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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
Novaton 2010
ZH
Established
Mobility & Transport [ Energy Production & Supply ] Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Environment: Climate tech
NOVATON builds sea worthy NOVA Solar Islands of various sizes - floating solar islands, rotate for optimal sunlight to industrial energy production; In addition they devloped NOVACAT, a solar operated autonomous surface vehicle to navigate autonomously on high seas and other water surfaces
OHANA Move 2018
ZH
Stagnant
[ Fashion & Apparel ] Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use, Other: Low tech
OHANA Move is an environmentally friendly active wear label from Switzerland. We produce sportswear that consists of almost 80% recycled PET bottles. For one leggings from our production 25 PET bottles are needed. It is OHANA Move's highest concern to design trendy clothing that breaks new and environmentally conscious ground. Our reversible two-in-one clothing can be worn on both sides and is therefore doubly individual.
onCyt Microbiology 2017
ZH
Validation
Health, Wellness & Care [ Engineering & Industrial Design ] Biological: Bio tech
Our hard- and software add-ons turn the bench-top flow cytometer that you already own and trust, or the one that will meet your needs best into a fully automated on-line sampling and measurement device. We combine the best of two worlds by providing smart automation add-ons to established flow cytometers with known high performance.
oxara 2019
ZH
Formation
[ Building Technologies ] Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Components: Resource or material optimisation, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use
Oraxa produces sustainable, cement-free concrete. 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.
Oxygen at Work 2017
ZH
Growth
Energy & Power Systems [ Building Technologies ] IT: Data usage
Oxygen at Work GmbH helpd companies reduce health care and energy costs by using data analytics and specific plants to improve office indoor air quality.
Hades Technologies 2019
ZH
Validation
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] IT: Data usage
Automatically detecting defects in sewer inspection videos - not only much faster, but also objective and less error-prone.
Pexapark 2017
ZH
Growth
Energy & Power Systems [ Financial Services ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
Pexapark enables better renewable energy sales in subsidy-free markets through a combination of software tools and PPA transaction services. We provide developers & operators with revenue management, hedge risk analysis and optimization capabilities and enable them to participate the open market with the confidence of full energy sales & trading compliment. Our award-winning PexaQuote provides the standardized pricing methodology across the range of PPA contracts, term lengths and asset types. Sellers and buyers execute PPA transactions with our advisory service. Last but not least, we connect producers and off-takers, provide historical deal trends and reduce search costs through our community platform PexaConnect. Together they form a seamless platform to better enable renewable energy sales.
Planted 2019
ZH
Growth
[ Alternative Proteins ] Biological: Bio tech
Planted produces food products from plants, that replace meat, taste good an contain healthy ingrediants. Only a handful of carefully selected ingredients go into Planted: pea protein, pea fiber, sunflower oil and water.
Plutinsus 2019
ZH
Validation
[ Energy Management & Use ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Grid
Plutinsus creates smart grids, smart utilities, smart districts and cities, and smart buildings in order to gain efficiencies that have not been possible before. The growing complexity that results from an ever tighter integration of the various technical components and business partners and an ever smarter coordination among them can easily turn into a risk. Those who find the appropriate ways to manage these risks can take advantage of these new opportunities from the envisioned efficiency gains. Plutinsus provides the tools to help businesses understand their current and future risks that arise from these complexities.
Polarmond Outdoor 2017
ZH
Established
[ Leisure & Entertainment ] Other: Enabling tech
The company develops, produces and markets the world’s first self-warming and temperature controllable sleep shells, bivouacs and tents with dehumidification management.
POWERGIA 2013
ZH
Growth
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Efficiency ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
POWERGIA GmbH provides access to an liberalised electricity market for large consumers
Prognolite 2016
ZH
Validation
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards,Financials & Information Technology,Tourism, Leisure & Hospitality [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] None
Our forcast app tells restaurants how many guests are coming next week on which day. They can reduce food waste and improve their staff planning.
qiio 2014
ZH
Growth
[ Energy Efficiency ] Energy: Battery, IT: Blockchain or algorithms, IT: Internet of Things IOT, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: Fleet management, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Wearable devices or apps
Produces and consults on smart home devices to reduce consumption; Smart Home Technology is in the business of the Internet of Things. "We create smart and energy efficient appliances for homes and industry".
Qualysense 2010
ZH
Growth
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] Other: Enabling tech
QualySense develops high-end solutions for a safe and sustainable food supply. By pioneering single-kernel analysis, combining two sensing technologies - QualySense is helping seed breeders, food companies and inspection agencies to achieve excellence in nutrition, health and safety.
