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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWOXID |
2021 VD Formation |
[ Water Management ] | Components: Filters & membranes, Energy: Renewable tech |
| SWOXID developed a gravitational solar-thermal water purifier, which filters and sterilizes contaminated water with sunlight. It does not require electricity, nor dosage of chemical agents to provide the sterilization effect. The technology is based on an innovative nanoporous aerogel composite membrane which - upon solar irradiation - is able to render contaminated water safe by removing and inactivating infectious disease-causing biological agents such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa and worms. | |||
| 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. | |||
| System-Alpenluft |
2011 BE Validation |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | None |
| System-Alpenluft AG stands for sustainable and economical waste management. System-Alpenluft AG assists their customers in the optimisation of community service and logistics processes. In so doing, System-Alpenluft AG works in a target-oriented and practical way towards at least guaranteeing the quality of services and processes and, wherever possible, to reduce cost at the same time and to improve cost-effectiveness Participation: System-Alpenluft AG stands for sustainable and economical waste management. System-Alpenluft AG assists their customers in the optimisation of community service and logistics processes. In so doing, System-Alpenluft AG works in a target-oriented and practical way towards at least guaranteeing the quality of services and processes and, wherever possible, to reduce cost at the same time and to improve cost-effectiveness | |||
| technis |
2016 VD Growth |
IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Other: Enabling tech, Smart: City, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Sensors | |
| Control your flow of visitors, Simplify people flow management with a reassuring, easy to install solution for both shops and consumers. Installed easily at entry points of your infrastructure, our solution allows you to monitor your visitor’s flow in real-time, optimize your ressources’ management, comply with your safety standards. The solution brings also a discreet, innovative and reassuring solution for elderly people in medical houses to bring them comfort and security. | |||
| Techsep |
2009 VD restructuring, on hold, no development |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Components: Filters & membranes |
| The company's main objective is the development, manufacture and marketing of all products and processes relating to environmental protection, including in particular compact equipment for road water treatment, in compliance with current legislative requirements. (Treatment of roadway waters) | |||
| TellCo Europe |
2008 TI Established |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Lighting, Energy: Photovoltaics, Smart: Grid, Smart: Home & building |
| TellCo Europe Sagl based in Switzerland is an international company, active in renewable energy systems and design and production of Solar Lighting Solutions and Solar Electricity Solutions. TellCo Europe is a leading organisation with the ability to plan, design, deploy, develop, integrate, and supply products for ECO and SOLAR demands. | |||
| terrabiom |
2019 ZH Formation |
[ Regenerative Agriculture & Soil ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| Terrabiom is on a mission to create sustainable agriculture and community through nature, by improving soil with microbiobes | |||
| Terrabloc |
2011 GE Established |
[ Building Construction ] | Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| Manufacture and marketing of compressed earth blocks, as well as all activities in the field of architecture, engineering and construction. | |||
| TerraRad Tech |
2020 ZH Validation |
[ Environmental Monitoring ] | Components: Optic devices, Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| TerraRad Tech AG is a spinoff of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) focusing on environmental radiometers and remote sensing technologies | |||
| Tesenso |
2020 SH Validation |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: City, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Sensors |
| Tesenso is a full-stack IoT solution provider, from IoT consulting, proof of concept / MVP projects to mass IoT rollouts. Flexibility, time-to-market, and scalability combined with profound knowledge of the underlying hardware are the key strengths of Tesenso, making sure that customers can rely on solid IoT solutions. | |||
| 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 | |||
| thingdust |
2017 LU Growth |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| thingdust optimizes office spaces and buildings by internet of things and machine learning technology. It automatically monitors and manages all kinds of spaces - meeting rooms, desks, .... It empowers facility managers to proactively respond to changing demands of clients for workspace. | |||
| tiko |
2012 ZH Established |
Buildings & Construction [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | Components: Pump, Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Heating in buildings, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Other: Enabling tech, Smart: Grid |
| The tiko platform brings you the power of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and an award-winning Smart Home Energy Management system designed to connect your Residential and SME assets. With its active VPP deployments, tiko is one of the biggest real-time Smart Grids in the world. Our customizable, future-proof technology has the life-expectancy of a PPP (Physical Power Plant) and enables the delivery of the full spectrum of energy services, including the most sophisticated such as fast frequency response. tiko enables you to become the driver for disruption and innovation in your market to create profitable business models. | |||
| Tinamu Labs |
2018 ZH Validation |
[ Air Transport ] | IT: Video and Film, Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Tinamu Labs is at the forefront of intelligent drone cinematography turning drones into reliable and safe flying cameras, delivering stunning footage at a fraction of the cost. Their flying multi-camera system enables boundless possibilities including longtime events via combining multiple drones into one single virtual camera, multi-camera productions, mobile lighting, AR solutions in sports as well as motion tracking over long distances to name just a few. | |||
| Transmutex SA |
2019 GE Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Nuclear |
| Transmutex is pioneering an entirely new type of nuclear energy that promises scalable carbon-free energy without the traditional challenges of existing nuclear plants. Today’s issues with nuclear energy are safety, long-lived waste, and proliferation. Transmutex will allow significant improvements on all these matters while delivering cost-competitive carbon-free electricity. | |||
