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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| notime |
2014 ZH sold but still independently active |
[ Transport & logistics of goods ] | e-cargo, e-mobility |
| 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 |
Filters & Membranes, Physical & chemical & nano technologies | |
| 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 |
Transport & Mobility [ Electricity, Engineering ] | Climate technologies, Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies |
| 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 |
[ Functional clothes, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| 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 & House & Body Care [ Healthcare, Water Management ] | Bio technologies |
| 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 |
[ Construction of buildings ] | Construction: Resource or material optimisation, Physical & chemical & nano technologies, 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 usage, efficiency & prosumption [ air quality ] | 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 |
[ Environmental monitoring, Information technology, Waste & 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 production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 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 |
[ Food production & retail ] | Bio technologies |
| 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. | |||
| Plutinsus |
2019 ZH validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Environmental monitoring ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Smartgrid |
| Plutinsus creates smart grids, smart utilities, smart districts and cities, and smart buildings in order to gain efficiencies that have not been possible before. The growing complexity that results from an ever tighter integration of the various technical components and business partners and an ever smarter coordination among them can easily turn into a risk. Those who find the appropriate ways to manage these risks can take advantage of these new opportunities from the envisioned efficiency gains. Plutinsus provides the tools to help businesses understand their current and future risks that arise from these complexities. | |||
| Polarmond Outdoor |
2017 ZH established |
[ Recreation, Sport ] | Enabling technologies |
| The company develops, produces and markets the world’s first self-warming and temperature controllable sleep shells, bivouacs and tents with dehumidification management. | |||
| POWERGIA |
2013 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Electricity efficiency ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| POWERGIA GmbH provides access to an liberalised electricity market for large consumers | |||
| Prognolite |
2016 ZH validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction,Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis,Recreation, hotels & restaurants [ Catering, Food production & retail, Hotel, Information technology, Resource efficiency, Restaurants, Waste & recycling ] | |
| Our forcast app tells restaurants how many guests are coming next week on which day. They can reduce food waste and improve their staff planning. | |||
| qiio |
2014 ZH growth |
[ Energy efficiency, Information technology ] | Battery, e-mobility, Fleet management, Internet of Things, IT blockchain or algorithms, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Smart device, Smarthome & building, 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". | |||
| Qualysense |
2010 ZH growth |
[ Food production & retail, Forestry ] | Enabling technologies |
| QualySense develops high-end solutions for a safe and sustainable food supply. By pioneering single-kernel analysis, combining two sensing technologies - QualySense is helping seed breeders, food companies and inspection agencies to achieve excellence in nutrition, health and safety. | |||
| Quartierstrom |
2017 ZH stagnant |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity efficiency, Energy storage, Many fields ] | IT blockchain or algorithms, Smartcity |
| blockchain based peer to peer energy (physical and Go) community (www.quartier-strom.ch) | |||
| Recogn.ice |
2021 ZH validation |
Behavioural change [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Landscape conservation and management ] | IT data usage, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| We, a young bunch of natural scientists and journalists, truly believe that recognition is key to care. This is why, in January 2019, we felt the urgency to launch “Recogn.ice”; a nonprofit organisation for the recognition of this cryosphere. Our team is committed to accomplish that one goal: for people around the world to recognise, understand and ultimately care for all frozen parts of our planet. Founded in February 2019 in Zurich, the core team of Recogn.ice consists of a glacierologist, a geologist, a communications consultant, an award-winning designer, data scientists and IT specialists. Together, we strive to present these features and data in an attractive and intuitive way : - with yellow frames indicating the very presence of the surrounding expression of the cryosphere ; - with an intuitive app ; - with an educational website mapping the cryosphere. | |||
| ReoR20 |
2019 ZH formation |
[ Environmental monitoring, Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| REOR20 provides the latest technology for the most precise and efficient mitigation of natural and man made catastrophes. | |||
| RethinkResource |
2017 ZH established |
[ Food production & retail, Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | |
| RethinkResource creates an online marketplace where producing and processing companies can trade their side and waste streams. | |||
| ReWinner |
2016 ZH growth |
Construction & buildings [ Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 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. | |||
| RINO Electronics (Eisspeicher) |
2003 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Electricity, Energy storage, Heating and cooling energy ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Heating in buildings, Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies, 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. | |||
| Roll2Go |
2019 ZH restructuring, on hold, no development |
[ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management, Recreation ] | e-motorbike, e-motorcycle, e-scooter, IT data usage |
| Roll2Go is an integrator of micro-mobility. We build on top of recent international success of free-floating rental schemes with e-scooters and bicycles and aim to foster their long-term potential for urban mobility. The data-centric platform for mobility data fusion and predictive analytics | |||
| rqmicro |
2013 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Healthcare ] | Bio technologies |
| Next generation microbiology for water and food safety | |||
| Adaptricity |
2014 ZH established |
[ Electricity grids & flexibility ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Smartgrid |
| Adaptricity develops simulation and optimization software tools for adapting the electricity distribution grid for the transition towards renewable energies. Products help distribution grid operators in gaining an enhanced overview over their system and evaluating a large set of possible SmartGrid. | |||
| Sevensense Robotics |
2018 ZH validation |
[ Transport & logistics of goods ] | Robotic |
| Sevensense is accelerating technological innovation in the service robotics industry by enabling robots to safely and autonomously navigate in dynamic spaces shared with humans, in- and outdoors. We strive to empower enhanced ease in the integration and use of mobile robotics through our solution that can be applied to any kind of mobile ground machine, from forklifts to delivery and cleaning machines, at minimum installation time. | |||
| Sharely |
2013 ZH validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management,Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource sufficiency, Service pooling, Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Plattform to enable local community sharing all kinds of products, online plateform. | |||
| ROO (Share your BICAR) |
2016 ZH validation |
[ Electricity, Engineering ] | e-bike, e-mobility, e-motorbike, e-motorcycle, e-scooter, Smartcity |
| ROO - Practical, fun and sporty. With its single seat, three wheels and countless applications, roo is at home in a variety of urban and suburban settings. It’s as compact and versatile as a Swiss Army knife. It looks cool too, like a resourceful Australian marsupial, not a space alien or a carelessly cooked soufflé. And the cornering performance may just put a smile on your face. | |||
| SIGMAtools |
2018 ZH stagnant |
[ Electricity efficiency ] | Low technology |
| SIGMAtools GmbH is a high-tech Startup. With the special measuring technique, analytic process and improvement-knowhow we have majored in Energy- and Resourceefficiency in the production. | |||
| sim2sustain (scaling4good) |
2019 ZH validation |
Behavioural change [ Financing and financial services, Information technology, Insurance ] | Construction: Resource or material optimisation, IT blockchain or algorithms, IT data usage, IT Software, Smartcity |
| We aim for a sustainable economy and society where decisions and transformation strategies of societal relevance will be reached through open collaboration, based on facts, stated goals, and declared values. Decisions, interventions, strategies, and investments reflect the ecological and societal urgency we are facing and contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). | |||