Top 45 Wastewater recycling startups

Nov 30, 2024 | By Marjana Bačić

These startups develop new wastewater recycling technologies such as membrane bioreactors, anaerobic digestion, reverse osmosis filtration, electrocoagulation, advanced oxidation processes, UV disinfection and biofiltration.
1
Country: USA | Funding: $392.4M
Gradiant is a solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for advanced water and wastewater treatment.
2
Country: Canada | Funding: $146.7M
Ostara’s proprietary Pearl technology recovers nutrients from industrial, agricultural, and municipal water treatment streams, transforming them into granular fertilizers that improve crop yields and reduce runoff. We are transforming the commodity market value chain and closing the loop on phosphorus for future generations.
3
Country: Canada | Funding: $96.8M
Anaergia maximizes resource recovery from virtually any waste stream, transforming waste into renewable energy, clean water, high-quality fertilizer, and recyclables. Anaergia provides complete, integrated solutions for municipal solid waste management, resource recovery in wastewater sector, and large‐scale farming & food production waste management.
4
Country: Sweden | Funding: $69.9M
ORBITAL SYSTEMS is a Swedish clean-tech company that develops a water recycling technology to be used in domestic appliances.
5
Country: USA | Funding: $40.4M
ZwitterCo provides revolutionary membrane solutions for the treatment of highly-impaired wastewater.
6
Country: Israel | Funding: $32.3M
Homebiogas develops bio-toilet which can convert human waste into cooking fuel sans the need to access sewers or water grids.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $27.9M
Membrion is a manufacturer of ultra-low cost, high performance ion exchange membranes.
8
Country: Canada | Funding: $26.4M
Axine Water Technologies is a developer of wastewater treatment technologies and solutions.
9
Country: USA | Funding: $25.4M
Epic CleanTec is decentralizing wastewater treatment and reuse into individual buildings or groups of buildings.
10
Country: France | Funding: €23.2M
TOOPI Organics collects and transforms human urine into fertiliser products
11
Country: USA | Funding: $21.3M
Aclarity is a VC-backed cleantech startup developing and selling water treatment systems to clean the world's water and wastewater.
12
Country: USA | Funding: $275K
IX Power Clean Water is an innovative provider of cleantech solutions designed to treat and clean industrial wastewater so that freshwater resources can be preserved for families, crops, and communities.
13
Country: USA | Funding: $8.9M
Aquagga cleans wastewater with less energy and develops innovative tech to create a positive societal impact in the developed and developing world.
14
Country: USA | Funding: $7.4M
Glanris makes a sustainable, low cost hybrid filtration media that removes organics as well as metals from water. Its Biocarbon is made from the largest agricultural waste, rice husks, allowing for global expansion of our carbon-negative technology to reduce greenhouse gasses and sequester carbon at gigaton scale.
15
Country: Australia | Funding: $6.6M
Nexus eWater is a home water recycling platform that develops solutions converting grey water for home water and energy use.
16
Country: Singapore | Funding: $6.3M
Hydropleap provides advanced environmental-friendly technological water treatment solutions.
17
Country: Israel | Funding: $6M
TaKaDu is a water network management company offering water utilities to improve network efficiency and planning decisions.
18
Country: Germany | Funding: €5M
Membion provides wastewater treatment with membrane bioreactor technology.
19
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €4M
Hydraloop develops home water-recycling system. It allows to use the recycled water from the shower, bath and washing machine for toilet flushing, the garden and washing machine.
20
Country: India | Funding: $4M
Mumbai startup INDRA Water treats wastewater and industrial effluents from textiles, chemicals, and pharma industries.
Editor: Marjana Bačić
Marjana Bačić is a senior editor for RecyclingStartups. She has has more than 5 years experience covering the recycling industry. Marjana graduated from University of Belgrade, where she edited Recycling and Sustainable Development Journal. She has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability. She also participates in beach clean-up initiatives and advocates for sustainable practices in local businesses. In her free time, Marjana enjoys hiking in the scenic Montenegrin countryside, practicing yoga for mindfulness, and experimenting with plant-based recipes in her kitchen. You can contact Marjana at marjanabacic(at)recyclingstartups(dot)com