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About Eden

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

The Eden Technologies team walking the Lockhart site
Desert terrain outside Las Vegas

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?

Hunter Manz testing equipment in the field

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 Genesis reverse osmosis centrifuge and began early validation work with his professors.

Hunter Manz, Zack Manweiler and Reece Thompson walking the Lockhart site

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 Genesis technology that can scale.

In the early years, the company raised multiple rounds of financing

We continuously develop, test, and validate the Genesis, 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.

Rocky Schaeper at work
Vishal Puppala at work
Joseph Cinquemani at work

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.

The Eden Technologies team

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

Advisors

Partnerships

Ideaship

Utah Tech University

Utah Innovation Fund

Proto Town

021 VC

Texas Produced Water Consortium

Aqua Advise

Balky Studio

Gene's Machine