StartUps in 32nd WaterVent Edition in San Francisco
As per Oktober 1st

Active Membrane, Inc.
5246 N Commerce Avenue, Units F&G
93021 Moorpark, CA, USA
Business Description: Advanced membranes, Desalination, and Industrial Manufacturing applications.
Offer: Not specified in source data.
Looking For: Pitch sessions looking for investors.
Contact Person: Arian Edalat
Email: arian@activemembrane.com
Phone: 8183003383
Aqaix
100 Moore Creek Road
95060 Santa Cruz
Business Description: Software platform managing water utility data for AI and spreadsheets, specifically using AI with utility spreadsheets.
Target Customers: Water utilities and agencies (First Customers) and Mojave Water Agency (Target Customer).
Looking For: $500K - $1M in pre-seed stage funding.
Contact Person: Michael Gardner
Email: mike@aqaix.com
Phone: +1 408 802 6220
Key Financials & Strategy: Prototype ready. Revenue trend: $250K (2023), $200K (2024), developing new product ($55K planned for 2025), aiming for $2M (2026).

Aruna
12 Matirime Way
07002 Bayonne
Business Description: Focused on innovative water treatment solutions including Disinfection/Contaminant Removal and Chemical & nearly chemical-free methods (synthetic biology).
Offer: Not specified in source data, but expertise covers Grey water reuse/recycling, Industrial processing & cooling, and Distributed/decentralized systems.
Looking For: Not specified in source data.
Contact Person: Ameet Chaudhury
Email: ameet@arunainovation.com
Phone: 6469440290
Key Focus Areas: Prototype ready remote startup addressing various sectors including Agriculture, Food & Beverage, and Pharmaceuticals with solutions for Recycling and Waste Treatment Technologies.
Atrium Energy Inc.
845 15th Street
92101 San Diego
Business Focus: Grey water reuse/recycling, water conservation, and real-time monitoring & management, particularly for mid-market hotels and light commercial buildings with high energy & water costs.
Target Customers: Owners & operators of mid-market hotels (First Customers) and light commercial building owners & operators (Target Customers).
Looking For: Early-stage pre-seed and seed Angel and VC investors.
Contact Person: Sridhar Sukhi
Email: sri@save.energy
Phone: 6192590492
Key Financials & Strategy: Incorporated in 2024 with a prototype ready. 2024 Revenue: $51,000. Planned 2026 Revenue: $400,000.

Biota Inc.
3415 Colorado Ave., Boulder, CO
80302 United States
Business Description: pushing the frontier of **PFAS quantification** and **Emerging Contaminant Monitoring**.
Offer: Rapid field-deployable PFAS testing and tools to increase throughput of environmental testing laboratories performing PFAS testing.
Looking For: Investors and partners to beta test our new tools.
Contact Person: Dr. Rose T Nash
Email: rose@biota-labs.com
Phone: 502-727-5805
Fraunhofer IGD
Joachim-Jungius-Straße 11
18059 Rostock
Business Description: Computer vision and machine learning research, focused on **Environmental monitoring and analysis**.
Offer: Research projects and studies in areas including Real-time monitoring & management and Algae for Aquaculture.
Target Customers: Environmental analytics laboratories (Umweltanalytik Labore), environmental agencies (Umweltämter), water treatment operators, and research institutions.
Looking For: Pilot partners and investors.
Contact Person: Dennis Sidin
Email: dennis.sidin@igd-r.fraunhofer.de
Phone: +49 381 4024-127
Key Strategy: Remote Startup with prototype ready, focusing on economic development. Revenue planned starting after 2025.

