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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RethinkResource |
2017 ZH Established |
[ Circular Economy ] | None |
| RethinkResource creates an online marketplace where producing and processing companies can trade their side and waste streams. | |||
| Rigi Technologies |
2016 VD Validation |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Rigi is re-defining last-mile inter-city logistics using a large-payload, sustainable drone-based delivery system. | |||
| Go-ROO (Share your BICAR) |
2016 ZH Validation |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter, Smart: City |
| ROO - Practical, fun and sporty. With its single seat, three wheels and countless applications, roo is at home in a variety of urban and suburban settings. It’s as compact and versatile as a Swiss Army knife. It looks cool too, like a resourceful Australian marsupial, not a space alien or a carelessly cooked soufflé. And the cornering performance may just put a smile on your face. | |||
| Social Fabric |
2016 ZH Stagnant |
[ Fashion & Apparel ] | Other: Low tech |
| Social Fabric is a ecological and social sustainable textile center based in Zurich. We use textiles with a small ecological and positive social footprint. We run a program that aims to empower refugees in our local community through textile work. | |||
| Solarify |
2016 BE Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Solarify sells single solar panels to small investors and puts the panels on rented roofs. Solarify enables small investors to contribute to the energy transition with small amounts and little risk, roof owners to get a free solar installation and to reduce their electricity cost | |||
| Sponti-Car |
2016 ZH Validation |
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Sponti-Car brings electric mobility to swiss rural communities, by providing a electric car to share and organizing everythings around it, like the neccessary charging stations. | |||
| STRIDE Learning |
2016 ZH restructuring, on hold, no development |
[ Education & Learning ] | IT: Communication, Other: Low tech |
| Our mission is to support personal, social and environmental transformations that lead us towards more sustainable and equitable societies as well as meaningful and fulfilling lives. Through action research, collaboration as well as STRIDE’s unSchooling approach to learning, we strengthen the capacity of individuals, organizations, cities, and sectors to develop impactful solutions to complex problems. | |||
| Sulzer & Schmid Laboratories |
2018 ZH Growth |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Video and Film, Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Robotic |
| Sulzer Schmid is an independent Swiss technology company and innovator of next-generation technology for the inspection of rotor blades. Our digital end-to-end process employs autonomous drones and incorporates cutting-edge image analysis tools. Reports are generated at the push of a button and are highly customizable. All the data is stored and made accessible via secure cloud services and is available for further analysis and benchmarking. | |||
| SwissDeCode |
2016 VD Growth |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| SwissDeCode was founded in 2016 to build trust and secure the global food supply chain. Spin-off of the University of Geneva, our patented tools and processes are recognized by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (InnoSuisse) and independently validated by Swiss Federal Laboratories. We are based in Renens (Lausanne, VD), Switzerland. | |||
| Swiss Wood Solutions |
2016 ZH Growth |
Food, Agriculture & Forestry [ Circular Economy ] | Biological: Wood or forest tech, Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| Swiss Wood Solutions refines solid wood and wood veneers to replace endangered tropical species and plastic products. We only use essences of sustainable origin. All our products are biodegradable, made from 100% wood and do not contain any plastic, resin or artificial coloring. | |||
| swizz-e |
2016 SZ Validation |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter |
| swizz-e GmbH designed a new e-scooter (Roller) that is produced completely in Switzerland. | |||
| Synhelion |
2016 TI Growth |
Energy & Power Systems,Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Solarthermal, Energy: Storage other than batteries, Energy: Synthetic fuels (e.g. power to liquid) |
| Synhelion is on a mission to replace fossil fuels by economically viable synthetic fuels, which are compatible with the current global fuel infrastructure and reduce net CO2 emissions by up to 100 percent. Synhelion uses high-temperature solar heat to convert water and CO2 into synthetic fuels – so-called solar fuels. | |||
| ThermodynamX |
2016 SG Growth |
Energy & Power Systems [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Energy: Cooling tech |
| Thermodynamics helps, advises, tests, upgrades and designs custom cooling and heating systems. Participation: ThermodynamX develops and produces tailor-made cooling solutions for medical applications | |||
| LifeHive (Vatorex) |
2020 ZH Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Bio tech, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| We help beekeepers in the fight against the Varroa mite. The company develops a system against the Valora Mite without acids and automatically. | |||
| Vir2sense |
2016 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric, Smart: Device |
| Vir2sense GmbH provides ready to use, optimized fast combustion and emission models for internal combustion engine calibration, continuous emissions monitoring and real-time control. The virtual sensors have been used successfully in automotive, heavy duty, power generation and ship propulsion applications. | |||
| Vuna |
