The Water Council, the global water industry research and technology hub based in Milwaukee, recently unveiled the 12 water-centric companies from across the world picked for its advanced Business, Research and Entrepreneurship in Water accelerator program, BREW 2.0.
BREW 2.0 builds on the format and success of the council's former BREW accelerator program. That program was operated out of the 98,000-square-foot Global Water Center at 247 W. Freshwater Way in Milwaukee, the headquarters of The Water Council. BREW 2.0 is a twice-a-year, two-week virtual program that includes sales and growth programs and access to customer connections. The program, and a pitch event, is sponsored by the American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, a venture capital investment arm of American Family Insurance.
The accelerator begins in early February, with a virtual demo day planned for Feb. 23.
Here are the companies:
- Aqua Membranes (Albuquerque, New Mexico): offers spiral-wound water membrane solutions;
- BloomOptix (Utica, New York): offers unmanned aerial vehicles for high-resolution harmful algal bloom monitoring;
- Capta Hydro (Santiago, Chile): offers integrated hardware and software IoT solutions for water distribution management;
- Copperstone Technologies (Alberta, Canada): offers autonomous environmental monitoring robots for sampling, measurement and surveillance services;
- CORNCOB Inc. (Waukesha): offers industrial wastewater filtration technology;
- Divirod (Boulder, Colorado): offers satellite water infrastructure and analytics technology;
- ecoSPEARS (Altamonte Springs, Florida): offers an eco-friendly solution that destroys organic pollutants;
- Glanris (Memphis, Tennessee): offers 100% green, ultra-low-cost water filtration media;
- Sentry (Charlottetown, Canada): provides a bio-electrode sensor technology that provides real-time microbial performance monitoring for water or wastewater treatment;
- Swirltex (Alberta, Canada): offers buoyancy-based membrane filtration systems;
- Varuna (Chicago): provides sensors and cloud-based software for real-time monitoring and insights for water distribution networks;
- Water Warriors (Lexington, Kentucky): offers a water treatment solution for phosphorus runoff.
“Through the interview process, we couldn’t be more pleased with not only the high interest in the program but also the opportunity to meet so many well-qualified entrepreneurs ready to amplify their success,” said Karen Frost, vice president of economic development at The Water Council, in a statement.
