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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VIRVE |
2015 TI formation |
Behavioural change, Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Transport & Mobility [ Energy efficiency, Engineering ] | e-car, e-mobility |
| VirVe aims to support the transition to clean and fuel efficient transportation technologies through intelligent analysis of the best available data and implementation of accurate vehicle simulation. | |||
| Aquazoom |
2015 ZG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Electricity ] | Hydro energy |
| AquaZoom removes barriers to fish migration while producing power - economically restoring rivers everywhere. We strive for electricity production in complete harmony with nature. Therefore, we grew to leading pioneers in micro hydropower and aim to share our patented water vortex technology worldwide. | |||
| Clesana |
2015 SG growth |
Health & House & Body Care [ Healthcare ] | Low technology |
| We work every day on continuous technological progress and create physical, emotional and ecological well-being through our waterless toilet solutions. The Clesana toilet does not require a single drop of water. Also no chemicals or other pollutants, which are used in other camper toilets and pollute the environment. The Clesana toilet seals all waste after each use, odourless and leakproof. Through this consistent waterless solution we protect rivers, lakes and seas from unnecessary pollution. | |||
| 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. | |||
| MycoSolutions |
2016 SG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Forestry ] | Bio technologies |
| Custom made biological fungi products to enhance growth for trees and other plants. | |||
| Nexxiot |
2015 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology ] | IT Software |
| Nexiot offers an integrated digitization solution for all companies concerned with the movement of physical goods, who want to increase efficiencies and unlock additional revenue potential. | |||
| Panier local |
2015 FR growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Trade and Retail, Transport & logisticsof goods ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| The aim of panier local is the marketing and transport of consumer goods from regional producers. 70% of the product price goes to the producer, like a digital local marketplace. | |||
| smartYes |
2015 SG growth |
Communication, Media, Education or Games | Low technology |
| smartYes, as a regional supplier specialized in POS Communication and Live-Marketing. We provide customers with quality displays and marketing tools. We ensure that your company or brand promotion stands out where it really matters. We have the right and unique solution for every Point-Of-Sale, event or exhibition. | |||
| Swissponic |
2021 TI formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | Resource saving agricultural technologies |
| Swissponic has developed an automated system for growing vegetable hors-sols at home. The system consists of a hydroponic structure, a control unit with dedicated software and a cloud connection for remote culture management at any time. | |||
| Switzerlend (LEND) |
2015 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Financing and financial services ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| The crowdlending platform LEND matches investors with borrowers. Both benefit from our fair and transparent business model. | |||
| Alaya (Share A Dream Solutions ) |
2016 VD established |
Behavioural change [ Service pooling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Alaya is a leader in employee volunteering and corporate giving, enabling employees to choose their way of contributing and providing a powerful tool to analyse the impact created by an entire company. Global brands as well as small and medium enterprises rely on Alaya’s platform to drive their social responsibility and engagement programs. Alaya was founded in January 2018 from the merger of two major employee volunteering and corporate giving actors, Share a Dream and Hope it up. Our team believes that companies and their employees have a remarkable potential to create change. So we are committed to helping non-profit organisations around the world have access to funds, volunteers, knowledge and skills | |||
| airlite (AM Technology) |
2016 TI growth |
Construction & buildings [ Building technology ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Wall colours that clean the air we breathe, remove bacteria from homes, offices and hospitals, and reduce energy consumption. | |||
| aQuaTox Solutions |
2016 ZH formation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Environmental monitoring ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| aQuaTox-Solutions GmbH, an Eawag spinoff, offers services in the field of aquatic ecotoxicology, in particular the assessment of water quality and environmental risk assessment of chemicals. The main focus is on alternatives to conventional animal tests, using fish cells and fish embryos as test models. | |||
| Arc Power |
2016 ZH validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution |
| ARC-Power performs design and production of custom DC/DC converters, power distribution and switching boards, electronic motor drivers, filters and harness for space application. | |||
| Aurora's Grid |
2016 VD growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity grids & flexibility, Energy storage ] | Smartgrid |
| Aurora's Grid develops an ageing-aware and eco-friendly energy management software for electrochemical batteries in smart building and/or electric vehicle reducing the ageing of the battery up to 45% compared to non ageing aware management batteries. | |||
| Avalgo |
2016 VD validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Fertilizers from wastewater, waste or other sources |
