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 |
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| Flux Mobility |
2021 ZH formation |
[ Road vehicles and transport ] | e-cargo, e-mobility |
| The start-up develops and builds high-quality e-transporters based on a modular platform concept. | |||
| Gaia Tech |
2021 BE validation |
[ Resource efficiency ] | Material & Products based on biomass |
| Gaia Tech upcycles ingredients from agricultural sidestreams. By sourcing the waste of those sidestreams and processing them, they deliver natural compounds for cosmetics, food and feed industries. This way agricultural producers and local communities profit by not having to get rid of the waste in a often environmentally harmful and costly way. | |||
| Graphene filter carbon capture |
2021 VS formation |
Climate technologies | |
| Chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a graphene filter for carbon capture that surpasses the efficiency of commercial capture technologies, and can reduce the cost carbon capture substantially. | |||
| GreenState |
2021 ZH validation |
[ Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| GreenState AG specializes in indoor cultivation in modular and vertical farms with which resources and costs are to be saved. They plan plan on operating several farms in Switzerland, the USA and the EU. In addition, they offer for sale the necessary hardware and software solutions to build and operate modular and vertical farms. | |||
| Honest Monday |
2021 BE validation |
[ Financing and financial services, Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| We connect and network entrepreneurs with investors, financial intermediaries and public institutions with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship in a sustainable way. This matchmaking is facilitated by a digital, smart and intuitive business plan that focuses on the people behind the business idea. At its heart is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution based on state-of-the-art technology, which in future will also use artificial intelligence (AI) to find the perfect match. | |||
| Intiyo |
2021 VD growth |
[ Energy management solutions ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Sensors |
| intiyo, a patented photovoltaic (PV) monitoring and soiling platform, provides a wide range of advantages: integrated, web based analytics solutions optimized for all browsers and mobile and hardware sensors. | |||
| Kern |
2021 BE validation |
[ Trade and Retail, Transport & logistics of goods ] | Construction: Resource or material optimisation |
| The patented shape of the corrugated cardboard box enables securely transport of content, space-saving storage, and simple handling during sorting and stacking. | |||
| kleandrop |
2021 ZH validation |
[ Cleaning ] | Low technology, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Cleaning products in tab or power form, without water to save transport energy and packing plastic materials. | |||
| Local'ice |
2021 FR growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | |
| Natural and Local Soft-Ice and Granite | |||
| loopi |
2021 NW validation |
[ 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." | |||
| LUUUP |
2021 SG formation |
[ clothes ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| LUUUP is a recycling company that uses a chemical process to dissolve cellulose-based fibres to generate feedstock for yarn production. It is working on improved circularity of textile waste to reduce its ecological impact | |||
| Luya Foods |
2021 BE growth |
[ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| Luya is a flavor loaded plant-based alternative to meat taking sustainability to the next level. We rescue organic okara - a by-product of tofu and soymilk production of which more than 1500 tonnes go to waste in Switzerland every year - and turn it into ready-to-cook slices, chunks and patties. | |||
| Nature Re |
2021 SZ validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, climate carbon removal, Financing and financial services, Forestry ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| The purpose of the company is to provide consulting and management services, especially in the field of nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. This is done through mobilizing investments towards projects that focus on restoring nature and biodiversity. | |||
| Norisa |
2021 GE validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ 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. | |||
| oecogreen |
2020 ZH validation |
[ Cleaning, Road vehicles and transport ] | e-cargo |
| Containers repeatedly cause environmental pollution due to improper or inadequate cleaning. Oecogreen sells and rents out containers and cleans and desinfects them regularly. To do this they use a fleet of electric garbage trucks to emit less CO2. In addition they recycle all the dirty water from the cleaning, so that it can not pollute its surroundings. | |||
| PAN DATA |
2021 BS validation |
[ Heating and cooling energy ] | Geothermal energy, Heating in buildings, IT data usage, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, IT Software, Photovoltaics, Pump, Renewable technologies, Smartcity, Solarthermal energy, Water conservation |
| We help sustainability actors to make a better use of technologies and knowledge | |||
| Pelt8 |
2021 ZH validation |
[ ESG Reporting, Financing and financial services ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 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. | |||
| Piss & Love |
2021 VD validation |
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| 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. | |||
| 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 |
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| 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. | |||