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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CleanGreens |
2013 VD Growth |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Biological: Agricultural tech |
| CleanGreens (previously CombaGroup) is an award-winning Swiss agro-tech company that provides innovative farming solutions in mobile aeroponics. Our patented technology greatly reduces water consumption and contamination risks while offering maximum productivity per square meter. | |||
| ClearSpace |
2018 VD Growth |
[ Disaster Risk & Hazard Prevention ] | None |
| ClearSpace develops in-orbit service missions to enable a vibrant, resilient, and sustainable space industry. | |||
| Clemap |
2017 ZH Growth |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | Smart: Home & building |
| Energy monitoring and disaggregation sensor for housholdes. Disaggregation service for electricity providers. The products helps to use electric tools more efficiently. | |||
| Carbon Removed (Climacrux) |
2020 LU Growth |
[ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Environment: Carbon capture and storage, Environment: Climate tech |
| Helps individuals to become carbon neutral and climate friendly by compensating their carbon footprint through carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere. | |||
| Climate services |
2013 FR Growth |
[ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Environment: Climate tech |
| Climate Services offers tools and support to help companties and other organizations to manage risk and identify opportunities related to climate change. The company owns the online www.CO2-Platform.ch to quantify CO2 emissions and identify the most attractif projects. | |||
| Climeworks |
2009 ZH Growth |
[ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Environment: Climate tech |
| Climeworks develops, builds and operates direct air capture machines. With our technology we capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and used as a raw material, or completely removed from the air by safely storing it. Our machines consist of modular CO₂ collectors that can be stacked to build machines of any size. Climeworks direct air capture machines are powered solely by renewable energy or energy-from-waste. | |||
| collaboratio helvetica |
2017 BE Growth |
[ Behavioural Change ] | None |
| We create spaces for dialogue, new ways of collaboration and the collective development of approaches to shaping the Switzerland of tomorrow –built on ecological responsibility, humanity and the common good. | |||
| Cortexia |
2016 FR Growth |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | IT: Data usage, Smart: City, 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. | |||
| Decision Trees |
2008 SG Growth |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Hydro, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Decision Trees as a connector between scientific research and practitioners uses cutting edge methodologies of Stochastic Optimization and offers customized software and consultancy to energy producers and traders. | |||
| Futuricum (Designwerk Products) |
2017 ZH Growth |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Energy: Battery, Mobility: E-cargo, Mobility: E-vehicle charging |
| electric trucks are a solution not an alternative. Performance, ecology and economy combined. | |||
| dhp technology |
2015 GR Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| dhp created HORIZON which is a solar folding roof system which turn parking lots and logistics areas into electric power plants. HORIZON unfolds when the sun shines and automatically retracts into a storage unit afterwards. | |||
| Solarbalkon (Direct Coffee) |
2016 BS Growth |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Fight climate change from your balcony with a super-light solar panel that can be plugged into the socket. | |||
| Distran |
2013 ZH Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Components: Acoustic materials & tech, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Distran is a spin-off from the Autonomous System Lab, ETH Zurich, developing advanced acoustic sensors for industrial applications. Distran's goal is to reduce risks for industrial workers and the environmental impact of the industry through the use of sound sensing and technology. | |||
| dokspot |
2014 ZH Growth |
[ Resource Efficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Dokspot allows manufacturers to manage and distribute their product instructions online. Our platform provides instructions at the right time, for the right product, in the right language, and in the right version. We enable manufacturers to reduce their CO₂ footprint, simplify their operations, and increase their profit margins, all the while making life easier for the end-user. | |||
| drivemycar |
2020 ZH Growth |
[ Fleet & Mobility Management, Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Fleet management |
| drivemycar AG is a Swiss mobility startup offering a modular platform for vehicle sharing, fleet management, and multimodal mobility. We serve businesses, cities, real estate developers, and mobility providers aiming to optimize the use of vehicles, chargers, and parking spaces. Our white-label software enables easy booking, access, billing, and data insights – for cars, e-bikes, scooters, and more. We help clients turn underused assets into shared, revenue-generating solutions. Our USP: fast deployment, full flexibility, and complete data ownership – with no dependence on proprietary hardware. | |||
| droople |
2018 VD Growth |
[ Water Management ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| We provide businesses with retrofit solution to efficiently manage their fleet of water-driven assets and buildings. | |||
| Dufour Aerospace |
2017 VS Growth |
