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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XULUX |
2025 LU Validation |
[ Building Technologies, Efficiency Solutions, Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Heating in buildings, Environment: Climate tech, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| XULUX is a strategic energy consultancy guiding companies, cities, and municipalities through the energy crisis. They develop sustainable energy solutions that are economically sound and deliver long-term impact. "Together, we make your energy supply climate-friendly and future-proof." | |||
| Yoordi |
2021 ZH Validation |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Wearable devices or apps |
| Digital self-ordering solution: Yoordi's web app can be used to digitally handle ordering and payment services at events with multiple food and beverage providers. | |||
| YUKKA |
2023 SG Validation |
[ Building Technologies, Information Technology ] | IT: Artificial intelligence AI |
| YUKKA Lab Insights AG is a Swiss company based in Goldach, active in the IT services sector. It specializes in providing services related to software operations, semantic and sentiment analysis, advanced internet search technologies, and innovative search tools for market research, PR monitoring, media impact analysis, and financial market insights. The company focuses on collecting, analyzing, and using data—both raw and refined—to support decision-making and offers related products and services such as data acquisition, analysis, and distribution. | |||
| Yuon Control |
2020 BE Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Energy Management & Use ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Smart: City, Smart: Grid |
| Yuon Control is a Swiss cleantech startup optimizing district heating networks with AI-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC). Our software creates digital twins of heating systems to continuously balance supply and demand, reducing peak loads, improving efficiency, and cutting CO₂ emissions. Unlike traditional solutions, Yuon requires no hardware upgrades. We integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure, enabling fast and cost-effective deployment. Our target customers are energy utilities and municipal district heating operators in Europe, especially in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. We are already operating in major Swiss networks, including ewb Bern and Energie 360° Zürich, covering 250+ buildings, and are expanding in Germany with local energy partners. Yuon provides utilities with smarter load management and a scalable path to low-carbon district heating. | |||
| Yuxi |
2022 ZH Validation |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Data usage, IT: Software, Other: Enabling tech |
| Yuxi leverages data from Building Management Systems to optimize the building's energy consumption and indoor quality. | |||
| Zelsius |
2024 LU Validation |
[ ESG Reporting & Compliance ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Zelsius develops a software platform specifically tailored to Swiss SMEs. Its goal is to provide companies without prior knowledge with an easy, transparent, and cost-efficient way to measure, understand, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions — enabling them to start building their climate strategy. Our vision is to create transparency and empower SMEs to actively integrate climate action into their business strategy. For market entry, we focus on the MEM industry (machinery, electrical and metal sector), where pressure for climate reporting is particularly high – driven by customer requirements, regulation, and increasing public expectations. The platform combines technical intelligence with industry-specific practical knowledge: it enables process-based data collection, sector-specific emission calculations, and provides space for exchange and continuous development. Its modular structure allows companies to enter carbon accounting step-by-step and act in a targeted way. Our unique value proposition lies in the combination of, a user-friendly and transparent platform, automated, data-driven action planning, recise Scope 3 emission assessment at process level, industry-specific adaptation for manufacturing SMEs, and integrated implementation partnerships – all compliant with GHG standards and audit-ready. Zelsius turns emission data into actionable strategies – faster, more affordable, and more effective. | |||
| ZENDRA |
2024 GR Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Development and planning of alpine solar systems, especially in the area of substructures with in-house developments. | |||
| 1H2O3 |
2018 LU Growth |
[ Water Management ] | Environment: Water pollution abatement |
| Water Treatment Package - All in one package that makes wastewater treatment affordable and easy. | |||
| 2em |
2014 FR Growth |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Fleet management |
| 2EM wurde 2012 in Freiburg gegründet. Mit einer Flotte von über 2000 Fahrzeugen ist 2EM die führende private Autovermietungsplattform der Schweiz und ermöglicht Tausenden von Mitgliedern die Teilnahme an der kooperativen Wirtschaft. Die Wahl einer alternativen Art des Konsums bedeutet, Teil der Generation des Social Car Sharing zu sein! | |||
| Akenza (former Hivemind) |
2017 ZH Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Akenza IoT Platform, provides all key middleware capabilities needed to build sophisticated End-2-End IoT application ecosystems. | |||
| Alera energies AG |
2015 LU Growth |
Buildings & Construction [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Heat industrial usage, Energy: Heating in buildings, Smart: Home & building |
| Our customers rank from private households to large companies for whom we have successfully accompanied and supported projects like the optimisation of heat pumps in family homes to the development of power plants and energy centres. | |||
| Alver (Golden Chlorella) |
2015 VD Growth |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| Alver is a new food company producing everyday foods that are based on Golden ChlorellaTM. This nutrient-dense micro-algae is a truly sustainable source of protein, something which the planet needs if we are to be able to feed the ever-increasing world population. We have launched with our 100% natural EASY PROTEIN powder and three different Golden Chlorella packed biscuits. We are developing soups and sauces. | |||
| Amphasys |
2012 LU Growth |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| Amphasys provides a label-free solution for analysis of single cell characteristics such as cell size and morphology, viability (apoptosis), or cell differentiation. The patented, chip-based technology eliminates time-consuming, complex sample preparation steps like cell labelling and the need of expensive laboratory infrastructure. | |||
| Amphiro |
2009 ZH Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources,Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Hydro (small scale), IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Other: Enabling tech |
| Amphiro develops intelligent systems that indicate the energy consumption when using hot water - and motivate a conscious use of energy. amphiro displays the water and energy consumption directly when showering and thus promotes a conscious use of hot water. | |||
