Radar · Waste & Water Management in Texas
Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Texas, United States
The 298 best Waste & Water Management companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: WaterBridge.
By Riya SenguptaFinancials
298companies tracked
$3.4Bdisclosed funding
0unicorns
58have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · WASTE & WATER MANAGEMENT × TEXAS
Our analysis of 50 Waste & Water Management companies
$2.9b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
89%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
2016median founding year
49median Fliar Index™
203kcombined LinkedIn audience
56%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)
Ranked: Best Waste & Water Management companies in Texas
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WaterBridge Provider of waste disposal and recycling services | $1.1B | 83 mo ago | 124 | 2015 | Stephen Johnson Founder | — | — |
| 2 | Goodnight Midstream Provider of integrated saltwater management services 57Innovation top 20%Funding top 24%Product top 26%Market top 48% All 9 signals ▾Innovationtop 20% Fundingtop 24% Producttop 26% Markettop 48% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 48% Globalbottom 32% Growthbottom 28% Newsbottom 22% Innovation: 4 product lines Funding: Raised $580M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 10 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $580M | 47 mo ago | 142 142 → 86 (-39%) | 2011 | Patrick Walker Co-Founder | — | 6 job openings |
| 3 | Waste Connections Solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services | $500M | 91 mo ago | 14,346 | 1997 | Ron Mittelstaedt CEO | 2 patents Leachate treatment technologies for landfill waste management | 1 award |
| 4 | Solaris Provider of water management services | $350M | 83 mo ago | — | 2016 | William Zartler Founder & CEO | 4 patents Patents concentrated in construction | — |
| 5 | Select Water Provider of waste water treatment services | $139M | 103 mo ago | 3,026 | 2008 | John Schmitz CEO | — | — |
| 6 | H2O Midstream Provider of infrastructure services for recycling waste water in oil industry | $100M | 119 mo ago | 31 | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Breakwater Energy Provider of water management and supply chain services | $100M | 35 mo ago | 77 | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Liquid Environmental Solutions Provider of diversified wastewater management services | $68M | 143 mo ago | 737 737 → 483 (-34%) | 2002 | Alan Viterbi CEO | — | — |
| 9 | TechTurn Provider of modules | $50M | 238 mo ago | 100 | 1999 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Pecan Street Provider of solar educational, training, and water management services 29Funding top 46%Tech top 48%Market bottom 36%Global bottom 25% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 46% Techtop 48% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 25% Funding: Raised $43.1M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 16 yrs (0.2/yr) Tech: 26 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $43M | 12 mo ago | 44 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Armada Water Treatment of industrial waste water | $36M | 138 mo ago | 51 | 2012 | mitch burroughs Co-Founder | — | — |
| 12 | Southwaste Provider of waste recycling and water treatment services | $30M | 182 mo ago | 290 | 1948 | Charles Wilcox CEO & COO | — | — |
| 13 | WCA Waste Provider of waste management services | $27M | 183 mo ago | 1,500 | 2000 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Omni Water Solutions Provider of water treatment services | $26M | 137 mo ago | 25 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 15 | SunGas Renewables Provider of water management services | $23M | 25 mo ago | 19 | 2019 | Robert Rigdon Chief Executive Officer | 37 patents Water‑rich gasification systems for renewable hydrogen and methanol production | — |
| 16 | ZEEP Provider of organic waste management services | $22M | 97 mo ago | 16 | 2008 | Barry Williamson Co-Founder | — | — |
| 17 | Peerless Provider of waste water treatment services | $21M | 201 mo ago | — | 1933 | Todd Gleason CEO | — | — |
| 18 | Momentum Technologies Technology solution to recover rare earth elements from e-waste | $20M | 54 mo ago | 9 | 2016 | — | 16 patents ML-driven acoustic monitoring and efficiency optimization for hydraulic fracturing operations | — |
| 19 | Aquasana Provider of home water filtration systems | $11M | 134 mo ago | 64 | 1998 | — | 41 patents Point-of-use liquid water filtration systems, especially pitcher and household filter designs. | 1 launch |
