Greentech firm Spotless Water raises £6.4m led by YFM Equity Partners
This article covers Spotless Water, a greentech startup, which has raised £6.4m in a growth funding round to accelerate rollout of its pure water refill stations across the UK. The funding aims to scale its concession-style network in retail and forecourt locations to provide 24/7 access to zero Total Dissolved Solids water for professional cleaning and detailing businesses, reducing the need for on-site purification equipment and disposable resin waste.
Spotless Water has raised £6.4 million in a growth funding round to speed up rollout of its pure water refill stations across the UK and expand 24/7 access for professional cleaning and detailing businesses; the investment aims to scale its concession-style network in retail and forecourt locations where customers can refill without producing pure water on-site.
Why it matters
The deal matters because many cleaning and maintenance businesses rely on pure water — water with zero Total Dissolved Solids — to achieve spot-free finishes without detergents. Producing that water on-site requires costly equipment, ongoing maintenance and generates waste. Spotless Water’s network offers a centralised alternative that could reduce capital and operational burdens for thousands of businesses while cutting waste from disposable resins used in conventional purification systems.
Inside the product
Spotless Water’s stations use a patent-pending Spotless Ecoflow® system alongside advanced electrodeionisation (EDI) technology to produce high-purity water. The company says each station can dispense up to 120 litres per minute and is fitted as a hands-off, fully managed concession with more than 45 sensors for real-time monitoring of water quality, pressure and flow. That setup aims to minimise water waste and remove the need for disposable resins common in legacy systems.
Current deployments support 22,000 weekly refills across 160 UK stations, and the business reports having dispensed over 600 million litres since launching in 2016. The company is trialling integration of stations into Park Garage Group’s jet wash bays, which it describes as an industry-first, and recently signed concession partnerships with Morrisons, Park Garage Group and Motor Fuel Group to give customers convenient refill points alongside shopping, refuelling or vehicle charging.
Who are the investors?
The round was led by YFM Equity Partners. The £6.4 million brings total investment into Spotless Water to roughly £18 million to date, money the company says has been deployed on its technology, infrastructure and support services. YFM’s participation is accompanied by a stated strengthening of the management team to support national rollout.
In the announcement, Srikar Karri, Investor at YFM Equity Partners, said:
Spotless Water has built something genuinely unique, a national network that gives cleaning and maintenance professionals instant access to pure water, without the cost or waste that comes with producing it themselves. We're pleased to have led this investment in Spotless Water. This funding will significantly accelerate site rollout across the UK, bringing pure water access to many more businesses. As part of this round, we have also significantly strengthened the management team and we're excited to support the business through the next phase of its growth.
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Founder perspective
In the announcement, Tim Morris, CEO at Spotless Water, said:
Spotless Water is moving into another exciting phase. This latest round of investment allows us to turbocharge our next stage of growth and build on the success we've already had. This funding will allow us to deepen our national partnerships which include Morrisons, MFG and Park Garage Group, and provide our customers with access to stations at more great locations where they can shop, refuel or charge their vehicles while refilling their pure water. It also allows us to grow our market presence and deploy the patent-pending technology we're so proud of. It has disrupted the industry and brings a new level of service and access to pure water for cleaning professionals, with environmental responsibility built in.
Spotless Water says the funding will be used to accelerate station rollout over the next 12 months, fund station upgrades and continue trials such as the jet wash integration with Park Garage Group.
The bigger picture
The announcement sits at the intersection of greentech infrastructure and service consolidation for trade customers. The UK window cleaning sector is forecast to exceed £530 million by 2030 and vehicle detailing demand is also growing, creating an addressable market for centralised pure water supply. By removing on-site purification equipment and disposable resins, the approach can reduce waste and operating complexity for businesses that need reliably pure water.
This funding round also reflects broader appetite for greentech-focused infrastructure that replaces one-off capital purchases with managed, networked services. As Spotless Water seeks to grow from 160 stations towards its 1,200-station ambition by 2029, the outcome will be a useful indicator of demand for shared clean-water infrastructure across retail and forecourt ecosystems in the UK and potentially beyond.
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