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everwave shows how measurable impact and business growth can reinforce one another.
everwave intercepts plastic waste in rivers before it reaches the ocean. The company’s end-to-end plastic management system covers the entire value chain: from AI-powered waste detection and innovative collection boats and barriers through to sorting and recycling. On this basis, everwave issues fully traceable plastic credits that help companies meet their CSRD reporting obligations.
We supported everwave through a financing round combining mezzanine and equity capital, from sharpening the investment story and preparing materials to approaching the right investors and structuring and executing the round, including an impact-linked finance component with Roots of Impact and ESIIF. The result was a round with mission-aligned investors, designed to support the company’s next phase of growth. Since then, everwave has continued to scale, including through new sites in Cambodia. Overall, the company has collected 2,600 tons of plastic worldwide (June 2026).
What makes the case compelling, what the financing structure looks like, and how the collaboration unfolded: our Venture Snapshot tells the full story.
More on the financing round:
Our announcement on LinkedIn and everwave’s press release on the successful financing round.
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This series was supported until April 2023 by the “Kompetenzzentrum für Soziale Innovationen” and has since been continued through the programme “ESF-2022-SOC-FIN — Transaction costs to support social finance intermediaries”, co-funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed in this success study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