| 20 | Living Earth Provider of recycling solutions utilising green waste | $9M | 107 mo ago | 43 | 1985 | Mark Rose CEO & President | — | — |
| 21 | Advantek Waste Management Services Provider of oilfield waste management services | $8M | 33 mo ago | 57 | 2014 | Ahmed Abou-Sayed Founder | 7 patents Mitigating methane, monitoring GHGs, CO2 injection, and slurry disposal in fractured subsurface formations. | — |
| 22 | Drylet Provider for water and wastewater treatment applications | $7M | 50 mo ago | 11 | 2013 | Trevor Turbidy President and CEO | 33 patents Drylet enhances agricultural biotech via dry delivery formulations, silica bioreactors, and wastewater treatment. | 2 partnerships |
| 23 | Hydrus Technology Developer of wastewater treatment technology services | $7M | 90 mo ago | 6 | 2013 | Brendan Ryan CEO | 6 patents Oil and gas well fishing tools for retrieving lost equipment | — |
| 24 | KMX Technologies Provider of water treatment services 55Growth top 12%Funding top 36%Fin. health top 49%Tech bottom 48% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 12% Fundingtop 36% Fin. healthtop 49% Techbottom 48% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 24% Newsbottom 21% Growth: Revenue +2820% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $7.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 4 yrs (1.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $7M | 7 mo ago | 18 | 2020 | — | — | 2 expansions |
| 25 | Blackbuck Resources Provider of water management services 14Talent top 34%Funding bottom 49%Global bottom 32%Market bottom 15% All 4 signals ▾Talenttop 34% Fundingbottom 49% Globalbottom 32% Marketbottom 15% Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 · 2 named leaders on record Funding: Raised $6.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 8 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $6M | 47 mo ago | 17 | 2018 | Samuel Oliver Chief Executive Officer | — | — |
| 26 | WATTER 55Growth top 35%Tech top 46%Funding bottom 49%Talent bottom 45% All 6 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Techtop 46% Fundingbottom 49% Talentbottom 45% Productbottom 40% Globalbottom 25% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Tech: 23 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $5M | 15 mo ago | — | 2023 | James Hancock CEO | — | 1 launch · 3 awards |
| 27 | EWM Provider of drinking water services | $5M | 141 mo ago | 7 | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 28 | Vertex Energy Provider of waste recycling services in oil industry | $4M | 121 mo ago | 497 | 2001 | — | — | 1 expansion |
| 29 | Reliable One Resources Technology solution for desalination and oil-water separation | $4M | 111 mo ago | 10 | 2015 | Anthony Feezel CEO & President | — | — |
| 30 | Resource Environmental Solutions Provider of ecological restoration and water resource solutions | $3M | 52 mo ago | 623 623 → 656 (+5%) | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 31 | Quest Resource Holding Provider of waste management services | $2M | 145 mo ago | 198 | 2002 | Ray Hatch CEO & President | — | — |
| 32 | Synagro Provider of municipal and industrial waste-water treatment services | $2M | 91 mo ago | 738 738 → 569 (-23%) | 1986 | — | 11 patents Processing and drying biosolids into nutrient‑rich pellets for cement and fertilizer applications. | — |
| 33 | Ecocyclic Provider of waste and waste water management services | $2M | 23 mo ago | — | 2024 | Naeem Sadiq Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 34 | Buckeye Brine Provider of waste management services for oil fields and waste water | $1M | 152 mo ago | — | 2011 | Steven Mobley CEO & President | 11 patents Industrial brine and salt waste treatment and disposal systems | — |
| 35 | Terra Oilfield Services Provider of water treatment services | $1M | 190 mo ago | 98 | 2007 | McGowin Patrick CEO | — | — |
| 36 | Regional Water Provider of waste water management services | $1M | 214 mo ago | 55 | 1997 | — | — | — |
| 37 | Water Provider of water management services | $1M | 23 mo ago | 16 | 2019 | Jordan Kramer Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer | 101 patents Advanced ion removal technologies for water purification and desalination | — |
| 38 | Katz Water Technology Provider of water purifier products and testing services | $1M | 73 mo ago | 10 | 2016 | — | 46 patents Advanced water purification and metal/mineral extraction with remote fluid monitoring systems. | — |
| 39 | DuraTherm Provider of waste management and recycling services | $1M | 198 mo ago | 60 | 1986 | — | — | — |
