Scott Bryan’s Post

Last week, during UNGA and Climate Week in New York, we announced a new collaboration with The Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative, Dalio Philanthropies, and XPRIZE. Water is finally moving toward the center of conversations about climate, food, energy, access, ecosystems, and economic growth. For those of us who have worked in this field for a long time, that shift is overdue. It also changes what's possible for Imagine H2O. Over 17 years and 270+ startups, we've learned that finding promising technologies is only part of the equation. The harder work follows: proving solutions in the field, finding the right customers, reducing technical and commercial risk, and turning an early deployment into something repeatable. Scale gets the headlines and the capital, but adoption is what makes scale possible. That gap between a working solution and its widespread use is where we operate. This partnership extends that work to a new group of innovators tackling water scarcity. We'll work with selected teams from the XPRIZE Water Scarcity competition and the Al Miyah Challenge to move their solutions from promising results to commercial adoption. Thank you to Ray Dalio and the Dalio Philanthropies team, Ayesha Al Ateeqi and the MBZWI team, and our partners at XPRIZE for their ambition and their trust in us. And thanks to the entrepreneurs, operators, funders, team members, and investors in our community who have helped us reach this milestone. More to come. #ClimateWeekNYC #MohamedBinZayedWI #XPRIZEWaterScarcity #WaterInnovation #UNGA81