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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AquAero GmbH |
2014 AG validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Electricity efficiency, Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions, Engineering, Resource efficiency, Water Management ] | Heat industrial usage, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Efficient and resource-saving water production from the air for drinking water supply as well as for agricultural and industrial use, like industrial dehumidification. Participation: Energy efficient material drying by superheated steam including a high temperature heat pump to recover the water | |||
| CPD-Swiss |
2012 AG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Waste & recycling ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Renewable technologies |
| Production of bio-diesel from biomass, old oil and household waste. | |||
| Cymmersion |
2016 AG growth |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Information technology ] | Gamification, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Our main focus is on the development of immersive applications, especially Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. | |||
| Electrojoule |
2017 AG validation |
Construction & buildings [ Construction of buildings, Energy efficiency, Engineering, Heating and cooling energy ] | Geothermal energy, Heating in buildings, Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies, Smarthome & building, Solarthermal energy |
| We plan, install and maintain sofisticated renewable heating and cooling systems für mid-sized buildings, all out of one hand, including continuous optimization. | |||
| e-netz |
2010 AG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Electricity grids & flexibility, Energy management solutions ] | Communication |
| e-Netz AG is an independent planning, engineering and consulting company specialising in technical and energy issues in the energy sector. e-Netz AG unites independent experts for networks, engineering and the energy industry under one roof. | |||
| Explosion Power |
2009 AG established |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Heating and cooling energy, Information technology, Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | Enabling technologies, Filters & Membranes, Heat industrial usage |
| Small explosion generator to clean heat pump tubes of industrial processes | |||
| Gaia Membranes |
2019 AG formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy storage ] | New chemical materials |
| Gaia Membranes develops and manufactures ion exchange membranes that can boost the performance of multiple energy storage and conversion technologies. Amphion™ is the innovative membrane technology. | |||
| Room Estate |
2015 AG growth |
Construction & buildings | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Room Estate is an established and rapidly growing provider of furnished rooms in shared flats throughout Switzerland. The company now offers a wide range of furnished rooms in the main Swiss cities. The offer is tailored to the fast and independent lifestyle of young and ambitious people. All rental processes are fully digitalised and make life easier for tenants. | |||
| myFacility |
2020 AG formation |
Construction & buildings, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Energy management solutions ] | Internet of Things |
| myFacility offers automated energy optimization and simple building control for public, commercial and industrial buildings | |||
| Neuron |
2013 AG growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Electricity efficiency, Information technology ] | Communication, Enabling technologies, IT network, Lighting, Smartcity, Smart device, Smartgrid, Smarthome & 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.. | |||
| NIKIN GmbH |
2017 AG growth |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ Forestry, Functional clothes ] | Wood or forest technologies |
| 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. | |||
| Power-Blox |
2015 AG validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Photovoltaics |
| Power-Blox develops and distributes an innovative solar battery system for off-grid applications that allows to easily build up decentralized energy systems based on a swarm" principle." Easy to scale. | |||
| SWISS BLUE ENERGY |
2012 AG formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Electricity efficiency ] | Geothermal energy, Hydro energy (small scale), Renewable technologies, Solarthermal energy |
| Swiss Blue Energy develops the Thermo-Magnetic Motor (TMM) - an innovative technology for the generation of zero-emission baseload electricity out of extra-low temperature heat. Our products will substantially contribute to a sustainable future electricity supply. | |||
| swiss chips (BanChips) |
2018 AG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| swiss banana chips | |||
| SwissGeoPower Engineering |
2010 AG formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Heating and cooling energy ] | Geothermal energy |
| SwissGeoPower Engineering AG constructs, operates, rents and sells power plants nationally and internationally for the production of primarily electricity and secondarily heat from deep geothermal energy. These are closed petro-geo-energy power plants, which produce electricity and heat in a clean, sustainable and self-sufficient manner, which guarantees autonomy. | |||
| SwissShrimp |
2016 AG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Resource saving agricultural technologies |
| SwissShrimp AG is the first company in Switzerland to implement sustainable shrimp farming at an industrial level. Following successful pilot production, SwissShrimp has found an attractive location partner for large-scale production in the Swiss salt works in Rheinfelden, Aargau, in 2016. | |||
