Best Waste & Water Management Companies in Victoria, Australia
The 65 best Waste & Water Management companies in Victoria, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Cleanaway.
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 Victoria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleanaway Provider of waste management services | $718M | 96 mo ago | Public | — | 1989 | WordPressVisual ComposerAlgolia+35 | — | 2 awards |
| 2 | South East Water Provider of water supplying, wastewater, and recycled water services | $259M | 186 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 2001 | Adobe Experience ManagerJavaElement UI+24 | 163 patents Smart water infrastructure monitoring, leak detection, and sewer level sensing solutions. | — |
| 3 | Great Wrap Manufacturer of home compostable cling wrap | $10M | 25 mo ago | Series A | Julia Kay Co-Founder | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+31 | 3 patents Biodegradable polymer film manufacturing and coating processes for packaging | — |
| 4 | Clean TeQ Provider of water treatment solutions | $4M | 7 mo ago | Public | Sam Riggall CEO | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | 77 patents Scandium recovery and alloy processing, including heat treatment of Al‑Si‑Sc alloys and fine particle filtration. | — |
| 5 | Complete Home Filtration Provider of water filtration products and services | $3M | 67 mo ago | Series A | Suzanne Dodds Managing Director / Founder | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 6 | Energy360 Provider of organic waste to energy processing services | $363K | 79 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 7 | DiaperRecycle Provider of diapers recycling services | $354K | 42 mo ago | Seed | Oliver Kelland Co-Founder & Director | 2019 | — | — | 1 award |
| 8 | Envirostream Australia Provider of waste battery recycling services | $201K | 67 mo ago | Acquired | Andrew Mackenzie Co-Founder & Director | 2017 | — | — | — |
Top 11 Waste & Water Management companies in Victoria
#1
Public · Notting Hill, Victoria · founded 2016$4Mraised▾
Provider of water treatment solutions
- Nov 2025Post IPO$3.9M
- Dec 2024Grant (prize money)$63K
#2
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 22 employees$9.8Mraised▾
Manufacturer of home compostable cling wrap. It is a material science and innovation company that develops compostable packaging materials from food waste. It manufactures stretch wraps, compostable pallet wraps, nudie rolls, and more.
- May 2024Conventional Debt—
- May 2024Series A$3.3M
- Jul 2022Series A$7.6M
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$13M
#3
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 1989 · 7500 employees$718.3Mraised▾
Provider of waste management services
- Jun 2018Conventional Debt—
- Jun 2018Post IPO—
- Dec 2017Post IPO$594M
- Dec 2011Post IPO$124.3M
#4
Late Stage · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2001 · 1074 employees$258.9Mraised▾
Provider of water supplying, wastewater, and recycled water services. It offers potable drinking water to homes and commercial entities.
- Dec 2010PE$258.9M
#5
Series A · Wangaratta, Victoria · founded 2014 · 65 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of water filtration products and services
- Nov 2020Series A$2.4M
- 2019Seed$300K
#6
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019$354Kraised▾
Operator of a recycling company intended to recycle disposable nappy. The company diverts waste diapers from landfill and generates reusable plastics, enabling businesses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while joining the circular economy and recycling a waste consumer product into other products.
- Dec 2022Seed$334K
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$20K
#7
Acquired · Carrum Downs, Victoria · founded 2013 · 9 employees$363Kraised▾
Provider of organic waste to energy processing services
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$363K
#8
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 7 employees$201.4Kraised▾
Provider of waste battery recycling services
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$201.4K
- Apr 2019Seed—
#9
Funding Raised · Notting Hill, Victoria · founded 2000 · 144 employees—raised▾
Since 2000, Water Technology has developed a reputation for delivering technically excellent and practically based services to Australia's water, coastal and environmental sectors. From a foundation of advanced numerical modelling capability, we have developed a broad profile of specialised skills across all areas of water, coastal and environmental management. Our services cover a broad range, incorporating virtually every situation in which surface water interacts with the natural or built environment.
#10
Public · Hawthorn, Victoria · founded 1950 · 5 employees—raised▾
Provider of conversion solution of industrial waste into electricity
#11
Series A · Dandenong, Victoria · founded 2008—raised▾
Provider of energy generation services through hazardous waste conversion
- Oct 2015Series A—
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
What Victoria researches in water treatment
- Victoria University17
- University of Victoria14
- Lake Victoria Fisheries Organization3
- Queen Victoria Hospital1
- Agriculture Victoria Services1
Common questions
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