Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Austria
The 38 best Waste & Water Management companies in Austria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Imhotep Industries.
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Our analysis of 100 Waste & Water Management companies
$3.6b in tracked funding; 67% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Waste & Water Management companies in Austria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Imhotep Industries Provider of drinking water services | $1M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Ing Dipl Ing Manfred Ledermüller Co-Founder & CTO | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Steinbeis Polyvert Startseite - Steinbeis Polyvert | $482K | 36 mo ago | Funding Raised | André Managing Director / CEO | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | — | — |
| 3 | Helioz Provider of water treatment, disinfection, and purification system | $457K | 67 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2008 | — | — | — |
| 4 | VWMs GmbH - Vienna Water Monitoring Solutions Provider of real-time microbial water quality monitoring systems | $239K | 72 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 5 | MATR Manufacturer of sustainable, high-quality memory foam mattresses. | — | 23 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVisa+19 | — | — |
| 6 | Hamburger Containerboard Provider of paper waste recycling services | — | 33 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1853 | TYPO3 CMSPHPOpenSSL+13 | — | 1 expansion |
| 7 | Montanwerke Brixlegg Provider of copper recycling and refining services | — | 33 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1940 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — | — |
| 8 | Fcc Group Provider of sustainable waste management services. This company offers municipal and citizen services… | — | 36 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | — | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailYouTube+10 | — | — |
Top 12 Waste & Water Management companies in Austria
#1
Funding Raised · Volkermarkt, Carinthia · founded 2021$482.2Kraised▾
Startseite - Steinbeis Polyvert
- Aug 2023Grant (prize money)$109.3K
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$372.9K
#2
Seed · Freistadt, Upper Austria · founded 2018 · 3 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Developer of cleantech platform intended to harvest drinking water from the air. The company's innovative design of the system and the integrated self-optimizing software and the harvested water has to pass through a series of filters, including activated carbon filters, UV sterilization, mineralization, bacterial filters, and many more, enabling clients to receive fresh and clean water and help solve the global water crisis.
- Feb 2022Seed$1.1M
#3
Deadpooled · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2008 · 16 employees$456.7Kraised▾
Provider of water treatment, disinfection, and purification system
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$139.7K
- Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$59.7K
- May 2017Grant (prize money)$54.5K
- Jun 2016Grant (prize money)$202.8K
#4
Funding Raised · Austria · founded 2016 · 6 employees$239.5Kraised▾
Provider of real-time microbial water quality monitoring systems. This company develops and manufactures systems for rapid and fully automated microbiological water analysis. The technology directly measures the metabolic activity of target organisms, providing specific measurement results for indicators of fecal contamination. Systems offer online data visualization, remote control, and automatic notifications. The technology is used across various water applications, including drinking water, bottled water, and wastewater. The systems are designed for ease of use and low maintenance.
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$239.5K
#5
Seed · Vienna, Vienna · founded 2022 · 5 employees—raised▾
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#6
Funding Raised · Pitten, Lower Austria · founded 1853 · 119 employees—raised▾
Provider of paper waste recycling services
#7
Funding Raised · Brixlegg, Tyrol · founded 1940 · 300 employees—raised▾
Provider of industrial mineral refining and recycling services based in Brixlegg, Austria. The company offers to upcycle and manufacture copper as well as silver silver products from high-grade scrap metal alloys.
#8
Funding Raised · Zistersdorf, Lower Austria · 132 employees—raised▾
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#9
Funding Raised · Feldkirchen Bei Graz, Styria · founded 1979 · 3600 employees—raised▾
Integrated waste management company
#10
Funding Raised · Wollersdorf, Niederosterreich · 35 employees—raised▾
#11
Funding Raised · Leonding, Upper Austria · founded 1954 · 130 employees—raised▾
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#12
Funding Raised · Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria · founded 1936 · 12 employees—raised▾
Provider of waste management and recycling services. It collects various types of waste, sorts, and prepares for reuse using advanced methods.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
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
How research on Water Treatment is moving in Austria
A read on the academic research around Water Treatment — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 80 Austria-affiliated papers.
- University of Vienna11
- TU Wien11
- Medical University of Vienna8
- Federal Ministry of Health6
- Johannes Kepler University of Linz5
- Activated carbon3
- Adsorption3
- Sorption3
- Membrane2
- Nanofiltration2
- Water quality1→4
- Water quality1→10
Where water treatment is researched across Austria
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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