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 |
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| ShadeMe |
2021 VD validation |
Construction & buildings, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Electricity efficiency, Electricity grids & flexibility ] | Sensors |
| ShadeMe deliver decentralized anti-glare smart blinds and controller to turn buildings greener and lighting more comfortable | |||
| SmartPantry |
2021 TI formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| SmartPantry is a Swiss startup creating an innovative virtual kitchen assistant app aiming to help families reduce food waste. An easy to use smartphone app to track purchase and use of household groceries for families, shared households and individuals. According to the Federal Office for the Environment in Switzerland, every year a total of 494’000 tonnes of food is unnecessarily wasted in households in Switzerland alone. In addition to unnecessary financial expenses, food waste also has a major impact on the environment. | |||
| Space4Impact |
2021 VD formation |
Behavioural change [ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Space4Impact wants to maximize the positive impact of Space technologies on Earth by linking New Space companies to non-space markets. The goal is to internationally boost the growing New Space Economy in line with the UN SDGs. It created a digital ecosystem platform to help corporates, investors and organisations, who want to integrate disruptive solutions, innovate and accelerate their impact sustainably by learning, conducting open innovation challenges and initiating pilot projects with startups and News Space companies. | |||
| SquareFactory (previously csquare) |
2021 VD formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Financing and financial services ] | IT data usage |
| SquareFactory will offer a full end-to-end MLOps platform for training, deploying, and hosting AI models cost-effectively, at scale, as well as consulting and development services to help businesses to efficiently implement AI solutions and help them transition to the new era. | |||
| StadtOase |
2021 SH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Gardening ] | agricultural technologies, Bio technologies, Fertilizers from wastewater, waste or other sources, Low technology |
| StadtOase produces and sells automated planting systems, allowing the users to easily grow their own food and have a steady supply of fresh and healthy vegetables with minimal effort. | |||
| SWOXID |
2021 VD formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Water Management ] | Filters & Membranes, Renewable technologies |
| SWOXID developed a gravitational solar-thermal water purifier, which filters and sterilizes contaminated water with sunlight. It does not require electricity, nor dosage of chemical agents to provide the sterilization effect. The technology is based on an innovative nanoporous aerogel composite membrane which - upon solar irradiation - is able to render contaminated water safe by removing and inactivating infectious disease-causing biological agents such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa and worms. | |||
| WattAnyWhere |
2021 VS validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Hydrogen technology and fuel cells |
| WattAnyWhere supplies BioEnergy to ultra fast charger operators, anywhere, within a month. | |||
| Yord |
2021 FR validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Construction & buildings, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Energy efficiency, Heating and cooling energy ] | IT blockchain or algorithms |
| yord develops an optimizer -yox- that allows you to save up to 30% of the energy consumed by your heating, ventilation or air conditioning. | |||
| Agilery |
2021 validation |
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| Agilery helps manufacturing food products in small to medium scale quantities for quick launches in a fully collaborative model through a network of partners. it therefor helps to speed up the innovation process and the market introduction and testing of new producs. | |||
| Aleph-Insight |
2021 VS validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ air quality ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Aleph Insight uses photochemistry to clean the air in livestock buildings, with a patented cutting-edge technology, that is very energy efficient. | |||
| Almer Technologies |
2021 BE validation |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Engineering, Information technology ] | Enabling technologies, Wearable devices or apps |
| Almer is the first company to provide both hardware and software as a service. By developing compact and lightweight Augmented Reality glasses, we deliver efficient technology for frontline workers with excellent image quality and specialized remote assistance software. | |||
| Campunite |
2021 SH validation |
Transport & Mobility [ Road vehicles and transport ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Campunite is a young and fresh campersharing platform. The goal is to build a fair and transparent platform where ultimately all parties benefit. | |||
| kooky |
2021 ZH validation |
Behavioural change, Recreation, hotels & restaurants [ Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| Kooky is the first reusable system for take-away drinks including its own return infrastructure. | |||
| Composite Recycling |
2021 VD growth |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Engineering, Waste & recycling ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Composite Recycling has developed a unique process to recover glass fibers from composite material in an economically viable way. Together with the Laboratory of Advanced Composites of EPFL, we are scaling up our process to treat composite waste that is piling up: boats, wind turbine blades etc. | |||
| duramon |
2021 formation |
Construction & buildings [ Construction of infrastructure (roads, bridges ..) ] | Sensors |
| Structural health corrosion monitoring solutions. To build and maintain smarter, cost-effective, safer, and more sustainably. Our solution is an embeddable multifunctional sensors in selected representative locations in concrete structures. | |||
| eMobilityLab |
2021 BE formation |
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| Advice and transfer of practical knowledge in the areas of electromobility and charging infrastructure | |||
| Ensoy |
2021 TG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| We produce sustainable tofu for your kitchen from organic soy from Thurgau. With the use of Thurgau organic soy, our tofu becomes even more regional. A sign of a Swiss quality product. | |||
| Epios |
2021 GE formation |
Health & House & Body Care [ Healthcare ] | Sensors, Smart device, Wearable devices or apps |
| The Epios system comprises a series of thin leads incorporating sensing electrodes and a miniature implant, inserted beneath the skin. The neural signals are wirelessly transmitted to an external receiver held in place on the skin directly over the implant with a magnet, and from there are conveyed to a wearable data processor and are finally securely stored in the Epios Cloud. | |||
| Chichery |
2021 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| Chickpeas are a superfood - rich in protein, fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals. Chichery produces various snacks from chickpeas. Their products do not contain any artificial ingredients. Because the chickpeas are roasted extremely gently, they are already very tasty by themselves. | |||
| fairpicture |
2021 BE growth |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Service pooling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Photographs, video footage, fully-produced videos - all fairly produced by local visual creators. Fairpicture delivers you fair and outstanding content and offers consulting services for innovative visual communication. | |||
| Flux Mobility |
2021 ZH formation |
Transport & Mobility [ Road vehicles and transport ] | e-cargo, e-mobility |
| The start-up develops and builds high-quality e-transporters based on a modular platform concept. | |||
| Fabas (fyn foods) |
2021 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| We produce the first 101% Swiss organic hummus in close cooperation with our farmers: vegetable, protein-rich, healthy and super tasty! | |||
| Graphene filter carbon capture |
2021 VS formation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction | 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. | |||
| Honest Monday |
2021 BE validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ 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. | |||
| INEGA |
2021 GR validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource efficiency, Water Management ] | |
| 1gr Pflanzenkohle kann bis zu 3gr Wasser und Nährstoffe speichern. Mehr auf inega.swiss. Das Klima ist uns wichtig. Wir binden CO2 langfristig. | |||
| Kern |
2021 BE validation |
Transport & Mobility [ Trade and Retail, Transport & logisticsof 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 |
Health & House & Body Care [ Cleaning ] | Low technology, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Cleaning products in tab or power form, without water to save transport energy and packing plastic materials. | |||
| lalana |
2021 validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| High quality and 100% recycled textile yarn for your next project. Inspiration for #knitting #crochet or #macramé. | |||
| Local'ice |
2021 FR growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | |
| Natural and Local Soft-Ice and Granite | |||
| loopi |
2021 NW validation |
Behavioural change [ 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." | |||