{"id":2142,"date":"2025-07-31T16:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.ncsu.edu\/win\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:17:05","slug":"%f0%9f%93%b0here-are-the-angel-deals-of-the-week-from-todays-issue-of-the-diligent-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.ncsu.edu\/win\/%f0%9f%93%b0here-are-the-angel-deals-of-the-week-from-todays-issue-of-the-diligent-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the &#8220;Angel Deals of the Week&#8221; from today&#8217;s issue of The Diligent Observer:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thediligentobserver.com\/p\/angeldealsoftheweek-7-31-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Full Report By Andrew Kazlow of The Diligent Observer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.invictawater.com\/\"><strong>Invicta Water<\/strong><\/a> is developing a continuous flow system that removes and destroys PFAS contamination from drinking water, wastewater, and industrial runoff in a single process. The Burlington, North Carolina company demonstrated 99.91% PFAS reduction in Wake County trials and operates industrial installations processing up to 1.5 million gallons daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stevewilcenski\/?utm_source=www.thediligentobserver.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=dental-lasers-pay-for-quality-ai-and-why-customer-rejection-is-better-than-an-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steve Wilcenski<\/a>&nbsp;| Burlington, NC | July 2025 |&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ncsu.edu\/win\/win-and-harbright-invest-in-invicta-water-to-combat-nationwide-pfas-crisis\/?utm_source=www.thediligentobserver.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=dental-lasers-pay-for-quality-ai-and-why-customer-rejection-is-better-than-an-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Source<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The company recently secured $426K from WIN and Harbright Ventures to scale their technology, targeting a market where 45% of U.S. drinking water systems face PFAS contamination and 97% of Americans have PFAS in their blood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"is-text wp-block-ncst-buttons\">\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-ncst-button\">\n      <a\n        class=\"ncst-block__button-link btn\"\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.thediligentobserver.com\/p\/angeldealsoftheweek-7-31-25\"\n        data-ncst-lightbox=\"false\"\n                      >\n                  <span class=\"text\">Read Full Article<\/span><span class=\"arrow-indicator\"><svg class=\"wolficon wolficon-arrow-right-bold\" role=\"img\"  aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<use xlink:href=\"#wolficon-arrow-right-bold\">\n\t\t<\/svg><\/span>\n              <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invicta Water is developing a continuous flow system that removes and destroys PFAS contamination from drinking water, wastewater, and industrial runoff in a single process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1209,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"displayCategoryID\":9,\"showAuthor\":false,\"showDate\":false,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"showReadingTime\":false,\"subtitle\":\"Invicta Water, Inc. | Steve Wilcenski | Wolfpack Investor Network\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225,9],"tags":[250,56,247,182,178,75,59,245,249,47],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-link-to-external-news","category-news","tag-angel-deals-of-the-week","tag-angel-investing","tag-climate","tag-harbright-ventures","tag-nc-state-entrepreneurship","tag-nc-state-university","tag-north-carolina-startups","tag-pfas","tag-the-diligent-observer","tag-wolfpack-investor-network"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":9,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":9,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":129,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Here are the &quot;Angel Deals of the Week&quot; 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