This database includes high potential projects and companies in the environment and energy 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 What phase are you currently in? | Areas of Activity [Subareas] | Technology |
|---|---|---|---|
| SwissINSO |
2006 VD Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Solarthermal |
| SwissINSO is a pioneer in the development and application of new solar technologies and products targeted at enhancing the aesthetics and overall efficiency of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) and thermal solar energy solutions. KromatixTM solar glass is available in various tuneable colours (all colours are virtually possible, white and sparkling red excepted) and has a beautiful opaque finish, making the inner workings of the solar panels are invisible and thus further enhancing the overall aesthetics of the panel. | |||
| Swisspod Technologies |
2019 VS Formation |
Mobility & Transport, [ Rail Transport ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Building the next mode of transportation: Hyperloop With a virtually non-existent environmental footprint, our vision of the Hyperloop has limitless potential to enrich our lives as well as our planet. | |||
| SWISS PV |
2015 SO Validation |
Buildings & Construction, Energy & Power Systems [ Building Construction ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Planning and implementation of complex solar projects, to integer the solar technology not only in buildings, but also in the living environment and people's awareness. | |||
| Swiss Renewable Solutions AG |
2020 ZG Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Photovoltaics, Smart: Home & building |
| SRS provides comprehensive renewable energy solutions for multi-family homes, residential communities, and industrial buildings, focusing on projects with roof areas of 2500 m² or more. Founded by Swiss investors, SRS offers decades of financing expertise and has partnered in building over 10 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity worldwide, powering over 3 million households. | |||
| swizz-e |
2016 SZ Validation |
Mobility & Transport, [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter |
| swizz-e GmbH designed a new e-scooter (Roller) that is produced completely in Switzerland. | |||
| Synhelion |
2016 TI Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards, Energy & Power Systems,Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Solarthermal, Energy: Storage other than batteries, Energy: Synthetic fuels (e.g. power to liquid) |
| Synhelion is on a mission to replace fossil fuels by economically viable synthetic fuels, which are compatible with the current global fuel infrastructure and reduce net CO2 emissions by up to 100 percent. Synhelion uses high-temperature solar heat to convert water and CO2 into synthetic fuels – so-called solar fuels. | |||
| Locatee |
2014 ZH Validation |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that empowers workplace leaders to make fact-based decisions about their real estate portfolio by transforming complex data into space utilization insights. By leveraging various IT data sources, Locatee transforms information into actionable insight, thereby shaping the way employees interact with the workplace and making office buildings truly human-centric. | |||
| technis |
2016 VD Growth |
Buildings & Construction, | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Other: Enabling tech, Smart: City, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Sensors |
| Control your flow of visitors, Simplify people flow management with a reassuring, easy to install solution for both shops and consumers. Installed easily at entry points of your infrastructure, our solution allows you to monitor your visitor’s flow in real-time, optimize your ressources’ management, comply with your safety standards. The solution brings also a discreet, innovative and reassuring solution for elderly people in medical houses to bring them comfort and security. | |||
| TellCo Europe |
2008 TI Established |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Lighting, Energy: Photovoltaics, Smart: Grid, Smart: Home & building |
| TellCo Europe Sagl based in Switzerland is an international company, active in renewable energy systems and design and production of Solar Lighting Solutions and Solar Electricity Solutions. TellCo Europe is a leading organisation with the ability to plan, design, deploy, develop, integrate, and supply products for ECO and SOLAR demands. | |||
| Terrabloc |
2011 GE Established |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Construction ] | Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| Manufacture and marketing of compressed earth blocks, as well as all activities in the field of architecture, engineering and construction. | |||
| Tesenso |
2020 SH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: City, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Sensors |
| Tesenso is a full-stack IoT solution provider, from IoT consulting, proof of concept / MVP projects to mass IoT rollouts. Flexibility, time-to-market, and scalability combined with profound knowledge of the underlying hardware are the key strengths of Tesenso, making sure that customers can rely on solid IoT solutions. | |||
| airlite (AM Technology) |
2016 TI Established |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Wall colours that clean the air we breathe, remove bacteria from homes, offices and hospitals, and reduce energy consumption. | |||
| ThermodynamX |
2016 SG Growth |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes, Energy & Power Systems [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Energy: Cooling tech |
| Thermodynamics helps, advises, tests, upgrades and designs custom cooling and heating systems. Participation: ThermodynamX develops and produces tailor-made cooling solutions for medical applications | |||
| thingdust |
2017 LU Growth |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| thingdust optimizes office spaces and buildings by internet of things and machine learning technology. It automatically monitors and manages all kinds of spaces - meeting rooms, desks, .... It empowers facility managers to proactively respond to changing demands of clients for workspace. | |||
| tiko |
2012 ZH Established |
Energy & Power Systems, Buildings & Construction [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | Components: Pump, Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Heating in buildings, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Other: Enabling tech, Smart: Grid |
| The tiko platform brings you the power of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and an award-winning Smart Home Energy Management system designed to connect your Residential and SME assets. With its active VPP deployments, tiko is one of the biggest real-time Smart Grids in the world. Our customizable, future-proof technology has the life-expectancy of a PPP (Physical Power Plant) and enables the delivery of the full spectrum of energy services, including the most sophisticated such as fast frequency response. tiko enables you to become the driver for disruption and innovation in your market to create profitable business models. | |||
| Tinamu Labs |
2018 ZH Growth |
Mobility & Transport, Energy & Power Systems | Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Sensors |
