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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| ParaTop |
2016 GL Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards,Fashion, Lifestyle & Wearables [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | None |
| The ParaTop is rain protection that can be installed quickly on most bikes and keeps you dry during the ride. Participation: The ParaTop is rain protection that can be installed quickly on most bikes and keeps you dry during the ride. | |||
| 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. | |||
| RethinkResource |
2017 ZH Established |
[ Circular Economy ] | None |
| RethinkResource creates an online marketplace where producing and processing companies can trade their side and waste streams. | |||
| Rigi Technologies |
2016 VD Validation |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Rigi is re-defining last-mile inter-city logistics using a large-payload, sustainable drone-based delivery system. | |||
| Go-ROO (Share your BICAR) |
2016 ZH In liquidation or closed |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter, Smart: City |
| 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. | |||
| Social Fabric |
2016 ZH Stagnant |
[ Fashion & Apparel ] | Other: Low tech |
| Social Fabric is a ecological and social sustainable textile center based in Zurich. We use textiles with a small ecological and positive social footprint. We run a program that aims to empower refugees in our local community through textile work. | |||
| Solarify |
2016 BE Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Solarify sells single solar panels to small investors and puts the panels on rented roofs. Solarify enables small investors to contribute to the energy transition with small amounts and little risk, roof owners to get a free solar installation and to reduce their electricity cost | |||
| Sponti-Car |
2016 ZH Validation |
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Sponti-Car brings electric mobility to swiss rural communities, by providing a electric car to share and organizing everythings around it, like the neccessary charging stations. | |||
| STRIDE Learning |
2016 ZH restructuring, on hold, no development |
[ Education & Learning ] | IT: Communication, Other: Low tech |
| Our mission is to support personal, social and environmental transformations that lead us towards more sustainable and equitable societies as well as meaningful and fulfilling lives. Through action research, collaboration as well as STRIDE’s unSchooling approach to learning, we strengthen the capacity of individuals, organizations, cities, and sectors to develop impactful solutions to complex problems. | |||
| Sulzer & Schmid Laboratories |
2018 ZH Growth |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Video and Film, Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Robotic |
| Sulzer Schmid is an independent Swiss technology company and innovator of next-generation technology for the inspection of rotor blades. Our digital end-to-end process employs autonomous drones and incorporates cutting-edge image analysis tools. Reports are generated at the push of a button and are highly customizable. All the data is stored and made accessible via secure cloud services and is available for further analysis and benchmarking. | |||
| SwissDeCode |
2016 VD Growth |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| SwissDeCode was founded in 2016 to build trust and secure the global food supply chain. Spin-off of the University of Geneva, our patented tools and processes are recognized by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (InnoSuisse) and independently validated by Swiss Federal Laboratories. We are based in Renens (Lausanne, VD), Switzerland. | |||
| Swiss Wood Solutions |
2016 ZH Growth |
Food, Agriculture & Forestry [ Circular Economy ] | Biological: Wood or forest tech, Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| Swiss Wood Solutions refines solid wood and wood veneers to replace endangered tropical species and plastic products. We only use essences of sustainable origin. All our products are biodegradable, made from 100% wood and do not contain any plastic, resin or artificial coloring. | |||
| swizz-e |
2016 SZ Validation |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter |
| swizz-e GmbH designed a new e-scooter (Roller) that is produced completely in Switzerland. | |||
| Synhelion |
2016 TI Growth |
Energy & Power Systems,Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Solarthermal, Energy: Storage other than batteries, Energy: Synthetic fuels (e.g. power to liquid) |
| Synhelion is on a mission to replace fossil fuels by economically viable synthetic fuels, which are compatible with the current global fuel infrastructure and reduce net CO2 emissions by up to 100 percent. Synhelion uses high-temperature solar heat to convert water and CO2 into synthetic fuels – so-called solar fuels. | |||
| airlite (AM Technology) |
2016 TI Established |
[ Building Technologies ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Wall colours that clean the air we breathe, remove bacteria from homes, offices and hospitals, and reduce energy consumption. | |||
| ThermodynamX |
2016 SG Growth |
Energy & Power Systems [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Energy: Cooling tech |
| Thermodynamics helps, advises, tests, upgrades and designs custom cooling and heating systems. Participation: ThermodynamX develops and produces tailor-made cooling solutions for medical applications | |||
| Vir2sense |
2016 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric, Smart: Device |
| Vir2sense GmbH provides ready to use, optimized fast combustion and emission models for internal combustion engine calibration, continuous emissions monitoring and real-time control. The virtual sensors have been used successfully in automotive, heavy duty, power generation and ship propulsion applications. | |||
| Vuna |
2016 ZH Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Components: Filters & membranes, Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..) |
| VUNA designs & implements specialised sanitation systems to: - recover nutrients & water - save water - avoid costly sewers Participation: VUNA designs & implements specialised sanitation systems to:- recover nutrients & water- save water - avoid costly sewers | |||