| TreaTech |
2015 VD Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Water Management ] | Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..), Environment: Waste management tech, Environment: Water conservation |
| Treatech's mission is to address the increasing problem of clean water availability in all regions of the world by creating a low-cost, environmentally friendly liquid waste solution resulting in fresh-water production. Current liquid waste solution rely on landfill and incineration, which are expensive, polluting and do not allow for the recycling of the valuable products contained in the liquid waste such as fresh water, biogas and salts. Treatech is developing a ground-breaking treatment technology that will enable an eco-friendly treatment of the ever-incre | |||
| Tremola |
2011 GL restructuring, on hold, no development |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Electric |
| Market introducution of a flexible, environmentally conscious vehicle, which is both economical and fun to drive. | |||
| TVP Solar |
2008 GE Established |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources,Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Solarthermal |
| TVP Solar SA is a Swiss company which designs, develops, manufactures and markets innovative, high-vacuum flat solar thermal panels based on a proprietary technology for cooling and heating applications. TVP Solar is a game-changer in the solar thermal industry, effectively competing with electricity in the cooling and industrial process heat markets, while introducing new thermal energy-producing roofs for the residential market. | |||
| TwingTec |
2013 ZH Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Wind |
| TwingTec has developed the energy drone. The drone flies on a tethered wing which flies similar as a kite to harness the energy of wind. This unlocks huge unexploited wind energy resources to produce clean energy cheaper than with fossil fuels. | |||
| TwistOut |
2017 SG Stagnant |
[ Cleaning Services ] | Other: Low tech |
| TwistOut is an innovative drain rod made of 100% beech wood. The rough, spiral surface texture of the wooden stick in combination with the manual rotation allows the blockage (mostly hair) to adhere to the stick. The TwistOut can be easily pulled out of the siphon and disposed of. Why complicated when it's easy? With TwistOut we solve a common drainage problem in a functional and simple way - without chemicals, completely natural and hygienical. | |||
| Tyre Recycling Solutions |
2013 VD Growth |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Environment: Waste management tech |
| TRS has developed Swiss proprietary technologies to process scrap tyres and deliver output products with significant value-in-use. | |||
| Eat-Umami |
2015 ZH Growth |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Agricultural tech |
| The seedlings, the so-called microgreens of Umami, thrive in an ecosystem that also includes cichlids, shrimps, mushrooms and countless small animals and microorganisms. The production process is resource-efficient and works without pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics or artificial fertilizers. | |||
| Unisers |
2019 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Water Management ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Detection of trace-impurities in ultrapure water UNISERS created a fully-automated universal chemical sensor capable of identifying multiple and different impurities in water. This technology will help the semiconductors industry to maintain the purity level of the rinsing water in the chip production, eventually improving the reliability and the manufacturing yield of the chips. | |||
| UniSieve |
2018 ZH Growth |
Energy & Power Systems [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Components: Filters & membranes |
| Over 10% of the total energy consumption worldwide is due to separation processes. To target this issue, we developed a membrane technology, which allows cost and energy efficient separation of gases. The technology is based on an inventive way of integrating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) into polymeric membranes. The UniSieve technology has the potential to create various separation solutions for small-scale home applications (B2C), and also large-scale industrial processes (B2B). Currently, the focus is set on building modules for the purification of hydrogen (energy, cleantech industry) and propylene (oil&gas, chemical industry). | |||
| Urban Connect |
2013 ZH Growth |
[ Bicycles & E-Bikes ] | Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric |
| Urban Connect provides all-in-one bicycle fleet solutions for corporate clients. Companies like Google, Zurich Insurance and Roche choose Urban Connect to provide fleets of e-bicycles and bicycles for their employees who are on the move in Switzerland. | |||
| Urban Sympheny |
2020 ZH Validation |
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Software |
| Design optimized energy supply solutions for buildings and districts. Faster than ever. Sympheny offers a cloud-based software platform to support the planning of efficient and economical renewable energy-based decentralised energy systems for neighbourhoods, districts and cities. Using cutting edge algorithms, we empower energy planners to quickly and accurately identify the optimal energy supply solution for any site. Our software fits ideally with current planning workflows, enabling energy planners to quickly evaluate a broad range of conventional and novel supply solutions, and to consider multiple demand vectors simultaneously. | |||
| Urbio |
2020 VS Validation |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Software |
| Urbio is a software for planning sustainable cities that combines the strengths of humans and artificial intelligence. | |||
| uzufly |
2020 VD Formation |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: Software, Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Uzufly, based at the EPFL Innovation park, generates 2D and 3D digital models with its drones. These models will be used by project owners and the various technical trades. This innovation allows optimal planning of a construction project. Uzufly uses the latest drones on the market to cover buildings to entire cities. | |||
| varionix |
2012 ZG Stagnant |
[ Air Quality Management ] | Components: Filters & membranes |
| Manufacturer and supplier of precision instruments for the measurement of air ions and electrostatics for the environmental analysis, process-engineering and science. Apps: odor neutralisation, degradation of pollutans, sterilisation and refreshment of air and water. | |||
| 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. | |||