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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ThermodynamX |
2016 SG established |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Energy efficiency, Engineering, Heating and cooling energy ] | Cooling technology |
| Thermodynamics helps, advises, tests, upgrades and designs custom cooling and heating systems. Participation: ThermodynamX develops and produces tailor-made cooling solutions for medical applications | |||
| uGreen |
2016 BS validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity, Electricity grids & flexibility ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Smartgrid |
| Data service for load shifting and power supply system stability, Smart household appliances run when renweable energy available. | |||
| Vatorex |
2020 ZH growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Food, Farming or Forestry [ Engineering, Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail, Forestry ] | Bio technologies, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 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 usage, efficiency & prosumption, Transport & Mobility [ Energy efficiency, Information technology, Resource efficiency ] | e-mobility, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, 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 |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Building technology, Engineering, Farming & agriculture, Gardening, Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling, Water Management ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Filters & Membranes |
| 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 | |||
| Waste Allocation Systems |
2016 VD growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | |
| Manual waste compactor (reduces 60 liters of waste in 17 liters) named e-crush for households and SMEs. Can be used for all types of waste: household, PET bottles, aluminum or cardboard. | |||
| WeGaw |
2016 VD growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Environmental monitoring, Information technology, Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection ] | IT data usage, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| Our satellite data powered product DeFROST monitors terrain status daily to make outdoors safer and enjoyable for anyone, anytime. Supported by the European Space Agency, we build & operate a technology and product stack enabling the digital outdoors tourism industry. | |||
| Wingtra |
2016 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, Transport & Mobility [ Information technology ] | Drone & flight, Robotic, Video and Film |
| 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 growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 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 formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Electricity efficiency, Electricity grids & flexibility ] | Sensors, Smart device, Smartgrid |
| 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. | |||
| BeeHelpful (Primalbee) |
2017 TI formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture ] | Resource saving agricultural technologies |
| 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. | |||
| Eventfrog |
2016 SO growth |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Eventfrog offers the possibility to create free events with online ticketing and supports the organizers in publishing their events with a wide reach, without cost, supporting small events and organisations | |||
| GBY (Go By Yourself) |
2016 FR validation |
Health & House & Body Care, Transport & Mobility [ Recreation, Road vehicles and transport, Sport ] | e-bike, e-mobility |
| Design, build, acquire, evaluate, sell, resell or make available in any form whatsoever (sale, rental, loan, donation, etc.) material and equipment for sport, training, rehabilitation , well-being or any physical activity, both in Switzerland and abroad. | |||
| Logic Swiss AG |
2003 NW validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy efficiency, Energy Production ] | Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies, Solarthermal energy, Wind energy |
| For the first time, sun, thermal and wind energy is combined in a compact small module which provides more energy and can be used like a roof tile. | |||
| magnes |
2016 ZH validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Many fields ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| 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. | |||
| Power to Gas (Energie 360° & PSI) |
2016 ZH formation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency, Resource efficiency ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Renewable technologies |
| Efficiently producing energy from biowaste: A technology developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and tested in collaboration with the Zurich-based energy provider Energie 360° makes it possible. It extracts significantly more methane from biowaste than conventional methods. For this important contribution to a sustainable energy supply, PSI and Energie 360° have now been awarded the Watt d'Or 2018 in the Renewable Energy category by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. | |||
| Procsea |
2016 VD established |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Trade and Retail ] | Low technology |
| Business-to-business seafood marketplace. We specalise in the trade of traceable wild and farmed seafood, connecting buyers and sellers together in real time. You have access to a multitude of carefully selected suppliers, directly from the European ports, without the middle man. | |||
| Rigi Technologies |
2016 VD formation |
Transport & Mobility [ Mobility & Fleet management ] | Drone & flight |
| Rigi Technologie developes Air Bridge to enable aerial drone delivery between two or more locations. | |||
| Seervision |
2016 ZH growth |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Information technology, Media ] | Video and Film |
| Seervison has combined computer vision, machine learning, control, and cinematography. The result is their adaptive motion control technology. It transforms any camera into an autonomous camera. Their computer vision pipeline relies on the newest and most advanced neural networks to analyze every single frame captured by any production camera in order to detect objects of interest, the background and the overall scenery. | |||
| SwissFleet Services (Velobility) |
2016 ZH growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Mobility & Fleet management ] | e-bike, e-mobility |
| Velobility is your partner for Bike-Sharing. Thanks to our bike and e-bike models which are engineered to be shared. And thanks to our tried-and-tested Ridebox® technology. The result is a triple benefit: higher efficiency, better security, longer durability. | |||
| turicode |
2016 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis | 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. | |||
| VRM Switzerland |
2016 ZH formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT data usage |
| 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 | |||
| WinJi AG |
2016 ZH growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | IT blockchain or algorithms, IT data usage, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, IT Software, Photovoltaics, Wind energy |
| WinJi uniquely combines interdisciplinary knowledge and experience in the global megatrends of decarbonised energy transformation and "Big Data". We offer a solution for the digital asset management of renewable assets that uses state-of-the-art data analytics in a user-friendly way. With our built-in Artificial Intelligence, we have identified actionable production efficiency improvements with our "TruePower Platform" solution for over 30 asset owners. | |||
| yamo |
2016 ZG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Bio technologies, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Ecological, healthy baby food sterilized with a new pressure method to keep vitamines, color etc. | |||
| ACUBE Technology |
2017 BE validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis | IT data usage |
| The startup ACUBE intends to revolutionize the field of acess and identification of people by using the smartphone instead of other objects used today. | |||
| AgroFly |
2017 VS validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | Drone & flight |
| AgroFly S.A. , based in Granges (Switzerland), developed the first high precision agricultural sprayer driven by a UAV-type flying platform. AgroFly's SpUAVs (Spraying UAVs) are soon available on the market with all by authorities required paperwork: - ISO 22866 drift assessments - Quality deposit assessments - Homogeneity of deposit assessments Our in-house developed (and patented) spraying boom configuration ensures an unmatched application quality on the market! | |||
| Akenza (former Hivemind) |
2017 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Hivemind IoT Platform, provides all key middleware capabilities needed to build sophisticated End-2-End IoT application ecosystems. | |||
| aliunid |
2018 ZG formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) | Internet of Things, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| aliunid is a white label service for producers, suppliers and network operators. end users (households, prosumers and sme) will experience aliunid as a smart home or smart business solution. | |||
| Barto |
2017 BE validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Barto is a portal for digital collection and networking of farm and production data all in one portal. The farmer saves time and maintains an overview of the company's documentation and planning at all times. | |||
| Battronics |
2017 ZH growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy storage ] | Electric batteries |
| Battronics is an innovative start-up that markets the knowledge and technology to charge Li-ion batteries also below 15°C sufficiently fast. Battronics provides knowledge, consulting and research for Li-ion batteries and their electronics and management system. | |||