Greyter Water Systems
1016 Sutton Drive
L7L 6B8 Bultington Ontario, Canada
Business Description: Graywater, stormwater and rainwater recycling in the built environment.
Offer: Graywater, stormwater and rainwater recycling in the built environment.
Looking For: Funding and business partners.
Contact Person: Chris Dooley
Email: cdooley@greyter.com
Phone: 415.359.6902

Holland Sensor
Nijendal 52
3972 KC Driebergen-Rijsenburg
Business Description: Holland Sensor is a deeptech company bringing its portable Mizu® Sensor to market for real-time metals detection, while developing two Proof-of-Concepts: one for inline continuous monitoring and one for PFAS detection. Our platform offers lab-precision, on-site results across diverse water types, enabling faster, more informed water quality decisions.
Offer: Unique, scalable sensing technology for metals and emerging pollutants, adaptable to both portable and inline applications.
Looking For: Opportunities for collaboration, pilots, and partnerships across industries and markets.
Contact Person: TBD
Additional Persons: vincent van laar
Email: vincentvanlaar@hollandsensor.com
Phone: +31621845187
INFINIREL CORPORATION
84 W Santa Clara St Ste 700
95113-1809 San Jose
Business Description: Reliability-as-a-Service, generating proprietary data with our Inverter EKG, focused on **Water pumping** and **Energy/Power Plants**.
Offer: Failure risk analysis, prediction, and mitigation for power electronics.
Looking For: Strategic investors, joint development or licensing partners. Desired investors are Angels, Family Offices, and Strategics.
Contact Person: Norbert Wank
Email: bert.wank@infiniRel.com
Phone: 6504501908
Key Financials & Strategy: Prototype ready. Current investor: AWG American Wire Group. Target customers are datacenter infra developers in energy. Planned 2026 Revenue: $1,000,000.

Jolt Solutions
107 Carrer de la Botanica
08908 Barcelona, Spain
Business Description: Coating solutions for catalytic coated electrodes.
Offer: Catalytic coated electrodes for electrochemical equipment.
Target Customers: Water treatment and swimming pool chlorinator companies (First Customers), OEMs making electrochlorination and electro-oxidation and EDI systems (Target Customers).
Looking For: Customers and investors. Desired investors are water related CVCs and VCs.
Contact Person: Leon Rizzi
Email: lrizzi@jolt.tech
Phone: 34 690876611
Key Financials & Strategy: Current investors: Santander Bank, CDP, Climentum Capital, Axon Partners, Ship2B. Planned 2026 Revenue: EUR 3m from offtakes.
Mermade
13 Ha'Aluf Yaakov Peri
7639304 Israel
Business Description: We provide on-site cell culture growth media recycling solutions for biomanufacturers.
Target Customers: Large biologics producers. First customers include 2 of the top 5 animal health corporations.
Looking For: Investment.
Contact Person: Daniel Einhorn
Email: daniel@mermade.bio
Phone: +972545457534
Key Financials & Strategy: Startup with prototype ready. Current investors: Fall Line Capital, Ourcrowd and more. 2024 Revenue: 0. Planned 2026 Revenue: 1,000,000.

Moses West Foundation
67 Public Square
18701 WILKES-BARRE
Business Description: Create and Distribute Atmospheric Water Generators.
Offer: Relief during Disasters, De-Centralized Independent Water Production, Grid Independent Water Sovereignty.
Looking For: Humanitarian Partnerships and Business Investing.
Contact Person: Colin Hutzler
Email: Daryl@moseswestfoundation.org
Phone: 2017886099

