Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Ireland
The 74 best Waste & Water Management companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Glanua.
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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 Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glanua Provider of water treatment services | $18M | 23 mo ago | Series A | Patrick Finn CEO | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | — |
| 2 | Votechnik Provider of LCD & FPD recycling services | $2M | 80 mo ago | Funding Raised | Lisa O'Donoghue Founder & Director | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 3 | MyGug Micro scale anaerobic digester that converts food waste into biogas and liquid bio-fertilizer for small food… | $973K | 26 mo ago | Seed | Fiona Kelleher Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 4 | Kollect On-demand waste collection solution | $527K | 107 mo ago | Seed | John Connor CEO Kollect | 2015 | WordPress Block EditorElementorCart Functionality+36 | — |
| 5 | Composite Recycling Provider of PCB and composite plastic recycling services | $383K | 73 mo ago | Funding Raised | Frank Riedewald CEO & MD | 2015 | — | — |
| 6 | Enva Ireland Provider of recycling and resource recovery solutions | — | 68 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1972 | GSAPMicrosoft ClarityLinkedin Insight Tag+19 | — |
| 7 | Water Provider of water services and innovation. It manages water supply and wastewater treatment, working to… | — | 75 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | — | DrupalPHPGoogle Maps+18 | — |
| 8 | Beauparc Developer of bio energy plants | — | 84 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1990 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 2 awards |
Top 8 Waste & Water Management companies in Ireland
#1
Series A · Galway, Connaught · founded 2006 · 288 employees$17.8Mraised▾
Glanua is a provider of innovative and sustainable engineering solutions for the water and wastewater industry, offering a range of services including design, build, commissioning, operation, and maintenance. With a focus on customer-centricity and efficiency, the company delivers turn-key projects for municipal and industrial clients. Glanua's expertise spans project delivery, digital solutions, and talent acquisition, serving as a trusted partner for water and wastewater infrastructure development.
- Jul 2024Conventional Debt—
- Aug 2020Conventional Debt$2.1M
- Aug 2020Series A$7.9M
- Series A$7.8M
#2
Seed · Cork, Munster · founded 2021$972.6Kraised▾
MyGug is a micro-scale anaerobic digester that offers a food waste treatment system for small food businesses or schools. It converts food waste into biogas and liquid bio-fertilizer, providing renewable energy for cooking and growing.
- Mar 2024Seed$972.6K
#3
Funding Raised · Limerick, County Limerick · founded 2011 · 1 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of LCD & FPD recycling services
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$2.3M
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2015Grant (prize money)—
#4
Funding Raised · Cork, Munster · founded 2015 · 3 employees$382.6Kraised▾
Provider of recycling services intended to chemically recycle plastics into synthetic oil using molten zinc/tin. The company patented, and scalable process specializes in focusing on the recycling process that reduces the capital and operating costs of an industrial-scale plant along with metals present in the PCBs that are concentrated within the separation chamber to utilize waste materials, it also treats other non-recyclable materials such as glass, carbon fiber composites and lithium-ion batteries, enabling clients to capture critical and special metals in the recycling process.
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$54.3K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)$58.8K
- Feb 2017Grant (prize money)$53.8K
#5
Seed · Waterford, Munster · founded 2015 · 46 employees$527Kraised▾
Kollect is an Irish startup focused on developing technology solutions for waste management. The company provides an on-demand waste collection solution to households. The company has developed a platform to help households book the collection of waste when they need it. The company's solution finds the next date when the collection company's truck passes the customer's house and books the collection. The company charges commission on each booking.
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)—
- 2016Seed$527K
#6
Acquired · Portlaoise, County Laois · founded 1972 · 1600 employees—raised▾
Provider of recycling and resource recovery solutions. This business transforms materials by managing commercial and trade waste, including glass, wood, metal, plastic, and food waste. It offers construction and demolition waste management, hazardous waste disposal, and industrial cleaning services. The company provides water and wastewater treatment, chemical and laboratory waste management, and secure destruction services. It also supplies recycled products such as aggregates, soil, plastic compounds, and biomass fuels.
#7
Funding Raised · Dublin, Leinster · 823 employees—raised▾
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#8
Acquired · Dublin, Leinster · founded 1990 · 3000 employees—raised▾
Developer of bio energy plants
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 flat · growth flat
How research on Water Treatment is moving in Ireland
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 203 Ireland-affiliated papers.
- Environmental Protection Agency100
- University of Limerick25
- University College Dublin18
- Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway12
- Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland11
- Membrane4
- Environmental chemistry4
- Adsorption4
- Photocatalysis4
- Nanocomposite4
- Photocatalysis1→7
- Water quality2→6
- Environmental chemistry16
- Environmental engineering12
- Water quality9
- Contamination8
- Haloacetic acids8
Where water treatment is researched across Ireland
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
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.