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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| Novaris (Soneva) |
2017 LU validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Enabling technologies, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| "soneva" is a airtight drawer with a vacuum. This stopps the oxidation process of food. This keeps food fresh and of high quality for longer. The food is stored in the Vacuum drawer stored in gastro containers. Each container is vacuumed separately. The customer can choose the size of these containers himself. With this system it is possible to reduce the consumption of plastic and conserce food like bred, fruits etc. that should not be stored in the fridge. | |||
| novatlantis |
2017 ZH validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Resource efficiency ] | Communication, Low technology |
| Novatlantis aims for energy system transformation, resource efficiency, renewable energies and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It analyses data, developments of information, knowledge and strategies, empowers customers to take concrete action, and provides scientific services. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Olanga ( previously myFoodWaste ) |
2020 BS formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Catering, Environmental monitoring, Resource efficiency, Restaurants, Waste & recycling ] | Internet of Things |
| Olanga is the Swiss solution for sustainable food consumption and Food Waste reduction in the gastronomy. It allows to preorder food with an app at company retaurants et university to personalize the diet plan and gives planning security to the restaurants. Olanga leads to sustainable cost savings and Food Waste reduction and helps to protect natural resources. Olanga can reduce the costs in canteens by up to 3% and significantly increase customers satisfaction | |||
| Oxyle |
2020 ZH formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling, Water Management ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Oxyle uses clean energy to degrade hazardous micropollutants from wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemicals etc. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Paradox Engineering |
2000 TI sold but still independently active |
Construction & buildings, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas), Transport & Mobility | Internet of Things, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Smartcity |
| Leveraging our deep technological know-how, we offer Internet of Things platforms to unlock the value of our customers’ data: our solutions enable Cities and companies to collect, transport, store and deliver any kind of data lying in urban objects or industrial plants, transforming information into | |||
| 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. | |||
| Ponera |
2019 TI formation |
Transport & Mobility [ Transport & logisticsof goods ] | Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use. |
| Ponera Group has developed a unique logistic solution based on an innovative design of pallets’ system which decreases packing costs by minimizing the transport inefficiencies. The flexibility of this innovation makes it applicable to wide range of industries. | |||
| Power Plant and Marine emission control |
2011 ZH restructuring, on hold, no development |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency ] | |
| Competence and competitiveness in emission control for diesel engines is that we focus only on marine and power plant applications. | |||
| Power to Gas (Energie 360° & PSI) |
2016 ZH formation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency, Resource efficiency ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Renewable technologies |
| Efficiently producing energy from biowaste: A technology developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and tested in collaboration with the Zurich-based energy provider Energie 360° makes it possible. It extracts significantly more methane from biowaste than conventional methods. For this important contribution to a sustainable energy supply, PSI and Energie 360° have now been awarded the Watt d'Or 2018 in the Renewable Energy category by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. | |||
| prelovedREVOLUTION |
2018 ZH validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| prelovedREVOLUTION is the first green marketplace to buy and sell vintage, preloved and socio-ecofriendly, high quality fashion and design articles. Both individuals and firms can use ithe platform. | |||
| Procsea |
2016 VD established |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Trade and Retail ] | Low technology |
| Business-to-business seafood marketplace. We specalise in the trade of traceable wild and farmed seafood, connecting buyers and sellers together in real time. You have access to a multitude of carefully selected suppliers, directly from the European ports, without the middle man. | |||
| 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. | |||
| QuerDenkFabrik |
2014 BE formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | Motor & actuator |
| Development and improvement of high-pole electric motors. The first prototyps are promising. Using the new Soft Magnetic Composite Material | |||
| QWSTION |
2011 ZH established |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps | Bio technologies, Material & Products based on biomass |
| Swiss backpack brand QWSTION is known for combining design and functionality with sustainability. Since 2008 the design studio has been developing versatile carry solutions for everyday use – with an understated look and a low environmental footprint. | |||
| RB2 Robotics |
2017 VD formation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) | |
| We are a spin-off from the HEIG-VD Intelligent Data Analysis Laboratory based at the EPFL innovation park. We are developing state of the art deep learning models that enable robots to make smart and secure decisions only based on what they see just like humans do. | |||
| Remotely Green |
2019 GE formation |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Many fields ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Working for a better, greener connected world, where collaborating remotely is the obvious choice. | |||
| Remretech |
2017 AG formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Enabling technologies |
| Recycling technology for strategically & technologically important rare earths from magnet e-wastes. The founder Ajay Patil aims to develop a portable recycling unit for e-waste and resource management. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Retreeva |
2021 VD formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management | New chemical materials |
| Our new sponge technology enables industries to retrieve trace amounts of gold from liquid waste streams more effectively, allowing them to potentially bring billions of dollars’ worth of gold back into production. | |||
| Riedo Networks |
2005 FR established |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity, Electricity efficiency, Information technology, Resource efficiency ] | Smart device, Smartgrid |
| Riedo Networks Ltd develops, manufactures and distributes energy monitoring & control solutions that help customers to reduce costs for electricity and maintenance while improving monitoring and security of installations in Datacenters, buildings and large facilities. The E3METER® intelligent power distribution units measure energy consumption on all stages within a datacenter and communicate over extremely robust narrowband Powerline communication (PLC) which minimizes installation time and cost. | |||
| Rigi Technologies |
2016 VD formation |
Transport & Mobility [ Mobility & Fleet management ] | Drone & flight |
| Rigi Technologie developes Air Bridge to enable aerial drone delivery between two or more locations. | |||
| SAGANÀ |
2014 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| SAGANÀ offers high quality, Swiss-EU certified organic, sustainable, fair and 100% natural ingredients in retail or bulk from the Philippines into Switzerland whilst directly supporting rural community livelihoods of our partner farmers. Products are coconut blossom nectar, single-origin Trinitario cacao beans and nibs with low cadmium levels and cold-pressed Virgin Coconut Oil as a healthier and sustainable natural oil alternative. | |||
| Saniswiss |
2006 GE established |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Cleaning ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Ecological alternative to disinfectants and chemical antimicrobial cleaners. | |||
| SeaBubbles |
2017 GE validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Transport & Mobility [ Maritime and waterways transport ] | Electric batteries |
| A futuristic, zero-emission new design of water taxi, called SeaBubbles. The vehicle represents a milestone in the development of new forms of transportation that do not impact the environment or place any burden on urban infrastructure. | |||
| Seefeld Style (YARN-TO-YARN) |
2017 ZH validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes ] | New chemical materials, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Seefeld Style produces trousers from the fabric made out of recycled yarn. YARN-TO-YARN® lifts the fashion industry into the Circular Economy with "the infinite yarn". | |||
| 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. | |||