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Peter Kotzeff

Co-founder, Wavy

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Peter Kotzeff is a co-founder of Wavy, the Toronto company that began in 2018 as Wavy Travel Inc., a travel app offering local recommendations, and later moved into workplace culture and team-building. They started it with Shawn Hewat and Neshay Ahmed, working on it part-time at first, and left the business at the end of 2021, according to BetaKit.

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

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Did Peter Kotzeff co-found Wavy?

Yes. In an article published April 12, 2022, BetaKit reported that Neshay Ahmed, Peter Kotzeff and Shawn Hewat founded Wavy in 2018, working on it part-time, and that it was then known as Wavy Travel Inc.

Is Peter Kotzeff still at Wavy?

No. The same BetaKit article, published April 12, 2022, says Kotzeff transitioned out of the business at the end of 2021, according to Hewat, who said the business had changed quite a bit and the founders decided that made the most sense.

What was Wavy when Kotzeff helped start it?

BetaKit's April 12, 2022 article describes an app that offered local travel recommendations from local experts. By the time Wavy was runner-up at the 2019 Fierce Founders Bootcamp Pitch Competition the founders were full-time, and the company moved into workplace culture and team-building at the end of 2019.

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