TTrovant
Trovant Technology is a Spanish environmental-tech startup founded in 2018 that develops biological processes to treat and valorise organic waste, its core product being NIDUP, a low-cost biological biogas upgrading system that turns biogas into biomethane (renewable natural gas) at small and medium scale where conventional upgrading is not economically viable. It is a deeptech/cleantech company headquartered in Valladolid with an office at the Energy Venture Center in Madrid, roughly 10 employees, backed mainly by corporate venture arms in the energy and water sectors, and is certified as an Innovative SME and ENISA Emerging Company.
SectorsCleantech, Renewable energy, Biogas & biomethane, Waste valorisation, Deeptech
Start-up MapEnergy & Climate › Waste valorisation & biomaterials
Founders
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Alexandre Colzi Lopes
Co-founder & CEO
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José Manuel Estrada Pérez
Co-founder
Global models 5
DDivert
United States · www.divertinc.com ↗
Turns organic food waste into renewable natural gas through its own anaerobic digestion and upgrading facilities, making money from the gas it sells.
$300M+Comparable
EElectrochaea
Germany · www.electrochaea.com ↗
Uses a biological (microbe-based) process to upgrade CO2 from biogas into grid-grade methane and licenses the technology to gas and energy companies, much like Trovant's biological upgrading.
$100MComparable
WWaga Energy
France · waga-energy.com ↗
Built its own low-cost technology to upgrade landfill gas into biomethane at sites where conventional upgrading doesn't pay, and sells the biomethane or the service.
$60M+ (pre-IPO)Comparable
DDuctor
Finland · www.ductor.com ↗
A biological fermentation process that lets biogas plants use organic waste that would otherwise go unused, sold to plant operators as a way to get more value from waste.
$30MComparable
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HomeBiogas
Israel · www.homebiogas.com ↗
Sells small, low-cost biogas systems that turn organic waste into usable gas where large plants don't pay off, matching Trovant's focus on small and mid-sized sites.
$20MComparable
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Investors 5
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Funding rounds 7
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| 2025-11-21 | Seed (estimated) | €90K partial: only one investor's ticket was disclosed |
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| 2024-07-19 | Seed (estimated) | €65K partial: only one investor's ticket was disclosed |
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| 2024-07-19 | No stage disclosed | €65K partial: only one investor's ticket was disclosed |
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| 2023-02-14 | No stage disclosed | €250K partial: only one investor's ticket was disclosed |
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| 2022-12-23 | Seed (estimated) | — |
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| 2021-06-25 | Seed (estimated) | — |
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| 2020-07-14 | Pre-seed (estimated) | — | Enagás Emprende (estimated lead) |
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| 2026-10-05 |
Enagás joins the capital of digHy to enhance its renewable hydrogen plant software ↗
Demócrata
2026-10-05 |