Safisana

What Safisana does

Safisana is a Dutch non-profit founded in 2010 and headquartered in Weesp, Netherlands, with a staff of 11-50. According to the available firmographic data, the organization constructs and operates recycling plants that integrate four functional domains: sanitation, waste treatment, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture. This integrated model implies that waste streams are processed to produce renewable energy (likely biogas or similar) while also generating agricultural inputs (likely compost or nutrient-rich effluent) for use in farming, with the sanitation dimension indicating human waste or fecal-sludge handling as a feedstock. The combination is a circular-economy construct typical of social enterprises active in off-grid or peri-urban sanitation contexts.

The company's business model appears to be non-commercial grant and donor funded, consistent with its non-profit status. The only documented capital inflow is a $50,000 grant from The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation recorded in January 2022 — a small, seed-scale grant typical of non-profit capacity-building support rather than institutional project financing. No pricing models, customer logos, revenue figures, offtake agreements, certifications, patents, management team details, or partnership data are disclosed in the source data, which largely consists of a verification-only loading page from safisana.org. The organization has been continuously operating for over a decade (2010 to present), suggesting durable but low-profile operations relative to its likely geographic focus within the Netherlands or West Africa regional sanitation markets commonly associated with this type of model.

The fundamental data gaps are significant: there is no publicly disclosed revenue, no employee roster, no project pipeline, no geographic deployment footprint beyond the Weesp headquarters, and no commercial counterparty disclosures. Any deeper assessment of unit economics, customer mix, and growth signals is therefore not supportable from the current source material.

Name

Safisana

Website

https://safisana.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Safisana is a Dutch non-profit that constructs and operates recycling plants integrating sanitation, waste treatment, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture. It is based in Weesp, Netherlands, founded in 2010.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental and Waste Management Services

NAICS

Waste Treatment and Disposal (56221), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Remediation and Other Waste Management Services (5629), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Sanitary Services (4950), Refuse Systems (4953), Electric, Gas & Sanitary Services (4900)

akta.pro primary industry

Foodservice & Hospitality Waste Services (Non-hazardous, Back-of-house) (EUAIAGAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Yard Waste, Land Clearing & Green Waste Processing (Mulch/Compost Feedstock) (BPALAEAG)

Keywords

• Waste recycling plants
• Sanitation services
• Renewable energy production
• Sustainable agriculture solutions
• Waste-to-energy systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Weesp

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Safisana constructs and operates recycling plants that integrate four functions: sanitation, waste treatment, renewable energy generation, and sustainable agriculture. The plants take in waste streams, treat them to recover resources and energy, and apply outputs to agricultural use, operating as physical infrastructure in Weesp, Netherlands.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Integrated Recycling Plants

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Others

• WaterAid: International NGO focused on water, sanitation, and hygiene in low-income regions. Ecosystem / donor-network peer adjacent to Safisana's sanitation mission and emerging-markets footprint.
• Toilet Board Coalition: Swiss-based non-profit accelerator convening companies building sanitation circular-economy businesses. Ecosystem peer — relevant for partnership and visibility, not direct operations.
• Orège (now Veolia Sludge Solutions) / Eggersmann Group: European firms operating advanced organic waste treatment and biogas plant infrastructure. Relevant adjacency as technology/infrastructure providers that Safisana may use or compete with for plant builds.

Direct peers

• Sanergy: Kenya-based social enterprise operating circular facilities that convert urban sanitation waste into agricultural inputs and biogas. Closest peer to Safisana — same integrated sanitation-to-fertilizer-and-energy model serving emerging markets.
• Sistema.bio: Mexico-headquartered biogas digester company that processes organic and animal waste to produce renewable energy and biofertilizer for smallholder farmers. Direct peer on the bio-digestion-and-fertilizer side of Safisana's operations.
• SOIL Haiti: Haitian non-profit social enterprise that treats human waste through composting and converts it into agricultural fertilizer. Overlaps with Safisana on the sanitation-to-fertilizer circular chain.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia Environnement: Global environmental services and waste management major with operations across sanitation, recycling, and energy recovery. Broad incumbent against which Safisana's integrated plant model competes or partners at municipal scale.
• Suez Environnement: French environmental services major operating waste collection, treatment, and recovery infrastructure across Europe and emerging markets. Incumbent comparator for the integrated waste-to-energy/value recovery market.

Emerging players

• Loowatt: UK-based sanitation innovator pioneering container-based toilet systems with waste-to-energy/biogas treatment. Comparable to Safisana on the sanitation-to-energy frontier.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SafiSana_org
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/safisana

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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