WAVE Meditation is a technology company.
WAVE Meditation has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round.
WAVE Meditation has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
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 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 has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Seed in July 2019.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2019 | $6.0M Seed | Chesterfield Fund, MaC Venture Capital, NFX, Operator Ventures, Brad Bao, Sahin Boydas, Sina Afra, Yagiz Sozmen |