Team Backgrounds (12)

AquaAction's Community of Inspiring Innovators & Entrepreneurs

 

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WATER QUALITY AND POLLUTION

Focuses on identifying and mitigating various contaminants in water sources to ensure safe and clean water. 

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Description: AbbaTek's web platform revolutionizes microplastics analysis, making it simpler, standardized, and accessible for all.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Ivo Arrey, Abdul-Latif Alhassan, Jackie-Ray Bauman
AquaHacking: 2020 Atlantic Canada
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Healthcare & Social Services Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals
Description: Agriculture du Coin is transforming urban farming with aquaponics to sustainably produce Arctic char and vegetables.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Daniel Feinglos
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Management
Agriculture Food & Beverages
Description: Amphoral Solutions has developed an algal filtration technology to address lead contamination in drinking water, utilizing powdered algal extract and pH regulation to reduce lead concentration.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Merrick Marshall, Alejandro Poirier Corcuera
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Healthcare & Social Services
Description: Aquabots provides real-time, geo-tagged data to monitor water quality in urban streams.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Chayma Chaabani, Ridha Guebsi, Sonia Mami, (Karem Chokmani)
AquaHacking: 2023 Québec
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Fishing
AquaWatch Solutions
Description: AquaWatch offers a platform that uses satellite images to analyze water quality and provide real-time alerts for better management.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Dafrosa Kataraihya, Folarin Madandola
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Healthcare & Social Services
Description: Association Vergers d’Afrique recycles agricultural plastics for a circular economy, optimizing water use by 60% with drip irrigation kits.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Chantal Bernatchez
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Availability
Agriculture
Description: Baleena has created microfiber-trapping filters for washing machines to reduce microplastic pollution from synthetic clothing.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Julia Yan, Sarah Beth Gleeson
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Contaminants
Apparel Construction & Infrastructure Education Healthcare & Social Services Manufacturing
Description: Bello Water combines purification, mineralization, and flavor infusion into a single advanced system for pure water.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Clément Bouland, Marc Schaal
AquaHacking: 2019 Great Lakes
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Food & Beverages
Description: Bio Alert Solutions offers an advanced system for continuous, automated detection of hazardous pathogens, focusing on legionella, to ensure safety and risk mitigation.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Étienne Lemieux
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Entertainment Healthcare & Social Services Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Construction & Infrastructure
Description: Biocene cleans up water bodies by removing algae blooms with Algo, promoting circular economy through sustainable water management and converting biomass into valuable products.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Kimia Shafighi, Hasan Sagheer, Justin de Vries
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Management
Energy Agriculture Mining and Extraction
Description: Bloom Climate designs intelligent equipment to help growers optimize climate management, reduce energy costs by 15%, and improve crop yields with innovative, eco-friendly technology.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Audrey Boisvert
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Climate Resilience
Agriculture
Description: Blue Lion Labs uses AI/ML to precisely identify and characterize sea lice in aquaculture, redefining sustainable industry practices.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Katie Thomas, (Jason Deglint)
AquaHacking: 2017 Lake Erie
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Agriculture
Description: Brewsonic revolutionizes beer crafting by enhancing flavor extraction while conserving resources like hops and water for sustainable brewing.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Hugo Pizon
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Availability
Food & Beverages
Description: CANN Forecast is empowering water management: They are leading the way with AI-driven decision-making platforms that outshine the competition. Their InfoBaignade predicts recreational water contamination, while InfoBris fortifies cities by identifying vulnerable municipal pipes.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Naysan Saran, Nicolas St-Gelais
AquaHacking: 2016 Saint Lawrence River
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prediction
Water Management
Mining and Extraction Food & Beverages Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
Description: Ceresco Nutrition develops informed quartz silica to improve wastewater treatment, reducing ammonia levels and enhancing nitrification efficiency.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Enza Verrelli, Thierry Gripon
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Mobility Mining and Extraction Agriculture Manufacturing
Description: Chembrains pioneers effluent recycling and contaminant recovery using advanced electrochemical, photocatalytic, filtration, and oxidation processes for closed-loop water treatment.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Aziz Gherrou
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Restoration
Water Contaminants
Mobility Mining and Extraction Food & Beverages Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Manufacturing
Description: Circulus Agtech transforms agriculture by turning waste, including animal manure and municipal wastewater, into eco-friendly fertilizers while eliminating pathogens.
TRL: 7+
Founders: David Leroux
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Restoration
Water Management
Agriculture Food & Beverages
Clean Catch Baits
Description: Clean Catch Baits' has crafted an eco-conscious, heat-resistant fishing lure made from organic materials to combat microplastic pollution.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Guillermo Villareal
AquaHacking: 2020 Atlantic Canada
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Climate Resilience Water Contaminants
Fishing Entertainment Healthcare & Social Services
Description: Clean Nature's GuIA is an AI platform that optimizes winter road salt distribution to improve safety and reduce salt pollution.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Patricia Gomez, Claudie Ratté
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 1
AquaHacking: 2019 Great Lakes
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Contaminants
Mobility Manufacturing
