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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIPHA |
2018 ZH Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | IT: Data usage, IT: Software |
| AIPHA GmbH provides Deep Learning based tools to automatically identify vegetation based threats to power lines. The main focus are grow-in, fall-in and forest fire threats. For this purpose, Geodata like Satellite images or Point Clouds from Drones or Airborne Laserscanning are evaluated. | |||
| AirBie (Smart Bike Lock) |
2018 ZH Validation |
Financials & Information Technology [ Bicycles & E-Bikes ] | IT: Blockchain or algorithms, IT: IOT Internet of Things, Mobility: E-bike |
| AirBie proposes smart bike locks for bikes, through the installation of the AirBie App. This allows companies to monitor their fleet with smary city analytics software. | |||
| Anerdgy |
2012 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Building Technologies ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Wind |
| With ANERDGY you take the step into a sustainable and economical roof future. As an expert partner for innovative roof design with many years of experience, we also actively involve ourselves in your project in order to design an optimally usable and sustainable roof in coordination with the architectural vision and structural framework. Roof ecosystem Elements of success for multifunctional roofs. | |||
| apilio |
2019 ZH Validation |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: IOT Internet of Things, IT: Software |
| Apilio connects devices and services to create smarter, low-maintenance, reliable logic for your home. | |||
| AquAero GmbH |
2015 AG Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Energy Efficiency ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Heat industrial usage |
| AquAero has developed a drying technology able to reduce energy consumption by up to 70% and to eliminate the CO2 emissions almost completely while maintaining high product quality and productivity. The green technology is scalable to any size and can be adapted for all materials not sensitive to temperatures above 100°C, e.g. food, pet food, ceramics, and biomass. | |||
| Arc Power |
2016 ZH Validation |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission |
| ARC-Power performs design and production of custom DC/DC converters, power distribution and switching boards, electronic motor drivers, filters and harness for space application. | |||
| autoSense |
2018 ZH Validation |
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Sensors |
| autoSense is a Swiss start-up with headquarters in Zurich. Its vision is to create an open, Swiss ecosystem that totally disrupts the connection between driver and vehicle. To this end, the company develops and offers services for private individuals and fleet managers in the field of intelligent networking of cars. At the heart of the system is an app and an adapter that provides users with a digital assistant for their cars and access to the growing ecosystem. This already includes new models for car insurance, a digital payment function when refuelling, a tax-compliant logbook, active warning messages in the event of vehicle malfunctions and much more. | |||
| Avalgo |
2016 VD Validation |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Biological: Bio tech, Biological: Fertilizers from wastewater, waste or other sources |
| Its main activity is to clean the algae of the ports and beaches by means of a system of aspiration and mowing. These algae are then transported by small big-bags submerged to the port. From there, they are discharged in a special machine that separates the water from the seaweed (wringer). The algae thus reduced in volume and mass, are recovered for drying and processed into animal feed, or organic fertilizer. | |||
| Barto |
2017 BE Validation |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Barto is a portal for digital collection and networking of farm and production data all in one portal. The farmer saves time and maintains an overview of the company's documentation and planning at all times. | |||
| Battronics |
2017 ZH Validation |
[ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery |
| Battronics is an innovative start-up that markets the knowledge and technology to charge Li-ion batteries also below 15°C sufficiently fast. Battronics provides knowledge, consulting and research for Li-ion batteries and their electronics and management system. | |||
| beesolar |
2017 VD Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| BeeSolar offers a new type of impact investment by installing solar panels on residential buildings in Switzerland. BeeSolar tries to start photovoltaic projects on residential buildings by transforming them into a profitable investment for the owner. | |||
| Bionomous |
2019 VD Validation |
[ Health Solutions ] | IT: Data usage |
| Bionomous combines innovative micro-engineering design and machine learning methods to automatically inspect and sort miniature biological entities, in particular the egg of zebrafish Danio rerio, which is a common model for studies in genetics, development and behavioral biology, toxicology. | |||
| Bogga |
2014 VD Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Biological: Agricultural tech, Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Wind |
| Bogga serves owners and operators of Commercial & Industrial facilities to: i) Reduce electricity cost by securing price visibility & stability; ii) Improve the reliability and self-security of electricity supply by integrating energy storage solutions; iii) Reach renewable energy targets by reducing greenhouse gas emissions & dependency on fossil fuel. | |||
| CEEX |
2021 ZH Validation |
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| CEEX is an exchange platform for renewable Energy like an eBay for power. A new business model with peer-to-peer exchange has been developed together with the ETH Zurich in a scientific project. In 2015 a fellowship of the ImpactHUB Zurich was won for the innovative idea. It is realtime, peer-to-peer, machine 2 machine | |||
| Clean Motion |
2019 VD Validation |
[ Health Solutions ] | None |
| CleanMotion has developed a door handle that automatically disinfects itself after each use, to improve hygiene in high-traffic areas. | |||
| ClimateRe |
2015 ZH Validation |
Other: Low tech | |
| ClimateRe promotes and facilitates innovative risk management approaches and develops appropriate insurance solutions to strengthen the resilience of climate-vulnerable communities. | |||
| Coat-X SA |
2016 NE Validation |
[ Efficiency Solutions ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Coat-X provides unique solutions for protecting high value-added components against moisture penetration and corrosion. | |||
| CompPair |
2020 VD Validation |
