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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Xemtec |
2001 VD validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency ] | Enabling technologies |
| Add-on smart units to existing meters for monitoring. Xemtec is an important player in digitalization of information for electricity, gas and water markets. Our system provides a comprehensive and centralised flow management for the industrial and residential sectors. | |||
| Yaksha |
2018 VD growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| Yaksha is an organic and fair trade spice from a single source, and together we are starting an innovative concept based on ethical values. | |||
| Yasai |
2020 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Environmental monitoring, Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail, Resource efficiency, Trade and Retail, Waste & recycling, Water Management ] | Bio technologies, Carbon capture and storage, Hydro energy (small scale), Internet of Things, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, IT Software, LED, Smartcity, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Yasai offers Farming as a Service with Vertical Farms based on circular economy within Smart Cities | |||
| YouMo |
2013 SG growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Transport & Mobility [ Energy efficiency, Engineering ] | e-bike, e-mobility |
| More than just an E-bike. | |||
| Younergy |
2013 AG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy Production, Energy storage, Heating and cooling energy ] | Photovoltaics |
| Solar power subscription for homes with no up-front cost.Solar installation. Financing of solar installations. | |||
| youtrition |
2018 BS established |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | Resource saving agricultural technologies |
| youtrition deals with the recycling of nutrients from human urine in order to achieve sustainability for food production | |||
| Yova |
2017 ZH growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Financing and financial services ] | Low technology |
| Yova is a digital platform for investing with a sustainability impact. Yova customers invest directly into companies that help solve global challenges and make a difference in topics they care about. Renewable energies, gender equality, circular economy – they can decide which topics they want to invest in. All investments are tailored to the customer’s needs and values. At the same time, they are professionally diversified and designed for long-term returns. The customers get both: sustainability impact and financial return. With the Yova platform, everyone can become an impact investo. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Zarawind |
2017 ZH formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity ] | Wind energy |
| Our Lighter-Than-Air wind power system is designed compact, cost-effective and eco-friendly to be used in remote off-grid locations. For the installation of the wind power system at that altitude, the use of a buoyant gas aerostat allows the user to carry an electrical generator | |||
| Zenna |
2012 SG established |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy efficiency ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Photovoltaics |
| Services for solar power supply chain. | |||
| zoë circular building |
2017 BS validation |
Construction & buildings [ Construction of buildings, Resource efficiency, Resource sufficiency ] | |
| Building with natural, untreated and local materials: healthy, sustainable and affordable. | |||
| 2em |
2014 growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Road vehicles and transport ] | Fleet management, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| 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! | |||
| act cleantech Agentur Schweiz |
2015 ZH growth |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| act cleantech Agentur coordinates and supports the Swiss network of energy specialists and partners in support of their customers. We enable communication with the federal government, maintain specialised web tools and ensure legal conformity. It is our concern to help your company to achieve a breakthrough in energy efficiency so that you can reduce your costs and make an important contribution to climate protection. | |||
| Advantec Polymers |
2017 ZH formation |
Construction & buildings, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Construction of buildings ] | New chemical materials |
| production of chemical, which reduces energy demand in production of wood boards, and reselling the wood. | |||
| Adventerra Games |
2009 TI established |
Behavioural change, Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Games ] | Gamification, Low technology |
| Adventerra Games, located in the Italian part of Switzerland, has worked for more than 10 years to create educational games designed for children of different ages on environmental topics. | |||
| AgriCircle |
2012 SG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Forestry ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| AgriCircle is a leading provider of digital agronomy and precision farming solutions to agricultural companies and farmers. AgriCircle is also a network brining together research and businesses to create novel, innovative products for the food value chain | |||
| Alterna |
2020 VD growth |
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| Alterna enables various projects to help the sustainable transition through a state-of-the-art service. | |||
| Aluminium Electric Storage |
2019 SZ formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy storage ] | Energy storage other than batteries |
| HybridStock - Hybrid seasonal storage system for renewable heat and electricity based on an aluminium redox cycle | |||
| am-tec switzerland |
