Mahesh Lunani
Founder & CEO at Aquasight
Detroit, MI
Founder of the leading AI-native platform serving the full water lifecycle, from drinking-water plants through distribution to wastewater.
Background
Founder and CEO of Aquasight, a real-time AI and technology platform for the life cycle of water (drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, distribution networks). Aquasight's products help water utilities reduce risk, cut operating costs, and make faster operational decisions through machine learning applied to SCADA and meter telemetry.
Notable deals
- 2024
- 2024
Call-prep brief
Background
Mahesh founded Aquasight to apply modern machine learning to the SCADA and metering data that water utilities already collect. The wedge is operations economics: detecting anomalies, predicting failures, optimizing chemical dosing and pumping schedules in real time.
What he cares about
- Real-time decisioning at the operator console, not retrospective dashboards.
- Municipal-utility procurement rhythms (long sales, sticky customers).
- AI at the edge of utility operations as a path to ARPU expansion in water tech.
Recent moves
- Continued enterprise rollouts with municipal utilities across drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater.
- Active speaker at WEFTEC and other water-utility conferences.
Sensitivities
- Younger company, founder-led. Investor framing should match growth-equity, not late-stage PE.
Questions to ask
- Which utility customers have seen the largest operating-cost reductions from Aquasight, and what's the typical payback period?
- How does Aquasight's AI compete with or complement what Itron's IntelliFLEX and Xylem's Sensus side are building?
- What's the next product category Aquasight expects to expand into?
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Linked companies
Sources
- Name + firmPrimaryaquasight.io/about
- Name + firmOtherciobulletin.com/magazine/aquasight-real-time-digital-ai-infrastructure