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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
Kohlenkraft 2023
ZH
Formation
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Building Technologies ] Components: Resource or material optimisation, Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..), Environment: Carbon capture and storage
KohlenKraft develops, designs and produces climate positive building materials. Their plaster and insulation are made out of charcoal. The insulation stores carbon from the atmosphere and can be reused, recycled, landfilled or composted after its use.
Kolbev
ZH
Formation
None
Kolbev offers an infrastructure-free, on-demand EV charging service using a patent-pending mobile robotic station powered by renewable energy. The turnkey solution enables seamless, flexible, and cost-effective EV charging at workplaces, homes, or any city location—without the need for costly installation. Kolbev’s platform includes a mobile app for easy booking, real-time data insights, and 24/7 customer support. Tailored for fleets, car-sharing services, real estate, events, and municipalities, Kolbev helps accelerate EV adoption and supports sustainable urban development.
KoraLabs
ZH
Formation
None
KoraLabs enables smarter, more sustainable agriculture through digital twin and AI-powered solutions. The company supports input providers and certification bodies by integrating diverse data sources—such as soil maps, satellite imagery, and weather forecasts—into dynamic agronomic models. These models deliver predictive insights, scenario analyses, and real-time recommendations to accelerate product development, enhance advisory services, and streamline certification processes. By fostering data-driven decision-making, KoraLabs helps reduce environmental impact and increase the adoption of innovative farming practices.
Kuori 2022
ZH
Growth
None
KUORI, a Swiss cleantech company founded in 2022, creates sustainable, bio-based materials from food byproducts like olive pits and banana peels. Their materials are biodegradable, break down microplastics, and meet composting standards, offering a greener alternative to traditional plastics. Supported by the EU's Horizon program and awarded the Renewable Material of the Year 2023, KUORI is leading the transition to a post-oil economy.
Kyburz battery recycling 1991
ZH
Formation
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] Energy: Battery, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use
The e-mobility pioneer KYBURZ is breaking new ground in battery recycling: The Zurich-based company has put an innovative in-house system into operation - the first of its kind in Switzerland. The recycling process developed in collaboration with Empa is environmentally friendly and offers potential beyond the company's own electric vehicle production lines. KYBURZ has deliberately not patented the process and makes the know-how available to all interested parties. The entire basic research and all process steps of the own recycling plant are made transparent.
Lantal Textiles 2016
ZH
Established
None
Conventional airplane carpets are dyed using a yarn dyeing process. This process is slow, energy-intensive, and the carpets are often heavy. Lantal Textiles' carpet technology digitizes the manufacturing process while simultaneously reducing water and CO2 consumption as well as waste. Additionally, the use of ultra-light materials reduces the weight of the airplanes.
Leibacher Biber-Manufaktur 2015
ZH
Growth
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] Other: Low tech
The traditional Swiss Biber with lokal and fresh ingredients and also vegan alternatives.
Lignolution
ZH
Formation
None
Lignolution offers an innovative wood-concrete composite solution through its patented Mikrokerven connection system. Designed to replace traditional notches and screws, Mikrokerven enables faster production and assembly, improved bending stiffness, and a more efficient, ecological construction process. The system is compatible with standard composite floor systems and supports sustainable building practices by combining the strengths of wood and concrete. Lignolution provides technical consulting, early-stage structural support, and industry networking for architects, engineers, and builders.
VRM Switzerland 2016
ZH
Growth
[ Air Transport ] IT: Data usage, Smart: Robotic
VRMotion designs and develops simulators that give prospective pilots the impression of sitting in a real helicopter while training. The simulation software features realistic flight physics with real-time multi-body simulation and flight data validation, which offers an exact replication of flight behaviour. The simulation is also tailored to the needs of trainees, right from introductory training on a turbine helicopter to demanding scenario-based training, mountain flying and emergency training
Loonawell 2020
ZH
Growth
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] Biological: Food tech
Loonawell stands for healthy dog living. Our organic dog treats are made with premium, hand-picked ingredients, of human-grade quality and tailored to your dog's nutritional needs. In a Loonawell treat, every single ingredient adds value to its nutritional content.
CookEat 2014
ZH
Validation
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
Your marketplace for home-cooked food. You can find delicious offers from your neighborhood and offer your food for sale yourself.
Lumiphase 2020
ZH
Growth
Energy & Power Systems [ Efficiency Solutions ] Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech
Our world is becoming increasingly digital and data traffic is exploding. The infrastructure behind data centers and telecom networks is hitting a wall, and the industry needs a disruptive solution. Lumiphase develops novel optical communicatiion chips that are very inexpensive, super compact and highly efficient. They allow the industry to replace today's costly and power-hungry connections with a new generation of electro-optical links, ultimately enabling a new paradigm in datacenters' architecture and leadin to more flexible, efficient and sustainable use of computing resources.
magnes 2016
ZH
Stagnant
[ Efficiency Solutions ] Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech
Magnes has extensive know-how and engineering capabilities to develop tailor-made magnetic materials that meet the highest customer-specific requirements. The scalability of the manufacturing process enables small series up to mass production.
