| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.04.2022 | Democratization of Tools | Whether testing, monitoring, compliance, or process optimization, it's well known that solutions for addressing water quantity or quality risks have traditionally been expensive, and often required some type of consultant or expert. But sub... |
| 15.12.2021 | Event Recap: Data Science in Water/Wastewater (Dec 8) | On December 8th, Mazarine's John Robinson, and Foresight Canada waterNEXT's Alan Shapiro moderated a discussion around the growing role of data science innovations that address inefficiencies and risks relating to water/wastewater. The 6 fe... |
| 14.10.2021 | Investment: Mazarine invests in Pani | Mazarine recently invested in Pani, a "Digital Water" company that provides a means for industry or municipalities to combine local expertise and best in class industry practices to improve efficiency and reduce costs for treating... |
| 05.10.2021 | Event: WaterClick Launches on Oct 14 | Mazarine is pleased to announce that after incubation in our incubator, Mazarine Labs, WaterClick - the newest name in 'digital water', soft-launched via webinar on October 14th and an in-person reception on October 18th.
WaterClick's visio... |
| 30.09.2021 | Event: Could Business Model Innovation be the Next Big Thing in Water? (Nov 15) | Where and how entrepreneurs and corporates are reimagining the way products and services are bought and sold
Join us on November 15th for a roundtable discussion focused on where and how business model innovations that address water/wastewa... |
| 27.08.2021 | News: Mazarine becomes a signatory of the PRI | We are pleased to announce that Mazarine has become an official signatory of the PRI. As impact investors entirely focused on innovations that address water-related risks, it's a natural fit for Mazarine to participate in any effort that en... |
| 25.08.2021 | Event: Quarterly Investor Roundtable (Oct 7) | Join us on October 7th for a repartee-style virtual discussion focused on investment opportunities in agriculture & aquaculture for technology innovations that address water/wastewater
AGENDA
After welcome remarks from the moderator, fe... |
| 20.08.2021 | PoV: Chemical Angels Network interviews Mazarine's Anders Hallsby | In a wide-ranging interview, Selma Duhović of the Chemical Angels Network interviews Mazarine's Anders Hallsby about his experience in water, the fundamentals of water treatment, and key trends and opportunities that excite him.
You can hea... |
| 19.08.2021 | PoV: How the ESG framework can be used to inform Water-tech impact investing | The first in a four-part series on how the application of the ESG framework to vet early-stage investment opportunities ensures impact objectives are met
Mazarine's investment process includes evaluating the social and environmental impact ... |
| 14.07.2021 | Event Recap: Investor Roundtable (July 8) | On July 8th Mazarine hosted a moderated discussion with featured participants who shared their investment thesis, strategy, rationale behind one or two recent investments (or opportunities they are eyeing), and a broader discussion of trend... |
| 02.07.2021 | Event Recap - Great Lakes University Roundtable (June 14/15) | On June 14 and 15, Mazarine Labs hosted a two-day program featuring water and/or wastewater-related research and innovation coming out of 9 universities in the Great Lakes region. While the region is best known for having an abundance of fr... |
| 21.05.2021 | Event: Quarterly Investor Roundtable (July 8) | Join us for a repartee-style webinar featuring Mazarine's network of investors who are also targeting some type of investment opportunity relating to water and/or wastewater. This series of quarterly roundtables continues to include a diver... |
| 07.05.2021 | Quarterly Investor Roundtable | On May 6th Mazarine hosted our Quarterly Investor Roundtable with 3 other investors who are also targeting opportunities in water/wastewater.
First of all, we are grateful to Mazarine's partner Mark Bertler for moderating the discussion, an... |
| 22.04.2021 | PoV: Water in the Smart Home | We are often asked about investment opportunities relating to water within the Smart Home industry. Locks, lights, and thermostats are now smart and seeing widespread adoption, what about water? What can be done with water in single family ... |
| 15.04.2021 | PoV: Bringing innovation from other industries into water | What Mazarine has found to be a productive strategy is to look at technologies originally not developed with water-related applications in mind, but that, based on our expertise and experience, we view as having significant potential in wat... |
| 02.04.2021 | Event: Investor Roundtable | What's your thesis, strategy, investment criteria, and what keeps you up at night?
