Emerald Technology Ventures, a Zurich-based VC agency with twenty years of water-sector management, introduced reaching the €100 million milestone for its World Water Fund II as a way to put money into startups innovating within the WaterTech scene.
Immediately’s milestone was reached with the assistance of Temasek, Grundfos Basis, Veralto Company, Ecolab, SKion Water and Oxy Know-how Ventures. This comes lower than one month since Emerald introduced their strategic partnership with DIC Company, a Japanese chemical producer, establishing a €52 million funding platform – as reported by EU-Startups.
“With Temasek and Grundfos Basis becoming a member of World Water Fund II, we’re bringing collectively two globally influential organisations with extremely complementary views on water resilience. The fund is designed as a platform the place this sort of collaboration can take form – connecting long-term capital, industrial management, and breakthrough applied sciences to speed up options throughout the worldwide water system,” mentioned Dr Helge Daebel, Companion at Emerald and longstanding head of its water observe.
Latest EU-Startups protection reveals continued funding exercise round water and water-adjacent applied sciences.
In January 2026, Hydrosat – headquartered in Luxembourg and the US – raised €51 million in Collection B funding to broaden its thermal infrared satellite tv for pc information and AI analytics platform supporting agriculture, water useful resource monitoring, insurance coverage and local weather danger administration.
In the identical month, Amsterdam-based PureTerra Ventures secured an preliminary €10 million cornerstone dedication from Make investments-NL towards its €150 million WaterTech Fund II, which goals to put money into startups growing options for water effectivity, reuse and industrial water high quality.
Mixed, these bulletins characterize roughly €61 million in not too long ago disclosed startup funding within the wider water innovation ecosystem, alongside as much as €150 million in focused enterprise capital via specialised WaterTech funds.
On this context, Emerald Know-how Ventures’ €100 million milestone for World Water Fund II highlights the continued mobilisation of capital devoted to water resilience applied sciences throughout infrastructure, monitoring, therapy and reuse.
“Throughout the water sector, we’re satisfied that doing enterprise goes hand in hand with doing good. Our funding is a bid to assist extra water startups develop sturdy and tackle international water and local weather challenges,” provides Government Director Kim Nøhr Skibsted, Grundfos Basis.
Based in 2000, Emerald manages and advises property of over €1 billion from its workplaces in Zurich, Toronto and Singapore. The agency invests in startups that deal with large challenges in local weather change and sustainability, with 4 present funds, a whole bunch of enterprise transactions and 5 third-party funding mandates, together with mortgage ensures to over 100 startups.
The agency had beforehand introduced the primary shut of €60 million late in 2025.
World Water Fund II is focusing on a complete dimension of €150–180 million. The fund will speed up innovation throughout all the water worth chain by investing in early to progress stage corporations worldwide which are growing options in infrastructure and enterprise resilience, superior therapy, reuse, digitally enhanced monitoring, prediction, determination making and automation in addition to applied sciences to handle rising contaminants.
Emerald’s first water fund has catalysed a number of WaterTech success tales, leveraging the agency’s monitor file within the sector – which incorporates profitable exits of portfolio corporations to trade giants equivalent to SUEZ, Xylem and BASF.
One other measure of its success has been the fund’s facilitation of key collaborations between companies and startups/scale-ups, such because the work that Microsoft has completed with Kilimo and FIDO.
