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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swiss Drone Services |
2020 ZH Validation |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies, Cleaning Services ] | Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Robotic |
| Swiss Drone Services AG uses proprietary commercial drones to clean, treat, and inspect building surfaces including facades, windows, solar panels, and rooftops — replacing scaffolding and aerial platforms with a safer, more efficient solution. The company is based in Niederglatt, Switzerland. | |||
| SwissGEL |
2004 ZH Established |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources, Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Resource Efficiency ] | Biological: Material based on biomass, Components: New chemical materials |
| swissGEL is a plastics development company. We offer partnerships to commercialise additives and bioplastic products and make plastic biodegradable | |||
| Swissloop |
ZH unknown |
Buildings & Construction, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission |
| Swissloop is working on developing real-world tunneling technology that could transform how cities build infrastructure—faster, cleaner, and with minimal disruption. Their tunneling systems can help reduce road and open urban area closures and pursue utility projects with minimal surface impact. The primary use case for such a technology is the deployment of water, gas, and electrical pipelines. | |||
| Swistor |
2022 VD Formation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery |
| Swistor develops the next generation of energy storage device for a clean, sustainable future. The Lithium and Cobalt free solution enables charging our devices ultra fast, extends the lifetime 30 times and is environmentally friendly and safe. | |||
| Swistor |
2022 VD Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery |
| Sustainable. longlasting Energy Storage: By coating dense nanocarbon electrodes with nanoscale active materials we achieve high performance Supercapacitors that can operate both at very low and very high currents. | |||
| TALPA Inspection |
2025 ZH Growth |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Sensors |
| Talpa inspects retaining walls with an innovative and non-destructive approach to identify corrosion in the rear bending reinforcement of horizontal construction joints in retaining walls. | |||
| Teralytics |
2012 ZH Established |
Financials & Information Technology, Mobility & Transport [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Teralytics offers the most advanced insights on human mobility based on cutting edge data science, proprietary machine learning algorithms and deep technology, capturing billions of signals every day from cell towers and other unique sources. | |||
| terralayr |
2022 ZG Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility, Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Storage other than batteries, Smart: Grid |
| Terralayr is a company focused on supporting the transition to 100% renewable energy by addressing the challenges of variable energy supply and demand. They specialize in battery energy storage systems (BESS), which help stabilize power grids by storing excess renewable energy and supplying it when needed. By partnering with landowners, suppliers, and communities, Terralayr aims to make renewable energy more reliable. They are also developing a cloud platform to provide scalable, on-demand energy flexibility, enabling businesses to adopt clean energy more easily and efficiently. | |||
| Tesla Transfers |
2015 VS Growth |
Mobility & Transport, [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Electric |
| Providing eco friendly transport for people visiting the ski resort of Verbier. Using Tesla vehicles only. | |||
| Texup |
2024 VS Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources, Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Circular Economy, Efficiency Solutions, Waste Management & Recycling ] | Biological: Material based on biomass, Components: Acoustic materials & tech, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Texup develops acoustic panels from 100% recycled Swiss textiles. End-of-life cotton clothing is transformed into panels with natural sound-absorbing properties for offices and public spaces, reducing textile waste while improving indoor acoustics. | |||
| Thermal Transformer |
2025 SZ Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency, Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Cooling tech |
| Thermal Transformer develops advanced thermal energy systems that significantly improve cooling efficiency for data centers and industrial applications. Using innovative adsorption-based technologies, the company enables highly energy-efficient cooling solutions that reduce electricity consumption, operating costs, and environmental impact. Thermal Transformer aims to transform thermal management by providing sustainable, next-generation cooling systems for energy-intensive sectors. | |||
| Thervia |
2025 ZH Validation |
Buildings & Construction, Energy & Power Systems [ Building Technologies, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management & Use ] | Energy: Heating in buildings, IT: IOT Internet of Things, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Thervia AG offers cost-efficient heating replacement and energy optimization services for institutional real estate owners and public-sector property portfolios, combining real-time IoT-based consumption monitoring with digital planning to reduce CO₂ emissions. | |||
| topGrid |
2024 LU Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| TopGrid is a user-friendly online tool for thermal energy planning and for the development and planning of thermal grids. It accompanies you step by step, from the area analysis to the planning of thermal grids, from the strategy to the preliminary project. | |||
| Topten |
2000 ZH Established |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Web portal highlighting the most energy efficient consumer products: domestic appliances, office electronics, consumer electronics, lighting, building components and vehicles. | |||
| Unbound Potential |
2023 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery, Smart: Grid |
| We are developing the fastest scalable battery technology. It is a membrane-less flow battery platform solving the key bottlenecks of current flow battery technology and thus filling the technology gap for large scale stationary storage. Relevant use cases include behind and in front of the meter applications. We have been contacted by major energy producers, AI data center operators, as well as Amazon, all looking for the breakthrough technology enabling stationary storage at TWh-scale. | |||
| Under Industries |
2026 ZH Validation |
Buildings & Construction, Energy & Power Systems,Mobility & Transport [ Building Technologies, Engineering & Industrial Design, Infrastructure Construction ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization, IT: Software, Smart: Robotic |
| Under Industries develops micro tunnel boring robots (MTBRs) to automate underground utility pipe installation. Reduces road closures and surface disruptions, lowering costs and environmental impact of urban infrastructure work. https://www.underindustries.com/ | |||
