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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| oxara |
2019 ZH Formation |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Components: Resource or material optimisation, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Oraxa produces sustainable, cement-free concrete. The ETH-Spin-off is developing healthy and affordable floors for the more than 75% of the local Rwandan families living in dirty homes due to lack of good floors. | |||
| Oxoia (former myFacility) |
2020 AG Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, Buildings & Construction [ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: IOT Internet of Things |
| Oxoia offers automated energy optimization and simple building control for public, commercial and industrial buildings | |||
| Oxygen at Work |
2017 ZH Growth |
Buildings & Construction, Energy & Power Systems [ Building Technologies ] | IT: Data usage |
| Oxygen at Work GmbH helpd companies reduce health care and energy costs by using data analytics and specific plants to improve office indoor air quality. | |||
| Pallon (Hades Technologies) |
2019 ZH Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources, Buildings & Construction [ Urban Infrastructure, Wastewater Management, Water Management ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Data usage, IT: Digital Twin, Smart: Computer Vision, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Automatically detecting defects in sewer inspection videos - not only much faster, but also objective and less error-prone. | |||
| ParaTop |
2016 GL Validation |
Mobility & Transport, [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | None |
| The ParaTop is rain protection that can be installed quickly on most bikes and keeps you dry during the ride. Participation: The ParaTop is rain protection that can be installed quickly on most bikes and keeps you dry during the ride. | |||
| Pexapark |
2017 ZH Growth |
Financials & Information Technology, Energy & Power Systems [ Financial Services ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Pexapark enables better renewable energy sales in subsidy-free markets through a combination of software tools and PPA transaction services. We provide developers & operators with revenue management, hedge risk analysis and optimization capabilities and enable them to participate the open market with the confidence of full energy sales & trading compliment. Our award-winning PexaQuote provides the standardized pricing methodology across the range of PPA contracts, term lengths and asset types. Sellers and buyers execute PPA transactions with our advisory service. Last but not least, we connect producers and off-takers, provide historical deal trends and reduce search costs through our community platform PexaConnect. Together they form a seamless platform to better enable renewable energy sales. | |||
| PHYSEOS |
2011 VS Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Physeos focuses its activities on sustainable development and energy efficiency in the built environment and industrial processes. Physeos provides solutions to reduce the need for investment in energy infrastructure, cut fuel costs, increase competitiveness and improve consumer welfare. Main activities: • Energy optimization in buildings and industrial processes, • Building physics, numerical simulation, • Distributed energy production systems, • Education and training for professionals. | |||
| Pick-e-Bike |
2018 BS Growth |
Mobility & Transport, [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: Fleet management |
| Pick-e-Bike is your sharing system for e-bikes and e-scooters in different Swiss regions. Fast, easy and cheap. | |||
| Pickwings (nanio) |
2012 VS Established |
Mobility & Transport, [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: E-cargo, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: Fleet management |
| DIGITAL TRANSPORT SOLUTION FOR COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS IT software and plattform to organize transport. The challenges of new and modern transport solutions have grown steadily in recent years in the area of the shipping industry. With the developed solution from Pickwings, the shipping and transport industry is able to make the transition to digital change. The Pickwings business model is designed to use the unloaded mileage of the transport companies in order to enable a CO2-optimized shipment of goods on the road. | |||
| Planeto |
2023 GE Growth |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies, Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Blockchain or algorithms |
| Our software as a service (SaaS) digitalises the design of district heating and cooling networks (DHC) for energy utilities, engineering consultancies and municipalities, using innovative artificial intelligence algorithms to slash engineering time and cost and accelerate the energy transition. Our software puts together more than 20 person/year of research in the field. In terms of market potential, recent developments in climate policy as well as geopolitics have spurred interest in transition away from fossil fuels in heating. Globally the DHC market is expected to grow by $40billion in the next 5 years, while in Switzerland the heat supplied by DHC must grow 10x to meet the Energy Strategy 2050 targets. Our goal is for our SaaS (TESSA) to be the go-to B2B SaaS for energy utilities and engineering consultancies developing DHC projects. The total project investments for DHC vary greatly between 1million and >1billion CHF. In our P&D project, the contribution of TESSA was valued at 1% of the total project cost of 7million. The unique value proposition of TESSA is to allow DHC projects to be developed in less time, requiring less specialist knowledge, with little/no data collection, and producing more reliable results. Moreover, TESSA allows to go from feasibility study to detailed design, all in one tool and also allows the design of DHC integrating renewable energy sources. | |||
| Plastogaz |
2020 VD Formation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources, Energy & Power Systems [ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Components: New chemical materials, Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Plastogaz is a spin-off of EPFL based in Lausanne (CH), founded in 2020. Our solid knowledge in catalysis combined with the understanding of plastic compositions at the molecular scale allows us to develop the green technologies of the future. We are developing a technology for converting plastic to methane, in which mixed and unsorted plastics can be transformed into grid-compatible methane. | |||
| Plutinsus |
2025 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Grid |
| Software system that can easily integrate data with all its detail from any source and can interactively visualize this data to business end users, from experts to occasional users, for understanding relationships, cause-and-effects and, therefore, potential risks in their business. Such explorative analysis is used for the purposes of strategic and operational planning, forecasting, monitoring and incident analysis. The data could come from internal sources (ERP, GIS, BIM), external sources (weather, environment, governmental institutions), energy models (long- and short-term supply and demand) and sensors (smart meters, network management system). We aim to operate in an ecosystem of partners. Collaboration partners contribute technical services (building a data layer to collect relevant operational data) and expertise (engineers who plan and optimize heating systems and heating networks). | |||
