Antoine Walter 
with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation
Cambrian Innovation sells treated water and recovered energy by the gallon through its Water-Energy Purchase Agreement, financing the plant up front so industrial customers pay nothing to install and carry no project risk. The model is backed by $17.2M raised in 2019 led by Spring Lane Capital, and the 2020 Baswood acquisition that doubled Cambrian’s installed base.
Elemental Excelerator, now Elemental Impact, is a nonprofit climate-tech accelerator founded in 2012 that channels catalytic capital, drawn from 47 million dollars under management, into early-stage water and climate startups to push them toward commercial scale. Its water portfolio runs through companies like Capture6, Cambrian Innovation, and Verdi, all backed across funding rounds rather than for an equity return.
💧 Elemental is a non-profit Growth Accelerator supporting entrepreneurs who are building world-changing companies.
with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation
Cambrian Innovation raised $17.2 million in 2019 to scale EcoVolt, a bioelectric anaerobic reactor that turns brewery and food wastewater into reusable water and clean energy. The technology, born from a NASA grant for astronaut life support, treats high-strength industrial effluent that conventional plants struggle with.
with 🎙️ Haris Kadrispahic – Head of Innovation @ LiqTech International
💧 LiqTech is a technology company specialized in high-end membrane solutions
with 🎙️ Elango Thevar – Founder & CEO @ NEER.ai
NEER runs a predictive AI platform that scores every pipe in a water network by failure risk, so small United States utilities can aim each replacement dollar at the assets most likely to break. Founded in 2020, the company turns partial maps and sensor data into a ranked capital-planning model, cutting non-revenue water without a full sensor rollout.
with 🎙️ Orianna BRETSCHGER, Founder & CEO @ Aquacycl
Aquacycl runs microbial fuel cells that treat industrial wastewater carrying chemical oxygen demand (COD) loads of up to 300,000 mg/L, letting electrogenic bacteria digest the pollution and release electrons as direct electricity. The enclosed reactors skip aeration blowers entirely and strip out 70 to 90 percent of the COD at a fraction of conventional energy cost.
with 🎙️ Fajer Mushtaq – Co-Founder & CEO @ Oxyle AG
Oxyle destroys forever chemicals like PFAS in water with a catalytic reactor that generates hydroxyl radicals on its surface, chemically breaking down micropollutants that activated carbon and ion exchange only trap and relocate. The Swiss company raised a 16.0 million dollar Series A in 2025 led by 360 Capital, taking its total funding to 19.0 million dollars.
Suez catalogs 49 audited water-treatment products for utilities confronting PFAS contamination, and the route it reaches for first is granular activated carbon, the adsorption media inside its Carbazur filters. Of that portfolio, 42 lines run on physical or biological processes, the workhorses municipalities deploy across North America and beyond.
💧 SUEZ in North America is the US’ second-largest environmental services firm.
with 🎙️ Ari RAIVETZ – CEO @ Transcend Software Inc.
Transcend Software raised US$33.0M across four venture rounds to automate the first 20 to 30 percent of engineering for any water or wastewater treatment plant, turning weeks of preliminary design into hours. Its 2023 US$20M Series B led by Autodesk funds global rollout of the cloud-based Transcend Design Generator.
with 🎙️ Paul VAN DE GRIFT – Business Developer @ Bluecon International
💧 Bluecon International is a company that developed a compact system for decentralized municipal wastewater treatment.
with 🎙️ Antoine WALTER – Podcaster in Chief @ GF Piping Systems
💧 GF Piping Systems is the global expert for the safe and reliable transportation of water, chemicals, and gas.
with 🎙️ Nick NICHOLAS – Technical Director @ Genesis Water
💧 Genesis Water Technologies is an award-winning leader in specialized drinking water & wastewater treatment and reuse solutions.
with 🎙️ Wim AUDENAERT – CEO and Co-Founder @ AM-TEAM
💧 AM-TEAM is a company offering leading-edge simulation services for process optimization and design.
with 🎙️ Sebastien MOURET – Europe and CIS Editor @ Global Water Intelligence
💧 Global Water Intelligence is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry.
with 🎙️ Sreenath BOLISETTY – CEO and Co-Founder @ BluAct Technologies
💧 BluAct Technologies is an award-winning spin-off company of ETH Zürich that ambitions to trigger a revolution in water purification.
with 🎙️ Walid KHOURY – Passionate Water Strategist & LinkedIn Influencer
💧 Walid Khoury is followed by over 23’000 water professionals on LinkedIn, where he runs daily water talks under his #WaterQuestion channel, both in written and video form.
with 🎙️ Imre TAKACS – CEO and founder @ Dynamita
💧 Dynamita is the company that markets SUMO, a wastewater process simulator with open model source code.
with 🎙️ Ravid LEVY – Founder and Consultant @ RLV-consulting services
💧 Ravid Levy is the founder of RLV consulting services and a former VP Technology for Fluence and CTO for RWL water.
with 🎙️ Christos CHARISIADIS – R&D Engineer @ Lenntech
Lenntech, a Dutch water-treatment specialist founded in 1999 with water revenue in the US$10M to US$50M band, engineers tertiary recovery for industry’s hardest, brine-heavy wastewater. Its R&D engineer Christos Charisiadis argues Minimum Liquid Discharge beats full Zero Liquid Discharge, recovering nearly as much water at a fraction of the operating cost.
with 🎙️ Ari GOLDFARB – CEO @ KANDO
Kando reads a city’s sewage in real time, turning wastewater into a population-health signal that flags pandemic outbreaks and pollution sources before they surface. The Israeli company has raised US$30 million across four disclosed rounds since 2018, including Series A and Series B backing, to scale a sensor network that makes wastewater-based epidemiology a live early-warning tool for cities.
with 🎙️ Stéphane GILBERT – CEO and co-founder @ AQUASSAY.
Aquassay raised US$1.5M in 2025, led by Banque des Territoires, to scale a data-driven platform that cuts the hidden operating costs of industrial water. Founded in France in 2015, the company plugs into factory meters and sensors to catch scaling, leaks, and spillage that managers rarely see.
with 🎙️ Katia WASIAK – CTO and General Manager @ SUEZ WTS
💧 Katia Wasiak is Chief Technical Officer of the Purification and Disinfection BU at SUEZ WTS, as well as General Manager of Degremont Technologies in Switzerland.
Veolia Water Technologies increases the hydraulic capacity of existing wastewater plants through cloud AI that optimizes biological treatment, deferring civil works and capital spend. The France-based subsidiary supports the digital layer with over 350 proprietary water-treatment technologies and offers the optimization module as a standalone, technology-agnostic service.
💧 Thomas Debruyne is Asia-Pacific Digital Manager for Veolia Water Technologies. He also holds a role of Food & Beverage Market Segment Manager, and is a former Operation Director Network Services, and General Manager Smart Water Services.
with 🎙️ Ravid LEVY – Founder @ RLV Consulting
💧 Ravid Levy is the founder of RLV consulting services and a former VP Technology for Fluence and CTO for RWL water.
with 🎙️ Laurent DE FRANCESCHI – Head of Applications @ SUEZ WTS
💧 SUEZ WTS is the industry-leading water technology and process expert to solve the toughest water, wastewater and process challenges.