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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| MOOST |
2016 SG Growth |
[ Energy Efficiency, Energy Management & Use ] | Energy: Cooling tech, Energy: Heating in buildings, IT: Data usage, IT: Internet of Things IOT, IT: Software, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Sensors |
| MOOST – Turning Energy Data into Action: At MOOST, we turn complex energy data into clear, personalized insights that empower people to make sustainable choices — simply, intuitively, and with impact. Our cloud-based recommendation engine integrates seamlessly into Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS), delivering smart, real-time suggestions without overwhelming users with notifications. Our business idea is rooted in making sustainability tangible for everyone. We help energy providers offer added value to their customers by transforming raw data into engaging, actionable recommendations that encourage climate-friendly behavior — without compromising comfort or convenience. Our target market includes energy companies and smart home solution providers looking to boost customer engagement and sustainability outcomes. Our end users are everyday households ready to take part in the energy transition — not through big sacrifices, but through small, intelligent steps. What sets MOOST apart is our unique ability to combine HEMS data with contextual intelligence, generating truly personalized guidance that fits each user’s lifestyle. Sustainability shouldn’t be complicated. With MOOST, it isn’t. We make the energy transition happen — today, and at home. | |||
| 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. | |||
| MyFoodways |
2018 BE Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| MyFoodways gets to know what you love - and what you don’t - and offers you personalised recipe recommendations. You can search for a specific item or swap and switch the ingredients in one of your favourite recipes. All MyFoodways recipes are flexible and adapt what you have at home. | |||
| mygrid |
2023 AG Growth |
Buildings & Construction [ Energy Management & Use, Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software, Mobility: E-vehicle charging |
| mygrid offers a modular platform for operating and billing charging infrastructure, (v)ZEV and energy solutions in buildings. Whether for rental properties, building owners, corporate sites, or operator models, mygrid automates processes, ensures transparency, and integrates seamlessly into existing systems. The platform is hardware-agnostic, scalable, and available as a white-label solution. Our target market includes energy utilities, installation companies, and real estate managers with multi-site portfolios. These stakeholders face rising complexity and demand for digital energy services. mygrid helps manage and monetize infrastructure across charging, metering, and production assets all on one platform. What sets us apart: mygrid combines the depth of a full-featured backend for EV charging with the flexibility to support ZEV billing and energy communities. Our focus is on simplicity and automation. The system supports dynamic pricing, real-time data, and ERP/EDM integration. Customers can run operations autonomously or outsource onboarding, billing or support. Well-known clients like SBB, SWL, Pestalozzi, Thomson Reuters and leading housing cooperatives already rely on our platform. mygrid simplifies energy operations – simple, automated, and flexible. | |||
| MyOldtimer |
2020 AG Growth |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| MyOldtimer.fun is the sharing platform that allows you to share classic cars, modern classic and other unique vehicles. | |||
| Nagi Bioscience |
2019 VD Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Environmental Monitoring ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| Nagi Bioscience is an innovative high-tech startup operating in the BioTech field, located in the heart of the Swiss "Health Valley". Nagi Bioscience revolutionizes the way toxic and beneficial effects of substances are tested today, with the first “Organism-on-Chip” technology: ethical alternative to animal testing and key to boost innovation and efficiency in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and chemical industries. | |||
| Nanogence SA |
2017 VD Growth |
[ Building Technologies ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization, Components: New chemical materials, Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| Nanogence develops smart nanoadditives for construction sector allowing cost and carbon footprint reduction. The products are integrated directly into current cement and concrete manufacturing processes. | |||
| 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. | |||
| ECO-TSAPI (Neotex Concept) |
2017 FR Growth |
[ Lifestyle Products & Services ] | Environment: 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! | |||
| Neuron |
2013 AG Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Lighting, IT: Communication, IT: Network, Other: Enabling tech, Smart: City, Smart: Device, Smart: Grid, Smart: Home & building |
