About Us
Fluidion is transforming water quality monitoring in drinking water, wastewater, and natural environments, through the development of innovative solutions that can impact millions of lives worldwide
Company Vision
Fluidion is redefining the state of the art in water quality and environmental surveillance through leading-edge fully-validated monitoring solutions that support data-driven decision making for government agencies, international organizations, academic institutions and private sector companies worldwide. We empower them with the tools to understand and protect water resources and reduce associated public health risks. As a committed player in the water quality industry, we develop innovative solutions that have the potential to impact millions of lives worldwide.
Our smart instrumentation is broadly protected by our patent portfolio and proprietary know-how, covering a range of water quality parameters in microbiology, chemistry, and physical measurements. Our award-winning technologies have been validated through numerous peer-reviewed studies, publications, and international certifications.
We advocate values of inclusion and diversity, collective intelligence being one of the central pillars of our culture. We trust that our work has meaningful social and environmental impacts that will contribute to our planet’s sustainable future.
Our Values
Scientific Integrity
Our technology is built on solid scientific concepts, developed through transparent, proven methodologies. We are scientists to the core and regularly publish our results in peer-reviewed journals, and actively pursue and obtain independent validation for the performance of our products. We engage in collaborative work with major academic institutions worldwide.
Commitment to Innovation
Thinking "outside the box" and "into the chip," we encourage novel approaches to improve the performance of our instruments through highly-integrated miniaturization and the latest in microfluidic technology. We deploy the latest scientific, engineering and manufacturing innovations, in the process creating valuable intellectual property.
Social Responsibility
Our focus is on technologies that have the potential for global environmental, social and public health impact. We believe technology and individual responsibility need to be combined to address the global water, environmental and sustainability challenges of our times. We don't shy away from doing our part.
Respect
We advocate values of respect, transparency and integrity toward our clients and partners and within our own team. We believe in the ability of visionary individuals and small teams to achieve extraordinary outcomes, and we support bold, innovative approaches to environmental action through technology.
The Team
Fluidion is powered by a team of passionate application specialists, scientists and engineers who are leaders in their fields, working together on technology-based solutions to address tomorrow’s global water quality and public health issues. Deeply rooted in science, research and technology, the team combines decades of experience in microfluidics, nano-technology and sensor development with significant management, industry, and global market expertise.
We advocate values of inclusion and diversity, collective intelligence being one of the central pillars of our culture. We trust that our work has meaningful social and environmental impacts that will contribute to our planet’s sustainable future.
Founder and Board of Advisors
Fluidion was founded by Dan Angelescu in Paris, France in 2012, and launched its US affiliate headquartered in Los Angeles, California in 2015. He is supported by a robust Board of Advisors who bring deep industry and scientific expertise in agriculture, microbiology, drinking water, wastewater, and laboratory analysis.
Sustainability
At Fluidion, we strongly believe that technology has a key role to play in our strategy toward a sustainable planet. We provide meaningful contributions to the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
Maximizing Social Impact
Protecting Public Health
Waterborne disease is responsible for the death of close to one million people every year, mostly children in developing countries. Our water monitoring solutions are providing the technology foundations for implementing advanced public-health protection strategies. We provide breakthrough instrumentation that enables the effective monitoring of drinking water quality in both developed and resource-challenged settings (including migrant camps and areas devastated by war), the rapid identification of pathogens in our food sources, and the active monitoring of recreational and bathing waters. Our water quality technology has been used to create early warning systems that alert authorities and utilities to potential problems with water quality before they become serious issues. This helps prevent water-borne illness outbreaks and other health problems caused by contaminated water.
Our E.coli measurement technology was evaluated by the World Health Organization (WHO), as part of the UNICEF Rapid Water Quality Testing Project. The results of the WHO evaluation tests have shown that the FLUIDION ALERT technology is effective, simple to use, and compares favorably against the reference laboratory method in all ranges of bacteria levels relevant to drinking and surface water quality. The FLUIDION ALERT instrumentation results were judged easy to interpret. the risk of contamination to sample or operator was judged low, and sample disposal easy.
Reducing Environmental Footprint
We develop advanced digital water quality instrumentation that can help improve the quality of water and protect the health of communities and of the environment. By continuously monitoring the quality of water, our monitoring solutions help utilities optimize their water treatment and distribution systems, leading to more efficient use of water resources. This can help to conserve water and reduce the demand on limited water resources, and helps reduce the industry's carbon footprint. It also allows utilities and regulators to control effectively the quality of the effluents released in nature, thus limiting the impact on the environment. We help multiple utilities and environmental agencies worldwide to enhance their monitoring capabilities.
Enabling Citizen Involvement
Our technology is an excellent fit for implementing Citizen Science initatives and enabling untrained individuals to gain data-based insights into their environment and water quality, while simultaneously generating valuable scientific data. Our user-friendly instruments and powerful online data reporting and visualization interfaces can easily be integrated with grass-roots environmental education programs.
Pushing the Boundaries of Science
Our unique instrumentation is used by researchers worldwide to provide critical data about the planetary ocean. As an early industry actor in ocean acidication research, we proposed the hybrid colorimetric-potentiometric sensor concept that was tested in the Ocean Health X-Prize competition. Our unique sampling instruments are deployed on the ocean floor, or on autonomous submarines, to collect samples in the most challenging environments, including the very first samples from deep under the Antarctic ice shelf.