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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terapet |
2019 GE validation |
[ Healthcare ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Proton therapy is the most precise radiotherapy for cancer treatment. However, monitoring the doses during treatments remains a guessing game based on simulations. Terapet SA, a CERN startup, develops a novel medical device which enables medical doctors for the first time to monitor the delivered proton dose inside the patients during cancer treatment: in-vivo, non-invasive, in 3D and real-time. This solution ensures that every patient receives the right dose, every time. | |||
| Treasures of Nature |
2019 GE unknown |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Bodycare, Healthcare ] | Unknown |
| Production and sale of organic, high quality (mainly cosmetic) products and not tested on animals while remaining at affordable prices. Our Elementals brand is also local (Swiss-made) and zero waste, with recyclable packaging. | |||
| 2em |
2014 FR growth |
[ Road vehicles and transport ] | Fleet management, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 2EM wurde 2012 in Freiburg gegründet. Mit einer Flotte von über 2000 Fahrzeugen ist 2EM die führende private Autovermietungsplattform der Schweiz und ermöglicht Tausenden von Mitgliedern die Teilnahme an der kooperativen Wirtschaft. Die Wahl einer alternativen Art des Konsums bedeutet, Teil der Generation des Social Car Sharing zu sein! | |||
| Allani Sunlife Holding |
2008 FR established |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction [ Electricity, Resource efficiency ] | Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies, Smarthome & building |
| Sunlife consists of a group of enterprises, formed into a Holding that promotes and develops original ideas and concepts to evolve solar technology and products into economic structures capable of generating a revenue. E.g. Solar Tourism, Solar agriculture. | |||
| Bcomp |
2011 FR established |
[ Engineering ] | Material & Products based on biomass, New chemical materials |
| Under the tagline “play naturally smart”, Bcomp has defined what looks like a paradox at first sight as its mission: designing and marketing sustainable intermediate goods with no compromise on performance. Bcomp replace aluminum, carbon- or glass fibre composites and make structures more efficient in terms of weight, resistance, rigidity, shock absorption, and damping. Bcomp serves different industries such as sports & leisure, motorsports and automotive, as well as aerospace. | |||
| Climate services |
2013 FR growth |
[ Environmental monitoring ] | Climate technologies |
| Climate Services offers tools and support to help companties and other organizations to manage risk and identify opportunities related to climate change. The company owns the online www.CO2-Platform.ch to quantify CO2 emissions and identify the most attractif projects. | |||
| Cortexia |
2016 FR growth |
[ Cleaning, Waste & recycling ] | IT data usage, Smartcity, Smart device |
| Cortexia's solution allows the cities to monitor urban littering, improving the city's cleanliness while reducing cleansing costs. Our intelligent vision measurement systems provide an objective measurement and detailed mapping of urban litter. Mobile cameras recognise and map the littering according to categories in the whole city and compute a cleanliness index. | |||
| dashcom |
2016 FR growth |
[ Building technology ] | Smarthome & building |
| dashcom is a Swiss company, providing solutions at the cutting edge of technology. Our success drivers are; the user experience, the state-of-the-art technology and the data science for the benefits of the users. | |||
| ECCO2 Solutions |
2019 FR growth |
[ Energy efficiency, Information technology ] | Enabling technologies, Smart device |
| We make buildings intelligent to save CO2. With AI, predictive heating control and high-precision energy measurement. Smart sensors in your building provide millions of data points for our AI to “learn” your building and systematically adapt the heating path: Automated data analysis will allow you to better understand your portfolio’s energy performance and monitor and document your CO2-reduction plan. | |||
| Enoki |
2018 FR validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Construction of buildings, Engineering, Resource efficiency ] | Renewable technologies |
| We are a start-up of architects and engineers which aims to imagine, build and activate the sustainable city of tomorrow. | |||
| Freshape |
2011 FR growth |
Construction & buildings,Food, Farming or Forestry [ Building technology, Electricity, Engineering, Farming & agriculture, Resource efficiency ] | Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use., Construction: Resource or material optimisation, Renewable technologies |
| Freshape is an established tech company based in Switzerland and China offering a new generation of sustainable and patented technologies developed in-house to enable a convenient lifestyle, while reducing the footprint on our planet. The rise of advanced green technologies, combined with distributed approaches, enables a more balanced living. These two ingredients are both necessary to overcome the massive challenges in the fight against global warming. Let’s work together to protect natural resources and foster social developments. | |||
| GBY (Go By Yourself) |
2016 FR validation |
Health & House & Body Care [ Recreation, Road vehicles and transport, Sport ] | e-bike, e-mobility |
| For people with limited mobility who want to independently expand their physical capabilities in their daily and family activities, GBY improves their mobility with the GO-TRYKE®, an electric tricycle that does amazing things while bringing relief to their disability. | |||
| Geoazimut |
2011 FR established |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Engineering, Environmental monitoring, Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection ] | Geophysical & technical, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| GeoAzimut Sàrl is a company active in the fields of geosciences, geographical information systems and electronics. | |||
| Go Electric |
2013 FR established |
[ Road vehicles and transport, Trade and Retail ] | e-mobility |
| Go Electric offers advice on clean mobility and selling/ retail of electric vehicles of all brands and at the lowest prices in Switzerland. The vehicles offered benefit from a manufacturer's warranty and are generally recent or even very recent vehicles. | |||
