# Okena Effluent Treatment and Sludge Ltda

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/okena-effluent-treatment-and-sludge-ltda

- Industry: Environmental Services
- Headquarters: Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Website: www.okena.eco.br
- Total disclosed funding: $1.9M
- Latest round: Series A (Aug 1, 2021)
- Investors on record: 1

## About

Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and founded in 2010 by Ricardo Glass, Okena Effluent Treatment and Sludge Ltda, a.k.a. Okena operates as an environmental services company that provides waste management services intended to collect, transport, store, treat, and re-allocate industrial effluents once contaminated by toxic substances. In 2019, Rise Ventures took a stake in Okena Effluent Treatment and Sludge Ltda. As of August 2023, Francisco Goeye is the CEO of the company.

The company provides a wide range of services, including contingency and industrial emergencies, sludge disposal, de-characterization of finished products, industrial decommissioning, industrial maintenance technical shutdown, reform or implementation of onsite WWTP, biological effluent treatment, treatment of effluents by the physicochemical method, and more to perform wastewater treatment. Okena treats the collected waste at its own treatment plant, located in Itapevi-SP. In addition, the firm extracts value from effluents through upcycling and reuse of essential raw materials in various production chains.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Aug 1, 2021, $1.9M — Rise Life-Centered Investments

## Investors

- Rise Life-Centered Investments (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/rise-life-centered-investments) — Series A