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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
Yova 2017
ZH
Growth
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Financial Services ] Other: Low tech
Yova is a digital platform for investing with a sustainability impact. Yova customers invest directly into companies that help solve global challenges and make a difference in topics they care about. Renewable energies, gender equality, circular economy – they can decide which topics they want to invest in. All investments are tailored to the customer’s needs and values. At the same time, they are professionally diversified and designed for long-term returns. The customers get both: sustainability impact and financial return. With the Yova platform, everyone can become an impact investo.
Koa-Impact 2017
ZH
Growth
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] Other: Low tech
At Koa, we redefine the perception of value creation in the cocoa value chain of rural West Africa. By utilising the so far discarded cocoa pulp, we increase the farmer’s income by 30% and reduce food waste by 40%. The new technology is carbon neutral and solar powered. Thanks to the decentral extraction, we can directly work with more than 1’000 farmers. Koa’s 100% traceable and modularly scalable operations enhance livelihood in rural communities significantly while carrying a delicious and exotic flavour into the world.
Kolbev 2020
ZH
Formation
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] Mobility: E-vehicle charging
Kolbev offers an on-demand charging service that makes all aspects of EV charging seamless, safe, reliable and convenient.
Kompotoi 2016
ZH
Growth
Buildings & Construction [ Waste Management & Recycling ] None
Kompotoi rents, designs and sells composting toilets. Kompotoi toilets not only look good, they are environmentally friendly and absolutely odorless. We turn "human output" into a soil conditioner, closing an important natural cycle.
LEDCity 2017
ZH
Growth
[ Energy Efficiency ] Energy: LED, Energy: Lighting
LEDCity develops autonomous lights with various integrated sensors to let them decide by itself if and how much light is needed. Savings up to 90% are possible.
Libattion 2018
ZH
Validation
[ Energy Storage ] None
Libattion is an innovative lithium battery provider accelerating the global shift to a more sustainable energy storage technology.
LINIA 2018
ZH
Validation
Buildings & Construction [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] Mobility: Drone & flight
Our software LINIAair enables power grid operators to acquire a huge amount of data of infrastructure fast and autonomous with drones. Our cloud based platform LINIAgrid processes, visualizes and analyzes data with AI-algorithms, to find damage or threats to power lines. Benefits: The reliable data base and sophisticated analytics result in increased security of supply and less power outage for customers.
Locatee 2014
ZH
Validation
[ Building Technologies ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that empowers workplace leaders to make fact-based decisions about their real estate portfolio by transforming complex data into space utilization insights. By leveraging various IT data sources, Locatee transforms information into actionable insight, thereby shaping the way employees interact with the workplace and making office buildings truly human-centric.
Loriot 2015
ZH
Growth
[ Energy Efficiency ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
Internet platform for hosting IoT solution, focus can be on energy efficiency in buildings
Cook Eat 2021
ZH
Validation
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] IT: Communication, Other: Low tech
Cook Eat mediates home-cooked food from private to private on the online community marketplace. It closes the gap between expensive restaurants and time-consuming self-catering. Wherever our members register, culinary diversity is created around the clock.
Microlino 2017
ZH
Validation
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] Mobility: E-car
Realization of small and light cars that are at the same time protected from the weather and that have enough space for groceries shopping. Production is scheduled to start in 2021.
Mirai Foods 2019
ZH
Validation
[ Alternative Proteins ] Biological: Bio tech
We are developing real meat - cultivated directly from animal cells
MIRO Analytical Technologies 2018
ZH
Growth
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Environmental Monitoring ] Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Sensors
MIRO Analytical Technologies has been founded as an Empa spinoff to bring the latest mid-infrared gas sensing technology based on quantum cascade lasers (QCL) to the market. Measures simultaneously up to 10 most important green-house gases and pollutants and allows easy use through an intuitive interface on a 7 " touch screen display.
Mondays 2018
ZH
Growth
[ Health Solutions ] Other: Low tech
Mondays is a Femtech company, an online subscription for environmentally friendly, plastic free period products. At Mondays we know shopping for periods products is a hassle no one needs. And making environmentally friendly choices when buying period products, simply takes up too much time for most people to bother. Mondays allows women to purchase sustainable, 100% plastic free period products, have none of the guilt and save time in the process. A one-time registration and your period products will arrive on your doorstep in time every month.