NALA Membranes
951 Aviation Parkway, Suite 900
27560 Morrisville, NC USA
Business Description: NALA Membranes has developed chlorine stable reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes from patented polymers. Commercial membrane products are being manufactured and sold for installations in industrial wastewater applications. Additional commercial application in sulfate removal for offshore oil drilling is being pursued. Multiple chlorine stable membrane products spanning a range of flux and rejection are available in sheet and spiral wound element formats standard to the industry. Sales are currently both domestic and international.
Offer: Unique sulfonated polysulfone reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes. Treating high strength wastewaters requires the ability to clean membranes rapidly without damage and NALA's membranes can be cleaned aggressively with high concentrations of chlorine bleach to remove organic foulants and biofouling without damaging the membranes. Smooth membrane surfaces minimize fouling and scaling and the materials can be operated in a much wider range than standard polyamide membranes. Reducing operating costs, by reducing cleaning frequency and duration and membrane replacement. Potentially reducing capital costs through reduced pretreatment, CIP equipment, and redundancy.
Looking For: High demand is driving the need for increased production capacity. Manufacturing at scale will drive down production costs to at or below standard polyamide membranes while increasing value for the customer even with premium priced membranes. Looking for water, cleantech, or industrial focused investors to support our growth and transition to profitability.
Contact Person: Sue Mecham
Email: sjmecham@nalamembranes.com
Phone: 5402305606
Key Financials & Strategy: Prototype ready. Current investors: Good Growth Capital, Oval Park Capital. Desired investors: PureTerra Ventures. Estimated 2024 Revenue: $250,000. Plan 2026 Revenue: $6,000,000.

NanobOx Ltd
Unit B21, KCR Business Park, Ravensdale Park
D12 XF66 Dublin, Ireland
Business Description: OEM of equipment for nanobubble treatment of water, capable of highly scalable nanobubble generation at the lowest operating cost.
Target Customers: Leaders in Irrigated agriculture, Land-based aquaculture, Food & Beverage Processing, and Industrial WWT. First customers include Salix-RSK plc, FTS Inc, Kagome, Dole, and Hermisan.
Looking For: Seed investors, corporate partners & clients. Desired investors are those focused on Water tech, clean tech, ag tech, and aqua tech.
Contact Person: John Favier
Email: john.favier@nanobox.ie
Phone: +353874712901
Key Financials & Strategy: Prototype ready. Current investors: Ireland VC investor consortium led by The Yield Lab. 2024 Revenue: €25k. Planned 2026 Revenue: €500k.

Noah Water solutions bv
Burchtweg 7
9890 Gavere
Business Description: Electrochemical waste water treatment.
Offer: Small scale decentralised waste water treatment, including toilet/sewage solutions for mobile (ship/train/boat/mobile home/bus) or off sewage grid (floating houses/remote residences).
Looking For: Development partner by sector (mobility/off grid/temporary installtion/..) and by geography.
Contact Person: Rik Van Meirhaeghe
Email: rik@noahws.be
Phone: +32486647114
Key Financials & Strategy: Startup with prototype ready. 2023 Revenue: $250k. Planned 2026 Revenue: $800k.

Pani Clean, Inc.
2500 Crosspark rd. Suite E134
52241 Coralville, USA
Business Description: Pani Clean focuses on nitrate/nitrite conversion into green ammonia from waste brines and chemical wastes enabling circular economy through sustainable and decentralized production of green ammonia.
Offer: Sustainable and decentralized production of green ammonia from waste streams.
Looking For: CEO & Investment.
Contact Person: Joun Lee
Additional Persons: Yash Mistry
Email: jlee@paniclean.com
Phone: 2138224413
Key Strategy: Startup with prototype ready, targeting Nitrate brine and chemical waste generating industry. Plans include Pilot demonstration (2025) and establishing customer relations for revenue stage (2026).
Pure Blue Tech Inc
1329 Marietta Ave
98226 Belliingham
Business Description: Reverse Osmosis.
Offer: Next Gen RO, Desal, Water Reuse.
Additional Persons: Adam Howard, Kimberly Arendse
Contact Person: Ryan Vogel
Email: rvogel@purebluetech.com
Phone: 206-802-2711

Renewable Ocean Energy, Inc.
2290 Dickinson Ave Suite E
77539 Dickinson
Business Description: Poseidon Hydroelectric System produces low cost renewable hydroelectric energy on land or on the water for less than a penny per kilowatt hour using proven technology configured on a new way without a dam, sun, wind, or batteries.
Offer: Controlled low-cost renewable energy 24/7 without batteries on land or water.
Looking For: $6.5 million USD to construct a production model based on the working prototype we have in our lab.
Contact Person: Richard M Navarro
Email: creativemind.nav@gmail.com
Phone: 8173202401
Key Focus Area: Hydropower for Energy/Power Plants. Startup with a working prototype ready.

