About Wav Sydney
A taxi company started by a taxi driver.
Shafiullah Khaja spent six years driving a Sydney taxi before he started Wav Sydney in 2017. He knew what drivers and passengers were putting up with. WAV Cabs took its first bookings in 2018, and the group has grown to sixteen businesses since.
Who we are
One company, sixteen businesses
Wav Sydney is the parent company. Each business in the group has its own name, website and customers, and all of them answer to the same founder and the same office in Sydney.
Transport is the biggest part. WAV Cabs, WAV Maxi Cabs, WAV Minibus, Fast Maxi, Maxi Cab Taxi Sydney and Just Taxi carry passengers across Sydney, and WSI Airport Taxi serves Western Sydney International. Between them they handle airport runs, cruise ship transfers, party bus bookings and everyday trips.
The rest of the group grew out of that work. Rigzie and TaxiBridge are booking platforms. Secure Admin Pro is workforce software and Just Smart IT Solutions is a digital agency. Heal Care provides disability support.
If you want to work with the group, start on the contact page.
- Passenger transport
- 8
- Mobility and booking platforms
- 5
- Business software and digital services
- 2
- Care and support
- 1
Our story
How we got here
1997
Hyderabad to Australia
Shafiullah Khaja moves to Australia from Hyderabad, India. He goes on to finish a Master's degree in Information Technology.
Before 2011
Learning logistics
He works in logistics, including jobs at Linfox and Armaguard. Both run large fleets on tight schedules, and he sees how that planning is done from the inside.
2011
Behind the wheel
He starts driving a taxi in Sydney. Before long he knows exactly what the booking and dispatch systems are missing, because he is the one working around the gaps every shift.
2013
Fast Maxi
He founds Fast Maxi, a maxi cab service for groups, families, airport runs and cruise transfers.
2017
Wav Sydney Pty Ltd
Shafiullah starts Wav Sydney Pty Ltd from the garage of his home, with his friend Mudassir Khan beside him, and Fast Maxi merges into the new company. Wav Sydney is registered in October 2017.
2018
WAV Cabs takes its first bookings
WAV Cabs starts taking bookings across Sydney, run from the garage of Shafiullah's home.
2018Technology
Short fares on a tablet
Wav Sydney moves Sydney Airport's taxi short-fare system at the Domestic terminal onto a tablet. Until then, drivers handled short-fare returns on the old in-car terminal.
2018Technology
Dispatch goes digital
Wav Sydney takes its booking and dispatch system off the traditional radio room and in-car mobile data terminal and puts it on a digital tablet.
2019
Wheelchair accessible taxis
WAV Cabs adds wheelchair accessible taxis to the fleet and starts taking wheelchair bookings.
2020
The long way back
COVID stops Sydney almost overnight. Flights are grounded and cruise ships stop coming, so most of the airport and cruise work disappears. Coming back is slow and hard, and the business is rebuilt one booking at a time.
Every day
Moving Sydneysiders
The transport brands carry passengers to Sydney Airport and the cruise terminals, take party bus bookings through Fast Maxi, WAV Maxi Cabs and WAV Minibus, and run everyday trips across the city. On Google, Fast Maxi is rated 4.9 and WAV Cabs and WAV Maxi Cabs 4.8, across more than 1,900 reviews.
2026
Sixteen businesses
WSI Airport Taxi serves the new Western Sydney International Airport. The group now runs sixteen businesses across transport, booking technology, business software and care.
Values
How we work
01
Built by drivers
Our systems were designed by someone who has driven the shifts. Before we build anything new, we ask whether it makes the job better for the driver.
02
Access matters
Wheelchair accessible taxis are part of the fleet. We plan for the passengers who usually get left waiting.
03
Turn up on time
Airport pickups, school runs and medical appointments depend on it. We plan around traffic and flight changes so the passenger does not have to.
04
Put our name to it
Every business keeps its own brand and answers to the same company. Partners always know who is responsible.
In the industry
Who Wav Sydney works with.
Accessible taxi bookings with SCIA, booking and dispatch on SmartMove, and past membership of the NSW Taxi Council.
Shafiullah Khaja with Theresa Rittenhouse and Kelvin Sui of SCIA at the Wheelchair Book & Ride stand. Accessible transport
Wheelchair Book & Ride, with SCIA
Wav Sydney works with Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) and is contracted with Wheelchair Book & Ride, the central booking service for wheelchair accessible taxis in Sydney. SCIA runs the service and Transport for NSW funds it.
scia.org.au (opens in a new tab)
Shafiullah Khaja and Akbar Pasha Mohammad (right) of Wav Sydney with Jason Lawrie and Gia Bao of SmartMove at the 2024 NSW Taxi Industry State Conference. Booking and dispatch
SmartMove
Wav Sydney runs on SmartMove, an Australian taxi booking and dispatch system.
Shafiullah Khaja with Nick Abrahim, CEO of the NSW Taxi Council. Industry body
Former member of the NSW Taxi Council
Wav Sydney was a member of the NSW Taxi Council, the industry body for taxi networks and operators in New South Wales. The council also trades as Taxis NSW.
Shafiullah Khaja with part of the group's black car fleet. The fleet
The black car fleet
Black minibuses carry groups to the airport, weddings, corporate events and nights out across Sydney.
Leadership
Shafiullah Khaja
Founder and Director, Wav Sydney
A former Sydney taxi driver who wanted drivers to have a say in the systems they use every shift, and built a group of sixteen businesses around that idea.
Read Shafiullah's storyThe management team
Shafiullah's management team. Around 50 more people at the group's overseas office work across call centre, digital marketing, development and training for all sixteen businesses. Meet the team
Akbar Pasha Mohammad
Office Manager
Saifullah Khaja
Operations Executive
Yousuf Ahmed
IT Manager
Asma Nazneen
Training and HR Manager
Company details
- Legal name
- Wav Sydney Pty Ltd
- ABN
- 89 622 322 776
- ACN
- 622 322 776
- ABN active from
- 18 October 2017
- Registered business names
- WAV SYDNEY, Wav Platinum cabs, WAV CABS
- Founder and director
- Shafiullah Khaja
- NDIS registration
- Registered provider. NDIS and other services
- Businesses in the group
- 16 across 4 sectors
- Office address
- 3/96 Rogers St, Roselands NSW 2196
Common questions
About the company
- What is Wav Sydney?
- Wav Sydney Pty Ltd (ABN 89 622 322 776) is a private company based in Sydney. It is the parent of sixteen businesses in passenger transport, booking platforms, business software and care.
- Who founded Wav Sydney?
- Shafiullah Khaja, with his friend Mudassir Khan beside him in the early years. Shafiullah moved to Australia from Hyderabad, India in 1997, worked in logistics, started driving a Sydney taxi in 2011 and founded Fast Maxi in 2013. Wav Sydney Pty Ltd was registered in October 2017 and WAV Cabs took its first bookings in 2018.
- Is WAV Cabs a separate company?
- No. The WAV Cabs website says it is operated by Wav Sydney Pty Ltd trading as wavcabs.com.au, and WAV CABS is a registered business name of the company.
- Who do I contact about a partnership or a corporate account?
- Wav Sydney. Use the business enquiry form and we'll pass it to the right business in the group.
All 16 businesses are listed on the portfolio page.