| Its main activity is to clean the algae of the ports and beaches by means of a system of aspiration and mowing. These algae are then transported by small big-bags submerged to the port. From there, they are discharged in a special machine that separates the water from the seaweed (wringer). The algae thus reduced in volume and mass, are recovered for drying and processed into animal feed, or organic fertilizer. | |||
| Bitlumens |
2016 ZG growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity grids & flexibility, Engineering ] | Internet of Things, LED, Lighting, Photovoltaics, Sensors, Smart device, Smartgrid |
| BitLumens distributes solar power devices in areas without a power-grid and connects them to the blockchain. By using the devices, people build up credit scores and investors can view where the machines are located and how much power these generate. Remitters can pay for their family's electricity bills providing transparency and security of transactions. | |||
| BluAct Technologies |
2016 ZH formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Water Management ] | Filters & Membranes, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| BluAct membranes can be used effectively as an integral step in the purification of drinking water, as well as for the treatment of all types of wastewater. It can also serve as a method of reclaiming valuable metal ions from water such as gold, palladium, and platinum. | |||
| Coat-X SA |
2016 NE validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Coat-X provides unique solutions for protecting high value-added components against moisture penetration and corrosion. | |||
| Cortexia |
2016 FR growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ 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. | |||
| CyanoGuard |
2016 ZH growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Engineering, Environmental monitoring, Food production & retail, Healthcare, Prevention of or protection from technical risks, Resource efficiency ] | Bio technologies, New chemical materials |
| CyanoGuard AG is a chemical technology company with innovative solutions for the detection of cyanide in water, food extracts and blood samples. Participation: CyanoGuard AG is a chemical technology company with innovative solutions for the detection of cyanide in water, food extracts and blood samples. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Daphne Technology |
2017 VD validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Maritime and waterways transport, Transport & logisticsof goods ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Daphne Technology SA is developing a catalyst-free scrubber technology to help the petrochemical, power and transportation industries to reduce air emissions to the levels required by international and national regulations. Daphne Technology’s patented nanotechnology based solutions can be miniaturized and is especially well-suited to meet the requirements of marine vessels. | |||
| dashcom |
2016 FR growth |
Construction & buildings [ Building technology ] | Smarthome & building |
| Our solutions use various hardware technologies such as ibeacon or eddystone sensors as well as NFC readers and other geofencing marketing devices to improve the use of resources, like meeting rooms etc. in the areas of large-scale information systems and real time streaming solutions. | |||
| Direct Coffee |
2016 validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| We want to build bridges: between coffee drinkers here in Switzerland and coffee farmers in Ethiopia. With coffee that represents your values. Better than organic. More than fair. CO2 neutral. | |||
| Embion Technologies |
2019 VD validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Bio technologies, New chemical materials |
| EMBION catalyzes the future of #nutrition by introducing a portfolio of sophisticated, complex EMBION-BIOACTIVES with expanded prebiotic properties. EMBION innovates with brilliant #plant-based technologies that customize unique nutrition in exceptional speed and are surprisingly affordable. | |||
| Enuu |
2018 BE growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Mobility & Fleet management, Road vehicles and transport ] | e-mobility |
| Enuu is the first free* LEV sharing service that redefines urban mobility. Enuu is based on an intelligent and highly efficient light electric vehicle. It allows you to avoid being stuck in traffic jams and has a very low carbon footprint. | |||
| Faitron |
2016 SG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Health & House & Body Care [ Food production & retail, Healthcare ] | Enabling technologies |
| Faitron is a Swiss company focusing on mobile food solutions e.g. a heated lunch box or baby bottle. Our goal is to improve health and well-being through our innovative product solutions and become a global influencer in the home appliance industry. | |||
| gateway.uno |
2016 SG validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency, Energy management solutions, Environmental monitoring ] | Heating in buildings, Photovoltaics |
| Gateway.uno is an easy-to-use online tool for energy accounting. With gateway.uno, energy and water consumption can be recorded and evaluated. The comprehensible evaluation supports the presentation of the consumption values, the systematic analysis of the energy data, the planning of measures and the success control. The energy accounting with gateway.uno can be used for a single building as well as for entire building parks, for example for municipal buildings. | |||
| Gjosa |
2016 BE growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency, Resource efficiency ] | Hydro energy (small scale), Water conservation |
| Gjosa technology, inspired by Icelandic geysers, lies in the patented design of the shower head, which by splitting the flow, increasing the power of the jet and profiling fine droplets, reduces the flow of water to 2 litres per minute, compared to an average of 11 litres with ordinary equipment. | |||