This database includes high potential projects and companies in the agrifood sectors based and working primarily in Switzerland, founded or active since 2000 and still operational. The maturity phase ranges from initial concept (formation or validation) up to those that are trying to capture a larger market space (growth and then established). Discover the companies by using the search filters. Sort the list by clicking on the arrows next to founding year, canton and phase. If your innovation is missing, please add your project here .
| Company Name | Founding year Canton Phase | Areas of Activity [Subareas] | Technology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floating Robotics |
2023 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Engineering, Farming & agriculture, Information technology, Resource efficiency ] | Robotic |
| We automate harvesting and de-leafing in greenhouses with an integrated robotic and AI solution that easily adapts to existing standards. | |||
| Fountain |
2023 ZH formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] | food tech |
| Fountain created a zero-waste beverage vending machine. The drinks are made out of natural essences which the machine directly adds to tap water. The beverages can be personalized and poured directly into a reusable bottle or a glass. | |||
| niatsu |
2023 validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Food, Farming or Forestry [ Environmental monitoring, Food production & retail ] | Climate technologies, food tech, IT Software |
| Niatsu provides a carbon footprint framework to enable their customers to automate the CO2-Calculation of their food products. | |||
| alphornventures |
2022 TG formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Financing and financial services, Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| Alphorn Venture Partners is a global growth equity food tech company that combines the advantages of PE stability and VC growth to enable food tech innovators to develop breakthrough technologies. This is to be achieved through "the Forge". A scale-up space and innovation center in the north of Zurich, Switzerland. | |||
| Bottle+ |
2022 SG validation |
Recreation, hotels & restaurants, Food, Farming or Forestry [ Resource efficiency ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Bottle+ launches the reusable water bottle that allows you to make sparkling water anytime, anywhere - designed in Switzerland and completely plastic-free. | |||
| cluster food & nutrition |
2022 FR formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| The Food & Nutrition Cluster is an association that has been active in the food sector since 2015. As a networking and intermediary platform at regional and national level, the Food & Nutrition Cluster aims to strengthen cooperation between the various players in the food ecosystem and support them in their innovation efforts. It combines food processing expertise with know-how on nutrition, health and new technologies, always taking into account sustainability and the principle of the circular economy. More than 80 members and partners from the food, agriculture, packaging and distribution sectors, as well as research and educational institutions, the public sector and trade associations are currently part of the Food & Nutrition Cluster network. | |||
| Hängry |
2022 ZH formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| Ready to eat dishes from food waste, delivered to you. | |||
| mycosuisse |
2022 validation |
Many different areas, Food, Farming or Forestry [ Construction of buildings, Farming & agriculture, Waste & recycling ] | Bio technologies |
| Mycosuisse develops various applications based on different fungal mycelia, e.g. insulation & packaging material, cleaning agents based on mycoremediation, fungal mycelia-based auxiliaries for plant cultivation | |||
| Nutrai |
2016 ZH formation |
Health & House & Body Care, Food, Farming or Forestry [ Healthcare ] | Smart device |
| We discover the how, when, & why of food consumption patterns that are affecting patients health | |||
| Vege'tables |
2022 NE growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Vege’tables is a Smart Food consulting company offering concrete solutions to organisations, collective and commercial catering and individuals enabling them unlock their full potential and perform better, while doing their part for the planet. | |||
| Limoo |
2021 VD validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Catering, Restaurants ] | Unknown |
| When you order from Limoo, you can order with the same excitement, assurance and peace of mind that come with dining out at any top-quality restaurant establishment. Our Chefs are professional private chefs or small family businesses traiteurs which comply with local food safety regulations and Limoo’s highest food standards. Limoo’s expert food tasters will also sample every single chef dish to ensure they’re amazing in flavor and value before adding it to our menus and reaching you! | |||
| StadtOase |
2021 SH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Gardening ] | agricultural technologies, Bio technologies, Fertilizers from wastewater, waste or other sources, Low technology |
| StadtOase produces and sells automated planting systems, allowing the users to easily grow their own food and have a steady supply of fresh and healthy vegetables with minimal effort. | |||
| Agilery |
2021 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Agilery helps manufacturing food products in small to medium scale quantities for quick launches in a fully collaborative model through a network of partners. it therefor helps to speed up the innovation process and the market introduction and testing of new producs. | |||
| Aleph-Insight |
2021 VS validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ air quality ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Aleph Insight uses photochemistry to clean the air in livestock buildings, with a patented cutting-edge technology, that is very energy efficient. | |||
| Digit Soil |
2021 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Environmental monitoring ] | Sensors |
