Innovation and entrepreneurship, encompassed in the Program of Corporate Venturing Facsa's key drivers are fundamental to addressing the challenges related to sustainable water management. This is why, since 2019, Facsa has collaborated closely with the startup accelerator Lanzadera to identify and support projects that contribute to improving the integrated water cycle management, focusing on sustainability, process improvement, digital transformation, and high-impact solutions.
With the aim of further strengthening this collaboration, Marta Nogueras, CEO of Lanzadera, and Esteban Gallego, Projects Director, visited the new corporate headquarters of Facsa accompanied by the company's CEO, Jose Claramonte, and the head of the Acquisitions and New Business department, Victor Ferrando.
The visit served not only to learn about Facsa's new facilities, but also to define the roadmap for collaboration between both organizations that will guide the year 2025. This roadmap will allow for continued testing of projects aimed at improving the management of the integrated water cycle and the user experience.
Over the next twelve months, the company will conduct new proof-of-concept (POC) studies with the five startups selected from its Corporate with Lanzadera program: Uraphex, focused on the sustainable regeneration of water from major industrial processes; Active H2O, which has a patented technology for water regeneration through the generation of natural oxidants; Denodl, specializing in the design of smart probes aimed at reducing water consumption and optimizing and increasing efficiency in waste valorization processes, with measurements of humidity, temperature, water tension, and electrical conductivity; and Sensativetech, which offers early warning and monitoring systems for the continuous and automatic detection of microbiological agents of interest or pathogens in water.
In addition to these startups, the company will continue to support Bioferric INK, with whom it collaborated last year, through an entrepreneurship agreement. This year, both companies will launch a new proof-of-concept project that will help the startup develop its technology for semi-industrial scale implementation.
Also present will be Sciling, another startup that was already working on a proof of concept last year and that this year intends to launch another intelligent document analysis proposal.
This meeting also served to review the success of previous initiatives and analyze new investment opportunities. Since the first call for proposals launched in 2019, Facsa has evaluated 157 projects, with 39 finalists and 14 proof-of-concept projects completed. As a result, this experience has fostered continuous innovation at Facsa, most notably the company-wide implementation of a co-developed technology for calculating carbon footprints.
With this collaborative strategy, Facsa reaffirms its commitment to supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem and talent to continue promoting solutions that allow us to anticipate the future and generate new innovative business lines and disruptive new products or services that respond to environmental challenges and ensure sustainable water management.
