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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NaturaYuva |
2018 BS validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Bodycare, Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Bio technologies |
| NaturaYuva aims to rejuvenate agriculture by developing organic farming protocols of medicinal and aromatic plants and subsequent ecological extraction processes to produce niche natural ingredients used in varied end segments such as nutraceuticals, flavors, cosmetics, pharma. | |||
| Novaris (Soneva) |
2017 LU validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | Enabling technologies, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| "soneva" is an airtight drawer with a vacuum. This stops the oxidation process of food. This keeps food fresh and of high quality for longer. The food is stored in the Vacuum drawer stored in gastro containers. Each container is vacuumed separately. The customer can choose the size of these containers himself. With this system, it is possible to reduce the consumption of plastic and conserve food like bred, fruits etc. that should not be stored in the fridge. | |||
| Olanga ( previously myFoodWaste ) |
2020 AG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Catering, Environmental monitoring, Farming & agriculture, Resource efficiency, Restaurants, Waste & recycling ] | Internet of Things |
| Olanga is the Swiss solution for sustainable food consumption and Food Waste reduction in the gastronomy. It allows to preorder food with an app at company retaurants et university to personalize the diet plan and gives planning security to the restaurants. Olanga leads to sustainable cost savings and Food Waste reduction and helps to protect natural resources. Olanga can reduce the costs in canteens by up to 3% and significantly increase customers satisfaction. | |||
| Prognolite |
2016 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Catering, Food production & retail, Hotel, Information technology, Resource efficiency, Restaurants, Waste & recycling ] | |
| Our forcast app tells restaurants how many guests are coming next week on which day. They can reduce food waste and improve their staff planning. | |||
| ResiLi |
2021 FR validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Energy efficiency, Resource efficiency, Resource sufficiency ] | Filters & Membranes |
| ResiLi takes the slaughtherhouses wastewater and filter it with high-tech filtration so this water can go back to the process using less energy than normal. | |||
| rqmicro |
2013 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Healthcare ] | Bio technologies |
| Next generation microbiology for water and food safety | |||
| 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. | |||
| WEPOT |
2020 VD validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture, Resource sufficiency, Water Management ] | Unknown |
| The plant fixes its roots around the pot and, thanks to the natural porosity of the clay, it drinks as needed. This avoids any water stress, the development of weeds but above all a saving of 50% to 70% water! | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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. | |||
| aikemy |
2020 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Environmental monitoring, Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Sensors, Water pollution abatement |
| The World's Smallest Nutrient Composition Analyzer. Our technology uses novel accurate portable NIR sensors, AI, and digital intelligence for animal nutrition. The application tracks the data on feed cost savings and sustainability indicators. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Aquafuture |
2014 BE validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| At Aquafuture, we support family farms in establishing a new branch of aquaculture operations. Aemme Shrimp is our pilot farm | |||
| Primal Bee Systems (BeeHelpful) |
2017 TI validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| Beehelpful has developed a new patented class of hives (Primalbee) that improve the health of bees, increase pollination capacity and reduce the chemical treatment of hives. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Chopf-Nuss |
2020 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech, Low technology |
| The vegetable alternative to grated cheese. Nut mesan from Chopf-Nuss is suitable for pasta dishes and more. | |||
| Digi Meals |
2016 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Trade and Retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Using state-of-the-art technology, DigiMeals develops user-friendly and easily customisable solutions around digital recipes. We empower consumers to confidently cook their preferred healthy recipes. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Entomos |
2009 VD validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| the world's first 50/50 flexi-burger made with 50% organic Swiss mealworms and 50% Swiss beef | |||
| Field Food AG (eggfield) |
2022 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| EggField produces a new generation of natural, plant-based egg alternatives. EggField Basic Aquafaba, EggField One and EggField Plus replace Whole Egg, Egg White and Egg Yellow out of natural ingredients without additives. | |||
| greenmodul.ch |
2019 SH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | agricultural technologies |
| Container with hydroponic plant growth and with a potentiated light well, daylight is reflected and distributed into the interior of the greenmodul, allowing vegetables and plants to grow on multiple levels. With additional LED light during the night, the seedlings grow in the hydroponic method (substrate-free cultivation with nutrient solution) under ideal conditions and without stress. The plants grow 24 hours, 365 days, with about 90% less water and free of any micro-civilization residues in water and air. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Crick (Insekterei GmbH) |
2017 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| Crick produces insect-based foods like snacks or crispbread | |||
| Karibou |
2015 GE validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| karibou.ch strengthens the local stationary trade with its online deployment! Find the service and diversity of a market by finding the best products at the same price as at the market! What makes the strength of a market is the diversity of products, the quality of products, and the personalized customer service. With all our passion, we have created a technology that enhances the existing stationary infrastructure and deploys it in the digital world. Because what you eat matters! | |||
| CookEat |
2014 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Trade and Retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Your marketplace for home-cooked food. You can find delicious offers from your neighborhood and offer your food for sale yourself. | |||
| Micropow |
2019 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| MicroPow encapsulates valuable ingredients enabling timed release and preservation, which allows to drastically reduce losses during production and adding value to end products. microPow powders can be tailored to a broad range of food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications, without relying on any added artificial ingredients. | |||
| 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 | |||
| myfeld |
2020 AG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail, Gardening ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| MyFeld.ch brings your own garden into your living room. And this in a digital and playful way. Customers can plant vegetables, fruits and herbs online and then it will be planted on the farm and is delivered to the customer. They can choose from over 30 varieties to plant their own 16 square meter field. The growth can be watched via webcam. MyFeld farmers and gardeners take care of the maintenance. As soon as your harvest is ripe, we deliver it conveniently to their home. | |||
| 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. | |||
| NutriFly |
2020 FL validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| NutriFly produces high quality products for animals and plants from insects. In our production process, we exclusively process regionally available by-products from the agricultural and food industries into high-protein animal feed and nutrient-rich fertilizers. | |||