Description: Drinkable Water Solutions is transforming water well diagnosis with an affordable, portable device that detects pollutants and provides cloud-based analysis.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Matthew Mizzi
AquaHacking: 2020 Atlantic Canada
Water Source: Ground Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Apparel Food & Beverages Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Healthcare & Social Services
Description: Drone Des Champs provides innovative solutions for municipalities to safely measure sludge volume in aerated basins with less than 5% margin of error.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Nicolas Deschamps, Gil Weis
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Mobility Mining and Extraction Agriculture Construction & Infrastructure
Description: EcoFilter Tek’s technology enhances membrane performance by coating them with a revolutionary polymer layer, reducing the need for chemical treatments.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Farhad Farnia
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Mining and Extraction Food & Beverages Healthcare & Social Services Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Manufacturing
Description: Ecotime’s Oasis is an all-in-one rainwater harvesting system that reduces drinking water consumption and saves on utility costs while improving convenience.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Eddy Dureuil, Timothé Roy-Bouchard
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
AquaHacking: 2021 Thousand Islands River
Water Source: Rain Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Availability
Entertainment Mining and Extraction Construction & Infrastructure
Description: elerGreen uses a unique electrochemical reactor to economically and environmentally recover valuable metals, polymers, and feedstocks from various wastes, including lead contaminants.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Hui Hang Hoe
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Energy Mining and Extraction Manufacturing
Description: EMAGIN offers an operational intelligence platform that helps water and wastewater facilities make real-time decisions, reducing costs, enhancing reliability, and preparing for emergencies.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Thouheed Abdul Gaffoor, Mohamad Vedut
AquaHacking: 2017 Lake Erie
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Management
Water Management
Manufacturing
Description: EMO3 pioneers scalable ozone systems for water treatment and air remediation, setting a new eco-friendly standard.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Dave Gilbert
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 1
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Agriculture Food & Beverages Construction & Infrastructure
Enviro Scientys
Description: Enviro Scientys introduces "SWEEP," an AI probe that monitors snow cover in real-time and forecasts water availability from snowmelt.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Anas El Alem, Jimmy Poulin, Haythem Zidi
AquaHacking: 2023 Québec
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Availability
Forestry
Description: Equator Studios offers affordable open-data mapping software that enables environmental professionals, students, and agencies to leverage data for a sustainable future.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Rebecca Swabey
AquaHacking: 2018 Lake Ontario
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Climate Resilience
Forestry Fishing
Description: Evolv Biotech is a cutting-edge cleantech company dedicated to solving some of the most pressing environmental challenges in industrial waste management. Specializing in nanotechnology-driven water purification solutions, Evolv Biotech develops innovative, scalable technologies that help industries meet sustainability goals while improving social license to operate. One of its flagship innovations, AquaPotential, is a breakthrough nanotechnology solution designed to clean tailings ponds in resource extraction industries, such as fossil fuel and mineral mining.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Nick Cheng, Starla Richardson
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Mining and Extraction Agriculture
Description: Flirt Drinks transforms everyday moments with sparkling, flavorful drinks made from recycled fruit, reducing waste and supporting sustainability.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Alexy Lavigne-McPhee, Xavier Cardinal
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Availability
Entertainment Mobility Food & Beverages
Description: Geosapiens' E-nundation is an AI platform that predicts floods and assesses their impact on communities, buildings, and infrastructure to safeguard the future.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Hachem Agili
AquaHacking: 2018 Lake Ontario
Water Source: Rain Water
Water Category: Prediction
Water Climate Resilience
Construction & Infrastructure Education Forestry
Description: Hoola One Technologies specializes in soil decontamination from plastics and microplastics, using technologies like HO Wrack, HO Backpack, and HO Micro for remediation and recycling.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Jean-David Lantagne, Jean-Félix Tremblay
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 1
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Restoration
Water Contaminants
Education Healthcare & Social Services Mining and Extraction Mobility
Description: Independent Robotics is developing an autonomous underwater vehicle for monitoring infrastructures and natural environments, with the ability to host additional sensors like sonar and water quality monitors.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Gregory Dudek, Nicholas Dudek
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Mobility Fishing Forestry
Description: InfinityQ Technology Inc. develops quantum-inspired computing solutions to solve complex problems across sectors like logistics, transportation, life sciences, energy, and pulp and paper.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Aurélie Hélouis, Dr. Saavan Patel
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prediction
Water Management
Mobility Entertainment Mining and Extraction Energy Agriculture Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Manufacturing
Description: JFSA specializes in hydrology, hydraulic modeling, stormwater management, water quality analysis, and the development of related software and research in water engineering.
TRL: 7+
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Rain Water
Water Category: Prediction
Water Management
Mining and Extraction Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
Description: Kamino's "STEM-The-Tide" is an innovative, cost-effective solution that integrates green infrastructure with stormwater projects, using real-time IoT data to optimize Low Impact Development performance.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Jonathan Brown, Michael Kerr, Kathleen Soodhoo, David Wager
AquaHacking: 2023 Atlantic Canada
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Prediction
Water Management
Mining and Extraction Construction & Infrastructure
Description: Larin Design offers waterless dry toilets with a solar-powered ventilation system that separates solids and liquids, providing an eco-friendly solution for municipal public toilets.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Dominic Larin
