A climate tech startup, Enaxiom, has raised US$1.8 million (A$2.5M) in Seed funding to support its work.
The round was led by Singapore-based investment group Epic Angels, with support from BlackNova and Antler.
The company has developed a patented system after 10 years of research. It is built to work with modern cooling methods like direct-to-chip and immersion cooling.
The system uses non-drinking water, such as wastewater, and can also produce clean, high-quality water as a useful by-product.
Collings, Enaxiom’s CEO, said water scarcity is becoming a defining challenge for the industry.
“As AI infrastructure scales, the real constraint is shifting from compute to energy and water,” she said.
“We’re building cooling infrastructure that tackles this at the heat rejection layer — one of the most overlooked but critical parts of a data centre cooling system.”
Epic Angels founding partner Maaike Doyer said their investment is part of a broader commitment to supporting female founders in deep tech.
“Data centers are one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time, and water is rapidly becoming as critical a constraint as energy,” she said.
“What makes Enaxiom compelling is that they have flipped the problem: instead of treating water consumption as an unavoidable cost of cooling, they have built a system that recovers it. And Tia is exactly the kind of founder we back: a female leader building deep technology in a space that has historically had very few of them”
Founded in 2023 by Bijan Rahimi and Tia Collings, Enaxiom is a climate-tech company building advanced cooling and water-management systems for AI and data centres.
As the demand for AI and high-performance computing grows, data centres are facing problems like high energy use, heavy water consumption, and managing heat. Enaxiom’s technology aims to solve these issues by making cooling systems more efficient and environmentally friendly, helping support the future of digital infrastructure.
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