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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 Phase Areas of Activity [Subareas] Technology
Pleasant Plants 2021
ZH
growth
[ air quality, Farming & agriculture, Gardening ]
Grow your own organic herbs and vegetables at home, with little work and little waste! Our automated systems save you time, water, nutrients and pesticides, and deliver fresh ingredients every day.
Retreeva 2021
VD
formation
New chemical materials
Retreeva's patented high-tech sponge selectively captures precious metals from industrial waste streams in trace concentrations and record time. Recycling these valuable resources in a green manner ultimately helps reducing carbon emissions, energy loss and dependence of industry on virgin mines, thus contributing towards a more responsible future. Ultimately, with its adsorbents, Retreeva aims to aid access to drinkable water in underdeveloped regions.
Sasit Lab 2021
ZG
validation
[ Energy storage ] Hydrogen technology and fuel cells, Storage other than batteries
Advanced Solid State Hydrogen Storage Materials
SimplexDNA 2021
ZH
validation
[ Environmental monitoring ] Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data
SimplexDNA is engaged in biodiversity monitoring solutions in aquatic, terrestrial and aerial environments. Through their environmental DNA (eDNA) scans, they identify organisms in an environment without observing them directly. Based on the collected DNA, they create a biodiversity report through analysis. The company is a spin-off of the ETH Zurich.
Solaxer 2021
VD
formation
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption,Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Energy efficiency, Energy Production, Heating and cooling energy ] Renewable technologies, Solarthermal energy
Solaxer helps industries cut reliance on fossil fuels by delivering a new method of heat harvesting. This next generation technology delivers solar receivers with high performance but with significantly reduced environmental impact and at lower cost.
Solergy 2021
AG
validation
[ 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.
somebodyelse 2021
ZH
formation
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Games ] Gamification
Somebodyelse creates embodied experiences in VR to help people to understand an issue in an immersive, educational and playful way to raise awareness and enable positive behavioural change. In 2015, the United Nations all agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. But social, cultural, and environmental problems still seem to be accumulating worldwide; sustainable cities and communities, access to health and therapy, or social wellbeing are still huge problems to tackle. People are still not sufficiently aware of the underlying problems, cannot understand, imagine, or relate to them, and therefore, will not change them either. Digital technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) allow a wide range of people to experience abstract content appealingly. And, today we know that people can better understand and emphasize through a self-made bodily experience.
use again (sumami) 2021
SO
validation
Sumami records materials in buildings and uses them to create component catalogs for its customers. In this way, they record which components can be reused economically and ecologically in a construction project. With the USEAGAIN app, Sumami also offers a marketplace that connects reuse stakeholders.
tropfbox 2022
SO
validation
Production of eco friendly products [ Bodycare, Trade and Retail ]
Tropfbox is an online platform for all things to do with periods. It offers access to sustainable menstrual products that can be purchased by subscription.
UNIWASTEC 2021
ZG
validation
[ climate carbon removal, Waste & recycling ] Filters & Membranes, Hydrogen technology and fuel cells, Physical & chemical & nano technologies
UNIWASTEC is a technology company that operates in the field of waste-to-energy production. We have combined the most innovative and greenest waste-to-energy technologies to produce Green Hydrogen, Synthetic liquids and gases, electricity and drinking water.
Urstamm 2021
AR
formation
[ Forestry ]
We enable and promote sustainable timber, forest management and regionality through transparency and efficient processes with digital proof of origin on the wood.
Va-loo.ch 2021
ZH
formation
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Engineering, Waste & recycling, Water Management ] Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use., Construction: Resource or material optimisation, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use, Water conservation
The VaLoo association was founded on World Toilet Day 2021 with the aim "to create value from what ends up in the Loo". Our 44 founding members from 18 different organisations are a heterogeneous group of start-up entrepreneurs, associations, researchers, students and other interested parties.
Vegipack 2021
VD
validation
[ Waste & recycling ] Waste recovery, recycling and re-use
An ecological water bottle made from sugar cane, which is also compostable at the end of its life. Veganbottle is a positive alternative to global plastic pollution.
Voltiris 2022
VD
formation
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production),Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Energy efficiency, Energy Production, Farming & agriculture ] Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use., Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies
Agricultural greenhouses are key toward a sustainable food supply, however they have significant energetic needs due to heating and artificial lightening. There is a push from governments, retailers and consumers to reduce carbon footprint of greenhouses. Voltiris enables double-use of large greenhouses surfaces to produce electricity without impacting their high agricultural yield. Voltiris introduces a solar panel design to generate electricity from the part of sunlight's spectrum that is unused for crop growth.
Yoordi 2021
ZH
validation
[ Information technology ] IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Wearable devices or apps
Digital self-ordering solution: Yoordi's web app can be used to digitally handle ordering and payment services at events with multiple food and beverage providers.
