Facts

• Segment: Inspection
• Country: France
• Founded: 2018
• Website: https://www.acwa-robotics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

ACWA Robotics develops autonomous in-pipe robots for drinking-water network inspection. Its systems are built to travel inside buried pipelines and collect condition data that helps water utilities prioritize maintenance without shutting networks down.

Market context

ACWA Robotics builds mobile inspection robots for water-utility pipeline networks.

Products

• Clean Water Pathfinder - Pathfinder

Facts

• Website: https://www.acwa-robotics.com/
• HQ: Aix-en-Provence, France
• Founded: 2018
• Segment: Inspection
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2024-01-19 - Funding round - $6M - ACWA Robotics raises EUR 4.8M for water-pipe inspection robots - source: kurrant.com
• 2021-01-26 - Seed round - $1M - ACWA Robotics raises EUR 1M for water-network inspection robots - source: 2cfinance.net

Investors

• Banque des Territoires - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-19
• Capital & Innovation by Credit Agricole Alpes Provence - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-19
• FMG Circular Invest - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-01-19
• Calao Finance - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
• Region Sud Investissement - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26
• Sofimac Innovation - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-01-26

Events

• 2024-10-25 - Deployment - ACWA Pathfinder completes Dunkirk water-pipe inspection - The field mission took place on the Dunkirk water network at Loon-Plage.
• 2024-01-19 - Funding - ACWA Robotics raises EUR 4.8M for water-pipe inspection robots - The round included Banque des Territoires, FMG Circular Invest and Capital & Innovation by Credit Agricole Alpes Provence.
• 2021-01-26 - Funding - ACWA Robotics raises EUR 1M for water-network inspection robots - Investors included Calao Finance, Region Sud Investissement and Sofimac Innovation.

Team

• Jean-Francois Guiderdoni - Co-founder and Director of Development - Founder/development leadership ties the profile to utility customer development and the in-pipe inspection roadmap.
• Jean-Francois Rossi - Founder and first president - Founding leadership for the original water-network robotics company.

Relationships

• water-network field deployment - ACWA Robotics completed a Pathfinder inspection on the Dunkirk drinking-water network with SUEZ.
• test site - ACWA tested Pathfinder in Provence Canal Company water-network conditions.

Context tags

• Industrial inspection - Workflow - ACWA builds inspection robots for utility infrastructure.
• Industrial inspection robotics - Peer Group - ACWA builds robots for utility pipeline inspection.
• Structural inspection data - Capability - ACWA robots collect condition data inside drinking-water pipelines.

Customers and deployments

• Field Inspection Count - 1 Dunkirk field inspection - 2024-10-25 - SUEZ / Dunkirk water network - in-pipe water-network inspection - ACWA Robotics completed a Pathfinder field inspection on the Dunkirk drinking-water ne…