EriCa Reactor Demo Day: Clean Water
- EriCa Reactor Demo Day showcases deep tech startups addressing global water challenges with innovative technologies.
- Industry experts, investors, researchers, and ecosystem partners attend to explore solutions for water quality, contaminants, and resource recovery.
- The event also previews the next cohort focused on sustainable packaging and circularity, offering networking opportunities with teams and partners.
About this event
EriCa Reactor Demo Day brings together deep tech startups, research-based spin-offs, industry experts, investors and ecosystem partners.
The first EriCa Reactor cohort started in March 2026 with seven teams from five countries. Each team is developing a solution that addresses a different part of the global water challenge - from detecting trace contaminants and monitoring water quality to recovering nutrients and turning industrial waste streams into valuable resources.
During the program, the teams have worked with Kemira, investors and ecosystem partners to sharpen their value propositions, explore industrial use cases, prepare for scaling, and identify where their technologies could create real market value.
Demo Day is the moment to hear what the teams have learned, where their solutions are heading, and what kind of partners, customers, investors and collaborators they are looking for next.
The event will also introduce the next EriCa Reactor cohort, which focuses on enabling circularity with new sustainable packaging solutions.
WHO SHOULD JOIN?
This event is for investors, industrial companies, researchers, ecosystem builders and public-sector actors interested in water technologies, deep tech commercialization, and industry-startup collaboration. We want you to meet our teams.
Also, those with interest in enabling circularity with sustainable packaging solutions are also welcome to hear about the second cohort among the first.
AGENDA
14:00 - Arrivals
14:15 - Opening words
Welcome and introduction to EriCa Reactor and Demo Day.
EriCa Reactor Cohort 1: Clean Water teams
Presentations from the first cohort teams working on clean water technologies.
Next EriCa Reactor cohort: Enabling circularity in fiber-based renewable packaging
A look at what comes next and how new teams can join the program.
Networking: Meet the teams, Kemira and ecosystem partners.
After work: Informal continuation for conversations and new connections.
Event ends at 17:00
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