Aquagga Completes National NSF I-Corps

February 3, 2020

Aquagga Inc., completed the National NSF i-Corps program in December in Atlanta, Ga. The company is a UAF spin-out based on novel water/wastewater treatment technology developed by Jonathan Kamler, a current UAF Ph.D. candidate and his co-founders Nigel Sharp (UAF staff), and Brian Pinkard (University of Washington Ph.D. candidate).

The i-Corps team, which included Arthur Nash (UAF Faculty), was awarded $50,000 to travel. They completed more than 130 customer discovery interviews spanning travel to numerous conferences within a short 6.5-week period across the country. The results have been a major pivot to their focus. The company is now actively pursuing product development and supporting grants such as SBIR/STTR awards for the most desirable solution to their market. The device they are developing is focused on the complete destruction of "forever chemicals," namely a group of chemicals called PFAS/PFOA which can be in our water. These chemicals are rapidly becoming a major public health issue across the United States and beyond. 

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