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Aquagga

Aquagga is a startup company based in Tacoma, Washington, developing technology to destroy PFAS 'forever chemicals' using hydrothermal...

Facts

HQ
Seattle area
Sectors
Environmental Services
Founded
2019
Employees
19
Stage
startup
Total raised
$200K SEC Form D filings Total of this company's SEC Form D filings
Last round
$200K · Apr 2023 SEC Form D

Uncommon Thinkers 2025: Solar spacecraft, sci-fi biology, destroying PFAS, beyond AI chatbots, and better social media

On this special episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded backstage at the GeekWire Gala at the Showbox Sodo, we sit down with five of the inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs selected as the Seattle region's 2025 Uncommon Thinkers, in partnership with Greater Seattle Partners. Jeff Thornburg spent years building rocket engines for Elon Musk at SpaceX and Paul Allen at Stratolaunch. Now, as CEO of Portal Space Systems, he's moved past chemical rockets to revive a concept NASA studied decades ago but never pursued — a spacecraft powered by focused sunlight. He calls it a "steam engine for space." Read the…

People

  • Brian Pinkard
    Brian Pinkard Founder, Co-founder, Executive Officer, Director, CTO & Co-Founder
  • Chris Woodruff
    Chris Woodruff Founder, Co-founder, Executive Officer, Director, Co-Founder/COO at Aquagga, Inc.

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