On May 6th join us for a repartee-style webinar featuring four investment groups targeting opportunities relating to water or wastewater. Each featured parti... |
| 23.03.2021 | World Water Day - Great Lakes Open House | You have probably heard that the Great Lakes has 20% of the world’s freshwater. This is remarkable, but unfortunately not that helpful for people around the world. The bigger story is that the region is a leader in innovations that bring ef... |
| 23.03.2021 | Event: Water Quality & Health | On April 29th join us to recognize the impact of water quality on health in a discussion around innovations that enable improved visibility into water quality for homeowners, businesses, schools, communities, and government.
Featured partic... |
| 02.03.2021 | PoV: What Kind of Capital Are You Raising? | As an early-stage investor, we are often approached by young companies who inform us they are “raising capital.” We know they are referring to money; however, for early-stage companies (pre-seed and seed) the most important capital they sho... |
| 19.02.2021 | Event: Water in the Smart Home | 5 Innovations, 4 Key Submarkets, and 3 Emerging Trends
This March 18th program included conversations with featured participants, including entrepreneurs, corporate strategists, smart home consultants, and thought leaders in the smart home ... |
| 18.02.2021 | Event: 2021 World Water Day - Great Lakes Open House | A tour of the region’s water and wastewater technology innovation ecosystem.
In recognition of 2021 World Water Day, we invite you to join a virtual ‘open house’ spotlighting some of the water/wastewater innovation activities across the Gre... |
| 15.02.2021 | Event: Social impact, entrepreneurship, disaster resilience, and emergency relief | Where and how innovation and entrepreneurship is generating more social impact for communities in crisis.
As one of the most important areas of social impact, disaster resiliency and emergency relief is a realm that has somehow experienced ... |
| 12.02.2021 | Event: How can Arbitrage on the Price of Water be a Good thing | Why the launch of futures contracts on the NQH2O strengthens humanity’s efforts to ensure everyone has the water they need.
The launch of futures contracts on the NQH2O has generated debate about water supply,
ownership of water, use of wat... |
| 08.12.2020 | Event: Democratization of water quality data | What happens when we democratize water quality data in the Great Lakes region?
Mazarine hosted a repartee style webinar with water quality thought leaders to explore the notion of democratizing water quality data. While the discussion cover... |
| 05.12.2020 | PoV: Why is the launch of derivatives contracts on the NQH2O of interest to Mazarine Ventures? | The December 7th launch of derivatives contracts on the NQH2O (see background section in PDF version - below) immediately brings new participants to the water market who have a very specific objective, namely - arbitrage the future price of... |
| 29.10.2020 | News: Mazarine profiled in GWI's October issue | The Chicago-based water investment outfit hopes to seal the first deal for its new growth-stage technology fund in January 2021. Its unique outlook on the sector sets it apart from its peers.
Source - Global Water Intelligence - WATER TECH ... |
| 20.10.2020 | PoV: Why is PFAS an Area of Interest to Mazarine Ventures? | PFAS headlines will continue to catalyze fear, the threat of strict regulations will loom, and the non-profit conservation and public health community will elevate their attacks on cities and states that are not prioritizing the emerging PF... |
| 15.09.2020 | PoV: Shaping your Investment Thesis in Water | Mazarine's John Robinson was one of the featured speakers in the September 15th webinar co-hosted by Mazarine and Barclays. He offered the audience insights on 1) how Mazarine defines the early-stage investment space, 2) considerations for ... |
| 12.09.2020 | Event: New Approaches for PFAS Destruction | September 29, 2020
This event is part of Chicago Water Week. More information here. |
| 03.08.2020 | PoV: Opportunities to make a difference in emergency/disaster relief situations | We are of the opinion that the emergency/ disaster relief space where social impact can be most effectively be realized in "water".
