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Today, ZwitterCo, Inc. received the Business Intelligence Group’s BIG Award for Business and was named a 2022 Startup of the Year. The organization’s annual program rewards companies, products and people that are leading their respective industries.

GreenBiz featured ZwitterCo in an article titled "Aquapreneurs are thirsty." The article discusses water technology startups focused on private-sector applications, such as industrial water reuse.

Early Metrics featured ZwitterCo as one of four startups in an article discussing new options startups are offering for water and wastewater treatment and management.

Chemical & Engineering News included ZwitterCo as one of 10 start-ups to watch in 2022.

ZwitterCo, the advanced membrane technology company, today announced their partnership with Digested Organics as a channel partner in North America to provide solutions to challenges in the digestate market.

DCVC leads one of the largest Series A funding rounds for a water technology company with $33 million in financing to scale ZwitterCo’s revolutionary membrane technology that treats the toughest industrial wastewaters for reuse and is immune to irreversible fouling.

ZwitterCo names Bryan Siegal as Vice President of Operations to shape company operations as it scales its membrane business to make a global impact.

ZwitterCo, a company providing innovative membrane products that treat historically unfilterable streams, today announces Peter Ingarra as Vice President of Sales to accelerate growth as the company continues its rapid expansion.

ZwitterCo launched a revamped website with a new design and additional content. An early-stage membrane company, ZwitterCo is passionate about sustainability and helps companies achieve their goals by creating opportunities to recover water and valuable products from the world’s toughest streams.

ZwitterCo today announced that it has closed its Series Seed financing of $5.9 million to scale its water treatment and advanced separations solutions. The funding round was led by global filtration and separations technologies leader Mann+Hummel Corporate Ventures in collaboration with R-Cubed Capital Partners, and with additional support from Burnt Island Ventures and individual investors.

"The focus of the grant is to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative treatment technologies that will transform the energy sector’s produced water from an environmentally hazardous waste to a recoverable resource..."

"Rappaport is spearheading a way to reduce that waste through his new company, ZwitterCo, which uses technology developed by Tufts chemical and biological engineering assistant professor Ayse Asatekin to create a revolutionary membrane-based..."

"ZwitterCo, a Boston-based startup created in 2018, is using nanofiltration membranes...to provide separation for contaminants in wastewater... Companies that have a lot of wastewater usually put the water in large tanks and truck them away..."

"This project under the direction of Christopher Drover, Ayse Asatekin is entitled: Extremely fouling resistant nanofiltration membranes treating organic-rich wastewater... This grant is awarded pursuant to the authority of the National Science Foundation..."

"Imagine H2O has selected the next group of outstanding water companies for the 2019 accelerator... ZwitterCo (Somerville, Ma - USA) Removing organics from industrial wastewater is an operator's biggest daily challenge. Although today's membranes..."

"MassCEC made a total of seven $65,000 awards, two of which have a water innovation focus, to the following Massachusetts innovators: ZwitterCo (Cambridge) aims to commercialize a new, zwitterion-based membrane technology..."

​"Tufts-affiliated companies ZwitterCo and Ginger Time were the joint winners in the General/High-Tech track. ZwitterCo, which markets itself as a company that produces nanofiltration membranes to improve water recycling..."