| Virtual Global Systems |
2014 AG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Electricity grids & flexibility, Heating and cooling energy, Service pooling ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Photovoltaics, Smartgrid |
| Unique and innovative platform with a new technology. Efficient, fast and cost-effective. This is Virtual Global Systems AG. A virtual power plant. | |||
| Virtual Global Trading AG |
2018 AG growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Building technology, Electricity, Electricity efficiency, Electricity grids & flexibility, Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions, Energy storage, Engineering ] | Electric batteries, e-mobility, Internet of Things, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, IT Software, Renewable technologies, Smartgrid, Solarthermal energy |
| We are a digital Energy Supplying Company and we build the power market of tomorrow. We build the biggest P2P Energy Trading Platform on the World. | |||
| Webmodus (SUN-D) |
2008 AG established |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency ] | Lighting |
| We design and produce an exclusive, flexible and naturally adapting lighting system beyond comparison. The backbone of all our products is the same basic principle of redirecting light. SUN-Displays find their use as high standard, aesthetic eye catchers in foyers and entrance halls as well as part of exhibitions and events providing high flexibility for utilisation and a unique fusion of information and light. Whenever the backside of the screen is illuminated the frontside starts to shine. It doesn’t matter what light source you use. | |||
| Younergy |
2013 AG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy Production, Energy storage, Heating and cooling energy ] | Photovoltaics |
| Solar power subscription for homes with no up-front cost.Solar installation. Financing of solar installations. | |||
| EN-PRO |
2012 AG growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity ] | Electric batteries, Photovoltaics, Smarthome & building |
| En-pro GmbH develops, plans and implements tailor-made photovoltaics in all variants in construction and logistics. As qualified solar experts they build photovoltaic systems for commercial customers, private individuals, institutions and the public sector. | |||
| Equigy |
2020 AG validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ 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. | |||
| Grüniger PLUS |
2011 AG established |
Communication, Media, Education or Games, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency ] | Communication |
| Grüniger Plus GmbH is an expert in the field of energy and process optimisation of industrial processes as well as thermal systems and plants. The focus is on holistic considerations of systems and processes as well as their energetic and economic optimization. | |||
| Inventsys |
2017 AG validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Software solution, designed to enable the digitalization of governments, authorities, and municipal utilities to create smart processes. It helps digitalize the business of other verticals including facility management, utility management, security, trade marketing, and outdoor media, and any other operation that requires the geolocated real-time management of assets or field workers. | |||
| Remretech |
2017 AG formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Enabling technologies |
| Recycling technology for strategically & technologically important rare earths from magnet e-wastes. The founder Ajay Patil aims to develop a portable recycling unit for e-waste and resource management. | |||
| SmartBreed |
2019 AG formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture ] | Low technology |
| 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. | |||
| BoxTango |
2011 AR growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Energy efficiency, Rail transport, Transport & logisticsof goods ] | e-cargo, e-mobility |
| BoxTango moves containers horizontally between road and rail with a newly developed transshipment technology. Intermodal Transport involves the transportation of freight using multiple modes of transportation (rail, ship and/or truck). | |||
| Abhati Suisse |
2013 AI established |
Health & House & Body Care [ Bodycare, Healthcare ] | Low technology |
| An ethically-minded skincare brand based in Switzerland, boasting deeply rooted Indian heritage. Its mission is to bring together the therapeutic virtues of Swiss botanicals and Ayurvedic plants from organic farms, to create a range of luxurious, sustainable and fair-trade beauty products. | |||
| b-science.net |
2018 AI growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy storage ] | Electric batteries, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| We improve decision making quality in the energy storage community based on patent literature analysis, which allows for the anticipation of future technology trends. | |||
| Enlife |
2015 AI validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency, Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions, Environmental monitoring, Information technology ] | Climate technologies, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| State of the Art web and mobile applications to transparently deliver ENERGY PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS, ENGAGEMENT TOOLS & ACTIONABLE INSIGHT to OPTIMZE energy use and LOWER costs while SAVING the environment. Our solutions are hardware independent, tailored to the needs of each customer and focused on non-technical stakeholders that our competitors fail to engage and address. | |||