| 40 | Infinite Elements Provider of e waste recycling services | $750K | 41 mo ago | 5 | 2021 | Jesica Urbina Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 41 | Antelope Water Management Provider of integrated water management services | $500K | 76 mo ago | 4 | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 42 | Breen Energy Provider of waste ecosystem services | $462K | 238 mo ago | — | 2006 | Susannah Vickers Co-Founder | — | — |
| 43 | EQO Provider of water management services | $325K | 43 mo ago | 5 | 2018 | John Higley Founder | 3 patents Remote collection and analysis of genetic material from water bodies | — |
| 44 | Value Waste Services Provider of waste collection & disposal services | $265K | 100 mo ago | 3 | 2017 | John Claybrook Founder & CEO | — | — |
Top 12 Waste & Water Management companies in Texas
#1
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 18 employees$7Mraised▾
Series A · Austin, Texas · founded 2020 · 18 employees
Provider of water treatment services
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 12%Funding
top 36%Fin. health
top 49%Tech
bottom 48%Global
bottom 37%Market
bottom 24%Growth: Revenue +2820% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Funding: Raised $7.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 4 yrs (1.2/yr) · Last round Series A (Oct 2025)
Fin. health: Revenue ~$438k · Revenue +2820% YoY
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships · 2 expansions (incl. Project Vault) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Oct 2025Series A$3M
- Aug 2024Series A$6.9M
- Nov 2023Seed$250K
- Sep 2023Seed$350K
Investors
TETRA Technologies, PureTerra Ventures, Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, Valour Capital
#2
Funding Raised · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 44 employees$43.1Mraised▾
Funding Raised · Austin, Texas · founded 2010 · 44 employees
Provider of solar educational, training, and water management services
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 29how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 46%Tech
top 48%Market
bottom 36%Global
bottom 25%Funding: Raised $43.1M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 16 yrs (0.2/yr) · Last round Grant (prize money) (May 2025)
Tech: 26 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Devops: Nginx
Market: 44 employees · Top-10,000,000 web property
Audience (LinkedIn): 1k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- May 2025Grant (prize money)$8M
- Feb 2011Grant (prize money)$24.7M
- Feb 2010Grant (prize money)$10.4M
Investors
OSTI
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpZurb FoundationGravity FormsNginx
#3
Seed · Dallas, Texas · founded 2023$5Mraised▾
Seed · Dallas, Texas · founded 2023
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 55how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 35%Tech
top 46%Funding
bottom 49%Talent
bottom 45%Product
bottom 40%Global
bottom 25%Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 23 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Hsts
Funding: Raised $5.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Seed (Mar 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 421 LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches · 3 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Mar 2025Seed$5M
Founders & team
Investors
Hunt Energy, 17Shoals
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#4
Acquired · Dallas, Texas · founded 2011 · 142 employees$580Mraised▾
Acquired · Dallas, Texas · founded 2011 · 142 employees
Provider of integrated saltwater management services
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 57how this company ranks against its industry peers
Innovation
top 20%Funding
top 24%Product
top 26%Market
top 48%Talent
bottom 49%Tech
bottom 48%Innovation: 4 product lines
Funding: Raised $580M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 10 yrs (0.4/yr) · Last round Conventional Debt (Jul 2022)
Product: 4 distinct product lines · Company stage: Acquired
Audience (LinkedIn): 13k LinkedIn followers — 6.6% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 10 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +4 · hiring: Project Engineer, Control Room Operator I
Funding rounds
- Jul 2022Conventional Debt$100M
- Oct 2019PE$500M
- Nov 2018Conventional Debt$420M
- Aug 2016PE$80M
Founders & team
Investors
Tailwater Capital, Wells Fargo, Texas Capital Bank, Cadence Bank, First Horizon National Corporation
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerApple Icloud MailBabelCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#5
Series B · Houston, Texas · founded 2019 · 19 employees$23Mraised▾