| WeGaw AG |
2016 VD Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Environmental Monitoring ] | IT: Data usage, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Wegaw is a pioneering tech company specializing in digital hydroelectric energy solutions. Our "water intelligence" product provides precise modeling and forecasting of snow reserves and water inflow rates, crucial for optimizing hydroelectric power generation. By leveraging AI and merging various data sources, we deliver accurate predictions up to 180 days ahead of water inflows. Our target market comprises hydropower owning utilities and power traders, seeking to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve energy trading strategies. This market, hydropower asset optimization and power trading, is as big as $ 10B worldwide. Wegaw's unique selling proposition lies in its access to +2 billion high fidelity geospatial data points to train our AI models, which improves the accuracy of hydrological models, reduces operational costs, and enables better decision-making. Our solution can be integrated into existing systems within two weeks, delivering a return on investment of x5 to x10 for hydropower asset managers. | |||
| Wingtra |
2016 ZH Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Air Transport ] | IT: Video and Film, Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Robotic |
| Headquartered in Switzerland, Wingtra is the world’s leading VTOL drone producer for mapping, survey and mining industry professionals. Since its market entry in early 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 70 of the biggest equipment dealers and has been selling mapping drones globally ever since. | |||
| Workspace2go |
2016 ZH Established |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Workspace2go is a platform for meeting rooms, workstations and seminar rooms that can be booked by the hour or by the day. Suppliers can use the platform to provide unused workspace, which guests can book for their meeting or workshop. | |||
| Zaphiro Technologies |
2016 VD Growth |
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | Smart: Device, Smart: Grid, Smart: Sensors |
| SynchroGuard is a new smart solution for electrical grid monitoring and automation. Thanks to its advanced sensing infrastructure, SynchroGuard has the outstanding feature to combine in a single solution real-time grid monitoring, optimal control of grid resources, and smart fault management. | |||
| Acodis (turicode) |
2016 ZH Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Data usage |
| turicode is a young technology company located in Winterthur. We are experts in extracting unstructured information from documents, and making it available for analytics or use in further automated processing. | |||
| algrano |
2016 ZH Established |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Food tech |
| Algrano connects coffee producers directly with roasters through an online platform, providing transparency in the coffee supply chain. Founded in 2015, they handle logistics, quality assurance, and financing, aiming to modernize the industry with technology. | |||
| Axino |
2016 SO Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: Device |
| Axino offers its grocery customers the ability to make faster and easier product safety decisions .This is done through a system that uses IoT sensor technology in combination with AI algorithms. This allows companies to prevent product loss due to power issues and save on energy costs for refrigeration. | |||
| Primal Bee Systems (BeeHelpful) |
2017 TI Validation |
[ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Protection ] | Biological: Agricultural tech |
| Beehelpful has developed a new patented class of hives (Primalbee) that improve the health of bees, increase pollination capacity and reduce the chemical treatment of hives. | |||
| Digi Meals |
2016 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Using state-of-the-art technology, DigiMeals develops user-friendly and easily customisable solutions around digital recipes. We empower consumers to confidently cook their preferred healthy recipes. | |||
| Edapro |
2016 LU |
[ Regenerative Agriculture & Soil ] | None |
| Our compost tea brewing systems are made in Switzerland and meet the highest quality standards for the self-production of highly active EDAPRO compost tea. Easy cleaning and guaranteed high oxygen levels throughout the compost tea manufacturing process. | |||
| GlassResQ |
2016 ZH Growth |
[ Resource Efficiency, Waste Management & Recycling ] | Other: Low tech |
| Glass Doc glass surfaces renovation - always the first choice! The first choice Glass Doc AG Switzerland has worked together with Glass Doc GmbH Germany on research and development and has developed completely new repair and polishing processes. The research was focused on the production and application of novel glass processing and polishing agents. In addition to conventional glass surface damage, our new developments allow you to effortlessly eliminate sparking damage and other deep glass damage caused by abrasive cutting. With the newly developed materials and the craftsmanship and know-how of our professionally trained technicians, we succeed in eliminating all damage without residue (no waves or magnifying glasses is guaranteed + 100% money back guarantee). The machining always takes place within the permissible limits and manufacturer tolerances. Almost always a glass replacement is extremely complex and associated with considerable costs. In addition, there is always the danger of further collateral damage when installing and removing the elements. All this is simple and easy to use thanks to our Glass Doc® process, which makes it a viable and environmentally friendly alternative for everyone involved. Glass Doc technicians can berequested within a day and take care of your glass damage. The glass panels are always covered and cleaned on the entire surface. Our technicians were all equipped with our new system and, thanks to the glass dust extraction system simultaneously used during grinding work, leave every job absolutely free of dust and pollutants. We offer a solution for everything - our claims experts will help you to find the suitable alternative to glass replacement at any time. | |||