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Management
Entertainment Mining and Extraction Construction & Infrastructure
Maxinano
Description: Maxinano's electro-sorption technology captures charged plastic particles in water, filling gaps in traditional filtration systems and addressing microplastic pollution in household and portable devices.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Zhikun Chen, Qi Feng, Xuelin Tian, Zheng Wang
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Contaminants
Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals Healthcare & Social Services
Description: Motmot uses Autonomous Underwater Robotics to detect lead services and measure residual chlorine levels in watermain pipes, solving drinking water lead issues.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Elliot Smith
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Healthcare & Social Services Construction & Infrastructure Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals
Description: MycoNaut uses regenerative agriculture, fungi, and AI/ML to create cost-effective bioremediation solutions, starting with PFAS-contaminated soils and expanding to other ecosystems.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Ryan Lacovacci
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: Ground Water
Water Category: Restoration
Water Contaminants
Healthcare & Social Services Forestry
Description: Nauti Metrics modernizes aquatic environmental analysis by using floating drones to measure water quality in real-time, reducing ecological impact and logistical costs.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Jean-Christophe Champin
AquaHacking: 2023 Québec
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Fishing Forestry Manufacturing
Description: O’land Solutions provides portable drinking water refill and hand-washing stations for large public spaces to reduce single-use plastic pollution.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Rachel Labbe-Bellas
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Management
Entertainment Food & Beverages
Description: Join Oceanic Impact marketplace to support sustainability by giving new life to end-of-life and ghost fishing gear, helping protect the ocean one piece at a time.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Lisaa Chen
AquaHacking: 2023 Atlantic Canada
Water Source: Salt Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Education Fishing
Description: A web-based platform for water managers to share real-time information on septic systems in isolated autonomous residences.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Isabelle Mongeon, Pierre Mongeon
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Education
Description: OhasisTech designs and provides accessible pre-vegetated green roofs that capture, store, and treat rainwater, helping manage water flow and promote sustainability in municipal and industrial environments.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Martin Marion, Alex-Antoine Marion
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Rain Water
Water Category: Restoration
Water Management
Entertainment Construction & Infrastructure Food & Beverages
Description: Ora Graphene Audio produces graphene oxide membranes with nanoscale pores that effectively filter contaminants, making them ideal for water purification and other separation applications.
TRL: 7+
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Mining and Extraction Energy Manufacturing
Description: Ozero Solutions decontaminates ballast water in sport boats to stop the spread of zebra and quagga mussels in freshwater ecosystems.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Matys Tessier, Olivier Liberge, Maxime Guay
AquaHacking: 2020 Lake Winnipeg
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Fishing Entertainment
Description: Pergamon Perceptive Technologies has refined an IoT platform that collects and instantly transmits real-time water data to the end user.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Mohand Amroun
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Mining and Extraction Energy Healthcare & Social Services Manufacturing
Description: Permalution develops innovative fog and cloud-based technologies for water harvesting and climate adaptation, aiming to address global water scarcity and climate change challenges.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Tatiana Estevez
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Atmospheric Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Availability
Mining and Extraction Agriculture Forestry
Description: Phaneuf International's snow melter solution improves energy efficiency, sustainable water management, and ice quality, offering a comprehensive, eco-friendly option for arenas and municipalities.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Alain Phaneuf
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Management
Entertainment
Description: Planteva Farms revolutionizes vertical seedling farming by reducing water wastage by up to 95% compared to traditional greenhouses.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Robert Hecht
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Management
Agriculture
Description: Prevu 3D specializes in creating digital replicas of real-world environments, including water treatment plants, factories, warehouses, and their associated assets.
TRL: 7+
Founders: François-Olivier Lavery
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Prediction
Water Management
Mobility Mining and Extraction Food & Beverages Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
Description: RegenEAU's innovative solutions revolutionize domestic hot water production by harnessing energy from wastewater to create a highly efficient, eco-friendly system.
TRL: 7+
Founders: David Pineault
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Management
Entertainment Mining and Extraction Energy Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
Description: Waterpearls is a revolutionary, nature-inspired technology that reduces water evaporation effortlessly, enabling sustainable water management without constant monitoring.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Thomas Gradek
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Management
Agriculture
SeaCycle
Description: Seacycle is a 'shop vac for the ocean': a water filtration system designed to remove plastic waste by use of a gravity filter, while also generating automated water quality reports.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Aneesa Hussain, Jack Poirier
AquaHacking: 2023 Atlantic Canada
Water Source: Salt Water
Water Category: Restoration
Water Contaminants
Fishing
Description: Sentiom has developed an advanced ecosystem combining smart hardware, sophisticated software, and AI to enable precision monitoring of water flow, leaks, temperature, humidity, light, air quality, and more.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Mathieu Lachaine
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Entertainment Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
Description: Smart Green uses Industry 4.0 technologies to help farmers optimize water, fertilizer, and energy use, improving resource conservation, productivity, and food security.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Mohammad Zeinati