Quartierstrom 2017
ZH
Stagnant
[ Energy Management & Use ] IT: Blockchain or algorithms, Smart: City
blockchain based peer to peer energy (physical and Go) community (www.quartier-strom.ch)
Recogn.ice 2021
ZH
Validation
[ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Protection ] IT: Data usage, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Measuring & monitoring
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.
ReoR20 2019
ZH
Formation
[ Environmental Monitoring ] Smart: Measuring & monitoring
REOR20 provides the latest technology for the most precise and efficient mitigation of natural and man made catastrophes.
RethinkResource 2017
ZH
Established
[ Circular Economy ] None
RethinkResource creates an online marketplace where producing and processing companies can trade their side and waste streams.
ReWinner 2016
ZH
Growth
Buildings & Construction [ Resource Efficiency ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
ReWinner maximizes product and material reuse with an online plattform. All business goods, like furniture and kitchen or bath item or windows, etc. can be traded via the plattform rewinner.ch.
RINO Electronics (Eisspeicher) 2003
ZH
Validation
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Energy Storage ] Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..), Energy: Heating in buildings, Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Storage other than batteries
New energy storage technologies are developed and tested like combination of hybrid solar modules with earth register and ice storage or recycling of old batteries.
Roll2Go 2019
ZH
restructuring, on hold, no development
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] IT: Data usage, Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter
Roll2Go is an integrator of micro-mobility. We build on top of recent international success of free-floating rental schemes with e-scooters and bicycles and aim to foster their long-term potential for urban mobility. The data-centric platform for mobility data fusion and predictive analytics
rqmicro 2013
ZH
Validation
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Food Safety & Quality ] Biological: Bio tech
Next generation microbiology for water and food safety
Adaptricity 2014
ZH
Established
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Grid
Adaptricity develops simulation and optimization software tools for adapting the electricity distribution grid for the transition towards renewable energies. Products help distribution grid operators in gaining an enhanced overview over their system and evaluating a large set of possible SmartGrid.
Sevensense Robotics 2018
ZH
Validation
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] Smart: Robotic
Sevensense is accelerating technological innovation in the service robotics industry by enabling robots to safely and autonomously navigate in dynamic spaces shared with humans, in- and outdoors. We strive to empower enhanced ease in the integration and use of mobile robotics through our solution that can be applied to any kind of mobile ground machine, from forklifts to delivery and cleaning machines, at minimum installation time.
Sharely 2013
ZH
Validation
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Circular Economy ] IT: Platforms or networking solutions
Plattform to enable local community sharing all kinds of products, online plateform.
Go-ROO (Share your BICAR) 2016
ZH
Validation
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric, Mobility: E-motorbike, e-scooter, Smart: City
ROO - Practical, fun and sporty. With its single seat, three wheels and countless applications, roo is at home in a variety of urban and suburban settings. It’s as compact and versatile as a Swiss Army knife. It looks cool too, like a resourceful Australian marsupial, not a space alien or a carelessly cooked soufflé. And the cornering performance may just put a smile on your face.
SIGMAtools 2018
ZH
Stagnant
[ Energy Efficiency ] Other: Low tech
SIGMAtools GmbH is a high-tech Startup. With the special measuring technique, analytic process and improvement-knowhow we have majored in Energy- and Resourceefficiency in the production.
sim2sustain (scaling4good) 2019
ZH
Validation
[ Data Platforms & Solutions ] Components: Resource or material optimisation, IT: Blockchain or algorithms, IT: Data usage, IT: Software, Smart: City
We aim for a sustainable economy and society where decisions and transformation strategies of societal relevance will be reached through open collaboration, based on facts, stated goals, and declared values. Decisions, interventions, strategies, and investments reflect the ecological and societal urgency we are facing and contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Switzercloud (Brunata AG) 2018
ZH
Sold but still independently active
[ Energy Management & Use ] IT: Internet of Things IOT, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Smart: Device
Energy management software for household and buildings. Simple Complex with the CMS Colibird provides technology for energy services and Internet of Things (IoT), mainly through innovative software solutions and interfaces for the measurement and presentation of measurement data.
simplee 2017
ZH
Growth
[ Fleet & Mobility Management ] Mobility: E-vehicle charging
Electromobility & charging management: We offer you the easiest way to get started with sustainable loading solutions. This requires good planning, intelligent products, scalable billing plan standards and transparent communication along all project stages. From the analysis, through a uniform and scalable charging concept to the implementation of the installation.
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