Mazarine Ventures

Mazarine Ventures is a venture firm focused on water technology. Its funds invest in young companies whose hardware, software or business models help customers manage water and wastewater risk. The website describes its earlier fund as fully invested.

Products and services

• Fund I: a portfolio of companies tackling inefficiencies and risks around water and wastewater; it is closed to new investments.
• Fund II: a continuation of the same approach, backing early-stage companies that are starting to sell commercially.
• Fund III: a climate adaptation technology fund for companies that help customers cope with a changing climate.
• Labs: an in-house incubator used to reset struggling companies or start new ones.

Customers and markets

The firm backs founders who understand their customers and the competition, and whose products address public health and safety, environmental protection, the cost of water or business disruption.

Key facts

• Structure: several funds plus an incubator, described as a family of four siblings
• Focus: water risk and climate adaptation