Series B · Houston, Texas · founded 2019 · 19 employees
Provider of water management services
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- May 2024Series B$23M
Founders & team
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareCookieyesCore-Js
#6
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2012 · 77 employees$99.9Mraised▾
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2012 · 77 employees
Provider of water management and supply chain services
Funding rounds
- Jul 2023Series C$99.9M
Investors
Multiply
#7
Public · Houston, Texas · founded 2015 · 124 employees$1.1Braised▾
Public · Houston, Texas · founded 2015 · 124 employees
Provider of waste disposal and recycling services
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 14k LinkedIn followers — 6.7% of this cohort's audience · 346 engagements/post (4.8× cohort median)
Funding rounds
- Jun 2019Conventional Debt$150M
- May 2019Series A—
- Dec 2018Conventional Debt$800M
- Jun 2018Conventional Debt$200M
Founders & team
Investors
Barclays, SunTrust Bank, GIC, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Mubadala Capital
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapBugherdCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementFancybox
#8
Seed · Irving, Texas · founded 2024$1.5Mraised▾
Seed · Irving, Texas · founded 2024
Provider of waste and waste water management services. It utilizes a novel low-energy process aimed at decarbonizing this sector, contributing to sustainability and reducing plastic waste in the environment.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 478 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Jul 2024Seed$1.5M
Founders & team
#9
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2019 · 16 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2019 · 16 employees
Provider of water management services
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Jul 2024Conventional Debt$10M
- Mar 2023Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
#10
Public · The Woodlands, Texas · founded 1997 · 14346 employees$500Mraised▾
Public · The Woodlands, Texas · founded 1997 · 14346 employees
Waste Connections offers services of solid waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services to secondary markets in the Western U.S. R360 Environmental Solutions, a subsidiary of Waste Connections provides services of non-hazardous oilfield waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in other natural resource producing areas in the United States. Waste Connections serves residential, commercial, industrial, and exploration and production customers and has a presence in 31 states. In 2022, the company recorded annual revenues of $7.47B and a net profit of $0.85B
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 61k LinkedIn followers — 30.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Nov 2018Conventional Debt$500M
Founders & team
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesAngularAosApple Icloud MailAurelia
#11
Funding Raised · Houston, Texas · founded 2016$350Mraised▾
Funding Raised · Houston, Texas · founded 2016
Provider of water management services
Funding rounds
- Jul 2019Conventional Debt$350M
Founders & team
#12
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2014 · 57 employees$8Mraised▾
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2014 · 57 employees
Provider of oilfield waste management services
Funding rounds
- Sep 2023Seed$8M
- Dec 2014Seed—
Founders & team
Investors
Lowercarbon Capital, TPG, Plug and Play Tech Center
Tech stack
Animate.CssCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCrazy EggFont AwesomeGodaddy
Funding & investor landscape
$3.4Btotal disclosed funding
45companies funded
108disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Notable founders
James Hancock
CEO · WATTER
Patrick Walker
Co-Founder · Goodnight Midstream
Robert Rigdon
Chief Executive Officer · SunGas Renewables
Stephen Johnson
Founder · WaterBridge
Naeem Sadiq
Co-Founder & CEO · Ecocyclic
Vijay Kasireddy
Co-Founder · Ecocyclic
Jordan Kramer
Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer · Water
Christopher Caudill
Co-Founder · Water
Ron Mittelstaedt
CEO · Waste Connections
William Zartler
Founder & CEO · Solaris
Bill Zartler
CEO · Solaris
Omar Abou-Sayed
CEO · Advantek Waste Management Services
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 4,932,742 docs
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
RESEARCH IN TEXAS · Environment
How research on Water Treatment in Texas is moving
A read on the academic research around Water Treatment in Texas — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 151 papers.
