Winner of the MIT $100k and MassChallenge Diamond Award and included in Forbes’ 30 under 30 for Energy, Maher Damak is starting to make noise from his & his team’s base in Cambridge, MA. We sat down with the Co-Founder and CEO of Infinite Cooling to talk about how his research in underlying water-recovery technology […]
CATEGORY: Startup Stories
Alex Rappaport is the co-founder of ZwitterCo, a Cambridge-based startup using cutting-edge zwitterionic polymer chemistry to design wastewater-treatment membrane solutions. From winning the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Water Catalyst Grant to being a top finalist at the MIT Innovation Challenge all before the age of 25, Rappaport and his team have achieved a lot in […]
Sivan Cohen is CEO of Noria Water Technologies, an LA-based startup that optimizes membrane-based water treatment. Sivan is the first founder to experience Imagine H2O twice — first as the US GM of Ayyeka, and now with Noria. Thankfully, she found we’ve moved on a bit since 2016. She sat down with us to talk desalination, membrane […]
In 2018, venture capitalists invested more dollars in female founders than ever before — $2.88 billion 2018 vs. $1.9 billion 2017. Yet the percentage of total VC funding going to women is still low. Only 2.2% of venture capital funding went to female founders in 2018 and just 8% of partners at top venture capital firms are […]
From Apple to H2O: One entrepreneur’s quest to digitize water in India’s second-tier cities
Artificial Intelligence is slowly transforming nearly every industry, and water is no different. Having worked in water for the better part of two decades, and having founded the company Water Planet, Subir Bhattacharjee had the experience to begin bringing Artificial Intelligence to water plants. The premise of IntelliFlux was simple: we have automated features that […]
The wastewater space has long been one in which it is difficult to innovate. With large systems and long timelines, the industry has understandably been risk averse. That Island Water Technologies has had its amount of success despite innovating in such a space is a testament to its CEO and founder, Patrick Kiely. An innovator […]
Some of the most impactful companies in water bring technology from outside the sector and apply it to water’s unique challenges. Nowhere is this truer than in the case of Utilis (IH2O 2017). Taking tech developed for interplanetary exploration, the company has grown quickly to being one of the most important providers of leak detection […]
Sustainable water solutions at the Volvo Ocean Race By Meegan Jones Sustainability Program Manager of the 2017–18 Volvo Ocean Race Introduction: The Volvo Ocean Race is committed to a sustainably produced, ethical and responsible event. The first focus of the event organizers was to review the impact of their own operations. This included the year-round Race […]
Hailing from the far north that is Canada, H2nanO is using nanotechnology to help treat wastewater in a novel way. By using Like most of our founders, Zac has a passion Zac’ engineering background is a large driver for a lot of theis able to bring both an engineering and Tell us a little about […]