We accelerate and fund water innovation, globally.
Our Purpose
Imagine H2O builds solutions with the world’s best water entrepreneurs
Droughts last longer. Floods hit harder. Safe water remains out of reach for 2.1 billion people. AI, energy, agriculture, manufacturing, and other industries are driving water demand, pushing limited supplies to the breaking point.
The solutions are within reach, but the challenge lies in bringing them to scale.
We remove the barriers by giving entrepreneurs access to the mentorship, markets and pilot support they need to scale with utilities and corporate water users.
Our Impact
Over a decade of innovative water solutions
Our startups are advancing circularity and efficiency, expanding access, improving health, and tackling climate change.
Solutions to minimize water loss are critical, with freshwater demand projected to outstrip supply by 40% in the next 5 years.
SmartTerra’s AI-powered solution creates a real-time, adaptive model of a utility’s infrastructure and customers to identify causes of water loss.
Imagine H2O’s Water Innovation Pilot Fund has helped SmartTerra unlock trials outside of India, including an ongoing multi-city deployment in Indonesia to reduce NRW.
By the numbers
26 billion m³
treated water is lost annually worldwide
Imagine H2O has been pivotal to scaling our business. They brought us strategic funding, additional clients and opened market segments we wouldn’t have accessed otherwise.
Megan Glover CEO & Co-Founder, 120Water, IH2O ’19
Water innovation is vital yet challenging. Imagine H2O unites entrepreneurs, adopters, influencers & capital to move the sector forward.
Ifetayo Venner Wastewater Treatment Service Line Leader, Arcadis
Our Portfolio
Meet the world’s leading water innovators
Our startups are transforming how water is used, treated, digitized, monitored, and accessed.
Real-time wastewater monitoring using a biological sensor for operators to make decisions that save time and energy for optimized treatment performance
Over 150 systems installed in water and wastewater utilities globally to protect treatment works and optimize processes like aeration and anaerobic digestion
Join Imagine H2O and Sorenson Impact Institute at the Yale Club on September 23 for a morning connecting investors, founders, corporate innovators, and water infrastructure leaders during Climate Week NYC. Climate Week NYC returns to New York from September 20 to 27, convening governments, businesses, and civil society around the defining climate questions of the […]
Join the Imagine H2O Team and over 30 of our Portfolio companies at WEFTEC in New Orleans from September 27 – 30. Every year, more than 20,000 water professionals convene at WEFTEC to explore new ideas, partnerships, and innovations. Imagine H2O is part of that convergence: in partnership with the Water Environment Federation and BlueTech […]
A single drop of water in a lab inspired AquaPoro. Four years later, the startup is generating water at an industrial scale. At our 2026 Accelerator Demo Day, AquaPoro took home the Audience Choice Award, voted on by the investors, corporates, and utilities in attendance. We sat down with co-founder Kyle Cordova to learn more […]
July 9, 2026
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