Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Sweden
The 193 best Waste & Water Management companies in Sweden in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Scandinavian Enviro Systems.
Sweden's Waste & Water Management sector doesn't have a unicorn yet, but the 193 companies we're tracking tell a story that's moving fast. Total disclosed funding sits at $39M across the directory, and the top of the stack is already pulling away: Scandinavian Enviro Systems leads at $9M, Wayout follows at $7M, and WA3RM has pulled in $4M, with the rest of the field still in early-stage territory. The global market is expanding at roughly 5.8% CAGR, driven by urbanization pressure, intensifying water scarcity, and serious investment in urban drainage modernization. So the macro tailwind is real, and Sweden's founders are clearly reading it.
What's interesting right now is where the sector's attention is drifting. Flood resilience and floodplain management are heating up as coverage themes, which makes sense given how aggressively European regulators are tightening infrastructure standards around water risk. Investors like Almi Invest, Uppsala Innovation Centre, and Ideon Innovation are the names backing this field at the early end. If you're benchmarking which Swedish waste and water companies have the funding momentum to matter this cycle, the gap between the top three and the rest of the directory is wide enough to be the first thing you check.
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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 Sweden
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scandinavian Enviro Systems Provider of tires recycling services | $9M | 74 mo ago | 37 | 2001 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Wayout Provider of water management services | $7M | 40 mo ago | 12 | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 3 | WA3RM Provider of waste streams services | $4M | 68 mo ago | 22 | 2015 | Thomas Parker Co-Founder | — | — |
| 4 | Envibat Provides gas cleaning, heat recovery and water purification services | $2M | 131 mo ago | — | 2005 | Harry Johansson Founder & President | 2 patents Wet electrostatic precipitation electrode design for improved particle removal. | — |
| 5 | Stena Recycling Provider of waste recycling services | $2M | 75 mo ago | 3,300 | 2001 | — | 7 patents Co-treating flue‑gas cleaning waste with acidic scrubber liquids and oxidized metal residues | 2 awards |
| 6 | VA SYD Provider of waste management services | $2M | 69 mo ago | — | 2008 | Karin Salm CEO | — | — |
| 7 | Biokraft Producer of circular bioenergy and plant nutrition by recycling organic waste | $2M | 129 mo ago | 23 | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Circhem Provider of solvent waste recycling services | $2M | 78 mo ago | 10 | 2013 | Christina Hillforth CEO | — | — |
| 9 | Altered Provider of water savings services | $2M | 84 mo ago | 14 | 2015 | Mikael Abbhagen Head of Design / Co-Founder | — | — |
| 10 | Ecofiltration Nordic Manufacturer of water filters and wastewater treatment services | $2M | 121 mo ago | 5 | 2006 | Anders Noren Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 11 | retein Manufacturer of diversified materials | $1M | 38 mo ago | — | 2019 | Simon Isaksson Co-Founder & CEO | 3 patents Stabilized filtration devices for enhanced membrane-based water or air filtration | — |
| 12 | EKOBalans Provider of urban and agri waste mitigation and production of fertilizers services | $989K | 91 mo ago | 8 | 2008 | Gunnar Thelin Founder | — | — |
| 13 | Mat4Green Tech Provider of solutions for the recycling of Indium tin oxide | $847K | 26 mo ago | 3 | 2017 | Burcak Ebin Co-Founder | — | — |
| 14 | Skandinavisk Ecotech Provider of modular wastewater treatment systems | $775K | 183 mo ago | — | 2010 | K-G Niska Founder & Director | — | — |
| 15 | Recycla.se Provider of industrial and household waste recycling services | $661K | 93 mo ago | 8 | 2011 | Sebastian Tamm Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 16 | BioCell Analytica Provider of drinking water services | $591K | 36 mo ago | 9 | 2019 | Johan Lundqvist Co-founder | 4 patents Reporter-cell based biosensors for water quality monitoring and analysis | — |
| 17 | Swehydro Provider of water treament solutions for commercial users | $127K | 85 mo ago | — | 2015 | Jakob Sjoberg Co-Founder | — | — |
| 18 | Envic Sense manufactur Provider of metal recycling services | $121K | 96 mo ago | 2 | 2006 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Waste & Water Management companies in Sweden
#1
Seed · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2017 · 3 employees$846.6Kraised▾
Provider of solutions for the recycling of Indium tin oxide. It prioritizes environmental impact and strives to minimize negative effects on the environment in its production process.
- Apr 2024Seed$846.6K
#2
Series A · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2018 · 12 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Provider of water management services
- Jan 2023Series A$6.5M
#3
Public · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2001 · 37 employees$9.3Mraised▾
Provider of tires recycling services
- Apr 2020Post IPO$3.2M
- Aug 2016Grant (prize money)$117.5K
- Feb 2011Series A$9.3M
#4
Seed · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2019$1.1Mraised▾
Manufacturer of diversified materials
- Apr 2023Seed$1.1M
#5
Seed · Uppsala, Uppsala County · founded 2019 · 9 employees$590.8Kraised▾
Provider of biological analysis services intended to detect chemical contaminants in the environment. The company's method detect and quantify the combined effect of all chemical compounds in a sample instead of analyzing concentrations of a few selected compounds, enabling users to assess the effects of both known and unknown toxic chemicals ensuring drinking water safety, wastewater treatment efficiency, surface water quality in environmental monitoring as well as evaluating the efficiency of novel treatment techniques for water.
- Jun 2023Seed$230.8K
#6
Funding Raised · Malmo, Skane County · founded 2015 · 22 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Provider of waste streams services
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$3.8M
#7
Funding Raised · Gothenburg, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2001 · 3300 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of waste recycling services
- Mar 2020Grant (prize money)$1.1M
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$421.3K
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$170K
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$317.1K
#8
Funding Raised · Malmo, Skane County · founded 2008$2.1Mraised▾
Provider of waste management services
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$2.1M
#9
Seed · Stenungsund, Vastra Gotaland County · founded 2013 · 10 employees$2Mraised▾
Circhem AB is primarily involved in the solvent recycling process which includes recycling and purification of industrial chemicals. It offers solution that enables the industry to reduce its emissions and at the same time increase profitability.
- Dec 2019Seed$2M
#10
Seed · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2015 · 14 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of water savings services
- May 2019Grant (prize money)$55.7K
- Mar 2019Grant (prize money)$56.9K
- Dec 2018Seed$1.8M
#11
Series A · Skelleftea, Vasterbotten County · founded 2005$2.4Mraised▾
Provides gas cleaning, heat recovery and water purification services
- Jul 2015Series A$2.4M
#12
Funding Raised · Stockholm, Stockholm County · founded 2009 · 23 employees$2.1Mraised▾
It is a Nordic greentech company that specializes in producing circular bioenergy and plant nutrition by recycling organic waste. They are one of the largest biogas producers in the Nordics and are committed to contributing to a sustainable transition from fossil to renewable energy.
- Sep 2015Grant (prize money)$2.1M
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How research on Water Treatment is moving in Sweden
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 222 Sweden-affiliated papers.
- Lund University42
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology39
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences34
- Luleå University of Technology22
- Sweden Water Research22
- Adsorption8
- Wastewater7
- Pollutant4
- Portable water purification4
- Filtration (mathematics)4
- Adsorption1→19
- Wastewater3→10
- Water quality1→8
- Contamination1→6
- Environmental chemistry1→5
- Water quality1→6
- Environmental chemistry2→6
- Raw water1→5
- Pollutant1→5
Where water treatment is researched across Sweden
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.