Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Ile de France, France
The 52 best Waste & Water Management companies in Ile de France, France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Paprec.
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 Ile de France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ajelis Metal sorbent materials for wastewater and industrial effluent treatment | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | 14 patents Swellable insoluble fiber/nanofiber media for aqueous effluent filtration and treatment | — |
| 2 | Alchimistes Provider of bio-waste collection & recycling services | — | — | 38 | Alex Guilluy Co-Founder & President | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 3 | Big Bennes Provider of waste management services | — | — | 28 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 4 | CNIM Group Provider of waste processing, waste treatment plants, and biomass | — | — | — | Nicolas Dmitrieff CEO | DrupalPHPYouTube+10 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 5 | Dymond Cleantech Provider of eco-innovative electrochemical water purifiation system | — | — | — | Raphael Kiran Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Ecodrop Provider of waste collection and disposal services | — | — | 37 | Cédric Garcin CTO & Co-founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+34 | Top 5M | 70 patents Portable steam generation and suction devices for surface cleaning and vacuum cooking | — |
| 7 | Frasie Provider of water management services | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | G-Octopus Provider of water management services | — | — | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | Top 50M | — | — |
Top 12 Waste & Water Management companies in Ile de France
#1
Funding Raised · Nanterre, Ile de France · founded 2023$155.3Mraised▾
Developer of textile regeneration system to recirculate and recover textile waste. The company focuses on recovering textile waste before it becomes waste. It regenerates textiles into materials for new use. The company aims to redesign the textile system end to end.
- Apr 2026Grant (prize money)$155.3M
#2
Series B · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2020 · 83 employees$45.5Mraised▾
Provider of fiber recycling services
- Nov 2025Series B$11.5M
- Apr 2025Series B$28.6M
- Apr 2025Venture Debt$27M
- Nov 2022Series A$35.1M
#3
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1994 · 13000 employees$1Braised▾
Horizontally integrated recycling company
- Dec 2023Grant (prize money)$133.8K
- Nov 2023Grant (prize money)$578K
- Oct 2023Grant (prize money)$569K
- Mar 2022Series B—
#4
Series A · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2014 · 13 employees$8.6Mraised▾
Provides alumina refining from low grade bauxite
- Nov 2024Series A—
- Feb 2024Series A$8.6M
#5
Series D · Ile de France · founded 2021 · 170 employees$113.5Mraised▾
Provider of waste recycling services
- Jan 2022Series D$113.5M
#6
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1993 · 294 employees$289.4Mraised▾
Provider waste recycling management services
- Dec 2018Conventional Debt$289.4M
- Nov 2016PE—
#7
Acquired · Plaisir, Ile de France · founded 1965 · 2500 employees$158.3Mraised▾
Provider of waste management services intended to serve municipalities and agencies. The company specializes in the collection of household and industrial, ordinary and special waste, urban and industrial cleaning, sorting, recovery and recycling of selective collections, composting with green waste treatment and recovery channel and providing personnel trained in environmental professions.
#8
Series C · Villeparisis, Ile de France · founded 2010 · 66 employees$64.8Mraised▾
Provider of waste management services. The company offers waste treatment and recycling services such as the recycling of building materials and the burial of sensitive fluid pipelines. Its services include the collection, demolition, processing, and crushing of scrap materials. And serves customers in France.
- 2013Series C$64.8M
#9
Series A · Issy les Moulineaux, Ile de France · founded 2007 · 120 employees$17.3Mraised▾
Castalia is French company that offers a sustainable alternative to mineral water for the hotel market, coffee shops, and hospitality businesses. They have developed water fountains producing microfiltered & refined flat or sparkle water. In 2015, they received a seed funding from BPI France.
- Jun 2020Series A$15.1M
- 2015Angel$2.2M
- May 2015Seed—
#10
Series B · Bonnieres sur Seine, Ile de France · founded 2002$18Mraised▾
Provider of plastics waste recycling services
- Jun 2015Series B$11.2M
- 2014Series A$6.8M
#11
Seed · Paris, Ile de France · founded 2000 · 15 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of liquid concentration services intended for hazardous industrial liquid effluents. The company offers atmospheric pressure evaporator solutions, seawater desalination technology, heat exchangers, high-temperature heat pumps and other technology, providing solutions to recycle polluted dangerous and toxic industrial liquids.
- Apr 2023Seed$1.1M
#12
Public · Voisins le Bretonneux, Ile de France · founded 2005 · 34 employees$11.6Mraised▾
Provider of waste & water management services
- Jul 2011Post IPO$11.6M
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 France
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 446 France-affiliated papers.
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique140
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne46
- Université de Lorraine22
- Suez21
- Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières15
- Wastewater2→11
- Membrane1→9
- Photocatalysis2→10
- Pollutant1→6
- Adsorption14→26
- Flocculation4→13
- Photocatalysis4→12
- Turbidity5→13
- Membrane2→10
- Water quality4→10
- Adsorption1→6
- Water pollution1→6
- Chlorine1→5
- Raw water1→4
Where water treatment is researched across France
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.
Who's filing water treatment patents in France
France water treatment patent filing is cooling — 405 filings from 371 assignees (2016–2025), led by Veolia Water Solutions & TECH, OTV, Degremont; annual filings 49→30.
- Veolia Water Solutions & TECH253
- OTV115
- Degremont82
- SUEZ INT53
- AIR Liquide36
- Total34
- SUEZ Groupe15
- Veolia EAU CIE Generale DES EAUX15
Common questions
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