| Assaia International |
2018 ZH Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Air Transport ] | IT: Data usage |
| We provide an Artificial Intelligence solution that watches turnarounds in real time to understand what is happening and offers predictive analysis to better manage operations. | |||
| Aurora's Grid |
2016 VD Growth |
[ Energy Storage ] | Smart: Grid |
| 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. | |||
| Avantama (nanograde) |
2008 ZH Growth |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Engineering & Industrial Design ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Avantama develops and produces nanomaterials for electronics. Avantama’s material innovations enable the fabrication of high quality optical and electronic coatings by established printing and coating techniques. | |||
| BePooler |
2015 TI Growth |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| BePooler was born in Switzerland in 2015 from the simple but innovative idea of providing companies and individual users with a fast and safe way to share the trip to their workplace, thus reducing traffic, expenses, the use of private vehicles and urban pollution. The Lugano-based startup company has developed an innovative system for carpooling through a web platform and related app and has managed to entice none other than the Italian city of Milan. | |||
| BIM Facility |
2017 ZH Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Building Technologies ] | IT: Data usage |
| BIM Facility AG specialises in the digitisation of real estate and brings existing digital planning models up to date: Asset Information Modelling (AIM) comprises the acquisition and construction of all relevant data and information to improve the performance and optimum maintenance of existing properties. | |||
| engytec |
2017 SO Growth |
Energy & Power Systems [ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | Energy: Renewable tech, IT: Data usage |
| Energy costs can be read out more easily and billed at the touch of a button. engytec concentrates on the measurement, processing and billing of all energy flows and offers property managers a billing system that is divided among the individual tenants and is consumer-oriented. Our vision is "everything under one roof". We accompany property owners and managers on the way to sustainable energy use: simplified, safe, transparent. | |||
| Blockstrom |
2017 BE Growth |
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Blockstrom enables real estate investors to supply rooftop solar power to the inhabitants of their buildings. We measure the electricity consumption and supply complete metering and billing data to property managers. Our web portal makes the management of energy consumption communities easy and efficient. We support self consumption communities. | |||
| Bloom Biorenewables |
2019 VD Growth |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Resource Efficiency ] | Biological: Bio tech, Biological: Material based on biomass, Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..) |
| At Bloom, we excel in deconstructing biomass. With our groundbreaking process, we provide a novel, cost-competitive route to source molecules from plants. This technology is the first of its kind and offers an unprecedented alternative for many petroleum-based products. From fragrances to polyurethanes, Bloom is committed to offer tailored solutions to our customers and help companies around the Globe in reducing their carbon footprint. Bloom products are cost-competitive bio-based building blocks for the chemical industry. The patented mild lignin extraction method uses stabilizing molecules (so-called “protection groups”) that prevent the lignin from condensing during extraction. | |||
| CalandaAir |
2023 GR Growth |
[ Air Quality Management ] | Smart: Home & building |
| ARVE helps you monitor the risk of virus transmission in your space by measuring key air quality factors such as CO2, PM, VOCs, temperature, and humidity. It calculates the concentration of airborne viruses and tracks your cumulative exposure over time. | |||
| carpasus |
2014 ZH Growth |
[ Fashion & Apparel ] | Other: Low tech |
| CARPASUS combines sustainability with quality, style and coolness. Our mission is to provide you with quality shirts that will make you feel good, accompany you for a long time, and underline your individual style. The CARPASUS shirts are now available in stores in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Sweden and are enjoying growing popularity. CARPASUS will continue to work for a more resource-efficient fashion industry in the future. The journey continues. | |||
| carvolution |
2018 BE Growth |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| The basis of Carvolution are Mobility as a service, hand in hand with a sophisticated vehicle fleet. The combination of service and technology creates a new approach to mobility and provides the foundation for a sustainable mobility development. Different cars are available on a subscription model: One monthly price for car, fully comprehensive insurance, taxes and registration. | |||
| ChemAlive |
2017 VD Growth |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Software driven by machine learning that allows the chemical industry to model chemistry, improve yield and generate new chemical leads. The ChemAlive platform is designed for cheaper and faster access to computed chemical data with no expertise, hardware or software barrier through a SaaS model executable by any chemist on-line. Our system brings machine learning and big data to the chemical and Pharma industry who have a need for accurate reaction metrics to design, predict and understand chemical processes. The efficiency and reliability of our approach opens up new markets where interactive accurate data can be used as a sales, marketing and R&D tool. | |||
| Chimpy (Batte.re) |
2013 ZH Growth |
[ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Solar power compensated battery for small electronics; Battere offers the most convenient solution for people on the go to recharge their smartphone. Users pick up a pre-charged power bank, charge their smartphone on the go and return the power bank at any other point of sale. Available at 1000 PoS | |||
| Choba Choba |
2015 BE Growth |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Other: Low tech |
| A chocolate brand in which farmers no longer are mere raw material suppliers. Instead, they have a direct stake in the company and its success. | |||
| Circle Soaps |
2018 ZH Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Cleaning Services ] | None |
| Circle Soaps produces handmade, cold made soaps with organic and herbal ingredients. We are an ethical company and strive to be as environmentally friendly as possible and to minimize our waste. | |||
| CleanFIZZ |
2011 GE Growth |
Buildings & Construction,Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Energy Efficiency ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Hydro (small scale), Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech |
| CleanFizz is a Swiss based company developing innovations to promote the solar industry. CleanFizz S.A. has developed an innovative solution “Integrated ElectroDynamic Cleaning” to revolutionize the solar panel industry with an entirely new self-cleaning method based on electrostatic waves. | |||