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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| SwissGeoPower Engineering |
2010 AG formation |
[ 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. | |||
| AquAero GmbH |
2015 AG validation |
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 |
| AquAero has developed a drying technology able to reduce energy consumption by up to 70% and to eliminate the CO2 emissions almost completely while maintaining high product quality and productivity. The green technology is scalable to any size and can be adapted for all materials not sensitive to temperatures above 100°C, e.g. food, pet food, ceramics, and biomass. | |||
| Cymmersion |
2016 AG stagnant |
[ 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 growth |
[ Construction of buildings, Energy efficiency, Engineering, Heating and cooling energy ] | Geothermal energy, Heating in buildings, Renewable technologies, Smarthome & building |
| 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 |
[ 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Explosion Power |
2009 AG established |
[ Energy Production, 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 Participation: Online cleaning technology with Shock Pulse Technology to remove deposits on heat exchanger surfaces, e.g. membrane walls and tube bundles for large boiler plants (waste to energy, biomass, industrial heat recovery eg.) | |||
| mygrid |
2023 AG validation |
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| mygrid offers charging systems for electric vehicles for apartment buildings and companies with an easy and transparent user experience for all parties involved. | |||
| MyOldtimer |
2020 AG growth |
[ Road vehicles and transport ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| MyOldtimer.fun is the sharing platform that allows you to share classic cars, modern classic and other unique vehicles. | |||
| Neuron |
2013 AG growth |
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 |
[ 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. | |||
| Olanga ( previously myFoodWaste ) |
2020 AG validation |
[ Catering, Environmental monitoring, Farming & agriculture, Resource efficiency, Restaurants, Waste & recycling ] | Internet of Things |
| Olanga is the Swiss solution for sustainable food consumption and Food Waste reduction in the gastronomy. It allows to preorder food with an app at company retaurants et university to personalize the diet plan and gives planning security to the restaurants. Olanga leads to sustainable cost savings and Food Waste reduction and helps to protect natural resources. Olanga can reduce the costs in canteens by up to 3% and significantly increase customers satisfaction. | |||
| Oxoia (former myFacility) |
2020 AG validation |
Construction & buildings [ Energy management solutions ] | Internet of Things |
| Oxoia offers automated energy optimization and simple building control for public, commercial and industrial buildings | |||
| Power-Blox |
2015 AG stagnant |
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. | |||
| Room Estate |
2014 AG growth |
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. | |||
| SWISS BLUE ENERGY |
2012 AG formation |
[ Electricity, Electricity efficiency, Energy Production ] | 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 growth |
[ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| swiss banana chips | |||
| SwissShrimp |
2016 AG growth |
[ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | 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 Trading AG |
2018 AG growth |
[ Building technology, Electricity, Electricity efficiency, Electricity grids & flexibility, Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions, Energy storage, Engineering ] | Battery, 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 |
[ 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 established |
[ 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 ans battery installations. | |||
| Caminada Energy Technologies |
2008 AG formation |
[ Energy efficiency ] | |
| The environmentally friendly vegetable oil (Pöl) burner makes your oil heating CO2 neutral. Manly used oil should be used. | |||
| E2S Power |
2019 AG growth |
[ Energy storage ] | Storage other than batteries |
| The company is set to develop a Long Duration Energy Storage using innovative travelling wave energy storage technology, a joint venture between SS&A power development AG and WIKA AG. Main aim is to repurpose and decarbonize fossil fuel power plants globally. | |||
| Grüniger PLUS |
2011 AG established |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ 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. | |||
| iNovitas |
2011 AG growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT network, IT Software, Sensors |
| infra3D Service by iNovitas brings the roads, the railway corridor and other infrastructure facilities digitally in high resolution and three-dimensionally directly to the user's workplace or screen. This enables processes to be digitised and redesigned | |||
| Inventsys |
2017 AG established |
[ 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. | |||
| miniloop |
2023 AG growth |
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| myfeld |
2020 AG validation |
[ 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. | |||
| Remretech |
2021 AG validation |
[ Electricity efficiency, Energy Production, 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 | |||
| SmartBreed |
2019 AG validation |
[ 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. | |||