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Neshay Ahmed

Co-founder, Wavy

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Neshay Ahmed is a co-founder and was chief technology officer of Wavy, the Toronto company that sells culture software and team-building experiences to distributed workforces. Ahmed started Wavy part-time in 2018 with Shawn Hewat and Peter Kotzeff, after Ahmed and Hewat had worked together at employee communication startup Nudge.

Neshay hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Neshay co-founded Wavy, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Did Neshay Ahmed co-found Wavy?

Yes. BetaKit, on April 12, 2022, says Neshay Ahmed, Peter Kotzeff and Shawn Hewat founded Wavy in 2018, working on it part-time, when it was still called Wavy Travel Inc. Vancouver Tech Journal, on October 10, 2024, calls Ahmed and Hewat Wavy's co-founders.

What was Ahmed's role at Wavy?

Chief technology officer. Wavy's seed announcement, published on Communitech's site on April 12, 2022, quotes Ahmed as CTO and co-founder, and Vancouver Tech Journal on October 10, 2024 also describes Ahmed as CTO.

Where did Ahmed work before Wavy?

Vancouver Tech Journal reported on October 10, 2024 that Ahmed and Hewat previously worked together at Nudge, an employee communication startup later acquired by Axonify.

What did Ahmed say about Wavy's seed round?

In the April 12, 2022 announcement of the C$2.5 million seed round, Ahmed said the company's biggest challenge had been keeping up with customer demand, and that the funding would let it build tools to plan, manage and measure culture initiatives.

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