| TINAMU captures new digital data in tough industrial environments with flying sensors. We use ready available drones and sensors and make them fly automated by computer vision to capture new digital data fully automated. We then auto-process data and run our advanced algorithm-based analytics to provide to traditional industries data and insight for a recurring service fee. We provide precise, digital and traceable inventory monitoring to commodity manufacturers fully automated without local installations, GPS nor pilots. We help traditional industries to digitize in tough environments. | |||
| Transmutex SA |
2019 GE Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Nuclear |
| Transmutex is pioneering an entirely new type of nuclear energy that promises scalable carbon-free energy without the traditional challenges of existing nuclear plants. Today’s issues with nuclear energy are safety, long-lived waste, and proliferation. Transmutex will allow significant improvements on all these matters while delivering cost-competitive carbon-free electricity. | |||
| TreaTech |
2015 VD Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Water Management ] | Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..), Environment: Waste management tech, Environment: Water conservation |
| Treatech's mission is to address the increasing problem of clean water availability in all regions of the world by creating a low-cost, environmentally friendly liquid waste solution resulting in fresh-water production. Current liquid waste solution rely on landfill and incineration, which are expensive, polluting and do not allow for the recycling of the valuable products contained in the liquid waste such as fresh water, biogas and salts. Treatech is developing a ground-breaking treatment technology that will enable an eco-friendly treatment of the ever-incre | |||
| Tremola |
2011 GL restructuring, on hold, no development |
Mobility & Transport, [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Electric |
| Market introducution of a flexible, environmentally conscious vehicle, which is both economical and fun to drive. | |||
| TVP Solar |
2008 GE Established |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Solarthermal |
| TVP Solar SA is a Swiss company which designs, develops, manufactures and markets innovative, high-vacuum flat solar thermal panels based on a proprietary technology for cooling and heating applications. TVP Solar is a game-changer in the solar thermal industry, effectively competing with electricity in the cooling and industrial process heat markets, while introducing new thermal energy-producing roofs for the residential market. | |||
| TwingTec |
2013 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Wind |
| TwingTec has developed the energy drone. The drone flies on a tethered wing which flies similar as a kite to harness the energy of wind. This unlocks huge unexploited wind energy resources to produce clean energy cheaper than with fossil fuels. | |||
| TwistOut |
2017 SG Stagnant |
Buildings & Construction, [ Cleaning Services ] | Other: Low tech |
| TwistOut is an innovative drain rod made of 100% beech wood. The rough, spiral surface texture of the wooden stick in combination with the manual rotation allows the blockage (mostly hair) to adhere to the stick. The TwistOut can be easily pulled out of the siphon and disposed of. Why complicated when it's easy? With TwistOut we solve a common drainage problem in a functional and simple way - without chemicals, completely natural and hygienical. | |||
| Unisers |
2019 ZH Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources, Energy & Power Systems [ Water Management ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Detection of trace-impurities in ultrapure water UNISERS created a fully-automated universal chemical sensor capable of identifying multiple and different impurities in water. This technology will help the semiconductors industry to maintain the purity level of the rinsing water in the chip production, eventually improving the reliability and the manufacturing yield of the chips. | |||
| UniSieve |
2018 ZH Growth |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes, Energy & Power Systems [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Components: Filters & membranes |
| Over 10% of the total energy consumption worldwide is due to separation processes. To target this issue, we developed a membrane technology, which allows cost and energy efficient separation of gases. The technology is based on an inventive way of integrating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) into polymeric membranes. The UniSieve technology has the potential to create various separation solutions for small-scale home applications (B2C), and also large-scale industrial processes (B2B). Currently, the focus is set on building modules for the purification of hydrogen (energy, cleantech industry) and propylene (oil&gas, chemical industry). | |||
| Urban Connect |
2013 ZH Growth |
Mobility & Transport, [ Bicycles & E-Bikes ] | Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric |
| Urban Connect provides all-in-one bicycle fleet solutions for corporate clients. Companies like Google, Zurich Insurance and Roche choose Urban Connect to provide fleets of e-bicycles and bicycles for their employees who are on the move in Switzerland. | |||
| Urban Sympheny |
2020 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency, Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Software |
| Sympheny offers a SaaS web application that enables energy planners (engineering firms, consultants, utilities) to digitalize and optimize energy concept planning. The platform combines digital energy-twin technology with powerful algorithms and interactive dashboards, enabling holistic planning across electricity, PV, heating, cooling, storage, networks, and e-mobility. This allows planners to deliver higher-quality concepts, work more efficiently, win more projects, and build long-term customer relationships. The tool is applicable to a wide range of projects, from urban districts and heat networks to industrial sites and municipalities. | |||
| Urbio |
2020 VS Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Software |
| Urbio is a software for planning sustainable cities that combines the strengths of humans and artificial intelligence. | |||
| uzufly |
2020 VD Formation |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | IT: Software, Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Uzufly, based at the EPFL Innovation park, generates 2D and 3D digital models with its drones. These models will be used by project owners and the various technical trades. This innovation allows optimal planning of a construction project. Uzufly uses the latest drones on the market to cover buildings to entire cities. | |||
| Vela Solaris (Polysun) |
2006 ZH Established |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Other: Enabling tech |
| Polysun, a simulation software for renewable energy installation developed by Vela Solaris, provides invaluable support in the analysis, design and calculation of heating and cooling systems using renewable energy (solar thermal energy, photovoltaics, heat pumps, geothermal energy and solar cooling) | |||
| Vir2sense |
2016 ZH Validation |
Mobility & Transport, Energy & Power Systems [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric, Smart: Device |
| Vir2sense GmbH provides ready to use, optimized fast combustion and emission models for internal combustion engine calibration, continuous emissions monitoring and real-time control. The virtual sensors have been used successfully in automotive, heavy duty, power generation and ship propulsion applications. | |||