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 Phase | Areas of Activity [Subareas] | Technology |
|---|---|---|---|
| neuraVOLT |
2022 ZH validation |
Transport & Mobility, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity grids & flexibility ] | Battery, e-mobility, IT Software, Smartgrid |
| euraVOLT enables EV Charging infrastructure to become a key component of an interconnected energy world backed by it’s AI-driven digital ecosystem with data-driven intelligence. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Norisa |
2021 GE validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Financing and financial services ] | Low technology |
| Norsia helps wealth managers fully integrate their clients’ personal values and vision of sustainability into the investment process. Our ESG profiling tools help leverage investors' sustainability goals and thus develop responsible investment strategies. | |||
| 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. | |||
| oecogreen |
2020 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management, [ Cleaning, Road vehicles and transport ] | e-cargo |
| Containers repeatedly cause environmental pollution due to improper or inadequate cleaning. Oecogreen sells and rents out containers and cleans and desinfects them regularly. To do this they use a fleet of electric garbage trucks to emit less CO2. In addition they recycle all the dirty water from the cleaning, so that it can not pollute its surroundings. | |||
| Deski |
2020 ZH validation |
Construction & buildings, | |
| On their website "Deski" the open2work GmbH offers a Airbnb like online platform for office spaces. Companies with unused workspaces can display them on the page so that customers can rent them on either a daily or monthly basis. This is to reduce Co2 emissions from unused office space. | |||
| OPTIML |
2022 ZH validation |
Construction & buildings, [ Construction of buildings, Energy management solutions, ESG Reporting, Information technology ] | IT Software |
| OPTIML is the next generation of AI-based software for intelligent cost and CO₂-conscious decision support and asset management in the building sector. | |||
| CertCare (Originfood) |
2018 VD validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, [ Information technology ] | Internet of Things, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| At Originfood, we work with our Clients to digitalise processes that help shed light on Supply Chain blind spots. We don't do "consulting", we engage to enhance transparency and reduce operational redundancies. | |||
| PAN DATA |
2021 BS validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, [ Heating and cooling energy ] | Geothermal energy, Heating in buildings, IT data usage, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, IT Software, Photovoltaics, Pump, Renewable technologies, Smartcity, Solarthermal energy, Water conservation |
| We help sustainability actors to make a better use of technologies and knowledge | |||
| Pelt8 |
2021 ZH validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, [ ESG Reporting, Financing and financial services ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Pelt provides organisations with a business intelligence and reporting solution for ESG & sustainability data. We help companies organise all indicators they have to collect, manage and disclose in one tool. | |||
| Piss & Love |
2021 VD validation |
Construction & buildings, | |
| Piss & love design, produce and offers innovating dry toilets which are movable without machines and customizable. Furthermore, we aim to transform human waste into valuable nutrients for plants or energy. | |||
| Ranas Mosler |
2020 ZH validation |
Behavioural change, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Energy management solutions, Water Management ] | |
| RanasMosler's vision as pioneers in behavior change is good health and a sustainable environment for all. RANAS stands for Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self-regulation. It’s a scientifically proven method that enables you to understand and measure the psychosocial factors underlying behavior. | |||
| RECOAL |
2023 validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, | |
| RECOAL AG, a Swiss company, has developed a cutting-edge carbon removal technology that transforms waste biomass into Negative Emission Coal, providing a reliable, permanent and easy-to-scale solution that securely stores CO2 underground. | |||
| Remretech |
2021 AG validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management, [ Electricity efficiency, Energy Production, Waste & recycling ] | New chemical materials |
| REMRETEch exploits the unique know-how in rare metals characterization, process developments from primary, secondary, e-waste resources, market and circular economy-related prospects | |||
| Restor Eco |
2020 ZH validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, [ Environmental monitoring, Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Restor is the world's largest network of restoration and conservation sites. It aims to connect projects and people with scientific data, financial resources, monitoring tools and each other. This is to accelerate projects and increase the and impact and scale. Restor gives information about projects all around the world. | |||
| ReWorks |
2020 LU validation |
Production of eco friendly products, [ Furniture and Decorations ] | Material & Products based on biomass |
| ReWorks manufactures products from 100% recyclable material. For this they make use of honeycomb cardboard. Reworks products are especially suitable for events, the retail sector and as decorations. | |||
| Rheiazymes |
2022 validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps, | |
