Published.
Complete destruction of some of the toughest pharmaceutical compounds — in hours, not days.
Published, DTU · F. Wu et al., Separation and Purification Technology 364 (2025) 132394
Photocatalytic water technology
Light that gives water back.
Vāsuqi breaks apart the tough molecules in industrial wastewater that today's treatment steps do not capture or finish — with visible light on a catalyst, right inside the flow.
- Climate
- Food
- Health
- Energy
- Biodiversity
- Industry
The big picture
Every planetary crisis runs through water.
Climate, food, health and energy all meet in water. So does pollution.
The problem
The hardest pollution is the kind nothing destroys.
Pharmaceuticals, pesticides, dyes, hormones, solvents. They slip past the steps we have and end up in our rivers.
Persistent. Stable.
Volatile. Very small.
The molecules we go after are hard to capture, hard to separate and hard to break.
Who it hits
All of them run on water.
And all of it flows back. The tough fraction is hardest in the wastewater of four industries.
Pharma
Chemicals
Food and beverage
Textiles
Where today's steps stop
Some only go part-way. Some just move it.
Biology
Clears the bulk cheaply. Persistent molecules slip through.
Membranes
Hold some back — as a concentrate that still has to go somewhere.
Resins and ion exchange
Load up, then regenerate — the molecules come back in the regenerant.
Activated carbon
Captures, saturates, and the spent media is shipped away.
Ozone · UV · peroxide
Oxidise part of the way — with a dosed oxidant.
Vāsuqi
Built to break the molecule apart.
Vāsuqi ends it.
01
Visible light — no UV lamps.
02
No dosed oxidant, no iron sludge, no concentrate stream to haul.
03
Modular — designed to retrofit existing lines.
We destroy pollution with light · Patent pending · Platform-level
How it works
Light from inside.
In
Contaminated effluent enters.
Light
Visible LEDs send light through light-guiding fibres that run through the whole volume.
Catalyst
Where light meets the catalyst coating, reactive oxygen species form and break the harmful molecules apart.
Out
Polished water leaves. The catalyst stays in place.
Concept render · not to scale
Light activates the catalyst.
Reactive oxygen species break the bonds.
Broken apart.
Proof
Built.
IMUGI: our fully automated, flow-through, visible-light test unit. Third generation.
Awarded.
Best Pitch, BII Demo Day 2026 (audience vote, 24 ventures)
Next.
Real industrial effluent tests are under way, and the module design is scaling up for larger flows.
Predictably cheap. Boringly reliable.
What we are building for
The team
Operators who've built water tech before.
Adarsh Raj
CEO
Jörg Vogel
CTO
Angela Zhang, PhD
Chief Scientific Advisor
Peter Holme Jensen
Advisor
