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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Voyage |
2017 ZH growth |
Recreation, hotels & restaurants [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Environmental monitoring, Functional clothes, Hotel, Information technology, Recreation ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Fair Voyage helps you find and customize your best conscious travel experience in Africa and developing regions. They are building an ethical and sustainable booking platform that exclusively promotes verified responsible tour operators. Through their direct relationships with local leaders in sustainability, they can offer you highest quality at best prices. | |||
| Geopraevent |
2012 ZH growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection ] | Geophysical & technical, IT data usage |
| Geopraevent develops, installs and operates premium alarm and monitoring systems for natural hazards. We focus on customer-specific and highly reliable solutions. | |||
| Hello Vegan |
2012 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| Online store for vegan products (food, cosmetics, household products). | |||
| Légumes Perchés |
2020 VD growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture, Gardening, Resource sufficiency ] | |
| The purpose of the company is to design, carry out and support urban and peri-urban agriculture projects | |||
| Lyfa Innovations |
2020 BS growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] | Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Zero-waste: Online store and delivery service for plastic-free groceries. | |||
| MycoSolutions |
2016 SG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Forestry ] | Bio technologies |
| Custom made biological fungi products to enhance growth for trees and other plants. | |||
| neverain |
2017 ZH growth |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps, Transport & Mobility | e-bike, e-mobility |
| Thanks to a multifunctional overall, cycling should in future be a pleasure regardless of the weather. | |||
| Nexxiot |
2015 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology ] | IT Software |
| Nexiot offers an integrated digitization solution for all companies concerned with the movement of physical goods, who want to increase efficiencies and unlock additional revenue potential. | |||
| OekoSolve |
2014 SG growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | Filters & Membranes |
| OekoSolve produces electrostatic precipitators that offers technical solutions in the area of micro-dust emission reduction. They also develop custom made solutions. | |||
| Pakka |
2007 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| We offer a range of high-quality organic and Fairtrade snacks under the Pakka brand to individual and business customers (in particular, the restaurant and catering trade, and wholesalers). | |||
| Panier local |
2015 FR growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Trade and Retail, Transport & logisticsof goods ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| The aim of panier local is the marketing and transport of consumer goods from regional producers. 70% of the product price goes to the producer, like a digital local marketplace. | |||
| Pingen |
2010 ZH growth |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) | Enabling technologies |
| Pingen is a web based service to automate the process of sending electronic documents as postal letters. By partnering with professional print companies distributed across various markets, Pingen achieves faster deliveries, cheaper prizes while even reducing the carbon footprint. | |||
| Projets 21 |
2019 FR growth |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction | |
| Projets 21 measures the CO2 balance of your activity, analyzes how companies can minimize their CO2 emissions, takes steps to obtain 14001 certification. | |||
| Renergon International |
2010 TG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Bio technologies, Renewable technologies |
| RENERGON extracts value from organic waste in creating valuable, sustainable products such as biofuel, biogas, renewable energy, compost, fertilizer, & biochar - always combineRenergon International AG with global social and environmental responsibility. | |||
| 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. | |||
| share & Charge |
2018 ZG growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Energy storage ] | e-vehicle charging, IT blockchain or algorithms, IT network |
| THE SHARE&CHARGE FOUNDATION IS AN INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION TO FOSTER THE CREATION OF THE GLOBAL EV CHARGING NETWORK | |||
| Ambrosus |
2017 ZG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Health & House & Body Care, Transport & Mobility [ Food production & retail, Healthcare ] | IT blockchain or algorithms |
| Ambrosus, which is a member of the CVA, is a project to build a blockchain-based ecosystem for supply chains for life-essential products like food and medicine. | |||
| smartYes |
2015 SG growth |
Communication, Media, Education or Games | Low technology |
| smartYes, as a regional supplier specialized in POS Communication and Live-Marketing. We provide customers with quality displays and marketing tools. We ensure that your company or brand promotion stands out where it really matters. We have the right and unique solution for every Point-Of-Sale, event or exhibition. | |||
| Solarfreeze |
2012 BS growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption | |
| The Solarfreeze association supports projects, feasibility studies, demand analyses, etc. on how to use the sun as an energy source for ecological and affordable cooling in developing and emerging countries. We promote technologies and system availability in the low-tech/low-cost sector, which also have a chance for widespread use in countries with lower incomes, and also specifically promote the specialised training of young people on site with additional added value. | |||
| Fair Recycling (fondation) |
2008 ZH growth |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| Fair Recycling is the first organisation worldwide to combine climate protection with recycling. In Brazil, where the Swiss foundation's pioneering project is located, it recycles old refrigerators containing CFCs in cooperation with its local partner Indústria Fox, thus making an important contribution to climate protection. On the basis of this verification report, an independent registration body issues climate protection certificates, which the Foundation offers to Swiss partners. Fair Recycling is proud to be the climate partner of numerous companies that reduce a large part of their CO2 emissions with their own measures and only offset unavoidable emissions with climate protection certificates. | |||
| SUIND |
2020 ZH growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | Drone & flight, Internet of Things |
| Enabling drone companies to unlock the full potential of drones by providing them with state of the art safety solution. | |||
| Swiss Alpine Fish (swisslachs) |
2020 ZH growth |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Food, Farming or Forestry [ Catering, Food production & retail, Resource efficiency, Restaurants ] | Enabling technologies, Hydro energy (small scale) |
| Swiss Alpine Fish AG sustainably breeds salmon in an indoor facility in Lostallo, using the latest technology, making it the cleanest and most sustainable fish farm in the world. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Switzerlend (LEND) |
2015 ZH growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Financing and financial services ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| The crowdlending platform LEND matches investors with borrowers. Both benefit from our fair and transparent business model. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Tyre Recycling Solutions |
2013 VD growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Waste management technologies |
| TRS has developed Swiss proprietary technologies to process scrap tyres and deliver output products with significant value-in-use | |||
| up green recycling |
2019 GE growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Pump, Waste management technologies |
| With its unique system for sorting organic waste, Mint combines elegance and innovation. A few presses on the upper part of the bin are enough to eliminate the bad odors generated by the decomposition of waste. It's as simple as that. Result: no smells, no midges, no disgust. | |||
| VortexPower |
2011 ZH growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Health & House & Body Care, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource efficiency ] | Hydro energy |
| VortexPower AG is specialized in the development and the sales of highly efficient products for water recovery thru natural swirling. | |||
| Wildbiene + Partner |
2013 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection ] | Low technology |
| Wildbiene + Partner aims at the promotion of wild bees by developing and offering bee-promoting products, planning and implementing large-scale wild bee habitats and educational work at public and private events. In addition, specific wild bees are actively propagated by society and offered for pollination in agriculture. | |||
| 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. | |||