Vital Lyfe
Portable machines that turn almost any water into drinking water.
- Founded
- Not disclosed
- Headquarters
- California
- Disclosed funding
- $24M
- Status
- Operating
- Sector
- Climate & Materials
- Latest round
- Seed, $24M
- Reported valuation
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- Website
- vital-lyfe.com
Overview
Vital Lyfe builds compact desalination and purification systems for off-grid, disaster and backcountry use, and opened a California manufacturing hub. CEO Jonathan Criss spent more than a decade at SpaceX on Dragon and Starlink.
Funding
$24M seed (Dec 2025).
Disclosed funding is the sum of publicly reported rounds found in the sources below. It is a floor, not a complete total.
Founders
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Sources
Last verified September 30, 2026.