pandemic mental health demands amid rising burnout, with music-tech hardware bridging consumer audio (e.g., Spotify) and healthtech.[2][3] Timing aligns with low U.S. meditation penetration (14%), as hybrid app-hardware solutions lower entry barriers in a $2B+ mindfulness market favoring engaging, non-traditional formats.[2] It influences the ecosystem by proving lifestyle brands can scale wellness via sensory innovation, potentially gatewaying users to broader practices and challenging incumbents like Calm or Headspace on engagement.[2]
WAVE's fusion of music, motivation, and hardware positions it for rapid scaling in consumer healthtech, with next steps likely including app expansions, more tracks, Bolster iterations, and partnerships leveraging Y7's audience.[2] Trends like AI-personalized wellness and haptic feedback will amplify its edge, evolving its influence from niche disruptor to mainstream meditation gateway as adoption barriers crumble.[1][2] This music-meets-mindfulness hook redefines accessibility, much like Y7 did for yoga—primed for cultural ubiquity.[2]
WAVE Meditation has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Seed in July 2019.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2019 | $6M Seed | — | Chesterfield Fund, MAC Venture Capital, NFX, Operator Ventures, Brad BAO, Sahin Boydas, Sina Afra, Yagiz Sozmen | Announced |