Solinas Technologies
111, 2966 Main Street SE
T4B3G4 Calgary, Canada
Business Description: Location of Lead Water Services and Manufacturing of Locating Equipment. Specializing in Pipe Locating.
Offer: SonicFinder1000, Leadfinder.
Target Customers: Any water utility with Lead water services, any water utility with unlocatable pipe (PVC, HDPE, AC). First customers include Cleveland Water, Philadelphia Water, and Maryland Rural Water.
Looking For: A Round investment.
Contact Person: Marc Bracken
Email: mbracken@solinastechnoogies.com
Phone: 4169912687
Key Financials & Strategy: Startup with prototype ready. Angel Round Completed. Planned 2026 Revenue: $2,000,000.

Tomorrow Water
1225 N Patt St
92801 Anaheim USA
Business Description: Wastewater & organic waste treatment solutions, Industrial Turnkey Services.
Offer: Unit technologies, systems, and turnkey solutions.
Looking For: Clients, partners, strategic investors.
Contact Person: Daniel Kim
Email: dk@tomorrowwater.com
Phone: 5623833466
Key Focus Areas: Sludge management, Carbon impact, Sewage/drainage systems, Waste Treatment Technologies, and Industrial processing & cooling.
Water Harvesting Inc.
46774 Lakeview Blvd
94538 Fremont
Business Description: Atmospehric Water Harvesting & Dehumidification.
Offer: Worldwide reliability and lowest cost.
Looking For: Investment to accelerate deployment.
Contact Person: Frank Ramirez
Additional Persons: Chris Kay
Email: frank.ramirez@wahainc.com
Phone: +1 970 222-1360
Key Strategy: Startup with prototype ready, focused on Sourcing: Water from air and Distribution: Distributed networks.

Watergenics GmbH
Urbanstraße 64
10967 Berlin, Germany
Business Description: Water monitoring and analytics.
Offer: Sensor development and analytics.
Looking For: Customers in the industrial water management.
Contact Person: Dr. Liviu Mantescu
Email: liviu@watergenics.tech
Phone: +4917683478395
Watergenics Inc.
3133 West Frye Road, Suite 101 No. 2027
85226 Chandler
Business Description: real-time water quality sensor and data analytics.
Offer: data & insights as a service to water-intensive customers who want to make data-informed decisions to reduce their costs, improve process efficiencies, and mitigate environmental impacts.
Looking For: early-adopters of our technology in the US, funding and investment to lengthen the runway and strategic support (product advocacy, team mentorship, broader market exposure).
Contact Person: Heather Tugaoen
Email: heather@watergenics.tech
Phone: 5617069082

XCellAssay, Inc
2630 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA, 94720
94720 Berkeley
Business Description: Monitoring Health-Impacting Chemical Pollutants in the Water Supply.
Offer: Multiplexed BioAssay Products that survey water for contamination by hundreds of thousands of chemicals at scalable low cost affordable even to private consumers. By scaling monitoring to the masses, we will be able to mine data for long-term solutions and raise public awareness of the issue.
Looking For: Connections with investors, experienced water innovators and with water utilities that will be our beachhead customers. Desired investors have an environmental or water focus interested in high volume, low margin socially impactful opportunities.
Contact Person: Fred Schaufele
Email: fred@xcellassay.com
Phone: 4153788921
Key Financials & Strategy: Prototype ready. Revenue currently driven by product development grants (2024: $205K, 2025 Plan: $365K). Targeting initial adopters ($20K) by year end 2026.