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Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Austin, United States
The 36 best Waste & Water Management companies in Austin, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: TechTurn.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
36companies tracked
$162.9Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
13have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · WASTE & WATER MANAGEMENT × AUSTIN
Our analysis of 50 Waste & Water Management companies
$2.9b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
89%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
2016median founding year
49median Fliar Index™
Ranked: Best Waste & Water Management companies in Austin
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TechTurn Provider of modules | $50M | 241 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1999 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Pecan Street Provider of solar educational, training, and water management services 29Funding top 46%Tech top 48%Market bottom 36%Global bottom 25% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 46% Techtop 48% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 25% Funding: Raised $43.1M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 16 yrs (0.2/yr) Tech: 26 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $43M | 15 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2010 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+22 | — | — |
| 3 | Omni Water Solutions Provider of water treatment services | $26M | 140 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 4 | ZEEP Provider of organic waste management services | $22M | 101 mo ago | Series B | Barry Williamson Co-Founder | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 5 | Aquasana Provider of home water filtration systems | $11M | 137 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1998 | Amazon WebstoreCart FunctionalitySalesforce Commerce Cloud+39 | 41 patents Point-of-use water filtration systems and pitcher filters using specialized media | 1 launch |
| 6 | KMX Technologies Provider of water treatment services 55Growth top 12%Funding top 36%Fin. health top 49%Tech bottom 48% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 12% Fundingtop 36% Fin. healthtop 49% Techbottom 48% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 24% Newsbottom 21% Growth: Revenue +2820% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $7.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 4 yrs (1.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $7M | 11 mo ago | Series A | — | 2020 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — | 1 expansion |
| 7 | Buckeye Brine Provider of waste management services for oil fields and waste water | $1M | 155 mo ago | Series A | Steven Mobley CEO & President | 2011 | — | 11 patents Brine waste treatment and solid-liquid separation technologies | — |
| 8 | Water Provider of water management services | $1M | 26 mo ago | Seed | Jordan Kramer Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer | 2019 | WordPressMySQLMariaDB+28 | 101 patents Advanced ion removal technologies for water purification and treatment | — |
| 9 | Antelope Water Management Provider of integrated water management services | $500K | 79 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 10 | EQO Provider of water management services | $325K | 46 mo ago | Seed | John Higley Founder | 2018 | — | 3 patents Remote environmental DNA sampling and analysis of water bodies | — |
| 11 | Value Waste Services Provider of waste collection & disposal services | $265K | 103 mo ago | Acquired | John Claybrook Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Waste & Water Management companies in Austin
#1
Funding Raised · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 44 employees$43.1Mraised▾
Funding Raised · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 44 employees
Provider of solar educational, training, and water management services
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 29how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 46%Tech
top 48%Market
bottom 36%Global
bottom 25%Funding: Raised $43.1M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 16 yrs (0.2/yr) · Last round Grant (prize money) (May 2025)
Tech: 26 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Devops: Nginx
Market: 44 employees · Top-10,000,000 web property
Audience (LinkedIn): 1k LinkedIn followers — 2.8% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$8M
- Feb 2011Grant (prize money)$24.7M
- Feb 2010Grant (prize money)$10.4M
Investors
OSTI
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpZurb FoundationGravity FormsNginx
#2
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 18 employees$7Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 18 employees
Provider of water treatment services
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 12%Funding
top 36%Fin. health
top 49%Tech
bottom 48%Global
bottom 37%Market
bottom 24%Growth: Revenue +2820% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Funding: Raised $7.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 4 yrs (1.2/yr) · Last round Series A (Oct 2025)
Fin. health: Revenue ~$438k · Revenue +2820% YoY
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers — 4.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships · 2 expansions (incl. Project Vault) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Oct 2025Series A$3M
- Aug 2024Series A$6.9M
- Nov 2023Seed$250K
- Sep 2023Seed$350K
Investors
TETRA Technologies, PureTerra Ventures, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, Valour Capital
#3
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2019 · 16 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2019 · 16 employees
Provider of water management services
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 4.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- Jul 2024Conventional Debt$10M
- Mar 2023Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
#4
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2008 · 16 employees$22.2Mraised▾
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2008 · 16 employees
Developer of diversified oil and chemicals projects intended to serve the energy sector. The company is engaged in the development of projects that upgrade low-value feedstocks into premium fuels and chemicals and develop methanol projects using mature conversion technology that is performance-guaranteed, enabling clients to get clean, cost-effective and scaleable natural gas and gas-liquid.
