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2025 Annual Letter

To those building beyond the status quo, our friends and supporters: We founded Next Wave Partners three years ago because we could no longer play...

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Safer: Accounting Treatment Whitepaper for Startup CFOs and Accounting Firms

Next Wave created and open sourced the innovative Safer (Simple Agreement for Future Equity with Repurchase) financing instrument. We're thrilled to...

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Introducing the Safer: A Better Alternative to Safes for Startup Financing

It has been almost ten years since YCombinator, the renowned Silicon Valley startup incubator, introduced the Simple Agreement for Future Equity, or...

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