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).
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| Company Name | Founding year Canton Phase | Areas of Activity [Subareas] | Technology |
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| KnowS IT |
2017 validation |
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| Job portal & community. The safe way to find people with the right skills. | |||
| lalana |
2021 validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| High quality and 100% recycled textile yarn for your next project. Inspiration for #knitting #crochet or #macramé. | |||
| loopi |
2021 NW validation |
Behavioural change [ Waste & recycling ] | Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| "We’re pioneering stroller design to last well beyond the needs of one user. Committed to the circular economy, our concept is repairable, refurbishable and recyclable. By offering our strollers as a subscription, it‘s given back to us at the end of its use so we can give it a new life with another family." | |||
| matriq |
2019 SG validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) | Enabling technologies, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| matriq offers innovative solutions for the part-indiviual marking of plastic components of all kinds. With the DynamicMold technology, marking takes place directly in the manufacturing machine, whether in injection molding, blow molding or thermo forming. Besides the application for traceability, the DynamicMold technology also offers the possibility to integrate anticounterfeiting features for brand protection. | |||
| Micropow |
2019 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | 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. | |||
| Mondaic |
2018 ZH validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Energy efficiency ] | 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. | |||
| myfeld |
2020 AG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail, Gardening ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| MyFeld.ch brings your own garden into your living room. And this in a digital and playful way. Customers can plant vegetables, fruits and herbs online and then it will be planted on the farm and is delivered to the customer. They can choose from over 30 varieties to plant their own 16 square meter field. The growth can be watched via webcam. MyFeld farmers and gardeners take care of the maintenance. As soon as your harvest is ripe, we deliver it conveniently to their home. | |||
| Norisa |
2021 GE validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Financing and financial services ] | Low technology |
| Norsia helps wealth managers fully integrate their clients’ personal values and vision of sustainability into the investment process. Our ESG profiling tools help leverage investors' sustainability goals and thus develop responsible investment strategies. | |||
| NutriFly |
FL validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| NutriFly produces high quality products for animals and plants from insects. In our production process, we exclusively process regionally available by-products from the agricultural and food industries into high-protein animal feed and nutrient-rich fertilizers. | |||
| CertCare (Originfood) |
2018 VD validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology ] | Internet of Things, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| At Originfood, we work with our Clients to digitalise processes that help shed light on Supply Chain blind spots. We don't do "consulting", we engage to enhance transparency and reduce operational redundancies. | |||
| Pelt8 |
2021 validation |
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| Pelt provides organisations with a business intelligence and reporting solution for ESG & sustainability data. We help companies organise all indicators they have to collect, manage and disclose in one tool. | |||
| Perovskia Solar |
2020 VD validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | Photovoltaics |
| PEROVSKIA is a cleantech startup that provides customizable perovskite solar cells. We have developed digital printing technology to fabricate design-free perovskite solar cells. | |||
| Piss & Love |
VD validation |
Construction & buildings | |
| Piss & love design, produce and offers innovating dry toilets which are movable without machines and customizable. Furthermore, we aim to transform human waste into valuable nutrients for plants or energy. | |||
| PWRstation Holding SA |
2014 validation |
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| transportable and easy retractable racking technology to easy mount solar moduls. | |||
| Ranas Mosler |
2020 ZH validation |
Behavioural change, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Energy management solutions, Water Management ] | |
| RanasMosler's vision as pioneers in behavior change is good health and a sustainable environment for all. RANAS stands for Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self-regulation. It’s a scientifically proven method that enables you to understand and measure the psychosocial factors underlying behavior. | |||
| Regli Energy Systems |
2017 ZH validation |
Construction & buildings, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Heating and cooling energy ] | Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use., Smarthome & building |
| Regli Energy Systems wants to make the traditional heating market sustainable and ecologically oriented by ensuring that heat pumps deliver top values in terms of sustainability. After a long period of research and development, the first product, "NovaAir", was tested at the heat pump test center at the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland. Switzerland University of Applied Sciences. In several test series, it achieved top values in terms of performance and efficiency. The fact that this result is also due to the use of natural refrigerants, which are 700 times more more environmentally friendly than conventional refrigerants, which are still used in most heat refrigerants, which are still used in most heat pumps. | |||