2011 ZH validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Electricity, Heating and cooling energy ] | Enabling technologies, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Consultants for electricity grid management; Core competencies: asset management and infrastructure management. We offer consulting, services and software for strategic and operational asset management (standardized entry-level projects for electricity, water and gas distribution) | |||
| Apizoom |
2016 FR growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| A beekeeper teamed up with the Signal Processing Laboratory 5 and a group of EPFL students to develop an app that counts the number of Varroa mites in beehives. This parasite is one of the two main threats – along with pesticides – to bees’ long-term survival. Knowing the extent of the mites’ infestation will allow beekeepers to protect their bees more effectively. | |||
| Aquanetto Group |
2007 VS established |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Cleaning, Waste & recycling ] | Filters & Membranes, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| AquaNetto solutions rely on ultraviolet irradiation in combination with complementary technologies to disinfect and treat fluids (water and air) and surfaces. AquaNetto promotes and supports socially and ecologically sustainable projects according to well defined criteria with the goal of achieving the highest possible value on site. To this end, AquaNetto provides open-architecture, efficient, and environmentally friendly solutions for the treatment of water, air, and surfaces in the private, public, industrial and commercial sectors. | |||
| Aquazoom |
2015 ZG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Electricity ] | Hydro energy |
| AquaZoom removes barriers to fish migration while producing power - economically restoring rivers everywhere. We strive for electricity production in complete harmony with nature. Therefore, we grew to leading pioneers in micro hydropower and aim to share our patented water vortex technology worldwide. | |||
| Arviem |
2008 ZG established |
Transport & Mobility [ Transport & logisticsof goods ] | e-cargo, e-mobility, Enabling technologies |
| Arviem service is to tracks parameters affecting a cargo content's quality based on the specific needs of clients. Tracking the location and monitoring the condition of cargo verifies the quality of incoming components and monitors the fulfillment of safety and environmental regulations. | |||
| Attolight |
2008 VD established |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity ] | Photovoltaics |
| Attolight started off to revolutionise cathodoluminescence (CL): design top of the line CL instruments that deliver superior performance, maximum ease-of-use and make quantitative cathodoluminescence possible. The Company firmly believes in the potential of cathodoluminescence and aims at establishing the technology as a standard in-line inspection method in semiconductor industry. Attolight is a company with global presence with systems in Europe, Asia, and North America. The Company is headquartered at the EPFL Innovation Park where the Attolab is located as well. Attolight "New Cathodoluminescence" solutions support the state-of-the -art research and developments in LEDs, Solar Cells, High Mobility Transitors, new opto-electronical devices, nano-structured semiconductors. | |||
| Basis 57 Nachhaltige Wassernutzung |
2007 UR growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Electricity, Farming & agriculture ] | Bio technologies, Resource saving agricultural technologies |
| The Gotthard-Basis tunnel in Southern Switzerland causes drainage of the drilled-through rock. Basis 57 Nachhaltige Wassernutzung uses the warm and clean mountain water exiting at the north portal as a natural resource for food production. The breeding of edible fish such as the Gotthard pike-perch and the generation of the necessary thermal energy are the main focus here. | |||
| Beaver Schutzsysteme |
2002 LU established |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection ] | Geophysical & technical |
| eaver® flood preparedness systems have been successfully deployed in emergency situations more than a thousand times over the years, in Switzerland and elsewhere. The Beaver storm and flood preparedness system is composed of two adjacent inflatable dam elements (bladders) that are filled with water. | |||
| 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. | |||
| BioApply |
2004 VD established |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Waste management technologies, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| BioApply, enabling biodegradable and biobased alternatives to plastic. Since 2006, BioApply develops biobased, compostable and biodegradable packaging solutions. BioApply solutions address the needs of both retail and waste management sectors. BioApply is based in Switzerland and is also present in Lisbon, Portugal. | |||
| Bloocks |
2020 formation |
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| The mission of the company is to decrease the energy consumption of new constructions (buildings etc.), construction-related air and soil pollution as well as to decrease the cost and time of building new constructions. We will achieve this goal by using factory-based manufacturing and fabricating unique and specially designed Building Blocks. The costumers will use an online platform to design their own constructions, receive a particular amount of Blocks and build the desired type of constructions. | |||
| Bogga |
2014 VD validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Electricity ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies |
| Bogga provides advisory services to develop and finance behind-the-meter renewable energy projects delivering Energy-as-a-Service to Commercial & Industrial (C&I) customers, in order to reduce electricity cost by securing price visibility & stability; Improve the reliability and self-security of electricity supply by integrating energy storage solutions; Reach renewable energy targets by reducing greenhouse gas emissions & dependency on fossil fuel. | |||