| Neuron offers innovative products, platforms and services to facilitate last-mile (EDGE) IoT using powerline communication technology. With customer spread across 19 countries and 4 continents, our technologies are most used in SmartGrid and SmartCity domains.. | |||
| Neustark |
2019 BE Growth |
[ Building Technologies ] | Components: Resource or material optimisation, Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..), Environment: Climate tech |
| neustark removes CO2 from the atmosphere permanently stores it in recycled concrete and cuts new emissions by reducing the use of cement. | |||
| NIKIN GmbH |
2017 AG Growth |
[ Fashion & Apparel ] | Biological: Wood or forest tech |
| NIKIN is a sustainable clothing brand from Switzerland that plants a tree for each product. Our mission: We want to support global reforestation by planting one tree for every product sold. Here on our Linkedin page you will find regular information about NIKIN, inspiration for a sustainable lifestyle or how the NIKIN family works every day. Join us on our journey and help to make the world a greener place. | |||
| Novaccess |
2011 VD Growth |
Buildings & Construction,Mobility & Transport [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Lighting, IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: City, Smart: Device, Smart: Sensors |
| Novaccess is a start-up company developing innovative products for to the Web of Things. We make physical objects smarter, by interconnecting them through a ubiquitous software fabric. Our deep expertise in hardware, networking and software technologies allows us to craft end-to-end solutions with unprecedented levels of customization, efficiency and manageability. We create value across diverse application domains. | |||
| Novalytica |
2019 BE Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Data usage |
| At Novalytica, we support organizations with data tools and services on their journey from data to insight. We have developed an efficient data infrastructure to automate the manual and time-consuming process of managing and reporting ESG data from different sources for different frameworks and standards. | |||
| 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 | |||
| novaziun |
2021 GR Growth |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Energy: Battery, Mobility: Electric, Other: Enabling tech |
| We decarbonize because we know what needs to be preserved. As a solution provider and engineering company, we design and develop innovative vehicles and machines. Together with our customers, we electrify the world with moving innovations. | |||
| Nuniq |
2021 VD Growth |
[ Circular Economy ] | Other: Low tech |
| Nuniq is here to transform the beauty industry in a wholesome and sustainable way. Taking care of one's self should not come at the cost of the environment. | |||
| Optor |
2014 BE Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Optor AG is a specialist for complex planning and optimization problems. In many cases, productivity can be significantly increased by targeted optimization of operating processes. Our optimization software ODS is the ideal tool to realize this potential quickly, easily and cost-effectively, e.g. for power industry: Smart Grid: Optimized load control for your network or lower costs thanks to optimized purchasing and warehousing. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| PHYSEOS |
2011 VS Growth |
[ 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 |
[ 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. | |||
| Plair |
2014 GE Growth |
[ Environmental Monitoring ] | Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Plair SA develops and manufactures professional systems for preventive environment monitoring. Proprietary state-of-the-art technology forms the basis of Plair’s intelligent detectors that provide high-quality and continuous environmental measurements in all weather conditions. Initially focused on outdoor environmental monitoring, Plair systems quickly became a reference in the field of real-time pollen and bioaerosol detection, with installations in 12 countries. | |||
| Planeto |
2023 GE Growth |
[ Building Technologies, Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | IT: Artificial intelligence AI, 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Ponera |
2019 TI Growth |
[ 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. | |||
| POWERGIA |
2013 ZH Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| POWERGIA GmbH provides access to an liberalised electricity market for large consumers | |||
| Precision Vine |
2016 VD Growth |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | IT: Data usage, Mobility: Drone & flight |
| With a focus on improving wine quality, Precision Vine works with growers and winemakers to collect and analyze remote-sensing data and assist in integrating the information acquired into specific management plans. We offer high-resolution hyper/multispectral aerial imaging and associated vineyard specific data services to address vineyard heterogeneity, vine balance, irrigation management, harvest planning, disease mapping, nutrition needs, maturation curve and more. | |||