While technology breakthroughs addressing water and wastewater challenges tend to grab the headlin... |
| 14.07.2020 | PoV: Monetizing Data in Water/Wastewater | We are of the opinion that monetizing data in water/wastewater is straightforward, and can essentially be thought of as 5 areas of opportunity:
Opportunity for new offerings to help manage the “silver tsunami”
Machine learning and AI are en... |
| 10.07.2020 | Event: Beyond The Membrane | New Ways to Improve Membrane System Performance
Background The origin of the polymeric membranes used today can usually be considered the work by Loeb and Surirayan in the early 1960’s. For the first 20 years, significant time and effort wa... |
| 01.07.2020 | Event: Monitoring Water Quality using DNA/RNA Technology | Water quality has always been important, but due to increased concern about public health and safety in the Covid-19 era, tools to manage water quality have never seen such strong tailwinds.
So we asked ourselves, what tools are on the cutt... |
| 23.06.2020 | PoV: The Rise of Decision Support Tools in Water/wastewater | We are of the opinion that ‘digital water’ has unfortunately joined the ranks of nebulous corporate strategy, and therefore something that’s hard to calculate ROI on, translating into an endless string of consulting engagements to help ‘roa... |
| 15.01.2020 | Event: 2020 Technology Showcase | On January 14 Mazarine Ventures hosted a technology showcase that featured 17 promising early-stage technology companies with innovations that address water and/or wastewater challenges. Leading IP law firm, CookAlex, graciously hosted the ... |
| 18.12.2019 | Event: Water in the Smart Home | On December 10 Mazarine Ventures and the Alliance for Water Efficiency convened an invitation only roundtable focused on technology innovations in plumbing, which is increasingly regarded as an exciting addition to the Smart Home.
In the co... |
| 13.12.2019 | Event: Technology Innovations that Address Water/Wastewater Challenges in Upstream O&G | On December 4, 2019 Mazarine Ventures, Barclays, and Fraunhofer USA Center for Energy Innovation hosted an invite-only luncheon in Houston as part of our joint interests in innovative hardware and software technologies that address the most... |
| 14.11.2019 | Event: Remote Monitoring Roundtable | On November 7 Mazarine Ventures and the CityTech Collaborative hosted a luncheon roundtable sponsored by Polsinelli, discussing trends and opportunities in remote monitoring of water/wastewater infrastructure.
The focus of the roundtable wa... |
| 11.10.2019 | Event: Impact Investing in Innovations that Address Water & Wastewater Challenges | On October 8, 2019 Mazarine Ventures and W.S. Darley & Co hosted an invite-only luncheon as part of our joint interests in technologies that address the needs of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
This roundtable topic emerged out... |
| 31.07.2019 | Event: Monetizing Data in Water & Wastewater | Barclays and Mazarine Ventures hosted a roundtable luncheon on July 25 for an invite only guestlist that included corporates, investors, and early-stage technology companies. Entitled Monetizing Data in Water & Wastewater, the objective... |
| 12.07.2019 | Event: Water Resiliency Roundtable | Mazarine's John Robinson was invited by the Illinois Soy Association as a featured presenter to share technology innovations, trends, and opportunities relating to water and wastewater.
The event included a diverse mix of participants inclu... |
| 29.06.2019 | Event: Industrial IoT and Autonomy | Co-hosted by Mazarine Ventures and Caterpillar Digital.
This invite-only luncheon featured a presentation on Cat Digital's mission; key initiatives such as autonomy, predictive analytics, and applications; and plans for significant growth i... |
| - | Event: 2022 International Women’s Day (March 8) | Spotlighting 10 women founders / co-founders running early-stage technology companies with innovations that address water/wastewater challenges
In recognition of March 8th International Women’s Day, Mazarine and partners welcome you to join... |
| - | PoV on Climate & Water | The Decarbonization Side & the Adaptation Side
Executive summary:
The industry generally known as ‘climate’ is evolving, creating opportunities for a growing segment of investors who are beginning to recognize that the technology vertic... |
| - | How have we organized our dealflow? | The taxonomy by which Mazarine has organized our funnel of prospective investments is pragmatic, and informed by our investment thesis, which is: Invest in innovations that address water/wastewater inefficiencies and risks, and by doing so ... |
| - | PoV: Climate Adaptation | An inflection point in tech investment has arrived
To date, the bulk of climate-tech investment has been channeled toward climate mitigation strategies aimed at reducing carbon emissions.
While this investment is crucial, there is a risk of... |
