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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SwissGEL |
2004 ZH established |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas), Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | Material & Products based on biomass, New chemical materials |
| swissGEL is a plastics development company. We offer partnerships to commercialise additives and bioplastic products and make plastic biodegradable | |||
| 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. | |||
| Teralytics |
2012 ZH established |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, Transport & Mobility [ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Teralytics offers the most advanced insights on human mobility based on cutting edge data science, proprietary machine learning algorithms and deep technology, capturing billions of signals every day from cell towers and other unique sources. | |||
| Topten |
2000 ZH established |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency, Energy efficiency, Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Web portal highlighting the most energy efficient consumer products: domestic appliances, office electronics, consumer electronics, lighting, building components and vehicles. | |||
| 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. | |||
| vbzonline.ch |
2018 ZH formation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Transport & Mobility | Automated or self driving, e-mobility |
| Project of the VBZ to test an automotive shuttle bus with an electrical drive. | |||
| VortexPower |
2011 ZH growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, 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. | |||
| VRM Switzerland |
2016 ZH formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT data usage |
| VRMotion designs and develops simulators that give prospective pilots the impression of sitting in a real helicopter while training. The simulation software features realistic flight physics with real-time multi-body simulation and flight data validation, which offers an exact replication of flight behaviour. The simulation is also tailored to the needs of trainees, right from introductory training on a turbine helicopter to demanding scenario-based training, mountain flying and emergency training | |||
| 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. | |||
| Zum guten Heinrich |
2020 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Catering, Food production & retail, Restaurants ] | Low technology |
| Sustainable catering delivered by Food-Bike fight Food-Wast; uses high quality and shapeless fruit and vegetables that cannot be sold - because they are not of the standard size. This reduces the amount of fruit and vegetables that remain in the fields with the farmers or end up in the biogas plant. | |||
| Solarbalkon (Direct Coffee) |
2016 growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy Production ] | Photovoltaics |
| Fight climate change from your balcony with a super-light solar panel that can be plugged into the socket. | |||
| Direct Coffee |
2016 validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| 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. | |||
| Lookthrough |
2017 validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Environmental monitoring, Information technology ] | IT data usage, IT Software, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| Lookthrough provides tools to streamline the collection and organization of bulk investment data. Fueling ESG reporting on non-public assets for better and more socially responsible investing. From investment due diligence and reporting to task delegation and automation. With a full audit trail to assure individual and corporate responsibility with limited liability. | |||
| lunchidee |
2018 validation |
Health & House & Body Care, Recreation, hotels & restaurants [ Food production & retail, Healthcare, Resource efficiency, Restaurants ] | Low technology |
| Lunchidee is a three-year pilot project that promotes a sustainable and healthy eating culture and serves enjoyable lunch menus and inspiring ideas that stimulate reflection and action. They also offer an attractive platform for information, inspiration and exchange: for guests, restaurateurs and the public. | |||
| oxara |
2019 validation |
Construction & buildings [ Construction of buildings ] | Construction: Resource or material optimisation, Physical & chemical & nano technologies, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| The ETH-Spin-off is developing healthy and affordable floors for the more than 75% of the local Rwandan families living in dirty homes due to lack of good floors. | |||
| Recogn.ice |
2021 validation |
Behavioural change, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Landscape conservation and management ] | IT data usage, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| We, a young bunch of natural scientists and journalists, truly believe that recognition is key to care. This is why, in January 2019, we felt the urgency to launch “Recogn.ice”; a nonprofit organisation for the recognition of this cryosphere. Our team is committed to accomplish that one goal: for people around the world to recognise, understand and ultimately care for all frozen parts of our planet. Founded in February 2019 in Zurich, the core team of Recogn.ice consists of a glacierologist, a geologist, a communications consultant, an award-winning designer, data scientists and IT specialists. Together, we strive to present these features and data in an attractive and intuitive way : - with yellow frames indicating the very presence of the surrounding expression of the cryosphere ; - with an intuitive app ; - with an educational website mapping the cryosphere. | |||
| Wattz |
2020 validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency, Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions, Information technology ] | IT data usage, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Business-as-a-Service Plattform based on end-to-end digital energy procurement and delivery process. | |||
| 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! | |||
| 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. | |||
| CO2 Free Truck |
2019 formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Transport & Mobility [ Mobility & Fleet management, Road vehicles and transport ] | Climate technologies, Energy storage other than batteries, Renewable technologies |
| Captures the CO2 emitted by truck and store it. The CO2 can then be sold on the CO2 market or transformed in fuel. The patented technology is researched at the EPFL | |||
| Graphene filter carbon capture |
2021 formation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction | Climate technologies |
| Chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a graphene filter for carbon capture that surpasses the efficiency of commercial capture technologies, and can reduce the cost carbon capture substantially. | |||
| Green Mountain (Hilcona AG) |
2019 validation |
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| Swiss vegetarian food production with tasty products without meat. | |||
| Kyburz battery recycling |
1991 formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy storage, Waste & recycling ] | Electric batteries, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| The e-mobility pioneer KYBURZ is breaking new ground in battery recycling: The Zurich-based company has put an innovative in-house system into operation - the first of its kind in Switzerland. The recycling process developed in collaboration with Empa is environmentally friendly and offers potential beyond the company's own electric vehicle production lines. | |||
| Logic Swiss AG |
2003 validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy efficiency, Energy Production ] | Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies, Solarthermal energy, Wind energy |
| For the first time, sun, thermal and wind energy is combined in a compact small module which provides more energy and can be used like a roof tile. | |||
| Tesenso |
2020 validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Information technology ] | Internet of Things, Sensors, Smartcity, Smarthome & building |
| Tesenso is a full-stack IoT solution provider, from IoT consulting, proof of concept / MVP projects to mass IoT rollouts. Flexibility, time-to-market, and scalability combined with profound knowledge of the underlying hardware are the key strengths of Tesenso, making sure that customers can rely on solid IoT solutions. | |||
| Turbo Niki |
2018 formation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Heating and cooling energy ] | Heat industrial usage, Heating in buildings, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Recuperation of waste heat energy in industrial applications and private households to produce electricity. | |||