| UpGrid |
2024 ZG Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility, Energy Management & Use, Energy Sufficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software, Smart: Grid |
| UpGrid is building the platform infrastructure for local energy communities. We enable private households, SMEs, and municipalities to co-own, share, and consume renewable electricity, even if they can’t install solar themselves. Our marketplace connects producers of solar energy with nearby consumers, allowing for direct sales at lower prices while producers earn more than from traditional feed-in tariffs. With the 2025 regulatory shift in Switzerland, local electricity communities (LEGs) can share electricity via the public grid and benefit from reduced grid tariffs. UpGrid provides a fully digital onboarding, billing, and visualization solution for LEGs, integrating smart metering and dynamic tariffing. Our USP is a plug and play platform tailored to the Swiss legal framework and optimized for multi-actor settings such as producers, tenants, energy utilities, and landlords. Unlike traditional utilities or isolated rooftop solutions, UpGrid offers end to end tools for transparent, fair, and profitable local energy exchange. | |||
| UrbanMetrix |
2021 TI Validation |
Buildings & Construction, Energy & Power Systems [ Building Technologies, Data Platforms & Solutions ] | Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Sensors |
| UrbanMetrix is a 3D site-analysis software that allows inverting the design-process of urban architecture by starting it from the local environmental resources. Our USP is based on an inverted volumetric approach backed by a set of innovative filtering, combination, and transformation features. The generated solutions pre-empt environmental performance producing an economic value increase in the range of 5%. | |||
| use again (sumami) |
2021 SO Validation |
Buildings & Construction, | Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| 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. | |||
| VEIU Tech |
2022 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | Mobility: E-vehicle charging, Mobility: Fleet management, Smart: Grid |
| Charge management solution that leverages E-Fleet operation data to unleash full flexibility potential and create value to grids and EV owners | |||
| vélocité |
2003 VD Established |
Mobility & Transport, [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | None |
| We have been delivering since 1999, when vélocité had only one courier and a few dozen customers. Over the years, we have grown and expanded, joined the Swissconnect network, merged with Poste-it (Yverdon and Neuchâtel), created “antennas” in Vevey and Sion, and acquired through these experiences a real know-how in the field of fast delivery, which allows us to offer a high quality service to our customers. Today, the vélocité team has more than 50 employees, committed, motivated and ready to wet the jersey all year round and in all weather conditions, to deliver more than 300 deliveries by hand every day. | |||
| velocorner |
2016 FR Established |
Mobility & Transport, [ Bicycles & E-Bikes ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| The biggest online market place in switzerland for bikes, e-bikes and bike equipment. Specialized as well as private dealers can sell their products on the platform. Since January 2023 the TCS ist the majority stakeholder and velocorner has been integrated into the TCS world. | |||
| Energie Zukunft Schweiz |
2006 BS Established |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Heating in buildings, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Solarthermal, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-vehicle charging, Smart: City, Smart: Device, Smart: Grid, Smart: Home & building |
| As one of the driving forces we are commited to a sustainable energy future in Switzerland. | |||
| Verity |
2014 ZH Established |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes, Mobility & Transport [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Autonomous Inventory Tracking Powered by Self-Flying Drones. Optimize your supply chain & create a zero-error warehouse! | |||
| viboo |
2022 ZH Validation |
Buildings & Construction, Energy & Power Systems [ Building Technologies ] | Energy: Heating in buildings, IT: Software |
| Reduce building energy consumption by 20-40% with self-learning predictive control. viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies. | |||
| Visienco |
2025 LU Validation |
Health, Wellness & Care, Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Health Solutions ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Robotic |
| Visienco, originating from CSEM, develops the Orgadroid — an automated organoid sorting instrument that combines robotics and AI-powered morphology analysis to make scalable, reproducible 3D cell culture workflows accessible to all. | |||
| Vizcab |
2015 Established |
Buildings & Construction, | Environment: Carbon capture and storage, Other: Unknown |
| Vizcab, a French leader in the decarbonization of the construction sector, helps construction stakeholders comply with regulations and progress toward carbon neutrality. Founded in 2015, our mission is to accelerate the carbon transition of buildings by offering construction professionals the fastest, most powerful, and most collaborative Building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) service. Today, our SaaS platform enables more than 200 clients and over 1,000 users to manage the energy–carbon performance of their projects. Vizcab is our service designed for developers, landlords, builders, and planners, supporting creativity around shared and qualified energy and carbon objectives. Vizcab redefines and simplifies Building Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for everyone. | |||
| Voliro |
2019 ZH Validation |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Sensors |
| Drones as flying inspection robot The robots are capable of performing in-depth structural integrity assessments using advanced inspection technologies. | |||
| Voltiris |
2022 VD Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Production & Supply, Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Founded in 2022 and based in Lausanne, Voltiris develops the first solar modules specifically designed to be compatible with greenhouse agriculture and crops. Using spectral filtering technology, Voltiris allows essential light wavelengths for photosynthesis to pass through to the plants, while redirecting the unused wavelengths to generate solar energy. This breakthrough enables greenhouse growers to transform their vast surfaces—over 60,000 hectares worldwide, representing a CHF 50 billion opportunity—into sources of clean, competitive, and independent energy, helping them move away from fossil fuels and accelerate the transition to carbon-free electrification. | |||
| VortexPower |
2011 ZH Stagnant |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Water Management ] | Energy: Hydro |
| VortexPower AG is specialized in the development and the sales of highly efficient products for water recovery thru natural swirling. | |||