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 What phase are you currently in? | Areas of Activity [Subareas] | Technology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Help'n'Trade |
2019 BS Validation |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Help’n’Trade is a technology startup, which builds next generation marketplace application for small local businesses and consumers. We build solutions so that we can help local economy, communities and the environment. | |||
| Honest Monday |
2021 BE Validation |
[ Financial Services ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| 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. | |||
| hoyou |
2022 ZG Validation |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| The first Swiss real estate exchange platform. House against house, flat against flat, small against large, country against city: hoyou offers searchers a simple platform where they can present their current home and find a new home at the same time. | |||
| IDUN Technologies |
2017 ZH Validation |
[ Health Solutions ] | IT: Data usage, Smart: Sensors |
| IDUN Technologies Ltd. is a biosensor company based in Zurich, Switzerland. Coming from a stretchable electronics research group from ETH Zurich, IDUN is developing and producing soft and dry conductive electrodes for biopotential monitoring (ECG, EEG, EMG). With a unique and patented surface structure these electrodes provide high quality signals with skin-friendly materials without electrolyte gel. | |||
| innolith |
2018 BS Validation |
Energy: Battery | |
| New batteries for electric vehicles with new technology, safety and a lower price. | |||
| Crick (Insekterei GmbH) |
2017 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Other: Low tech |
| Crick produces insect-based foods like snacks or crispbread | |||
| iSense |
2018 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Food tech, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software |
| iSense is a food tech start-up from Switzerland that created the first flavor management software supported by an open and independent taste language. It allows companies to describe, search,compare, choose and exchange flavors based on taste attributes. | |||
| kaiosID |
2019 VD Validation |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Blockchain or algorithms |
| Counterfeiting and grey markets pose two growing challenges for brands. kaiosID fights counterfeiting and illicit trade by covering the product's packaging with invisible patterns that can be easily identified by an intuitive smartphone app. Once printed on the packaging, the random patterns become the fingerprint of the product and allow for product authentication (genuine/fake) and identification (traceability), thus restoring trust in brands and logistics. | |||
| Karibou |
2015 GE Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| karibou.ch strengthens the local stationary trade with its online deployment! Find the service and diversity of a market by finding the best products at the same price as at the market! What makes the strength of a market is the diversity of products, the quality of products, and the personalized customer service. With all our passion, we have created a technology that enhances the existing stationary infrastructure and deploys it in the digital world. Because what you eat matters! | |||
| Kern |
2021 BE Validation |
[ Resource Efficiency ] | Components: 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. | |||
| kickbag |
2020 SG Validation |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Other: Low tech |
| Online shopping without packaging waste. The foldable shipping bag made of recycled PET is a first in Switzerland: reusable up to 30 times and 100% climate-neutral. | |||
| kleandrop |
2021 ZH Validation |
[ Cleaning Services ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Other: Low tech |
| Cleaning products in tab or power form, without water to save transport energy and packing plastic materials. | |||
| Klepsydra |
2018 ZH Validation |
[ Information Technology ] | IT: Software |
| Klepsydra is a professional software engineering and cloud computing tool for computationally intensive intelligent devices and embedded systems applications. It has a two-fold purpose: accelerate the development of complex embedded software, and optimise, or increase, the computational performance of the on-board software for complex tasks like sensor fusion or image processing. | |||
| KnowS IT |
2017 ZH Validation |
[ Media & Communications ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Job portal & community. The safe way to find people with the right skills. | |||
| loopi |
2021 NW Validation |
None | |
| "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." | |||
| CookEat |
2014 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Your marketplace for home-cooked food. You can find delicious offers from your neighborhood and offer your food for sale yourself. | |||
| matriq |
2019 SG Validation |
[ Efficiency Solutions ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Other: Enabling tech |
| matriq offers innovative solutions for the part-indiviual marking of plastic components of all kinds. With the DynamicMold technology, marking takes place directly in the manufacturing machine, whether in injection molding, blow molding or thermo forming. Besides the application for traceability, the DynamicMold technology also offers the possibility to integrate anticounterfeiting features for brand protection. | |||
| Micropow |
2019 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Food tech |
| MicroPow encapsulates valuable ingredients enabling timed release and preservation, which allows to drastically reduce losses during production and adding value to end products. microPow powders can be tailored to a broad range of food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical applications, without relying on any added artificial ingredients. | |||
| MobyFly |
2020 VS Validation |
[ Maritime & Waterway Transport ] | Mobility: Shipping |
| MobyFly produces zero-emission hydrofoil boats which make use of computer controlled flight systems. These boat are made for passenger transports at speeds of up to over 70 km/h while using 70% less energy than existing diesel ferries. | |||
| Mondaic |
2018 ZH Validation |
[ Efficiency Solutions ] | IT: Software |
| Mondaic provides proprietary software and services for high-resolution 3-D imaging using ultrasonic or geophysical waves. It offers scalable end-to-end solutions for all (visco)acoustic, (visco)elastic, and coupled waveform modeling and inversion needs. | |||
| mycosuisse |
2022 Validation |
Buildings & Construction [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| Mycosuisse develops various applications based on different fungal mycelia, e.g. insulation & packaging material, cleaning agents based on mycoremediation, fungal mycelia-based auxiliaries for plant cultivation | |||
| myfeld |
2020 AG Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| 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. | |||
| Nature Re |
2021 SZ Validation |
Financials & Information Technology [ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Protection ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| 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. | |||
| neuraVOLT |
2022 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | Energy: Battery, IT: Software, Mobility: Electric, Smart: Grid |
| euraVOLT enables EV Charging infrastructure to become a key component of an interconnected energy world backed by it’s AI-driven digital ecosystem with data-driven intelligence. | |||
| niatsu |
2023 Validation |
Food, Agriculture & Forestry [ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Biological: Food tech, Environment: Climate tech, IT: Software |
| Niatsu provides a carbon footprint framework to enable their customers to automate the CO2-Calculation of their food products. | |||
| Norisa |
2021 GE Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Financial Services ] | Other: Low tech |
| 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. | |||
| NutriFly |
2020 FL Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Food tech |
| NutriFly produces high quality products for animals and plants from insects. In our production process, we exclusively process regionally available by-products from the agricultural and food industries into high-protein animal feed and nutrient-rich fertilizers. | |||
| oecogreen |
2020 ZH Validation |
[ Cleaning Services ] | Mobility: 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. | |||
| Deski |
2020 ZH Validation |
None | |
| On their website "Deski" the open2work GmbH offers a Airbnb like online platform for office spaces. Companies with unused workspaces can display them on the page so that customers can rent them on either a daily or monthly basis. This is to reduce Co2 emissions from unused office space. | |||
| OPTIML |
2022 ZH Validation |
IT: Software | |
| OPTIML is the next generation of AI-based software for intelligent cost and CO₂-conscious decision support and asset management in the building sector. | |||