| Rheiazymes is a Swiss biotech company on a mission to keep fashion’s high-value polymers in a YARN-TO-YARN® loop using its proprietary Molecular Bio-Recycling. By harnessing natural enzymes, we separate materials at the molecular level back into their main raw components. This reclaimed raw material can then be sold back to industry to make new products. Our first industry application is developing the technology to recover Polyamide from Polyamide-Elastane (PA/EA) blends. | |||
| Round Rivers |
2024 ZH validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps, [ clothes, Waste & recycling ] | Water pollution abatement |
| We clean the Limmat river in Zurich from plastic waste and turn it into flakes, granules, yarns, textiles and into upcycled clothing. | |||
| SAGANÀ |
2014 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| SAGANÀ offers high quality, Swiss-EU certified organic, sustainable, fair and 100% natural ingredients in retail or bulk from the Philippines into Switzerland whilst directly supporting rural community livelihoods of our partner farmers. Products are coconut blossom nectar, single-origin Trinitario cacao beans and nibs with low cadmium levels and cold-pressed Virgin Coconut Oil as a healthier and sustainable natural oil alternative. | |||
| Sasit Lab |
2021 ZG validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), [ Energy storage ] | Hydrogen technology and fuel cells, Storage other than batteries |
| Advanced Solid State Hydrogen Storage Materials | |||
| Sedimentum |
2019 ZG validation |
Health & House & Body Care, [ Healthcare ] | Smart device, Smarthome & building |
| Every year, more than 16 million people worldwide fall at home and therefore require rapid medical attention. 82% of falls among older people occur when they are alone at home. Although some of them already have an emergency call system, this is not actively used in 8 out of 10 cases: Those affected are either unconscious after a fall, can no longer get up or cannot reach the button. In most cases, it is not only the fall itself that is dangerous, but also the time it takes for help to arrive. Rapid medical care can not only prevent serious complications such as thrombosis or muscle and tissue damage, but also minimize long-term damage or even save lives. | |||
| Seefeld Style (YARN-TO-YARN) |
2017 ZH validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps, [ clothes ] | New chemical materials, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Seefeld Style produces trousers from the fabric made out of recycled yarn. YARN-TO-YARN® developed the extraction method to produce recycled yarn and lifts the fashion industry into the Circular Economy with "the infinite yarn". | |||
| Share.P |
2022 ZH validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Construction & buildings,Transport & Mobility [ Electricity efficiency, Mobility & Fleet management ] | e-vehicle charging |
| Share.P is an innovative plug-and-play system that digitizes existing parking infrastructure and solves car parking and electric vehicle charging problems. Share.P solutions reduce traffic and air pollution by enabling building owners to rent out parking spaces and charging stations for electric vehicles in a convenient, fully automated and customizable way. | |||
| siloxene |
2020 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management, | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Siloxene supports the Performance and Renewable Raw Material Sectors, to be able, to provide better products and enhance their processes, in order to reach market leading excellence and act on their environmental Responsibility. | |||
| SimplexDNA |
2021 ZH validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, [ Environmental monitoring ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| SimplexDNA is engaged in biodiversity monitoring solutions in aquatic, terrestrial and aerial environments. Through their environmental DNA (eDNA) scans, they identify organisms in an environment without observing them directly. Based on the collected DNA, they create a biodiversity report through analysis. The company is a spin-off of the ETH Zurich. | |||
| SmartBreed |
2019 AG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| SmartBreed offers insect breeders a local and complete breeding solution. We want to make the advantages of insects industrially usable and accessible for everyone. Therefore we offer stackable, fully automated breeding boxes, in which insects can be bred cost-effectively, resource-saving and hygienically - locally directly at the customer's site. | |||
| Solergy |
2021 AG validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), [ Financing and financial services ] | Photovoltaics |
| Solergy makes solar power accessible to anyone who can contribute to the energy transition with roofs, investment or consumption. We bring together real estate owners, tenants and investors and provide a model where everybody benefits, and contributes to Switzerland´s energy strategies. So you become part of the fight against the climate change. | |||
| Sonnenpool |
2017 ZH validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), [ Energy Production ] | Battery, Photovoltaics |
| We finance and build solar systems, smart meters, and everything else to get clean power from your roof and the grid. | |||
| Spirecut |
2020 FR validation |
Health & House & Body Care, [ Healthcare, Prevention of or protection from technical risks ] | Low technology |
| No skin incision, Safe surgery, Better outcomes We commercialise Sono-Instruments® to treat carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger. | |||
| use again (sumami) |
2021 SO validation |
Construction & buildings, | |
| Sumami records materials in buildings and uses them to create component catalogs for its customers. In this way, they record which components can be reused economically and ecologically in a construction project. With the USEAGAIN app, Sumami also offers a marketplace that connects reuse stakeholders. | |||