MPower Ventures AG 2017
ZH
Growth
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Production & Supply ] Energy: Battery, Energy: Photovoltaics
MPower Ventures finances and distributes affordable solar systems to a market of 1.3 bn potential customers in emerging markets. MPower enables them to power their homes and businesses independently from the electricity grid or fossil fuel-based electricity production systems.
Mr. Green Recycling-Service 2010
ZH
Established
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] Other: Low tech
The start-up company Mr. Green spares people in Zurich the walk to the collection point: they pick up glass, aluminum cans, pet and batteries from home and dispose of them
myNewEnergy 2013
ZH
Validation
[ Energy Management & Use ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
Internet platform for buying ecological added value of electricity products or switching to high quality products with the own provider.
naanu 2020
ZH
Validation
[ Alternative Proteins ] Biological: Bio tech
Vegan supplement alternatives that are simple, enjoyable and healthy. HappyBites provide 100% daily needs of Vitamin B12, Vitamin D and Omega 3, and provide a high source of Calcium, Iron and Zinc.
nanoleq 2017
ZH
Growth
[ Wearable Devices ] Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech
we help people reconnect to themselves and listen to their bodies through monitoring technology that is integrated into daily clothes.
NewGreenTec 2015
ZH
Validation
Mobility & Transport [ Energy Production & Supply ] Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Wind
Small wind and photovoltaic tower for homes or farms, easy to use and scalable. Bike-Parking Systems (V-Locker) and consulting on the installation of renewables, like wind and PV.
notime 2014
ZH
Sold but still independently active
[ Freight & Logistics ] Mobility: E-cargo, Mobility: Electric
notime AG is a Swiss technology company. Our platform enables online retailers to automate the entire process from the order in the online shop to the delivery of the goods.
Novamem (DrinkPure) 2013
ZH
Growth
[ Resource Efficiency ] Components: Filters & membranes, Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech
Novamem is the first company to use state-of-the-art technology to produce micro- to nanofiltration flat sheet membranes made from almost any polymer. Since 2018 a water filter is produced, which cn fit on any tab, to provide drinking water
Novaton 2010
ZH
Established
Mobility & Transport [ Energy Production & Supply ] Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Environment: Climate tech
NOVATON builds sea worthy NOVA Solar Islands of various sizes - floating solar islands, rotate for optimal sunlight to industrial energy production; In addition they devloped NOVACAT, a solar operated autonomous surface vehicle to navigate autonomously on high seas and other water surfaces
OHANA Move 2018
ZH
Stagnant
[ Fashion & Apparel ] Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use, Other: Low tech
OHANA Move is an environmentally friendly active wear label from Switzerland. We produce sportswear that consists of almost 80% recycled PET bottles. For one leggings from our production 25 PET bottles are needed. It is OHANA Move's highest concern to design trendy clothing that breaks new and environmentally conscious ground. Our reversible two-in-one clothing can be worn on both sides and is therefore doubly individual.
onCyt Microbiology 2017
ZH
Validation
Health, Wellness & Care [ Engineering & Industrial Design ] Biological: Bio tech
Our hard- and software add-ons turn the bench-top flow cytometer that you already own and trust, or the one that will meet your needs best into a fully automated on-line sampling and measurement device. We combine the best of two worlds by providing smart automation add-ons to established flow cytometers with known high performance.
oxara 2019
ZH
Formation
[ 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.
Oxygen at Work 2017
ZH
Growth
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.
Hades Technologies 2019
ZH
Validation
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] IT: Data usage
Automatically detecting defects in sewer inspection videos - not only much faster, but also objective and less error-prone.
Pexapark 2017
ZH
Growth
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.
Planted 2019
ZH
Growth
[ Alternative Proteins ] Biological: Bio tech
Planted produces food products from plants, that replace meat, taste good an contain healthy ingrediants. Only a handful of carefully selected ingredients go into Planted: pea protein, pea fiber, sunflower oil and water.
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