| GRZ Technologies |
2017 FR validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction,Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy storage ] | Battery, Enabling technologies, Hydrogen technology and fuel cells, Renewable technologies, Synthetic fuels (e.g. power to liquid) |
| GRZ Technologies Ltd. is a company active in the field of renewable energy storage. Two products were released in 2017: a Hydrogen Compressor (HyCo) and an Advanced Gas Analysing System (AGAS). Both are laboratory equipment for the scientific community as well as for quality control in industry | |||
| HYDROTHERMA Swiss Ecological Technologies |
2012 FR validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Construction of infrastructure (roads, bridges ..), Energy efficiency, Engineering, Waste & recycling ] | Climate technologies, Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Hydro energy, Synthetic fuels (e.g. power to liquid) |
| HYDROTHERMA Swiss Ecological Technologies SA - is a swiss development stage company specializing in research, development, creation and implementation in the sphere of clean energy production, production of boehmite nanopowders & maintenance of ecological safety of industrial enterprises. | |||
| dingz (iolo) |
2018 FR growth |
[ Energy management solutions, Information technology ] | Internet of Things |
| The problem with Smart Homes: they are either expensive, complicated, fragile and quickly out of date or filled with gadgets with limited applications. That's why we invented dingz: a Smart Home should be easy to install and even easier to use. It doesn't need to cost too much and has to remain open to future developments. We think we did it. What might just look like an elegant light switch is nothing less than the bridge from traditional living towards the standard of the future. | |||
| Koord |
2016 FR validation |
Drone & flight, Motor & actuator | |
| KOORD provides customized mechatronic solutions optimized for the needs of companies as well as research and development offices. Our multidisciplinary know-how in the fields of mechanics, electronics and software offers you a complete support for the development of your products, from the feasibility study to the production of series. | |||
| LES BATOILLES |
2019 FR growth |
[ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| A reusable bag from recycled material produced locally for vegetables and other shoppings to replace plastic bags and an online shop to sell locally made items. | |||
| ECO-TSAPI (Neotex Concept) |
2017 FR growth |
Waste recovery, recycling and re-use | |
| eco-tsapi consists of a fabric impregnated with beeswax and organic jojoba oil. Called wrap in English or bees wrap in the jargon of consum'actors, it allows you to pack food in a simple and 100% natural way. The advantage: it is reusable because it is washable! | |||
| PubliBike |
2010 FR established |
[ Energy efficiency, Resource efficiency, Road vehicles and transport ] | e-bike, e-mobility, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 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. | |||
| ResiLi |
2021 FR validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Energy efficiency, Resource efficiency, Resource sufficiency ] | 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. | |||
| ROOMZ |
2015 FR established |
Construction & buildings [ Unknown ] | Smarthome & 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. | |||
| Softcar |
2011 FR validation |
[ Electricity efficiency ] | e-mobility |
| Softcar designed a car with the lowest carbon footprint, assembled in “nano factories”, the local production facilities. Softcar propose a new generation car considering CO2 emissions over its entire life circle. At Softcar, everything is done to reduce the carbon impact and they have achieved so by entering the circular economy where we recycle the components and remelt them into similar pieces. The Softcar's mission is to preserve a blue sky in the cities around the world. | |||
| Swiss Hydrogen |
2008 FR growth |
[ Electricity ] | Hydro energy, Hydro energy (small scale), Wearable devices or apps |
| Swiss Hydrogen SA develops clean energy solutions for a variety of applications. The common factor is hydrogen! When produced using renewable energy, hydrogen becomes the ultimate clean energy vector, permitting zero-loss storage, simple scalability, and zero-emission electricity production. At Swiss Hydrogen, we strive to deliver tailor-made, turn-key solutions. | |||
| Yord |
2021 FR validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction,Construction & buildings [ Energy efficiency, Heating and cooling energy ] | IT blockchain or algorithms |
| yord develops an optimizer -yox- that allows you to save up to 30% of the energy consumed by your heating, ventilation or air conditioning. | |||
| Apizoom |
2016 FR growth |
[ Farming & agriculture ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| A beekeeper teamed up with the Signal Processing Laboratory 5 and a group of EPFL students to develop an app that counts the number of Varroa mites in beehives. This parasite is one of the two main threats – along with pesticides – to bees’ long-term survival. Knowing the extent of the mites’ infestation will allow beekeepers to protect their bees more effectively. | |||
| Foodathome |
2020 FR established |
[ Trade and Retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Food Delivery Service | |||
| cluster food & nutrition |
2022 FR formation |
[ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| The Food & Nutrition Cluster is an association that has been active in the food sector since 2015. As a networking and intermediary platform at regional and national level, the Food & Nutrition Cluster aims to strengthen cooperation between the various players in the food ecosystem and support them in their innovation efforts. It combines food processing expertise with know-how on nutrition, health and new technologies, always taking into account sustainability and the principle of the circular economy. More than 80 members and partners from the food, agriculture, packaging and distribution sectors, as well as research and educational institutions, the public sector and trade associations are currently part of the Food & Nutrition Cluster network. | |||
| Local'ice |
2021 FR growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | |
| Natural and Local Soft-Ice and Granite | |||