[ Air Transport ] | Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Dufour Aerospace develops efficient and sustainable aircraft for patient and passenger transport, logistics and public safety. It uses distributed electric propulsion and a hybrid module to be able to meet today's helicopter market and Advanced Air Mobility requirements. | |||
| eaternity |
2014 ZH Growth |
Financials & Information Technology [ Food Safety & Quality ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Eaternity has developed innovative software for private and professional use. It is based on an easy to understand and yearly reviewed live cycle analysis (LCA-database. This is currently the largest and most comprehensive database for carrying out environmental calculations for menus. With Eaternity, we offer everyone the opportunity to make a sustainable choice when selecting their everyday food. | |||
| eCarUp |
2017 ZG Growth |
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | Mobility: E-car, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-vehicle charging, Smart: City |
| With our solution, we maximise returns from under-utilised charging stations for electric cars at offices, hotels, retail centres or apartment complexes – and transform payments with our intuitive app. | |||
| ECCO2 Solutions |
2019 FR Growth |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Other: Enabling tech, Smart: Device |
| We make buildings intelligent to save CO2. With AI, predictive heating control and high-precision energy measurement. Smart sensors in your building provide millions of data points for our AI to “learn” your building and systematically adapt the heating path: Automated data analysis will allow you to better understand your portfolio’s energy performance and monitor and document your CO2-reduction plan. | |||
| ECHOJAZZ |
2015 LU Growth |
[ Building Technologies ] | Components: Acoustic materials & tech, Components: New chemical materials |
| We provide high-performance acoustic absorbers for offices, retail, restaurants, hotels, gyms, pools etc. to improve speech intelligibility, wellbeing, concentration and performance. | |||
| La Corde à Linge |
2018 GE Growth |
[ Circular Economy ] | Biological: Material based on biomass, Other: Low tech |
| Prendre soin de son linge, de sa peau & de l'environnement avec les lessives locales, sans colorant, ni conservateur & biodégradables de LA CORDE À LINGE. | |||
| ecoRobotix |
2011 VD Growth |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Biological: Agricultural tech, Energy: Photovoltaics, Mobility: Automated or self driving, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| ecorobotix develops, produces and sells innovative farming machines that require low energy and that reduce the negative ecological impact of modern agriculture, while keeping costs competitive. | |||
| EH Group Engineering |
2017 VD Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Energy Management & Use ] | Energy: Hydrogen tech and fuel cells, Energy: Storage other than batteries |
| Develops a new fuels cell and is an engineering and consulting firm based in Switzerland. We offer a unique strategic, technical and business consulting service in the area of energy with a focus on fuel cells, system management, engineering, prototype development and the application of various methodologies such as Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and Design for Excellence (DfX).d | |||
| ElectricFeel |
2012 ZH Growth |
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Communication, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric, Other: Enabling tech |
| The leading technology for your shared micromobility service ElectricFeel provides the most intelligent platform available to build, run and scale shared electric mobility systems in the urban habitat; ElectricFeel's Platform is a full solution for any shared electric mobility service (End-user Application, Management Software, Analytics Portal) | |||
| Electrojoule |
2017 AG Growth |
[ Building Technologies ] | Energy: Geothermal, Energy: Heating in buildings, Energy: Renewable tech, Smart: Home & building |
| We plan, install and maintain sofisticated renewable heating and cooling systems für mid-sized buildings, all out of one hand, including continuous optimization. | |||
| Embotech |
2013 ZH Growth |
Mobility & Transport [ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Software, Other: Enabling tech, Smart: Sensors |
| Embotech is a leading developer of cutting-edge decision-making software. Our embeddable software empowers autonomous systems to make decisions by solving complex optimization problems in milliseconds, bringing significant improvements in safety, productivity and energy efficiency. | |||
| Energie hoch drei |
2017 BE Growth |
Buildings & Construction [ Building Technologies ] | Other: Low tech |
| Energie hoch drei AG stands for the 3 elements of the energy future - efficiency, consistency and sufficiency. Their core competencies are energy concepts and sustainability consulting in the building sector and in spatial planning from the idea to the implementation. They offer their services to a broad clientele ranging from building owners and planning teams to various institutions. | |||
| Energiewendegenossenschaft (e-wende.ch) |
2013 BE Growth |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech |
| The Energy Turnaround Cooperative is committed to ensuring that every homeowner can realize a solar installation. Thanks to our new, innovative concept, solar power will be almost free and the investment should no longer be an obstacle for anyone. We are convinced that we can trigger a real solar boom and make a big contribution to the energy transition. | |||
| e-netz |
2010 AG Growth |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Communication |
| e-Netz AG is an independent planning, engineering and consulting company specialising in technical and energy issues in the energy sector. e-Netz AG unites independent experts for networks, engineering and the energy industry under one roof. | |||