2016 ZH Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Components: Filters & membranes, Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..) |
| VUNA designs & implements specialised sanitation systems to: - recover nutrients & water - save water - avoid costly sewers Participation: VUNA designs & implements specialised sanitation systems to:- recover nutrients & water- save water - avoid costly sewers | |||
| WeGaw |
2016 VD Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Environmental Monitoring ] | IT: Data usage, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Wegaw is the underlying technology to a sustainable energy future. Through the power of geospatial fusion, we help companies around the world to optimize assets by better monitoring and forecasting water & snow resources. | |||
| Wingtra |
2016 ZH Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Air Transport ] | IT: Video and Film, Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Robotic |
| Headquartered in Switzerland, Wingtra is the world’s leading VTOL drone producer for mapping, survey and mining industry professionals. Since its market entry in early 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 70 of the biggest equipment dealers and has been selling mapping drones globally ever since. | |||
| Workspace2go |
2016 ZH Established |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Workspace2go is a platform for meeting rooms, workstations and seminar rooms that can be booked by the hour or by the day. Suppliers can use the platform to provide unused workspace, which guests can book for their meeting or workshop. | |||
| Zaphiro Technologies |
2016 VD Growth |
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | Smart: Device, Smart: Grid, Smart: Sensors |
| SynchroGuard is a new smart solution for electrical grid monitoring and automation. Thanks to its advanced sensing infrastructure, SynchroGuard has the outstanding feature to combine in a single solution real-time grid monitoring, optimal control of grid resources, and smart fault management. | |||
| Acodis (turicode) |
2016 ZH Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Data usage |
| turicode is a young technology company located in Winterthur. We are experts in extracting unstructured information from documents, and making it available for analytics or use in further automated processing. | |||
| algrano |
2016 ZH Established |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Food tech |
| Algrano connects coffee producers directly with roasters through an online platform, providing transparency in the coffee supply chain. Founded in 2015, they handle logistics, quality assurance, and financing, aiming to modernize the industry with technology. | |||
| Axino |
2016 SO Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: Device |
| Axino offers its grocery customers the ability to make faster and easier product safety decisions .This is done through a system that uses IoT sensor technology in combination with AI algorithms. This allows companies to prevent product loss due to power issues and save on energy costs for refrigeration. | |||
| Primal Bee Systems (BeeHelpful) |
2017 TI Validation |
[ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Protection ] | Biological: Agricultural tech |
| Beehelpful has developed a new patented class of hives (Primalbee) that improve the health of bees, increase pollination capacity and reduce the chemical treatment of hives. | |||
| Digi Meals |
2016 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Using state-of-the-art technology, DigiMeals develops user-friendly and easily customisable solutions around digital recipes. We empower consumers to confidently cook their preferred healthy recipes. | |||
| Edapro |
2016 LU |
[ Regenerative Agriculture & Soil ] | None |
| Our compost tea brewing systems are made in Switzerland and meet the highest quality standards for the self-production of highly active EDAPRO compost tea. Easy cleaning and guaranteed high oxygen levels throughout the compost tea manufacturing process. | |||
| Haelixa |
2016 ZH Validation |
[ Engineering & Industrial Design ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| Our DNA based technology creates a unique and traceable fingerprint for different materials. Pursuing a commitment to sustainability and transparency, we foster the development of next generation tools to ensure consumer good supply chain integrity and traceability. | |||
| Lantal Textiles |
2016 ZH Established |
None | |
| Conventional airplane carpets are dyed using a yarn dyeing process. This process is slow, energy-intensive, and the carpets are often heavy. Lantal Textiles' carpet technology digitizes the manufacturing process while simultaneously reducing water and CO2 consumption as well as waste. Additionally, the use of ultra-light materials reduces the weight of the airplanes. | |||
| VRM Switzerland |
2016 ZH Growth |
[ Air Transport ] | IT: Data usage, Smart: Robotic |
| VRMotion designs and develops simulators that give prospective pilots the impression of sitting in a real helicopter while training. The simulation software features realistic flight physics with real-time multi-body simulation and flight data validation, which offers an exact replication of flight behaviour. The simulation is also tailored to the needs of trainees, right from introductory training on a turbine helicopter to demanding scenario-based training, mountain flying and emergency training | |||
| magnes |
2016 ZH Stagnant |
[ Efficiency Solutions ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Magnes has extensive know-how and engineering capabilities to develop tailor-made magnetic materials that meet the highest customer-specific requirements. The scalability of the manufacturing process enables small series up to mass production. | |||