Zélo 2021
VD
growth
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Trade and Retail ] IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals
Zélo is a zero-waste supermarket that offers a home delivery service by cargo bike, with the particularity that all products are delivered with the “zero waste” concept, i.e., packed in reusable containers.
Agrinorm 2020
ZH
formation
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] IT data usage
AgriNorm is a Swiss based deep-tech startup leveraging scientific advances in plant genetics, biochemistry and machine learning techniques for the optimization of perishable fruits supply chain. AgriNorm is developing an AI-powered cloud-based system for predicting the expected quality properties and shelf-life of perishable fruits at the farm gate. This will allow our customers to: 1. Improve margins through optimization of sales channels via smart allocation of the right products to the right clients. 2. Save costs via waste reduction, prevention of claims and avoidance of freights expenditures.
Bloocks 2020
VD
unknown
[ Construction of buildings ]
The mission of the company is to decrease the energy consumption of new constructions (buildings etc.), construction-related air and soil pollution as well as to decrease the cost and time of building new constructions. We will achieve this goal by using factory-based manufacturing and fabricating unique and specially designed Building Blocks. The costumers will use an online platform to design their own constructions, receive a particular amount of Blocks and build the desired type of constructions.
Carbon Removed (Climacrux) 2020
LU
growth
Carbon capture and storage, Climate technologies
Helps individuals to become carbon neutral and climate friendly by compensating their carbon footprint through carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere.
Codingmind AG 2020
ZH
validation
[ Building technology ] IT Software
Coding Mind AG develops and programs solutions for a more efficient, resource-saving and customer-friendly marketing of real estate. --- In addition to SAM - the world's first inspection robot for the real estate industry, Coding Mind also offers products such as REMOTELY360°, which adds new functions to existing 360° tours, exploiting the full potential for digital inspections in a scalable way.
deskbird 2020
SG
validation
Behavioural change [ Information technology ] IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals
deskbird is the most flexible solution to use inspiring workspaces - where and when you need them. Find relevant workspaces around you and use them fully flexible. You are only charged for the time effectively used, e.g. two hours. Our goal is to support freelancers, startups and established companies on their journey towards the new way of working #NWOW
Solarbalkon (Direct Coffee) 2016
BS
growth
[ Electricity, Energy Production ] Photovoltaics
Fight climate change from your balcony with a super-light solar panel that can be plugged into the socket.
drivemycar 2020
ZH
formation
[ Mobility & Fleet management ] Fleet management
The innovative automated Swiss Vehicle Sharing Platform for P2P, B2B and B2C for private and companies.
EnCoTEc Innovation 2020
SH
formation
[ Electricity, Energy Production ] Renewable technologies
EnCoTec Innovation develops and markets sector-coupling energy systems simultaneously providing electricity, heat and operating reserve. The use of climate-neutral fuels (biogas, power2X) ensures future oriented plant operation. Flexible plant operation contributes to energy security and enables the increase of solar and wind based electricity production.
enerdrape 2021
VD
formation
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction,Construction & buildings [ Building technology, Energy sufficiency, Heating and cooling energy ] Geothermal energy
We turn underground infrastructures into renewable heat sources. We develop the first modular geothermal panel-like technology that allows to capture renewable heat from new or existing underground environments. With our solution we offer a new way to source renewable heat for your buildings.
ENERGIE HUB Buttisholz 2020
LU
formation
[ Energy efficiency, Energy sufficiency ]
As a clever combination of electricity, heat and mobility, sector coupling is the answer to the challenges of the energy transition. Find solutions in local implementation at Buttisholz.
Entracers 2020
ZH
formation
[ Environmental monitoring ] Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data
It's an Eawag-Spinoff that provides services with a focus on the consulting for gas monitoring/screening strategies as well as on the implementation of such strategies. Additionally, the company performs gas sampling in the field and conducts measurements within the frame of its own analytical capabilities. The services provided by Entracers GmbH are mainly (but not exclusively) addressed to private associations/companies and to research organizations.
Equigy 2020
AG
growth
[ Electricity grids & flexibility ] IT blockchain or algorithms
A SWISSGRID Project. The «crowd balancing platform» is an innovative solution in the control energy market. The shift in electricity generation towards a large number of smaller generators with volatile production is presenting new challenges for transmission system operators.
Green-Y Energy 2020
BE
validation
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions, Energy Production, Energy storage, Heating and cooling energy ] Cooling technology, Heat industrial usage, Heating in buildings, Storage other than batteries
Green-Y revolutionizes the energy sector: The combination of an electricity storage together with a heating and cooling unit in one decentralized device makes the integration of renewable energy on a large scale possible. An affordable and efficient system with unrivalled low amortization periods below 4 years results. Besides that, Green-Y is eco-friendly by using only air and water as working fluids.
Helvitek Labs 2020
VD
formation
[ Healthcare ]
The goal of the company is to create the next generation of urban life anti-pollution masks combining state-of-the-art protection with a revolutionary design.
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