Neuromod Aqua Raises Pre-Seed Funding from Sportskeeda Founder Porush Jain to Productise Wastewater Infrastructure

Neuromod Aqua is an Indian water-infrastructure company working to change how decentralised wastewater-treatment plants are built and owned. The company has raised its pre-seed round from Porush Jain, founder of Sportskeeda, to build a factory-manufactured platform for decentralised sewage and effluent treatment and develop a more standardised, lifecycle-led approach to wastewater infrastructure.

The company will use the capital to establish its manufacturing platform, develop and validate its productised STP, complete initial commercial deployments, and expand its process-engineering and service capabilities. Neuromod is developing modular treatment plants using proven technologies such as MBBR, MBR and SBR, with its innovation focused on how these systems are designed, manufactured and deployed.

Neuromod’s approach is built around the productisation of wastewater infrastructure. Its product platform uses standardised modules that can be configured for different capacities and treatment requirements. Process design remains site-specific, but the structural system, equipment interfaces, installation protocols and service architecture are designed for repetition. Subject to site readiness, the company is targeting installation windows measured in days rather than months.

India’s urban centres generate approximately 72,368 million litres of sewage every day, according to the Central Pollution Control Board’s national inventory. Installed treatment capacity stands at 31,841 MLD, while actual treatment is approximately 20,235 MLD. In other words, the country treats only about 28 per cent of the urban sewage it generates. A 2025 analysis by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water estimates that India may need an additional 70,000 MLD of treatment capacity by 2047, requiring capital investment of roughly ₹1.56 lakh crore to ₹2.31 lakh crore.

Neuromod’s thesis is that this gap cannot be closed by executing every treatment plant as a fresh civil-construction project. Its product platform uses standardised modules that can be configured for different capacities and treatment requirements, while combining established treatment technologies with a more repeatable approach to infrastructure design, manufacturing, installation and service.

“Wastewater treatment does not suffer from a shortage of acronyms or proven processes. It suffers from unpredictable execution, fragmented accountability and poor long-term ownership,” said Anuj Arora, Founder and CEO of Neuromod Aqua. “We are taking what already works scientifically and redesigning how it is manufactured, delivered and operated. Our ambition is to turn treatment plants from one-off projects into dependable products.”

Neuromod is being built by Arora alongside Co-founder and CTO Anand Dad, an environmental engineer from Georgia Tech. The company intends to derive a growing share of its economics from annual maintenance contracts, operations and maintenance, compliance support, equipment replacement and remote monitoring, aligning its incentives with the plant’s performance after commissioning.

“Water infrastructure is a large and necessary market in which execution quality matters as much as treatment technology,” said Porush Jain. “Neuromod’s focus on standardization, manufacturing discipline and long-term service gives it the potential to build a scalable company in a sector that has traditionally remained project-led.”

Over the next twelve months, Neuromod plans to commission its manufacturing facility, complete initial deployments in and around Delhi NCR, build a service and spare-parts network, and expand its product configurations across sewage treatment, effluent treatment, zero liquid discharge, water reuse, reverse osmosis and demineralization applications.

With its product-led approach, Neuromod Aqua aims to move wastewater infrastructure beyond one-time project execution towards a model built around standardisation, predictable deployment and long-term asset performance. Its operating philosophy is captured in the line: “Turning Projects into Products.”