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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swissponic |
2021 TI formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | Resource saving 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. | |||
| Swiss Vault Systems |
2018 BS formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis | Construction: Resource or material optimisation, Cooling technology, Enabling technologies, IT Software |
| Swiss Vault is developing products for customers who are looking for an energy efficient data server in a small, quiet package. Through a desktop computer unit for high-end data processing and analysis, their system reduces the data-carbon footprint with energy & space efficient data management solutions. | |||
| Swistor |
2020 VD formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy storage ] | |
| Swistor develops the next generation of energy storage device for a clean, sustainable future. Our Lithium and Cobalt free solution enables charging our devices ultra fast, extends the lifetime 30 times and is environmentally friendly and safe. | |||
| 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. | |||
| terrabiom |
2019 VD formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | Bio technologies |
| Terrabiom is on a mission to create sustainable agriculture and community through nature, by improving soil with microbiobes | |||
| terraplant |
2001 BE established |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Environmental monitoring, Resource efficiency ] | Low technology |
| terraplant ltd. is an environmental services and engineering company. We provide planning, consulting, project management, educational and research services in the fields of environment, nature & landscape and applied ecology. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Ticlnsect |
2019 TI formation |
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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Transmutex SA |
2019 GE validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy Production ] | Nuclear energy |
| Using particle accelerators to transmute existing waste and produce carbon free energy. Based on CERN validated concept. | |||
| Treasures of Nature |
2019 GE formation |
Health & House & Body Care, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Bodycare, Healthcare ] | Unknown |
| Production and sale of organic, high quality (mainly cosmetic) products and not tested on animals while remaining at affordable prices. Our Elementals brand is also local (Swiss-made) and zero waste, with recyclable packaging. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| vélocité |
2003 VD established |
Transport & Mobility [ Mobility & Fleet management ] | |
| We have been delivering since 1999, when vélocité had only one courier and a few dozen customers. Over the years, we have grown and expanded, joined the Swissconnect network, merged with Poste-it (Yverdon and Neuchâtel), created “antennas” in Vevey and Sion, and acquired through these experiences a real know-how in the field of fast delivery, which allows us to offer a high quality service to our customers. Today, the vélocité team has more than 50 employees, committed, motivated and ready to wet the jersey all year round and in all weather conditions, to deliver more than 300 deliveries by hand every day. | |||
| voltWALL |
2018 TI validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy storage ] | Renewable technologies |
| Modular, Lithium-based, Energy Storage Systems for residential and industrial use. | |||
| 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. | |||
| XFarm |
2018 TI validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture ] | e-mobility, Fleet management, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Wearable devices or apps |
| xFarm is a digital platform helping the farmers to manage their activities. It is composed of a cloud-based field management software, IoT field sensors gathering meteorological and environmental data, and an open app store for decision support services. | |||
| Xperience GmbH (snowXpark) |
2008 OW validation |
Recreation, hotels & restaurants [ Sport ] | e-mobility |
| Rent an electro-powered snowmobile and discover your limits, while drifting and jetting around the tight curves on the market track with help of a lot of bodywork. The snowXpark is the highlight of every winter trip with its unique driving fun and the exciting racing atmosphere. | |||
| yamo |
2016 ZG validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Bio technologies, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Ecological, healthy baby food sterilized with a new pressure method to keep vitamines, color etc. | |||
| 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. | |||