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About Eden
Eden Technologies exists for a simple reason: water should not be a limiting resource.


Our story starts in
Las Vegas, Nevada
Where Eden CEO Hunter Manz grew up watching the reality of water constraints up close. Living in the desert made one thing obvious early: water scarcity is not just a local issue, it is a global one.
This awareness evolved into a lingering question in the background of his childhood:
How do we make clean water more accessible, everywhere?

By 14, Hunter was already building machines in his parents’ garage. Before long, he met a mentor, an engineer and inventor, who helped hone that curiosity into direction and discipline.
That path led Hunter to study Mechanical Engineering and Finance at Utah Tech University, where he developed the idea for the reverse osmosis centrifuge (ROC) and began early validation work with his professors.

L-R (Hunter, Zack, Reece)
Around that same time, Hunter met his co-founders, Zack Manweiler and Reece Thompson. What started as shared ambition quickly became a shared mission: to end water scarcity by building infrastructure-grade ROC technology that can scale.
In the early years, the company raised multiple rounds of financing.
We continuously develop, test, and validate the ROC, pushing the technology forward step by step, problem by problem.
As Eden grew, more brilliant minds joined the team, people who thrive in the struggle, including engineering details, manufacturing realities, field constraints, and the persistence required to move from concept to a proven, working system.


We have earned our status in an unglamorous way; through persistence, creativity, and thousands of decisions made at the workbench, in the office, and in the field. We have had setbacks. We have rebuilt. And we have kept going.


Eden may be unconventional, but we are serious about our mission and objectives. We believe this team will bring into existence the most impactful water technology of this century... and we are building it with the reliability the world demands.
Team
CORE TEAM

Hunter Manz
Founder & CEO

Zachary Manweiler
Co-Founder & CTO

Reece Thompson
Co-Founder & CSO

Joseph Cinquemani
Director of Mechanical Engineering

Rocky Schaeper
Director of Practical Engineering

Vishal Puppala
Lead Software Engineer

Ben Strang
Business Development & Finance

Pola Kurczych
Operations & Business Development
ADVISORS

Borja Blanco
CEO of Aqua Advise and Aqua Positive, International Desalination Association (IDA) Board Director

Dr. Shan Yong
Technology Assessment, Blue Tech Research

Gonzalo Ceppi
Business Development & Sales

Gregory Fisichelli
Finance Advisor

Nikolay Voutchkov
Former Director of Water Innovation, NEOM

Richard Socarides
Venture Capitalist
Partnerships
IDEASHIP

UTAH TECH UNIVERSITY

UTAH INNOVATION FUND

PROTO TOWN

021 VC
TPWC

AQUA ADVISE

BALKY STUDIO
GENE'S MACHINE