| Ponera |
2019 TI Growth |
Mobility & Transport, [ Freight & Logistics ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization |
| Ponera Group has developed a smart modular and digitally enabled industrial packaging solution which replaces single use custom made wooden crates and pallets, with a reusable solution which pays for itself in a few usages, decreases CO2 emissions by 90%, and digitizes supply chains. | |||
| Power-Blox |
2015 AG Stagnant |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Power-Blox develops and distributes an innovative solar battery system for off-grid applications that allows to easily build up decentralized energy systems based on a swarm" principle." Easy to scale. | |||
| POWERGIA |
2013 ZH Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| POWERGIA GmbH provides access to an liberalised electricity market for large consumers | |||
| PubliBike |
2010 FR Established |
Mobility & Transport, [ Bicycles & E-Bikes ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric |
| Since 2009, PubliBike has been offering bike sharing networks in several Swiss cities and is constantly expanding its offer. We take care of everything: from the development of a site concept to starting the service, including operations, customer service and network promotion... To strengthen our teams, we regularly look for creative, motivated and passionate profiles for the mobility of the future. | |||
| Pvsyst |
2011 GE Established |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| PVsyst design, develop and sale software or other products to promote responsible energy management, more particularly in the field of photovoltaics. They also do consulting and training activities. PVsyst also support renewable energy projects, especially in developing countries. | |||
| PWRstation Holding SA |
2014 VD Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards, Energy & Power Systems [ Climate Technologies ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech |
| PWRstation delivers rapid deployment solar power modules for permanent use or mobile projects. | |||
| qiio |
2014 ZH Growth |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Battery, IT: Blockchain or algorithms, IT: IOT Internet of Things, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: Fleet management, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Wearable devices or apps |
| Produces and consults on smart home devices to reduce consumption; Smart Home Technology is in the business of the Internet of Things. "We create smart and energy efficient appliances for homes and industry". | |||
| Quartierstrom |
2017 ZH Stagnant |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Blockchain or algorithms, Smart: City |
| blockchain based peer to peer energy (physical and Go) community (www.quartier-strom.ch) | |||
| Raumpioniere |
2020 SG Formation |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Technologies ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Using automated and AI-based analysis tools, we support modern and sustainable spatial development. by localizing attractive sites on properties, make the possible densification in the existing building stock visible and show possible renovation, densification, and utilization strategies. | |||
| RedElec |
2007 VS Growth |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes, [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Components: Filters & membranes, Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| RedElec Technologie develops and markets a new technology to perform electrochemical redox transformations at the best economic and environmental costs, directly on the production site. The electrochemical reduction of indigo aqueous suspension in the dying industry is the first industrial application of the process developed by RedElec. | |||
| reech |
2012 GR Stagnant |
Energy & Power Systems, Buildings & Construction [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Renewable energy engeineering, with main focus on photovoltaics; As an innovative Company for Photovoltaic, they combine R&D, analytics, maintenance and consulting | |||
| ResiLi |
2021 FR Validation |
Food, Agriculture & Forestry, Energy & Power Systems [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Components: 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. | |||
| ReWinner |
2016 ZH Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources, Buildings & Construction [ Resource Efficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| ReWinner maximizes product and material reuse with an online plattform. All business goods, like furniture and kitchen or bath item or windows, etc. can be traded via the plattform rewinner.ch. | |||
| Rigi Technologies |
2016 VD Validation |
Mobility & Transport, [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Rigi is re-defining last-mile inter-city logistics using a large-payload, sustainable drone-based delivery system. | |||
| RINO Electronics (Eisspeicher) |
2003 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems, [ Energy Storage ] | Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..), Energy: Heating in buildings, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Storage other than batteries |
| New energy storage technologies are developed and tested like combination of hybrid solar modules with earth register and ice storage or recycling of old batteries. | |||
| Room Estate |
2014 AG Growth |
Buildings & Construction, [ Building Construction ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Room Estate is an established and rapidly growing provider of furnished rooms in shared flats throughout Switzerland. The company now offers a wide range of furnished rooms in the main Swiss cities. The offer is tailored to the fast and independent lifestyle of young and ambitious people. All rental processes are fully digitalised and make life easier for tenants. | |||
| ROOMZ |
2015 FR Established |
Energy & Power Systems, Buildings & Construction [ Building Technologies ] | Smart: Home & building |
| ROOMZ SA is developing and promoting unique tools to better manage the agile workplaces of tomorrow. We are a rapidly growing Start-up based in Fribourg, Switzerland. Our award-winning product ROOMZ is the most scalable and easiest-to-install room signage solution in the Marketplace. | |||
| routeRANK |
2007 VD Established |
Mobility & Transport, [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric |
| Technology company routeRANK (2006) provides IT solutions for travel and mobility. Unlike other solutions, they address the entire door-to-door route by integrating all relevant modes of transport such as air, rail, public transport, P+Rail, P+Ride, car, rental car, car sharing, car pooling, e-bike, bike, walk and their many multimodal combinations. In a single search, its patented technology finds and ranks the best possible routes, allowing users to sort them according to multiple criteria such as price, travel time and CO2 emissions. | |||