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Management
Agriculture
Description: Smartrek uses the Internet of Things to monitor and analyze various water parameters, such as flow, leaks, pressure, temperature, and chemical composition.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Martin Carrier
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 1
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Entertainment Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
Description: Splitom captures and recycles server heat to reduce digital energy consumption and provide a cost-effective building water heating solution.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Gaëtan Hugot
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Management
Entertainment Construction & Infrastructure
Description: Structures SBB designs and manufactures modular, lightweight aluminum flood protection systems to mitigate risks from heavy rainfall, snowmelt, and hazardous waste spills.
TRL: 7+
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Climate Resilience
Mobility Mining and Extraction Construction & Infrastructure
Description: EXO Tactik's main mission is to assist municipalities and government departments in their decision-making and management of their territories by offering them a turnkey service for capturing, processing and disseminating high-precision data captured by drone in order to better manage the routine and exceptional situations to which they must respond. Since 2021, EXO Tactik has stood out for its drone-based stream inspection and aerated pond bathymetry services. Several departments in these municipalities use this precision data captured by EXO Tactik's drones in their day-to-day land management activities.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Stéphane Bouvier, Carole Riopel
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Mobility Mining and Extraction Agriculture Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
Description: Techno Protection advances corrosion defense with a cutting-edge cathodic system that protects cast iron aqueducts and PVC accessories from corrosion.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Léandre Veilleux
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Reduction
Water Management
Mining and Extraction Energy Construction & Infrastructure
Description: Technologies Ecofixe specializes in modular solutions for biological wastewater treatment, improving the efficiency and eco-friendliness of existing plants by removing organic loads and ammonia nitrogen.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Marisol Labrecque
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Mining and Extraction Manufacturing
TechStar Digital Labs
Description: TechStar Digital Labs' GREENHUT is an eco-friendly, customizable DIY roofing solution that prevents stormwater runoff by using locally sourced vegetation and green cement layering.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Kapil Sahni, Shubhra Singh
AquaHacking: 2023 Atlantic Canada
Water Source: Rain Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Management
Agriculture Construction & Infrastructure
Description: Texcana specializes in setting up pellet plants in Quebec and Eastern Canada, using forest biomass and waste, offering turnkey services for design, development, and production.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Félix Grenier, Steve Duchesne
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Climate Resilience
Energy
Description: Typha Co. offers sustainable, affordable eco-packaging made from cattail fibers, reducing costs and helping mitigate lake eutrophication.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Alec Massé
AquaHacking: 2020 Lake Winnipeg
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Contaminants
Food & Beverages Apparel Healthcare & Social Services
Description: Ultra Bio Logics develops innovative, natural wastewater treatment solutions that optimize basin capacity and ensure clean water discharge for industrial, agricultural, mining, and emergency applications.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Michel Lemieux
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 3
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Recycling & Reuse
Water Contaminants
Mining and Extraction Food & Beverages Manufacturing
Description: Water Rangers offers a portable water testing kit that easily collects and shares water quality data on an interactive online platform, now managed by WWF's Watershed Reports.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Kat Kavanagh
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
AquaHacking: 2016 Saint Lawrence River
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Contaminants
Education Fishing Healthcare & Social Services
Description: WaterPuris designs innovative products and services that use gas-exchange technologies and advanced treatments to neutralize endocrine-disrupting chemicals before they reach water bodies.
TRL: 1-3
Founders: Robert Liang, Norman Zhou
AquaHacking: 2017 Lake Erie
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Prevention
Water Contaminants
Healthcare & Social Services Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals
Description: Watershed Monitoring's cloud-based sophisticated platform is the ultimate solution for storing, organizing, contextualizing, analyzing, publishing, and sharing an extensive array of water-related data.
TRL: 7+
Founders: Sonja Behmel
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 1
Water Source: Surface Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Education Fishing Healthcare & Social Services
Description: Wave Lumina has developed a portable Raman device to swiftly detect ultra-low levels of PFAS and other contaminants in environmental samples, revolutionizing on-site environmental assessments.
TRL: 4-6
Founders: Vernon Lalone, Josh Francis, Nate Peck
AquaHacking: 2024 Great Lakes
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Restoration
Water Contaminants
Education Forestry Healthcare & Social Services
Description: X TELIA is a Quebec-based company specializing in Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, specifically those based on LoRa® technology and its LoRaWAN® communication protocol. They provide technologies to optimize the efficiency of city resources, services...
TRL: 7+
Founders: Éric Bourbeau
AquaEntrepreneur: Cohort 2
Water Source: City Water
Water Category: Monitoring
Water Management
Entertainment Mobility Mining and Extraction Food & Beverages Construction & Infrastructure Manufacturing
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Contaminants Removal
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Groundwater Pollution
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Industrial Wastewater
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Micro & Macro Plastic Pollution
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Pathogens in Water
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Prevention of Water Pollution
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Stormwater Decontamination
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Flood Monitoring
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Wastewater Treatment
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Lead Contamination
Eliminating forever chemicals (PFAS)

