Cleantech

(Hydro)leaping to cleaner waters with $4.4M

July 19, 2023
Image from Hydroleap

Get that fresh and clean water with Hydroleap! This Singaporean startup uses electricity to treat industrial wastewater and seawater.

  • Aside from expansion, they’ll also explore treating wastewater from palm oil mills.  
  • They say their tech can remove 95% of pollutants in wastewater. 

Investor check. Hydroleap just raised a $4.4M seed led by Japan’s Real Tech Holdings. 

  • Mitsubishi Electric, Wavemaker Partners, New Keynes Investments, the State Government of Victoria in Australia,.and Seeds Capital also joined in! 

🌊 We're thirsty

By 2025, two thirds (yes, two thirds!) of the world’s population could face water shortages. Goodbye, daily showers. Hello, water rations a la Mad Max Fury Road. 

Solutions? Treating wastewater (and even seawater) to meet industrial and consumption standards, which Hydroleap does, is a way to avoid this.  

  • The process. Hydroleap uses electricity to break down both organics and inorganics in water (electrooxidation) or remove oils, solids, and metals in water (electrocoagulation).

🚿 It’s circular

It’s not just about drinking water or the water you need to wash your dishes.

Tons of industries, from F&B and construction to fashion, rely on water in their manufacturing processes too!

But their wastewater contains harmful pollutants, which could end up in our seas and rivers. 

  • Hydroleap treats industrial wastewater so companies can reuse them.
  • They’re already serving corporations like Nissin, JG Summit Holdings, and Universal Robina.  

Using the SEA. Oh, and they're also bringing innovation to desalination (aka, the process of removing salt and minerals from seawater).

  • Extra Scoop: They partnered with the National University of Singapore to develop a low-cost treatment tech to treat seawater, making water supply more accessible! 

🏊 Jump in

They’ll enter Australia, Japan, and Indonesia in the next two years. Oh, and they’ll double down on their R&D too.

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