SUEZ Ventures

SUEZ Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of the SUEZ Group, established in 2010 and headquartered in Paris, France. It is one of the premier players in corporate venture funding for water management, recycling and waste recovery, investing in startups and SMEs across new water, waste technologies and cleantech. Its mission is to complete the SUEZ Group's range of Open Innovation tools by giving the group's operational units easier access to innovative solutions, with investment decisions always conditional on identifying operational and commercial synergies with SUEZ's business activities. The fund focuses on Seed-stage companies with a minimum investment threshold around EUR 500,000, with individual tickets ranging to roughly EUR 1 to 2 million, supporting management teams during their industrial vetting or commercial deployment phases, typically as a co-investor. Since inception it has made roughly 16 to 18 investments totaling about EUR 80 million, with around 55% deployed in France. It is led by Managing Director Eric Landais and runs a small dedicated team. Recent investments include Airex Energy, in decarbonation, and Subeca, in water technology, two North American scale-ups backed in August 2023, and Purple Alternative Surface, an April 2024 investment in a company that transforms non-recycled plastic waste into pavements for construction, parking lots and soft-traffic lanes. By tying capital to operational synergies with one of the world's largest environmental-services groups, SUEZ Ventures backs cleantech founders solving water and waste challenges.