# 25 Years of Acquisitions Built This Water Tech Powerhouse [M&A] Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-waste-water-water-tech-to-solve-the-world-429684/25-years-of-acquisitions-built-this-water-tech-powerhouse-m-a Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-waste-water-water-tech-to-solve-the-world-429684/25-years-of-acquisitions-built-this-water-tech-powerhouse-m-a.md Podcast: [(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-waste-water-water-tech-to-solve-the-world-429684) Published: 2025-12-24T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://podcast.ausha.co/dont-waste-water/25-years-of-acquisitions-built-this-water-tech-powerhouse-m-a Audio file: https://audio.ausha.co/od17QIa5xAlz.mp3?t=1766540296 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/don-t-waste-water-water-tech-to-solve-the-world-429684/episodes/25-years-of-acquisitions-built-this-water-tech-powerhouse-m-a Duration seconds: 3898 ## Resource How Did H2O Innovation Build a Water Empire Through 18+ Acquisitions (M&A)? Tired of stitching together Crunchbase, overpriced reports, and "a guy who knows a guy"? I built the fix. 50 Founder Seats. Join the waitlist: leviathandata.io 🙌 Supporters 🙌 A big thank you to my partner SimpleLab: https://link.dww.show/simplelab H2O Innovation is a Quebec-based water solutions company founded in 2000. Through strategic M&A, it evolved from a membrane filtration startup into a diversified platform with four pillars: systems, specialty chemicals, operations & maintenance, and water infrastructure development—with the mission to Simplify Water. Guillaume Clairet is COO at H2O Innovation and GP at the Cycle H2O fund, with 20 years steering the company's M&A-driven transformation from startup through 18+ acquisitions to a private equity-backed platform targeting $1 billion by 2030. 🌶️ KEY SPICES 🌶️ 🔧 Four integrated pillars—systems, chemicals, O&M, and water infrastructure development—enable full lifecycle customer relationships from CapEx through recurring revenue 📈 Proven M&A machine with 90%+ acquisition success rate versus the industry standard where two-thirds of deals fail 🌍 Global distribution network serving OEMs across Turkey, Peru, Chile, and Australia with specialty chemicals and components 💧 Water reuse leadership through the Water Infrastructure Development division offering turnkey solutions with no upfront capital under long-term contracts 🤝 Patient private equity partnership with Ember Capital allowing accelerated growth while preserving management continuity and institutional investor alignment 🥜 IN A NUTSHELL 🥜 How did H2O Innovation transform from a startup to a platform company? Starting as a membrane filtration technology company in 200… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/don-t-waste-water-water-tech-to-solve-the-world-429684/episodes/25-years-of-acquisitions-built-this-water-tech-powerhouse-m-a/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/don-t-waste-water-water-tech-to-solve-the-world-429684/25-years-of-acquisitions-built-this-water-tech-powerhouse-m-a.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.