Esomoto Zürich (Gülbey) 2020
ZH
Formation
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter
affordable electromobility and advice for everyone
metafuels
ZH
Formation
None
Metafuels is focused on advancing sustainable aviation through its proprietary aerobrew technology, which converts green methanol into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Developed in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute, aerobrew aims to produce e-SAF at scale with higher efficiency and lower costs than traditional methods. The technology supports both synthetic and biogenic methanol sources, avoiding food-based feedstocks. With the SAF market projected to grow significantly by 2030, Metafuels positions aerobrew as a key solution for reducing aviation’s carbon footprint and helping the industry meet net-zero targets by 2050.
Microcaps 2019
ZH
Growth
[ Health Solutions ] Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech
At Microcaps we developed a technology that enables the size control of the microcapsules with Swiss precision, hence they all behave exactly the same. This means we can directly tailor and predict the release profile of a drug. Our solution is also highly relevant for fragrances, flavors and probiotics.
Micropow 2019
ZH
Validation
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] Biological: 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.
Miromico 2002
ZH
Established
Energy & Power Systems [ Information Technology ] Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, IT: Internet of Things IOT
Miromico is an innovative high-tech company that focuses on development services in the areas of integrated circuits, electronic systems and software. Our clients include international corporations such as IBM, Infineon, Roche and Credit Suisse, but also SMEs
Mondaic 2018
ZH
Validation
[ Efficiency Solutions ] IT: Software
Mondaic provides proprietary software and services for high-resolution 3-D imaging using ultrasonic or geophysical waves. It offers scalable end-to-end solutions for all (visco)acoustic, (visco)elastic, and coupled waveform modeling and inversion needs.
namuk 2013
ZH
Growth
[ Fashion & Apparel ] Biological: Material based on biomass
Namuk is a swiss childrens sustainable outdoor clothing brand. They promise that the clothes will last as long as possible by choosing sustainable and high quality fabrics. In addition Namuk offers a repair service and their ReUse platform, on which customers can buy second hand namuk products.
nematx 2020
ZH
Formation
[ Efficiency Solutions ] Components: 3D Printing
At NematX, we develop an industrial 3DP platform based on our proprietary «Nematic 3DP Technology». We are the pioneering company to make liquid crystal polymers available for AM. In combination with proprietary part design algorithms and high-precision 3DP hardware, we can offer the combination of part performance & manufacturing precision required for industrial production.
Nemis Technologies 2018
ZH
Established
Food, Agriculture & Forestry [ Health Solutions ] Smart: Sensors
NEMIS Technologies specializes in the development of simple, safe, and on-site pathogen detection solutions across a wide range of applications in the food industry. The N-Light environmental monitoring series can be used anywhere by anyone, empowering food producers to take back control over their quality management processes. The availability of this precise and affordable method allows for more extensive and frequent screening, providing critical information to detect and eliminate potential contamination hotspots after only 24 hours.
neuraVOLT 2022
ZH
Validation
Energy & Power Systems [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] Energy: Battery, IT: Software, Mobility: Electric, Smart: Grid
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.
neverain 2017
ZH
Growth
Mobility & Transport [ Wearable Devices ] Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric
Thanks to a multifunctional overall, cycling should in future be a pleasure regardless of the weather.
Nexxiot 2015
ZH
Established
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] IT: Software
Nexiot, the Swiss logistics digitalization and TradeTech pioneer, offers an integrated digitization solution for all companies concerned with the movement of physical goods, who want to increase efficiencies and unlock additional revenue potential.
novatlantis 2017
ZH
Stagnant
[ Resource Efficiency ] IT: Communication, Other: Low tech
Novatlantis aims for energy system transformation, resource efficiency, renewable energies and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It analyses data, developments of information, knowledge and strategies, empowers customers to take concrete action, and provides scientific services.
Nutrai 2016
ZH
Formation
Food, Agriculture & Forestry [ Health Solutions ] Smart: Device
We discover the how, when, & why of food consumption patterns that are affecting patients health
oecogreen 2020
ZH
Validation
[ Cleaning Services ] Mobility: 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
None
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.
openversum 2023
ZH
Growth
[ Water Management ] Components: Filters & membranes
Openversum produces a low cost all-in-one water filter for the removal of pathogens, pesticides, heavy metals and micropollutants. Using their online platform local entrepreneurs can get the necessary knowhow to micro franchise the filters around the globe.
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