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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| kickbag |
2020 SG validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| Online shopping without packaging waste. The foldable shipping bag made of recycled PET is a first in Switzerland: reusable up to 30 times and 100% climate-neutral. | |||
| kleandrop |
2021 ZH validation |
Health & House & Body Care [ Cleaning ] | Low technology, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Cleaning products in tab or power form, without water to save transport energy and packing plastic materials. | |||
| lalana |
2021 validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| High quality and 100% recycled textile yarn for your next project. Inspiration for #knitting #crochet or #macramé. | |||
| Lyfa Innovations |
2020 BS validation |
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. | |||
| matriq |
2019 SG validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) | Enabling technologies, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| matriq offers innovative solutions for the part-indiviual marking of plastic components of all kinds. With the DynamicMold technology, marking takes place directly in the manufacturing machine, whether in injection molding, blow molding or thermo forming. Besides the application for traceability, the DynamicMold technology also offers the possibility to integrate anticounterfeiting features for brand protection. | |||
| Mondaic |
2018 ZH validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Energy efficiency ] | IT Software |
| Mondaic provides proprietary software and services for high-resolution 3-D imaging using ultrasonic or geophysical waves. It offers scalable end-to-end solutions for all (visco)acoustic, (visco)elastic, and coupled waveform modeling and inversion needs. | |||
| Norisa |
2021 GE validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Financing and financial services ] | Low technology |
| Norsia helps wealth managers fully integrate their clients’ personal values and vision of sustainability into the investment process. Our ESG profiling tools help leverage investors' sustainability goals and thus develop responsible investment strategies. | |||
| Perovskia Solar |
2020 VD validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | Photovoltaics |
| PEROVSKIA is a cleantech startup that provides customizable perovskite solar cells. We have developed digital printing technology to fabricate design-free perovskite solar cells. | |||
| Piss & Love |
VD validation |
Construction & buildings | |
| Piss & love design, produce and offers innovating dry toilets which are movable without machines and customizable. Furthermore, we aim to transform human waste into valuable nutrients for plants or energy. | |||
| Ranas Mosler |
2020 ZH validation |
Behavioural change, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Energy management solutions, Water Management ] | |
| RanasMosler's vision as pioneers in behavior change is good health and a sustainable environment for all. RANAS stands for Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self-regulation. It’s a scientifically proven method that enables you to understand and measure the psychosocial factors underlying behavior. | |||
| REMRETEch |
2021 AG validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency, Energy Production, Energy storage, Waste & recycling ] | New chemical materials |
| REMRETEch exploits the unique know-how in rare metals characterization, process developments from primary, secondary, e-waste resources, market and circular economy-related prospects | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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® developed the extraction method to produce recycled yarn and lifts the fashion industry into the Circular Economy with "the infinite yarn". | |||
| siloxene |
2020 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Siloxene supports the Performance and Renewable Raw Material Sectors, to be able, to provide better products and enhance their processes, in order to reach market leading excellence and act on their environmental Responsibility. | |||
| SmartBreed |
2019 AG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| SmartBreed offers insect breeders a local and complete breeding solution. We want to make the advantages of insects industrially usable and accessible for everyone. Therefore we offer stackable, fully automated breeding boxes, in which insects can be bred cost-effectively, resource-saving and hygienically - locally directly at the customer's site. | |||
| Solergy |
2021 AG validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Financing and financial services ] | Photovoltaics |
| Solergy makes solar power accessible to anyone who can contribute to the energy transition with roofs, investment or consumption. We bring together real estate owners, tenants and investors and provide a model where everybody benefits, and contributes to Switzerland´s energy strategies. So you become part of the fight against the climate change. | |||
| Sonnenpool |
2017 ZH validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | Battery, Photovoltaics |
| We finance and build solar systems, smart meters, and everything else to get clean power from your roof and the grid. | |||
| Swissponic |
2021 TI validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | agricultural technologies |
| Swissponic has developed an automated system for growing vegetable hors-sols at home. The system consists of a hydroponic structure, a control unit with dedicated software and a cloud connection for remote culture management at any time. | |||
| taketray |
2004 ZH validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| The most functional pocket ashtray solves litterling. | |||
| TEIL.style |
2020 BE validation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| TEIL - the open closet in Bern and alternative to todays clothing consumption. Sustainability, variety and style are possible when we borrow more and own less. | |||
| Ticlnsect |
2019 TI validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] | Bio technologies |
| TicInsect aims to contribute to solve two problems: the need of sustainable protein sources and the reduction of food waste. TicInsect manufactures insect-derived sustainable animal feed ingredients on the base of black soldier flys. This product is highly demanded for pet food manufacturing, in aquaculture and to nourish chicken, poultry and pigs. | |||
| Voliro |
2019 ZH validation |
Construction & buildings [ Construction of buildings, Construction of infrastructure (roads, bridges ..), Energy Production ] | Drone & flight, Sensors |
| Drones as flying inspection robot The robots are capable of performing in-depth structural integrity assessments using advanced inspection technologies. | |||
| Circulago (WWZ) |
2018 ZG validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy Production ] | Cooling technology, Heat Exchanger, Heating in buildings |
| Circulago is a WWZ AG project for the supply of Zug and Baar-Süd with environmentally friendly heating and cooling energy. It is obtained from the water of the Zugersee. | |||
| Yuxi |
2022 validation |
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| Yuxi leverages data from Building Management Systems to optimize the building's energy consumption and indoor quality. | |||
| Agrinorm |
2020 ZH formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] | IT data usage |
| AgriNorm is a Swiss based deep-tech startup leveraging scientific advances in plant genetics, biochemistry and machine learning techniques for the optimization of perishable fruits supply chain. AgriNorm is developing an AI-powered cloud-based system for predicting the expected quality properties and shelf-life of perishable fruits at the farm gate. This will allow our customers to: 1. Improve margins through optimization of sales channels via smart allocation of the right products to the right clients. 2. Save costs via waste reduction, prevention of claims and avoidance of freights expenditures. | |||
| AICA |
2019 VD formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis | IT Software |
| am develops custom software and intuitive user interfaces for industrial and consumer applications. We help make robotic applications more accessible to you. | |||
| Akksel |
2021 BS formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy management solutions ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| We reduce environmental pollution, costs and exploitation of people and nature by linking producers and consumers of limited resources through a circular economy multi-sided platform for batteries used in Electric Vehicles and large-scale battery storage systems. We are connecting buyers with suppliers through an exponentially growing value network to guarantee added value with each transaction. | |||
| aQuaTox Solutions |
2016 ZH formation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Environmental monitoring ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| aQuaTox-Solutions GmbH, an Eawag spinoff, offers services in the field of aquatic ecotoxicology, in particular the assessment of water quality and environmental risk assessment of chemicals. The main focus is on alternatives to conventional animal tests, using fish cells and fish embryos as test models. | |||
| Aventor |
2014 BE formation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Transport & Mobility [ Energy efficiency, Engineering ] | e-car, e-mobility, Synthetic fuels (e.g. power to liquid) |
| Efficient racing cars : nearly 100% recyclable, light-weighed (300kg), low maintenance costs .LCA is used to reduce impact. | |||
| batterylog |
2022 BE formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy management solutions, Energy storage ] | Battery, Internet of Things |
| Batterylog provides data and software driven solutions for the monitoring of electrical batteries. Based on a digital twin, our customers get an insight in the state of each individual battery and a quick overview to the whole battery fleet. We build customer specific dashboards or integrate our backend to an existing IT system. | |||