Texas A&M, UT Austin, and Texas Tech drive membrane separation and advanced oxidation research across 151 papers, with a cautiously optimistic tone (0.42) favoring incremental advancement over breakthroughs.
151 papers · stance +0.42 · 22% breakthrough · 22% concern
top institutions
- Texas A&M University39
- The University of Texas at Austin34
- Texas Tech University15
- The University of Texas at El Paso14
- The University of Texas at Arlington9
leading researchers
Hongyu Wang · Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf · Gomaa A. M. Ali · Hamidreza Sadegh · Hyeok Choi · Laxmicharan Samineni
prism intelligence · tone & topics
95% positive · 3% critical tone
EnvironmentHealthBusinessAgricultureEnergyMaterials Science
▲
Breakthroughs30 · 20%
▲ 13%→26% share
▲2.0× share momentum11 median citations67% since 2021mostly methods-led
Portable water purification emerged as a brand-new sub-topic with 5 papers, signaling rapid new research interest in decentralized Texas treatment.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Membrane7
- Adsorption7
- Chemical engineering6
- Portable water purification5
- Photocatalysis3
Newly emergingPortable water purification 0→5 · Adsorption 0→5 · Photocatalysis 0→3
Landmark Molecular Engineering of Hydrogels for Rapid Water Disinfection and Sustainable Solar Vapor Generation · 195 cites
◆
Advancements77 · 51%
▲ 49%→51% share
▲1.0× share momentum4 median citations51% since 2021mostly empirical
Adsorption research doubled from 5 to 10 papers, driving advancements segment growth to 51% field-share.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Adsorption5→10
- Water quality1→5
- Contamination3→6
- Pulp and paper industry2→4
- Turbidity1→3
Newly emergingStormwater 0→5 · Husk 0→4 · Surface runoff 0→3
Landmark Advances in Application of Natural Clay and Its Composites in Removal of Biological, Organic, and Inorganic Contaminants · 309 cites
▼
Concerns30 · 20%
▼ 26%→14% share
▼0.5× share momentum10 median citations37% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns segment shrank from 26% to 14% field-share, though Surface water papers quadrupled from 1 to 4.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Surface water1→4
- Water quality1→3
Landmark Water purification by membranes: The role of polymer science · 960 cites
Common questions
How many Waste & Water Management companies are there in Texas, United States?
Radar tracks 298 indexable Waste & Water Management companies headquartered in Texas, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Waste & Water Management companies in Texas, United States?
The Waste & Water Management companies in Texas, United States on this list have raised a combined $3.4B in disclosed equity funding across 45 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Waste & Water Management company in Texas, United States?
WaterBridge is the highest-funded Waste & Water Management company in Texas, United States, with $1.1B in disclosed equity funding.
How many Waste & Water Management companies in Texas, United States are funded?
45 of the 298 Waste & Water Management companies in Texas, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Waste & Water Management unicorns are there in Texas, United States?
None of the Waste & Water Management companies in Texas, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Texas, United States Waste & Water Management companies?
The most active investors in Texas, United States Waste & Water Management companies on this list include OSTI, Freestone Ventures, Graycliff Partners, Greentown Labs, Ironwood Capital.
Riya SenguptaFinancials
Riya reads income statements for fun. She covers the real money in a sector — revenue, growth, who actually earns — and never met a vague claim she didn't want a number for.