Companies in the Water Council’s latest BREW 2.0 accelerator cohort hail from eight different countries, bringing global technology innovations to Milwaukee.
The water tech organization yesterday rolled out details for the 11 companies selected to participate in the Business, Research and Entrepreneurship in Water Accelerator 2.0 program, which starts in April with a three-day in-person session in Milwaukee.
After that, participating businesses will get several weeks of training on sales, pitching to investors, company culture and other business elements. The program culminates in a public showcase in mid-June, when the cohort will again gather in Milwaukee for more programming, meetings and an event with investors.
Katie Kollhoff Mouat, director of innovation programs at The Water Council, says the program “refreshes the traditional accelerator model, helping our entrepreneurs bridge the gap between breakthrough water tech with proof of market viability and the global community of end-users.”
Participants in the latest cohort include:
*Aquantix, a Colorado business with a cloud-based platform for monitoring water filters, including remote tracking of filter quality and forecasting replacement requirements.
*Bakal, a company out of Mexico that aims to transform “high-moisture biomass” into agricultural inputs and livestock feed. Its patented technology promises “high-value circular solutions” for recovering water from biomass for these purposes.
*Brightwater Tools, a Vermont company with technologies for filtering valuable materials from liquid waste streams and using them for concentrated fertilizer products.
*Evodrop, a Swedish firm with “advanced” water treatment systems that can filter for PFAS and other chemicals.
*Fluid Analytics, based in California. The company’s AquaGrid urban water systems platform uses AI-based infrastructure inspection along with sensors and environmental data to support utilities’ decisionmaking.
*Infractiv, another California business that’s developing predictive pipe modeling to help limit water loss in water systems and inform asset planning.
*Klarifi of Denmark, which provides wastewater industry insights with a platform that can search thousands of municipal budget documents.
*Our Rainwater, a UK business with a rainwater infrastructure data platform for both cities and water utility companies, aimed at reducing flooding and drought risk.
*Purgatoria, a Netherlands company with a patented sieve product for taking microplastics out of sewage.
*Waterjade, an Italian firm with a “digital twin” tool that can model and forecast water supply at springs, wells and reservoirs.
*Xatoms, based in Canada. The company has a proprietary AI model for discovering and deploying water purification materials.
