2010 Competition

Announcing: The Artemis Project Top 50 Water Companies

"[The Artemis Project Top 50 Competition] has given Epuramat considerable exposure and recognition, a much needed boost. [That] our reach has gone global so quickly shows that The Artemis Project Top 50 Competition is the perfect vehicle to accomplish this [with] our limited PR budget." Epuramat was recently named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.

 

The Artemis Project sponsored the first Top 50 Water Companies Competition to identify the leading game-changing technologies that provide venture grade investment opportunities in the water sector.

The competition goes beyond identifying visionary or exciting technology to assess a company's ability to become an industry leader through market opportunity coupled by a depth of intellectual property and know-how. The Artemis Project Company Rating Matrix combines these measures with an evaluation of the company management team and its investors. The judging criteria included ipCapital Group's proprietary patent scoring algorithm, ipDimensional Scoring, which objectively ranks companies within a particular sector based on the relative value of its patents.

The Artemis Project is proud to list the winners of its second annual Top 50 Water Companies Competition, announced at the BlueTech Forum on June 8 2010. This award distinguishes advanced water and water-related technology companies as leaders in their trade for helping to build water into one of the great high-growth industries of the 21st Century.

2010 Winner's Poster Gallery

The Water Tech Top 50 is the world’s leading business competition for advanced water technology companies.  It is the only competition specifically designed to evaluate the investment potential of emerging providers of Water Tech solutions. 

Leading multi-national corporations are increasingly looking for ways to reduce their exposure to water scarcity risk and achieve sustainable competitive advantage through operational excellence in water management.  Governments and other water providers around the world are concerned with meeting demand in an era of dwindling supply. These and other factors are generating unparalleled opportunities for savvy entrepreneurs and investors.

Each year, The Artemis Project assembles an all-star panel of judges drawn from industry, technology, finance and other key areas.  Together, these judges evaluate entrants on the basis of market potential, technology, intellectual property, team membership and other factors critical to success.  Companies making the cut often attract the attention of interested investors.  

Competition Structure

The Water Tech Top 50 competition is open to all companies providing or seeking to provide advanced water technology solutions.  Entrants are evaluated based on the information they submit in the competition application by a panel of expert judges assembled by The Artemis Project.  

The official deadline for submissions has passed, but please contact the Program Manager if you would like your company to be eligible for next year's review.

The winners were announced on June 8 at the BlueTech Innovation Forum at the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco. View the 2009 competition winners here.

JUDGES

JUDGING CRITERIA


Overview
The Artemis Project Top 50 Water Companies Competition has inaugurated the first company competition to identify the leading advanced water technologies that provide venture grade investment opportunities in water sector. 

We base our opinion on the material rendered in the company application.  We assume that the companies have submitted this information in good faith and that the information is accurate.  

In addition, we assume an optimistic perspective that the teams behind each of these companies can fulfill the promise of their early-stage ventures.

A venture-grade investment opportunity is defined as a company that spends a significant up-front investment to develop intellectual property and know-how that enables it to:

Judgment Matrix
Competing companies will be evaluated with the following four criteria:

In the category of intellectual property, companies will be rated based on both their established IP position, and the strength of process around IP strategy, idea extraction, and invention documentation. 

In the category of technology, companies will be rated based on the bottom-line value of their technologies to operations.  This category evaluates both incremental improvements over existing technology as well as breakthroughs that transform processes to provide dramatic improvements in costs and other operations imperatives.  Impact of solutions upon the environment, both to business, human health and water ecosystem, will also be taken into account.

In the category of market potential, companies’ technology and products will be evaluated based on their perceived value within the market.  The size of the total addressable market over the full life of the products, as well as the immediate value upon initial product introduction, will be taken into account when assessing market value.  Judges also estimate the length of the sales cycle for the company’s product offering, with extended sales cycles inhibiting the ability of the company to grow rapidly and establish a sustainable leadership position in the market.

In the team category, companies will be evaluated based on the diversity and combined experience of their management teams.  The strongest candidates will have management teams with extensive business, scientific, product development and operations experience.