OPTIMIZING WATER USE

Addresses the sustainable management of water resources, promoting reuse, and optimizing water use efficiency in various applications to address water scarcity. 

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Freshwater Availability
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Greywater Re-use
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Waste Efficiency
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Water Efficiency
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Watering Solutions for Vertical Farming
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Water Reclamation

INFRASTRUCTURE & WATER MANAGEMENT

Covers the maintenance and improvement of water distribution networks to enhance water quality and system efficiency. 

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Infrastructure - Conditions of Distribution Network
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Infrastructure Maintenance
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Stormwater Management Green Infrastructure
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Water Management: Quality & Infrastructure
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Water Analysis

CLIMATE & CITY RESILIENCE

Examines strategies to adapt to changing environmental conditions and strengthen city resilience to climate-related disasters. 

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City Resilience and Adaptive Capacity to Climate-related Disasters
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Ice Body Inventory
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Waterbody Inventory

MONITORING & ECOLOGICAL CONCERNS

Concentrates on protecting aquatic ecosystems from various threats while ensuring accurate monitoring of these environments. 

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Algae and Sea Lice Contamination/ Aquatic Systems Monitoring
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Availability, Invasive Species, Sediments, Quantification
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Eutrophication
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Excess of Algae and Phosphates in Water Reservoirs
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Invasive Species
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Nutrient Cycling
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Active companies in portfolio

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BI-NATIONAL

United States and Canada

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Female ​co-founders

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Investments received

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New jobs in the blue economy

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Annual revenue

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