Vāsuqi
Pronounced VAH-su-kee
Vāsuqi is building a visible-light polishing platform for industrial water and wastewater, focused on the difficult residual fraction left behind after conventional treatment has done the heavy lifting.
Industrial wastewater is usually cleaned in stages. The last fraction is where it gets expensive.
- Biology, membranes, and sometimes thermal treatment remove most of the organic burden.
- What remains is often residual COD made up of recalcitrant or refractory organics — dissolved compounds that resist normal treatment.
- The last 5–10% is small in volume, but brutal in cost: more polishing, more handling, more energy, less room for compromise.
Vāsuqi is a polishing step for the expensive tail-end of the treatment train.
Upstream treatment removes most of the burden. Vāsuqi is positioned as a downstream polishing step for the expensive tail-end of the train, where residual dissolved organics still drive tertiary polishing, evaporation, disposal, and process complexity.
Upstream
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Evaporator
Disposal
Recover cleaner water quality back into the plant instead of consuming more fresh water than necessary.
Polish the stream where residual dissolved organics still stand between the plant and cleaner discharge.
Reduce the logistics, trucking, and handling pain associated with the hard residual tail-end.
Take pressure off the polishing steps where OPEX escalates fastest for the last difficult organic fraction.
Light activates the polishing step. The reaction stays where it matters.
Pre-treated water enters a contained polishing module. Visible light activates the internal reaction zone, where the difficult residual organic fraction is broken down before cleaner effluent exits.
Effluent inlet
Pre-treated water enters after upstream treatment has already removed most of the organic burden.
Why the module matters
- Contained polishing step inside the process flow.
- Continuous contact with the active treatment surface.
- No separate catalyst recovery step.
Activated internal reaction zone
Visible light activates the internal treatment zone, keeping contact and reaction concentrated inside the module.
Treated outlet
Cleaner effluent exits with the difficult residual organic fraction reduced at the polishing stage.
Built by operators, not observers.
Vāsuqi is founder-led and built by people who understand industrial water, technology development, and what it takes to turn a deep-tech concept into engineered reality.
Leads Vāsuqi at the intersection of industrial water strategy, company building, and deep-tech execution.
Leads technology strategy and development, translating water innovation into engineered systems.
Guides the scientific direction of Vāsuqi with expertise in visible-light photocatalysis and water treatment research.
Co-founder and former CEO of Aquaporin, advising Vāsuqi on company building, strategic development, and deep-tech positioning.
Pre-seed. Not pre-ambition.
Vāsuqi is currently pre-seed, with first prototypes for real effluent tests expected later this year.
Curious what comes after conventional treatment?
If you are an investor, researcher, operator, or simply curious about what we are building, reach out.