Funding rounds
- Apr 2018Series B$3M
- Oct 2014Series A$1.1M
- Nov 2013Series A$32.7K
- Oct 2013Series A$1.2M
Founders & team
Investors
Aventura VC, Visionary Private Equity Group, Woodgen
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpWpbakeryWpmu Dev SmushElementor
#5
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 1999 · 100 employees$50Mraised▾
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 1999 · 100 employees
Provider of modules
Funding rounds
- Aug 2006Series A$50M
Investors
L Catterton
#6
Deadpooled · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 25 employees$25.5Mraised▾
Deadpooled · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 25 employees
Provider of water treatment services
Funding rounds
- Dec 2014Series A$4.7M
- Aug 2014Series A$1.8M
- Feb 2014Series A$3.4M
- Apr 2013Series A$4M
Investors
Austin Ventures
#7
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 1998 · 64 employees$11.4Mraised▾
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 1998 · 64 employees
Provider of home water filtration systems
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 5.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2015Conventional Debt$11.4M
- 2009Series A—
Investors
L Catterton, Praesidian Capital, Unilever Ventures, GMB Capital Partners, First Capital Partners
Tech stack
AccessibeAffirmAmazon AdvertisingAmazon PayAmazon WebstoreAppnexus
#8
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 5 employees$325Kraised▾
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2018 · 5 employees
Developer of biotherapeutic technology designed to prevent, detect, monitor and treat infestation by invasive species in watersheds. The company's technology brings unprecedented sensitivity and specificity to detect and quantify the presence of aquatic invasive species, enabling government agencies and NGOs with an automated means to continuously monitor for invasive species and interactively adjust treatment.
Funding rounds
- Nov 2022Seed—
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$225K
- Aug 2018Grant (prize money)$100K
Founders & team
Investors
Austin Technology Incubator, MassChallenge, America’s Seed Fund, Capital Factory, Tarmac TX, Mazarine Ventures
#9
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2011$1.5Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2011
Provider of waste management services for oil fields and waste water
Funding rounds
- Sep 2013Series A$1.4M
- Jul 2012Conventional Debt$399.8K
- Oct 2011Seed$100K
Founders & team
Investors
Republic Holdings
#10
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2019 · 4 employees$500Kraised▾
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2019 · 4 employees
Provider of integrated water management services
Funding rounds
- Jan 2020Seed$500K
#11
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 3 employees$265Kraised▾
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 3 employees
Provider of waste collection & disposal services
Funding rounds
- Jan 2018Seed$265K
Founders & team
#12
Funding Raised · Austin, Texas · founded 1983 · 5 employees—raised▾
Funding Raised · Austin, Texas · founded 1983 · 5 employees
Provider of water treatment technology. It provides technology solutions such as advanced low-tension electroporation processes for water treatment. It also provides solutions for designing, building, operating, and maintaining artificial beaches, urban lagoons, and large water bodies on the planet providing crystalline clear waters.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 7.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jul 2023Unattributed—
Investors
Draper
Funding & investor landscape
$162.9Mtotal disclosed funding
11companies funded
37disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Notable founders
Jordan Kramer
Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer · Water
Christopher Caudill
Co-Founder · Water
Barry Williamson
Co-Founder · ZEEP
Ronald Oligney
CEO · ZEEP
John Higley
Founder · EQO
Steven Mobley
CEO & President · Buckeye Brine
John Claybrook
Founder & CEO · Value Waste Services
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 4,932,742 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Waste & Water Management coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH FROM Austin · institutions
What Austin researches in water treatment
37 papersstance +0.4234% breakthrough25% concern
local research themes
Membrane Separation TechnologiesWater Treatment and DisinfectionHealthcare and Environmental Waste ManagementSolar-Powered Water Purification MethodsFecal contamination and water qualityCovalent Organic Framework Applications
top institutions
- The University of Texas at Austin34
- Austin Peay State University2
- Stephen F. Austin State University1
Common questions
How many Waste & Water Management companies are there in Austin, United States?
Radar tracks 36 indexable Waste & Water Management companies headquartered in Austin, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Waste & Water Management companies in Austin, United States?
The Waste & Water Management companies in Austin, United States on this list have raised a combined $162.9M in disclosed equity funding across 11 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Waste & Water Management company in Austin, United States?
TechTurn is the highest-funded Waste & Water Management company in Austin, United States, with $50M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Waste & Water Management companies in Austin, United States are funded?
11 of the 36 Waste & Water Management companies in Austin, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Waste & Water Management unicorns are there in Austin, United States?
None of the Waste & Water Management companies in Austin, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Austin, United States Waste & Water Management companies?
The most active investors in Austin, United States Waste & Water Management companies on this list include L Catterton, America’s Seed Fund, Antler, Austin Technology Incubator, Austin Ventures.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.