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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BePooler |
2015 TI growth |
[ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| BePooler was born in Switzerland in 2015 from the simple but innovative idea of providing companies and individual users with a fast and safe way to share the trip to their workplace, thus reducing traffic, expenses, the use of private vehicles and urban pollution. The Lugano-based startup company has developed an innovative system for carpooling through a web platform and related app and has managed to entice none other than the Italian city of Milan. | |||
| BIM Facility |
2017 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Building technology, Construction of buildings, Information technology ] | IT data usage |
| BIM Facility AG specialises in the digitisation of real estate and brings existing digital planning models up to date: Asset Information Modelling (AIM) comprises the acquisition and construction of all relevant data and information to improve the performance and optimum maintenance of existing properties. | |||
| BioTruck |
2017 VD growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Food production & retail, Resource sufficiency, Restaurants, Waste & recycling ] | |
| BioTruck is a home-grown organic food company that promotes short supply chains, local and seasonal producers. | |||
| engytec |
2017 SO growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Construction of buildings, Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions ] | IT data usage, Renewable technologies |
| Energy costs can be read out more easily and billed at the touch of a button. engytec concentrates on the measurement, processing and billing of all energy flows and offers property managers a billing system that is divided among the individual tenants and is consumer-oriented. Our vision is "everything under one roof". We accompany property owners and managers on the way to sustainable energy use: simplified, safe, transparent. | |||
| Blockstrom |
2017 BE growth |
[ Electricity efficiency ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Photovoltaics |
| Blockstrom enables real estate investors to supply rooftop solar power to the inhabitants of their buildings. We measure the electricity consumption and supply complete metering and billing data to property managers. Our web portal makes the management of energy consumption communities easy and efficient. We support self consumption communities. | |||
| Bloom Biorenewables |
2019 VD growth |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Resource efficiency, Resource sufficiency, Waste & recycling ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Bio technologies, Material & Products based on biomass |
| At Bloom, we excel in deconstructing biomass. With our groundbreaking process, we provide a novel, cost-competitive route to source molecules from plants. This technology is the first of its kind and offers an unprecedented alternative for many petroleum-based products. From fragrances to polyurethanes, Bloom is committed to offer tailored solutions to our customers and help companies around the Globe in reducing their carbon footprint. Bloom products are cost-competitive bio-based building blocks for the chemical industry. The patented mild lignin extraction method uses stabilizing molecules (so-called “protection groups”) that prevent the lignin from condensing during extraction. | |||
| carpasus |
2014 ZH growth |
Low technology | |
| CARPASUS combines sustainability with quality, style and coolness. Our mission is to provide you with quality shirts that will make you feel good, accompany you for a long time, and underline your individual style. The CARPASUS shirts are now available in stores in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Sweden and are enjoying growing popularity. CARPASUS will continue to work for a more resource-efficient fashion industry in the future. The journey continues. | |||
| carvolution |
2018 BE growth |
[ Mobility & Fleet management, Road vehicles and transport ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| The basis of Carvolution are Mobility as a service, hand in hand with a sophisticated vehicle fleet. The combination of service and technology creates a new approach to mobility and provides the foundation for a sustainable mobility development. Different cars are available on a subscription model: One monthly price for car, fully comprehensive insurance, taxes and registration. | |||
| Caulys |
2019 VD growth |
[ Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| The Caulys Farm brings fresh and healthy products into the city, with cultivation methods suitable for the urban environment. Our project falls within a perspective of a sustainalbe production and consumption and is like an urban greenhouse. | |||
| ChemAlive |
2017 VD growth |
IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals | |
| Software driven by machine learning that allows the chemical industry to model chemistry, improve yield and generate new chemical leads. The ChemAlive platform is designed for cheaper and faster access to computed chemical data with no expertise, hardware or software barrier through a SaaS model executable by any chemist on-line. Our system brings machine learning and big data to the chemical and Pharma industry who have a need for accurate reaction metrics to design, predict and understand chemical processes. The efficiency and reliability of our approach opens up new markets where interactive accurate data can be used as a sales, marketing and R&D tool. | |||
| Chimpy (Batte.re) |
2013 ZH growth |
[ Electricity ] | Battery, Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Renewable technologies |
| Solar power compensated battery for small electronics; Battere offers the most convenient solution for people on the go to recharge their smartphone. Users pick up a pre-charged power bank, charge their smartphone on the go and return the power bank at any other point of sale. Available at 1000 PoS | |||
| Choba Choba |
2015 BE growth |
[ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| A chocolate brand in which farmers no longer are mere raw material suppliers. Instead, they have a direct stake in the company and its success. | |||
