Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Calgary, Canada
The 40 best Waste & Water Management companies in Calgary, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tervita.
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 Calgary
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tervita Provider of industrial waste and water management services 53Market top 29%Funding top 33%Moat bottom 42%Patents bottom 41% All 7 signals ▾Markettop 29% Fundingtop 33% Moatbottom 42% Patentsbottom 41% Globalbottom 40% Newsbottom 36% Innovationbottom 22% Market: 1,177 employees (top 11% of Environment) Funding: Raised $335M · 3 rounds over 13 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $335M | 92 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1979 | — | 4 patents Environmental water treatment, oilfield drilling fluids, molecular separation tech, industrial service brokering platforms. | — |
| 2 | Ceiba Energy Services Provider of waste management services | $250M | 79 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Newalta Waste management services provider to oil & gas production comapnies | $54M | 124 mo ago | Deadpooled | John Barkhouse CEO & President | 1993 | — | 2 patents Environmental remediation of drilling waste through beneficial reuse technologies | — |
| 4 | Rubellite Energy Provider of clearwater oil exploration and development services | $37M | 41 mo ago | Public | Susan Rose CEO | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | — | — |
| 5 | FilterBoxx Wastewater treatment systems to the Canadian upstream industry | $24M | 146 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2001 | WordPressMySQLPHP+11 | — | — |
| 6 | Alter NRG Waste to Energy technology developer | $11M | 163 mo ago | Acquired | Walter Howard CEO | 2007 | AMPCloudinaryCloudflare+3 | 69 patents Plasma waste‑to‑energy conversion and high‑pressure self‑cleaning fluid handling systems. | — |
| 7 | Calgary Aggregate Recycling Provider of recycling services | $8M | 58 mo ago | Funding Raised | John Dorchak Owner | 1993 | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — | 1 expansion |
| 8 | Questor Tech Manufacture of waste heat to power generation systems 53Funding top 29%Tech top 31%Growth top 47%News bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 29% Techtop 31% Growthtop 47% Newsbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 36% Partnersbottom 35% Globalbottom 29% Funding: Raised $6.4M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) Tech: 29 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $6M | 4 mo ago | Public | Audrey Mascarenhas President and CEO | 1995 | Cart FunctionalityWix eCommerceWix+19 | — | — |
| 9 | White Owl Provider of oilfield wastewater treatment and disposal services | $6M | 99 mo ago | Series A | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 10 | PurLucid Provider of wastewater treatment services | $1M | 104 mo ago | Acquired | Preston McEachern Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Ridgeline Canada Provider of waste collection, management & processing services | $970K | 170 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1999 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Waste & Water Management companies in Calgary
#1
Public · Calgary, Alberta · founded 1995 · 27 employees$6.4Mraised▾
Manufacture of waste heat to power generation systems
- Apr 2026Grant (prize money)$1.9M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$4.5M
#2
Acquired · Calgary, Alberta · founded 1979 · 1177 employees$335Mraised▾
Provider of industrial waste and water management services
#3
Acquired · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2011 · 155 employees$250Mraised▾
Provider of waste management services
- Jan 2020Series D$250M
#4
Public · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2021$37.1Mraised▾
Provider of clearwater oil exploration and development services
- Mar 2023Post IPO—
- Mar 2022Post IPO$13.4M
- Oct 2021Post IPO$23.7M
#5
Deadpooled · Calgary, Alberta · founded 1993 · 679 employees$54Mraised▾
Newalta is a waste management services provider to oil & gas exploration and production companies. Provides on-site solutions for safe disposal, resource recovery from waste, recycling, hazardous waste processing, salt cavern disposal and others. Operational in North America, as of Feb'18.
- Apr 2016Post IPO$54M
#6
Acquired · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2001 · 57 employees$23.7Mraised▾
FilterBoxx Water and Environmental Corp. provides packaged potable water and wastewater treatment systems to the Canadian upstream industry. It offers water treatment systems, such as granular filtration, clarification, iron and manganese removal, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, and desalination products, as well as water softeners and DAF systems. The company also provides wastewater-sewage treatment, and process and industrial wastewater treatment products.
- Jun 2014Series B$14.7M
- Sep 2011Series A$9M
#7
Funding Raised · Calgary, Alberta · founded 1993$8Mraised▾
Provider of recycling services
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$8M
#8
Acquired · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2007 · 20 employees$11Mraised▾
Alter NRG is Waste to Energy technology developer. The company claims that their Plasma Gasification Solution is able to transform all types of waste, from household waste to hazardous waste into different types of renewable energy such as electricity, replacement of fuel oil or liquefied natural gas, diesel fuel or ethanol. They use the Westinghouse Plasma torch systems for setting up their plants.
- Jan 2013Post IPO$11M
#9
Series A · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2013 · 10 employees$6.4Mraised▾
Provider of oilfield wastewater treatment and disposal services
- May 2018Series A$4.3M
- May 2018Conventional Debt—
- May 2017Seed$2M
- Jan 2014Seed$76K
#10
Acquired · Calgary, Alberta · founded 2014$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of wastewater treatment services
- Jan 2018Seed$1.2M
#11
Acquired · Calgary, Alberta · founded 1999 · 89 employees$969.9Kraised▾
Provider of waste collection, management & processing services
- Jun 2012Unattributed$409K
- Jan 2011Unattributed$560.9K
#12
Public · Calgary, Alberta · 3 employees—raised▾
Provider of advanced plastic recycling and plastic credit solutions. It transforms waste plastic into reusable materials, creating a closed-loop system. The company utilizes AI-driven systems and a comprehensive logistics network for efficient operations. A key offering is the development and implementation of a new standard for plastic credits, contributing to environmental sustainability. Partnerships with logistics and technology companies support scalable and profitable operations. The process converts unsorted waste plastic into a renewable resource.
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Calgary researches in water treatment
- University of Calgary30
- Calgary Laboratory Services1
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