[ Cleaning Services ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| CompPair is a forthcoming university spin-off solving damage issues for the composite materials industry. They develop the next generation of smart and sustainable material products to overcome damages.The new materials enable repeated damage healing after a moderate heat trigger. Their technology is the first competitive one with extremely high commercial potential in terms of multiple repair ability and recycling, while preserving mechanical properties, cost and processing methods as in many industrial systems. By extending their product portfolio to other fibres and resins, they have the ability to disrupt the industry; bringing repair and recycling functionalities to composites while matching current requirements. | |||
| CO-OBJECTIFS 21 |
2017 GE Validation |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Other: Low tech |
| Supporting Businesses and Communities of Switzerland in optimizing their performance ENVIRONMENTAL material in waste management and reduction of costs associated with it. To propose innovative solutions. | |||
| Corintis |
2022 VD Validation |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Cooling tech |
| We are a provider of breakthrough semiconductor cooling solutions. Our solution utilizes a network of microscopically small cooling channels embedded inside the chip, which enables us to extract 10 times more heat compared to the current leading market alternatives, and extract this heat over 50x more energy efficiently. This enables the powerful integrated circuits of the future to break thermal limitations in a sustainable manner. | |||
| Cowa Thermal Solutions |
2019 LU Validation |
[ Energy Storage ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Storage other than batteries |
| We develop compact thermal energy storage systems based on phase change materials for building services engineering and industrial plants. Our technology can be ideally combined with renewable energy sources and increases their own consumption by linking supply and demand of energy through our storage systems. COWA-Caps increase the storage capacity of water-based thermal energy storage systems by exploiting the melting and solidification processes of the filling material (phase change material PCM). COWA-Caps filled with PCM can be easily inserted into existing or new hot water, buffer or cold storage tanks. By selecting the PCM, the storage tank temperature can be ideally adapted to the application. | |||
| Daphne Technology |
2017 VD Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Energy Management & Use ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Daphne Technology SA is developing a catalyst-free scrubber technology to help the petrochemical, power and transportation industries to reduce air emissions to the levels required by international and national regulations. Daphne Technology’s patented nanotechnology based solutions can be miniaturized and is especially well-suited to meet the requirements of marine vessels. | |||
| deskbird |
2020 SG Validation |
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| deskbird is the most flexible solution to use inspiring workspaces - where and when you need them. Find relevant workspaces around you and use them fully flexible. You are only charged for the time effectively used, e.g. two hours. Our goal is to support freelancers, startups and established companies on their journey towards the new way of working #NWOW | |||
| dimpora AG |
2019 ZH Validation |
[ Engineering & Industrial Design ] | Biological: Material based on biomass, Components: Filters & membranes, Components: New chemical materials, Components: Resource or material optimisation, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use, Other: Enabling tech |
| We produce eco-friendly functional membranes for the outdoor textile industry. Our 2D products involve a conventional lamination of the dimpora membrane onto a textile. The waterproof fluorine-free membrane is mainly based on polyurethane and undergoes our template removal approach to create the necessary porosity, thus achieving an excellent breathability. We are also currently scaling up our first biodegradable membrane. | |||
| Direct Coffee |
2016 BS Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Other: Low tech |
| We want to build bridges: between coffee drinkers here in Switzerland and coffee farmers in Ethiopia. With coffee that represents your values. Better than organic. More than fair. CO2 neutral. | |||
| DM-Green |
2017 VD Validation |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Other: Low tech |
| We are a company specialized in the marketing and distribution of innovative solutions in the fields of recovery, sorting and recycling of waste, such as presses, interior and exterior containers or automated sorting robots. Our desire is to optimize resources in a sustainable and responsible manner, as well as reducing waste and CO2 emissions. | |||
| e-Durable |
2016 VD Validation |
[ Information Technology ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| e-Durable is the leading IT service provider in French-speaking Switzerland which places Sustainable Development at the heart of its activities. | |||
| Embion Technologies |
2019 VD Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Bio tech, Components: New chemical materials |
| EMBION catalyzes the future of #nutrition by introducing a portfolio of sophisticated, complex EMBION-BIOACTIVES with expanded prebiotic properties. EMBION innovates with brilliant #plant-based technologies that customize unique nutrition in exceptional speed and are surprisingly affordable. | |||
| Enairys Powertech |
2008 VD Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Enairys offers a wide range of innovative and clean energy storage & management solutions, based on its proprietary hydro-pneumatic and power electronic technologies. These solutions enhance the exploitation of intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar sources, and enable electricity consumers and producers to improve their energy efficiency or autonomy while preserving the environment. | |||
| Energy Vault |
2017 TI Validation |
[ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Storage other than batteries |
| The Energy Vault storage solution operates with bricks that are lifted to create a tower causing the energy to be stored in the elevation gain, when the bricks are then returned to the ground the kinetic energy from the falling brick is turned back into electricity. Specially engineered control software is used to ensure the bricks are placed in exactly the right location each time. The system is modular and flexible with each plant having a capacity of between 10 and 35MWh and a power output of between 2 and 5MW. The system is ideally suited to longer duration storage but with very fast response times can also be used to deliver short and medium term. | |||