| Circle Soaps |
2018 ZH growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Bodycare, Waste & recycling ] | |
| Circle Soaps produces handmade, cold made soaps with organic and herbal ingredients. We are an ethical company and strive to be as environmentally friendly as possible and to minimize our waste. | |||
| CleanFIZZ |
2011 GE growth |
Construction & buildings,Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Construction of buildings, Resource efficiency, Resource sufficiency, Waste & recycling ] | Hydro energy (small scale), Photovoltaics, Physical & chemical & nano technologies, Renewable technologies |
| CleanFizz is a Swiss based company developing innovations to promote the solar industry. CleanFizz S.A. has developed an innovative solution “Integrated ElectroDynamic Cleaning” to revolutionize the solar panel industry with an entirely new self-cleaning method based on electrostatic waves. | |||
| CleanGreens |
2013 VD growth |
[ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | agricultural technologies |
| CleanGreens (previously CombaGroup) is an award-winning Swiss agro-tech company that provides innovative farming solutions in mobile aeroponics. Our patented technology greatly reduces water consumption and contamination risks while offering maximum productivity per square meter. | |||
| ClearSpace |
2018 VD growth |
[ Prevention of or protection from technical risks ] | |
| ClearSpace develops in-orbit service missions to enable a vibrant, resilient, and sustainable space industry. | |||
| Clemap |
2017 ZH growth |
[ Electricity ] | Smarthome & building |
| Energy monitoring and disaggregation sensor for housholdes. Disaggregation service for electricity providers. The products helps to use electric tools more efficiently. | |||
| 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. | |||
| ClimatePlace |
2009 VD growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Service pooling ] | Climate technologies, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| The platform Climat Place seeks to highlight pre-due-diligenced, bankable climate-related projects in order to raise a blend of public and private capital required to make such green development projects a reality | |||
| Climate services |
2013 FR growth |
[ Environmental monitoring ] | Climate technologies |
| Climate Services offers tools and support to help companties and other organizations to manage risk and identify opportunities related to climate change. The company owns the online www.CO2-Platform.ch to quantify CO2 emissions and identify the most attractif projects. | |||
| Climeworks |
2009 ZH growth |
[ climate carbon removal ] | Climate technologies |
| Climeworks develops, builds and operates direct air capture machines. With our technology we capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and used as a raw material, or completely removed from the air by safely storing it. Our machines consist of modular CO₂ collectors that can be stacked to build machines of any size. Climeworks direct air capture machines are powered solely by renewable energy or energy-from-waste. | |||
| collaboratio helvetica |
2017 BE growth |
[ Unknown ] | |
| We create spaces for dialogue, new ways of collaboration and the collective development of approaches to shaping the Switzerland of tomorrow –built on ecological responsibility, humanity and the common good. | |||
| Cortexia |
2016 FR growth |
[ Cleaning, Waste & recycling ] | IT data usage, Smartcity, Smart device |
| Cortexia's solution allows the cities to monitor urban littering, improving the city's cleanliness while reducing cleansing costs. Our intelligent vision measurement systems provide an objective measurement and detailed mapping of urban litter. Mobile cameras recognise and map the littering according to categories in the whole city and compute a cleanliness index. | |||
| dashcom |
2016 FR growth |
[ Building technology ] | Smarthome & building |
| dashcom is a Swiss company, providing solutions at the cutting edge of technology. Our success drivers are; the user experience, the state-of-the-art technology and the data science for the benefits of the users. | |||
| Decision Trees |
2008 SG growth |
[ Electricity efficiency, Energy efficiency, Information technology ] | Hydro energy, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies |
| Decision Trees as a connector between scientific research and practitioners uses cutting edge methodologies of Stochastic Optimization and offers customized software and consultancy to energy producers and traders. | |||
| Futuricum (Designwerk Products) |
2017 ZH growth |
[ Mobility & Fleet management, Road vehicles and transport ] | Battery, e-cargo, e-vehicle charging |
| electric trucks are a solution not an alternative. Performance, ecology and economy combined. | |||
| dhp technology |
2015 GR growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Construction of infrastructure (roads, bridges ..), Electricity, Energy efficiency ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Photovoltaics |
| dhp created HORIZON which is a solar folding roof system which turn parking lots and logistics areas into electric power plants. HORIZON unfolds when the sun shines and automatically retracts into a storage unit afterwards. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Distran |
2013 ZH growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection, Resource efficiency ] | Acoustic materials & technologies e.g. noise, vibration mitigation, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| Distran is a spin-off from the Autonomous System Lab, ETH Zurich, developing advanced acoustic sensors for industrial applications. Distran's goal is to reduce risks for industrial workers and the environmental impact of the industry through the use of sound sensing and technology. | |||
| dokspot |
2014 ZH growth |
[ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Dokspot allows manufacturers to manage and distribute their product instructions online. Our platform provides instructions at the right time, for the right product, in the right language, and in the right version. We enable manufacturers to reduce their CO₂ footprint, simplify their operations, and increase their profit margins, all the while making life easier for the end-user. | |||