Mazarine Labs

Mazarine Labs is our in-house incubator, created to offer founders a place to explore their vision and refine their offering in partnership with Mazarine and our network. 

An incubator

Let's expend the thinking on your idea

Mazarine Labs helps founders join the next generation of early-stage companies addressing water and/or wastewater challenges, and become one of the young companies that industry leaders talk about. 

Whether addressing water/wastewater challenges in agriculture, buildings, industry, or utilities, this arm of Mazarine offers mentorship at the earliest stage, whether commercializing university research or an existing company that is still trying to catch their “wind”.  

Before participating in demo days or raising outside money, Mazarine Labs offers founders a safe place to ask what-if questions, identify potential customers, build out an advisory board, and navigate the path to a seed round.  

Informed by market trends and a network of entrepreneurial partners, we are also building businesses from scratch in Mazarine Labs. 

...and a whiteboard 

A safe place for radical ideas​

Mazarine Labs values creative brainstorming via our virtual workbenches.  The focus of each workbench is loosely defined to allow big ideas the space to grow. Workbench activity includes unpacking competing hypotheses, investigating customer needs, and reviewing proof of concept efforts.

Participation in Mazarine Labs ties founders and/or early-stage companies to one or more of our workbenches where we have executives who are either SMEs or bring diverse business experience in water/wastewater.  Instead of 'mentors' or 'judges', we simply categories them as friends.  

We don't advertise what's going on in Mazarine Labs, but we welcome opportunities to partner with individuals and groups that share our workbench interests.  

Virtual Workbenches

Mazarine Labs is organized around virtual workbenches, with each focused on either a specific submarket, a particularly complex challenge, or an area of need we believe warrants investor attention. Over time these workbenches will change; below are the active workbenches at this time.

Taxonomy

• Innovation
• Open Innovation