| Digit Soil rents out the worlds first Soil Health Sensor. The sensor measures soil enzyme activity which is a good indicator of soil health. Through soil enzyme activity organic matter and fertilizer are made available to plants. In addition Digit Soil offers a soil measurement service in which they measure the activities of hydrolitic extracellular soil enzymes. These are involved in many important soil processes like for example nutrients cycling. | |||
| Ensoy |
2021 TG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| We produce sustainable tofu for your kitchen from organic soy from Thurgau. With the use of Thurgau organic soy, our tofu becomes even more regional. A sign of a Swiss quality product. | |||
| Chichery |
2021 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| Chickpeas are a superfood - rich in protein, fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals. Chichery produces various snacks from chickpeas. Their products do not contain any artificial ingredients. Because the chickpeas are roasted extremely gently, they are already very tasty by themselves. | |||
| Fabas (fyn foods) |
2021 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| We produce the first 101% Swiss organic hummus in close cooperation with our farmers: vegetable, protein-rich, healthy and super tasty! | |||
| GreenState |
2021 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| GreenState AG specializes in indoor cultivation in modular and vertical farms with which resources and costs are to be saved. They plan plan on operating several farms in Switzerland, the USA and the EU. In addition, they offer for sale the necessary hardware and software solutions to build and operate modular and vertical farms. | |||
| Local'ice |
2021 FR growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | |
| Natural and Local Soft-Ice and Granite | |||
| Luya Foods |
2021 BE growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| Luya is a flavor loaded plant-based alternative to meat taking sustainability to the next level. We rescue organic okara - a by-product of tofu and soymilk production of which more than 1500 tonnes go to waste in Switzerland every year - and turn it into ready-to-cook slices, chunks and patties. | |||
| Pleasant Plants |
2021 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ air quality, Farming & agriculture, Gardening ] | |
| Grow your own organic herbs and vegetables at home, with little work and little waste! Our automated systems save you time, water, nutrients and pesticides, and deliver fresh ingredients every day. | |||
| Urstamm |
2021 AR formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Forestry ] | |
| We enable and promote sustainable timber, forest management and regionality through transparency and efficient processes with digital proof of origin on the wood. | |||
| Voltiris |
2022 VD formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Energy efficiency, Energy Production, Farming & agriculture ] | Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use., Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies |
| Agricultural greenhouses are key toward a sustainable food supply, however they have significant energetic needs due to heating and artificial lightening. There is a push from governments, retailers and consumers to reduce carbon footprint of greenhouses. Voltiris enables double-use of large greenhouses surfaces to produce electricity without impacting their high agricultural yield. Voltiris introduces a solar panel design to generate electricity from the part of sunlight's spectrum that is unused for crop growth. | |||
| Zélo |
2021 VD growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Trade and Retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Zélo is a zero-waste supermarket that offers a home delivery service by cargo bike, with the particularity that all products are delivered with the “zero waste” concept, i.e., packed in reusable containers. | |||
| Agrinorm |
2020 ZH formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] | IT data usage |
| AgriNorm is a Swiss based deep-tech startup leveraging scientific advances in plant genetics, biochemistry and machine learning techniques for the optimization of perishable fruits supply chain. AgriNorm is developing an AI-powered cloud-based system for predicting the expected quality properties and shelf-life of perishable fruits at the farm gate. This will allow our customers to: 1. Improve margins through optimization of sales channels via smart allocation of the right products to the right clients. 2. Save costs via waste reduction, prevention of claims and avoidance of freights expenditures. | |||
| HopVrac |
2020 NE growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| A local, organic, circular economy and zero waste products, with packaging in reusable containers in Neuchatel! | |||
| IRISgo (previously ConceptIris) |
2020 LU validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail, Recreation, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| They developed and created the best and most convenient reusable cup. | |||
| lowimpact food |
2021 VD validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail, Resource sufficiency ] | |
| Lowimpact food provides a concrete solution to the problem of feeding the planet in 2050. We revalue co-products from various local beer and fruit juice producers through the breeding of edible insects. Thanks to its low ecological impact and high bioconversion, insect breeding is part of sustainable production. The breeding is carried out in a controlled environment and devoid of invasive treatment. These insects are then transformed into an ultra protein flour which can be easily integrated into different foods (eg: cereal bars or protein pastes). | |||
| Yasai |
2020 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail, Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | agricultural technologies, Bio technologies, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Yasai offers Farming as a Service with Vertical Farms based on circular economy within Smart Cities | |||