# ZwitterCo

> ZwitterCo is a Woburn, Massachusetts membrane company attacking the least glamorous and most expensive failure in industrial water treatment: organic fouling. Its zwitterionic chemistry is built into drop-in filtration elements that repel fats, oils, proteins and other organics, recover performance after cleaning, and make wastewater reuse or product recovery practical in food, biotech, power, landfill and heavy-industry operations. The pitch is not a prettier sustainability report. It is fewer cleaning cycles, fewer replacement elements and more hours of production.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Woburn, United States
- **Founders:** Alex Rappaport (Co-Founder and CEO), Christopher Drover (Co-Founder and CTO), Chris Roy (Co-Founder and former Head of Applications Engineering)
- **Team size:** 51-200 employees on LinkedIn; supplied dataset lists 87 employees
- **Products:** Superfiltration (SF), Elevation, Evolution, Expedition, Integrated systems, pilots and rentals
- **Notable:** Won the Tufts Gordon Institute $100k New Ventures Competition in 2018., Named Breakthrough Technology Company of the Year at the 2023 Global Water Awards., Included in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2024.

## Products & services

- **Superfiltration (SF)** — A low-pressure membrane class positioned between ultrafiltration and nanofiltration, designed to remove suspended and dissolved organics while passing salts and resisting irreversible organic fouling.
- **Elevation** — Fouling-resistant brackish-water reverse-osmosis elements for challenging surface water, industrial wastewater and leachate applications, available in low-energy and high-rejection configurations.
- **Evolution** — Sanitary SF, protein-concentration and RO membrane elements for food, dairy and biotechnology processing; the RO and PCM products became FDA-compliant for whey and milk processing in 2025.
- **Expedition** — Rugged superfiltration elements and engineered systems for high-strength industrial wastewater, produced water and streams rich in oils, grease and suspended solids.
- **Integrated systems, pilots and rentals** — Application testing, engineered membrane systems and rapidly deployable rental equipment that help industrial operators validate and deploy treatment trains.

## Achievements

- Won the Tufts Gordon Institute $100k New Ventures Competition in 2018.
- Named Breakthrough Technology Company of the Year at the 2023 Global Water Awards.
- Included in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2024.
- Received a 2024 Edison Award for membrane innovation.
- Named to the 2025 Global Cleantech 100.
- Earned NSF/ANSI/CAN 61 and 372 certification for selected brackish-water RO elements.
- Achieved FDA compliance for Evolution SF, RO and PCM products used in whey and milk processing.
- Expanded to more than 20 countries and initiated more than 30 European projects during 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published new field and application material covering industrial wastewater reuse, dairy processing and membrane performance.
- **2025-12** — Reported more than 30 new European projects and field results showing lower cleaning, water and replacement costs across Elevation deployments.
- **2025-11** — Evolution RO and protein-concentration membranes became FDA-compliant for whey and milk processing.
- **2025-09** — Commercially launched the Evolution membrane family for dairy and food-processing applications.
- **2025-07** — Consolidated and expanded its product platform under the Evolution, Elevation and Expedition families.
- **2025-01** — Named to the 2025 Global Cleantech 100.
- **2024-08** — Appointed water-industry veteran Myron Van Ert as its first Chief Commercial Officer.
- **2024-07** — Closed an oversubscribed $58.4 million Series B led by Evok Innovations and opened a new Innovation Center near Boston.

## Links

- Website: https://zwitterco.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zwitterco-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zwitterco
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@zwitterco
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/ZwitterCo/

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Last updated: 2026-08-22