NanoH20, desalination and water reuse company, raises $5M

May 31, 2007 | Matt Marshall

NanoH2O, a Los Angeles company that uses membrane materials to improve desalination and water reuse, said it has raised $5 million in funding from Khosla Ventures.

From the statement:

NanoH2O’s advanced membrane technology leverages existing membrane synthesis techniques,
requiring few modifications to existing commercial facilities, and fits within current desalination
pressure vessels without alteration. NanoH2O enhances current polymer-based membranes with
nanostructured material that allows additional ‘degrees of freedom’ in the control of membrane
properties. The result is a wide array of advantageous membrane characteristics including
improved permeability while maintaining requisite salt and contaminant rejection, both passive
and active fouling resistance, as well as ‘tunable’ membrane performance to address specific
water chemistries.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.