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Aquacycl

Providing bioelectrochemical technologies to rapidly treat the hardest to treat wastewater.

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Orianna Bretschger

Founder & CEO at Aquacycl

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Employees 6–20
Headquarters Escondido, California, United States
Aquacycl is a developer of wastewater technology designed to treat ultra-high-strength organic wastewater. The company’s technology eliminates primary sludge and recovers energy as direct electricity and operates with low or net-zero energy requirements, thereby enabling customers to save operational costs for the treatment of industrial, agricultural, or commercial wastewater. The company is at an inflection point; Aquacycl’s solution has been tried and tested with positive customer feedback to date. The company is focused on signing new partnerships and scaling operations with large F&B manufacturers. Longer-term, the company is looking to raise another $10m to fuel growth and expand partnerships, scale operations and automate manufacturing to further reduce COGS and improve the overall profitability of the business.

Notable Achievements

  • CEO recognized as a Top Innovator by the World Economic Forum and Uplink
  • Working with PepsiCo as a first customer (2 sites and counting in North America)
  • One 40-ft unit from Aquacycl at an industrial site will mitigate an average of 115 tons of CO2 equivalents, every month

Currently Operating in Two Regions

Press Mentions

November 14, 2022

Pepsi employs ‘super bugs’ to treat its Fresno wastewater

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September 19, 2023

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November 19, 2022

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