| REMRETEch |
2021 AG validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency, Energy Production, Energy storage, Waste & recycling ] | New chemical materials |
| REMRETEch exploits the unique know-how in rare metals characterization, process developments from primary, secondary, e-waste resources, market and circular economy-related prospects | |||
| SAGANÀ |
2014 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| SAGANÀ offers high quality, Swiss-EU certified organic, sustainable, fair and 100% natural ingredients in retail or bulk from the Philippines into Switzerland whilst directly supporting rural community livelihoods of our partner farmers. Products are coconut blossom nectar, single-origin Trinitario cacao beans and nibs with low cadmium levels and cold-pressed Virgin Coconut Oil as a healthier and sustainable natural oil alternative. | |||
| Sedimentum |
2019 ZG validation |
Health & House & Body Care [ Healthcare ] | Smart device, Smarthome & building |
| Every year, more than 16 million people worldwide fall at home and therefore require rapid medical attention. 82% of falls among older people occur when they are alone at home. Although some of them already have an emergency call system, this is not actively used in 8 out of 10 cases: Those affected are either unconscious after a fall, can no longer get up or cannot reach the button. In most cases, it is not only the fall itself that is dangerous, but also the time it takes for help to arrive. Rapid medical care can not only prevent serious complications such as thrombosis or muscle and tissue damage, but also minimize long-term damage or even save lives. | |||
| Seefeld Style (YARN-TO-YARN) |
2017 ZH validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes ] | New chemical materials, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Seefeld Style produces trousers from the fabric made out of recycled yarn. YARN-TO-YARN® developed the extraction method to produce recycled yarn and lifts the fashion industry into the Circular Economy with "the infinite yarn". | |||
| Share.P |
2022 ZH validation |
Construction & buildings, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Transport & Mobility [ Electricity efficiency, Mobility & Fleet management ] | e-vehicle charging |
| Share.P is an innovative plug-and-play system that digitizes existing parking infrastructure and solves car parking and electric vehicle charging problems. Share.P solutions reduce traffic and air pollution by enabling building owners to rent out parking spaces and charging stations for electric vehicles in a convenient, fully automated and customizable way. | |||
| siloxene |
2020 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Siloxene supports the Performance and Renewable Raw Material Sectors, to be able, to provide better products and enhance their processes, in order to reach market leading excellence and act on their environmental Responsibility. | |||
| SmartBreed |
2019 AG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| SmartBreed offers insect breeders a local and complete breeding solution. We want to make the advantages of insects industrially usable and accessible for everyone. Therefore we offer stackable, fully automated breeding boxes, in which insects can be bred cost-effectively, resource-saving and hygienically - locally directly at the customer's site. | |||
| Solergy |
2021 AG validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Financing and financial services ] | Photovoltaics |
| Solergy makes solar power accessible to anyone who can contribute to the energy transition with roofs, investment or consumption. We bring together real estate owners, tenants and investors and provide a model where everybody benefits, and contributes to Switzerland´s energy strategies. So you become part of the fight against the climate change. | |||
| Sonnenpool |
2017 ZH validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | Battery, Photovoltaics |
| We finance and build solar systems, smart meters, and everything else to get clean power from your roof and the grid. | |||
| Spirecut |
2020 FR validation |
Health & House & Body Care [ Healthcare, Prevention of or protection from technical risks ] | Low technology |
| No skin incision, Safe surgery, Better outcomes We commercialise Sono-Instruments® to treat carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger. | |||
| Be the change |
2012 SG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Health & House & Body Care [ Food production & retail, Sport ] | food tech |
| The production of food, vital substances and sports nutrition is their passion, they work strictly according to Swiss food law and the Swissness regulation of the Swiss Confederation. | |||
| Swissponic |
2021 TI validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| Swissponic has developed an automated system for growing vegetable hors-sols at home. The system consists of a hydroponic structure, a control unit with dedicated software and a cloud connection for remote culture management at any time. | |||
| taketray |
2004 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| The most functional pocket ashtray solves litterling. | |||
| TEIL.style |
2020 BE validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| TEIL - the open closet in Bern and alternative to todays clothing consumption. Sustainability, variety and style are possible when we borrow more and own less. | |||