Sentry, a maker of water sensors and a real-time treatment monitoring platform for them founded by Canada-based Corkman Patrick Kiely has raised $2m in Series A funding. One of the investors, SKion Water is a provider of, and investor in, water technology and a subsidiary of SKion GmbH, the investment firm of Germany’s wealthiest woman, multi-billionaire heiress Susanne Klatten. The other investor is Factor[e] Ventures, an investor in energy, agriculture, mobility and waste backed by UKAid, USAID, and theShell, Autodesk and Rockefeller Foundations. The firm’s technology reduces monitoring and maintenance costs for wastewater treatment, increasing efficiency, while reducing discharge events that pollute waterways after heavy rainfall. Kiely previously founded ClearPod, a maker of systems to improve septic tank system performance, which is part of Island Water Technologies, a water tech incubator he founded that also includes Regen, a maker of solar-powered modular wastewater treatment systems.

Source: Irish Independent May 09, 2021 18:31 UTC