Brightwater

A home water monitor that reads pipe sound. No plumbing.

Brightwater clamps to a pipe and listens. It learns the house in a week, then flags leaks and running toilets before the water bill does. Installs in five minutes with no plumber.

Priya Natarajan Co-founder and CTO Table 5, back wall

Main quest

The fundraise. Read only: nothing to submit.

Round

Seed

Raising

$2M

Committed

$900K

Closing

end of Q1

Looking for

A hardware-literate lead and angels from insurance or home services.

Use of funds

Contract manufacturing for the third revision and a two-thousand-unit first run.

Side quests

What Priya wants a hand with. Pick one and say so below.

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  Specialist advice

  One hardware advisor who has shipped a consumer sensor

  We are between our second and third revision and about to commit to a contract manufacturer. I want one conversation with someone who has been through DFM on a consumer device and can tell me what I am about to get wrong.

  Who fits

  • Hardware founders past a first production run
  • Ops leads at a consumer device company

  Effort

  One 45-minute call in the next two weeks.

  I can help
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  Product testing

  Five LA homes for a weekend install

  If you own a house with copper or PEX pipe and are home one Saturday in December, we will install a unit for free and take it back after a month.

  Who fits

  • Homeowners in LA
  • Renters with a landlord who will say yes

  Effort

  One Saturday morning, then nothing.

  I can help

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