(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

S5E17 - How to Build the World Leading Water Innovation Accelerator: Imagine H2O


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with 🎙️ Scott Bryan - President of Imagine H2O 

💧 Imagine H2O is the world leading Water Innovation Accelerator with $800+M raised in early-stage funding and 1.1 billion people (and counting) served.


What we covered:


🌎 How Imagine H2O's Alumni network now extends to 168 portfolio companies in 20 countries 

🚀 How Imagine H2O launched in 2008, creating the water innovation accelerator concept from scratch 

💡 How the organization's concept first was a Business Model contest, how it pivoted from there, and why 

🛣️ How Imagine H2O swiftly realized that to accelerate water technologies they had to work on water technology adoption 

💸 How only 1% of climate tech venture investments flow to water today and why it is problematic 

🪣 How Imagine H2O's non-profit business model works, and who the organization partners with to maximize its impact 

🤝 How market competitors can incredibly work together to take new solutions off the ground 

🌱 How entrepreneurs entering from other sectors bring a breath of fresh air and how fun it is to work with them 

😵 How sometimes, entrepreneurs hang around a little longer than they should in the Water Industry 

🤑 How some valuations we currently see in the Water Sector can be detrimental to both the founder and the investor 

💥 How the booming accelerator playground offers incredible resources for entrepreneurs while also reaching some boundaries 

🎯 Focus being the name of the game, the criterion to work with Imagine H2O, the most important thing to look at as a water entrepreneur, water as a global opportunity and a local market, scaling up, building for the long-term… and much more!

🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥   

      

➡️ Come say hi to Scott on LinkedIn             

➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How Imagine H2O became the World's leading water innovation accelerator 


➡️ Check the stories of Imagine H2O's alumni we shared on this microphone:

🎙️ Aquacycl  (S1E20)

🎙️ StormHarvester  (S2E11)

🎙️ 120Water  (S3E1)

🎙️ Puraffinity  (S4E1)

🎙️ Epic Cleantec  (S4E3)

🎙️ Typhon Treatment  (S4E9)


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