Telaqua was founded in 2018 in Aix-en-Provence by Sébastien Demech, Nicolas Cavalier, and Nicolas Carvallo with a simple idea: to connect irrigation networks to better understand water usage.

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Nicolas Carvallo has always seen this firsthand through his father, an irrigation system designer: no matter how excellent a system you build, if you don’t have the data needed to operate and maintain it, you won’t be able to optimize its irrigation to 100%.

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In order to resolve this, Telaqua develop a first solution that combines IoT sensors and a software platform, allowing farmers to monitor pressure, flow, and irrigation remotely via the IrrigEasy app.

From the outset, the founders know that the opportunity is much greater. They are not just building a tool; they are building the future digital infrastructure for agricultural water.

Telaqua has improved the reliability of its hardware and developed a robust application. As a result, following successful tests on small-scale sites in France, the company is now beginning to expand its reach to major agricultural groups around the world.

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Each installation generates something the industry has never had before: operational data on actual irrigation networks.

• Pressure dynamics
• Hydraulic anomalies
• Water and energy consumption
• Irrigation behaviors.

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The more networks connect, the more the platform begins to understand how water works in the real world.

This database quickly becomes Telaqua's strategic asset.

In order to have a positive impact on a global scale—and not just in France—Telaqua is strengthening its international presence and now operates in more than 10 countries on 3 continents, while continuing its international expansion.

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To maximize this impact, the teams at Telaqua place a special focus on particularly on the regions where water management becomes a major issue for food security, like West Africa.

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This international expansion also provides an opportunity to strengthen the expertise of our IrrigEasy platform across various crop types and climates.

In our discussions with farmers, we saw how challenging it was to connect different equipment.

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That's why in 2024, Telaqua makes a structural decision and

gave up sensor manufacturing to focus on its greatest added value: becoming a universal software platform.

Instead of imposing proprietary hardware, Telaqua becomes agnostic and compatible with all market equipment.

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This pivot transforms the startup into an open digital infrastructure for global irrigation. Now, the platform can connect any hardware (sensor, pump, valve, ...) from any manufacturer.

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A neutral software layer finally emerges in the industry.

With deployments in over 10 countries and thousands of connected devices, Telaqua begins to build one of the richest databases in the world on agricultural hydraulic networks.

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Irrigation networks become observable as living systems with over 400,000 hours of scheduled irrigation per month.

Telaqua officially launches the Water Operating System (Water OS).

More than just software, the Water OS is the digital brain of irrigation networks. Thanks to the Water OS, the system can:

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rebuild hydraulic networks in real-time

automatically detect anomalies

predict failures

dynamically optimize irrigation.

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For operators and industries, this means an immediate reduction in operational costs of 15 to 20% from the first season, thanks to the optimization of water, energy, and maintenance.

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But the impact goes further: the Water OS also enables complete traceability of water usage, meeting the growing demands of large corporations and states regarding ESG reporting, water sovereignty, and food security.

Irrigation thus transitions from a manual system to a data-driven predictive infrastructure.