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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Carbon |
2020 GE Validation |
[ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Protection, Carbon Removal & Storage, Landscape & Habitat Conservation ] | Environment: Carbon capture and storage |
| Fair Carbon supports blue carbon projects that champion biodiversity, build resilience and engage communities on the frontlines of climate change. | |||
| Dyneo Technologies |
2023 GE Validation |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Blockchain or algorithms, IT: Data usage, IT: IOT Internet of Things, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Sensors |
| Dyneo provides District Heating and Cooling network operators with a data-driven solution to reduce the carbon footprint of their infrastructures. Its data-driven solution seamlessly integrates with existing networks, reducing heat losses and increasing their share of renewables. Dyneo is already supporting operators with a combined installed capacity of over 300 MW and is determined to reinforce both domestic and international footprint. Dyneo’s unique value proposition is twofold. First, its technology can connect to any thermal network, regardless of their digital maturity and equipment modernity. This provides a unified solution without the need for expensive and time-consuming modernization. Second, its data-driven approach allows for a fully automated modelling of the infrastructures that does not require manual configuration. This enables a fast deployment with minimal client efforts. This allows operators to achieve significant efficiency gains at scale, across large networks with minimal complexity and cost. | |||
| Farmer Connect |
2019 GE Growth |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | None |
| farmer connect is an innovative supply chain technology provider, driven to empower and grow the entire supply chain. farmer connect works with government, industry, technology companies, and service providers to help farmers, consumers, and everyone in between live better, more profitable, and more informed lives. | |||
| FrostForge |
2024 GE Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Climate Technologies, Disaster Risk & Hazard Prevention, Energy Efficiency ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Cooling tech, Energy: Solarthermal |
| FrostForge delivers off-grid, solar-powered ice makers in containerized units that provide zero-emission refrigeration for cold chain operations in regions without reliable electricity, reducing CO₂ emissions by 40% compared to diesel-based systems. | |||
| Generation Impact Global |
2022 GE Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Data Platforms & Solutions, Environmental Monitoring, ESG Reporting & Compliance, Financial Services, Risk Prevention ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Data usage, IT: IOT Internet of Things, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software |
| Cloud software for collecting, structuring and reporting non-financial data, including sustainability metrics, impact indicators, risk information and governance disclosures. The platform integrates global frameworks (ESRS, GRI, SASB, TCFD, SFDR) with automated cross-framework mapping, AI-powered data classification, evidence tracing, and KPI analytics. Features include workflow governance, audit trail creation, automated disclosure generation, and API integration capabilities. The solution enables organizations to manage ESG data with the same rigor as financial reporting, supporting regulatory compliance while delivering strategic sustainability insights. | |||
| ID Watch |
2020 GE Growth |
[ Fashion & Apparel ] | Other: Unknown |
| ID Watches produce customizable watches out of recycled materials. Aditionally the packaging is fully compostable. | |||
| Impaakt |
2018 GE Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ ESG Reporting & Compliance ] | IT: Network |
| Impaakt is a collaborative platform relying on collective intelligence to produce research and assessments of the social and environmental impact of companies. Our mission is to bring impact analysis to the heart of all investment decisions so that capital can be directed to the businesses that have the best possible impact on the planet and society. | |||
| ImpactScope |
2021 GE Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Data Platforms & Solutions, ESG Reporting & Compliance ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Blockchain or algorithms, IT: Data usage, IT: Software |
| ImpactScope builds AI and web3 tools for the public and private sectors. Their flagship products are GWI (Greenwashing Identifier), an award-winning AI & blockchain powered greenwashing detection tool developed with regulators from the UK FCA, World Bank and others, and DIOM, a Decentralized Impact Outcomes Marketplace. Winner of the 2023 Green Cross Climate Positive Award at COP28. Corporate presence in Switzerland and Estonia. | |||
| Karibou |
2015 GE Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| karibou.ch strengthens the local stationary trade with its online deployment! Find the service and diversity of a market by finding the best products at the same price as at the market! What makes the strength of a market is the diversity of products, the quality of products, and the personalized customer service. With all our passion, we have created a technology that enhances the existing stationary infrastructure and deploys it in the digital world. Because what you eat matters! | |||
| MyDIO |
2017 GE Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards,Mobility & Transport [ Behavioural Change, Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software |
| MyDIO is an innovative digital platform that incentivizes people and businesses to make environmentally conscious decisions. Users earn loyalty points by choosing public transport via SwissPass and spend them at partner businesses. The platform supports a nature-positive regenerative economy by creating green incentives and funding ecological restoration with every eligible transaction. | |||
| Norsia |
2021 GE Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Financial Services ] | Other: Low tech |
| 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. | |||
| Sqin Tea |
2019 GE Established |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Our innovative supplements are a powerful combination of active natural ingredients, Swiss organic alpine herbs and selected premium tea leaves to nourish, protect and repair your skin. | |||
| Planetary Group |
2021 GE Growth |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards,Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Alternative Proteins, Food Systems & Food Tech, Precision Fermentation & Nutrition ] | Biological: Bio tech, Biological: Food tech, IT: AI Artificial intelligence |
| planetary builds, owns, and operates a global network of fermentation facilities to produce bio-based products at scale using its proprietary BioBlocks™ platform, enabling precision fermentation, biomass fermentation (mycoprotein), and bio-based materials production. | |||
| Saniswiss |
2006 GE Established |
[ Cleaning Services ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Ecological alternative to disinfectants and chemical antimicrobial cleaners. | |||
| SWISOX |
2022 GE Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Financial Services ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software |
| SWISOX is a sustainable financial marketplace empowering sustainable companies via dedicated IPO access in Switzerland and democratizing impact investing for all investor types including retail. | |||
| Cleanea |
2008 GE Established |
[ Cleaning Services ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Cleanea is an innovative company that markets a machine, the Europa V5. By using water, electricity, and the addition of a little salt, our machine produces, In Situ, by electrolysis a detergent and disinfectant to clean the surfaces of an office building and replaces 80% of traditional chemistry. | |||
| SYKS Sàrl |
2023 GE Formation |
[ Data Platforms & Solutions, ESG Reporting & Compliance ] | IT: Blockchain or algorithms, IT: Data usage, IT: Software |
| SYKS offers a Proof-of-Execution Protocol for verifiable sustainability-linked incentives and rewards. It anchors real-world nature investment performance to digital value via blockchain, codified rules, and smart contracts. | |||
| Terapet |
2019 GE Validation |
[ Health Solutions ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Proton therapy is the most precise radiotherapy for cancer treatment. However, monitoring the doses during treatments remains a guessing game based on simulations. Terapet SA, a CERN startup, develops a novel medical device which enables medical doctors for the first time to monitor the delivered proton dose inside the patients during cancer treatment: in-vivo, non-invasive, in 3D and real-time. This solution ensures that every patient receives the right dose, every time. | |||
| Treasures of Nature |
2019 GE Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Health Solutions ] | Other: 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. | |||
| 2em |
2014 FR Growth |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Fleet management |
| 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! | |||
| Allani Sunlife Holding |
2008 FR Established |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, Energy: Renewable tech, Smart: Home & building |
| Sunlife consists of a group of enterprises, formed into a Holding that promotes and develops original ideas and concepts to evolve solar technology and products into economic structures capable of generating a revenue. E.g. Solar Tourism, Solar agriculture. | |||
| Bcomp |
2011 FR Established |
[ Resource Efficiency ] | Biological: Material based on biomass, Components: New chemical materials |
| Under the tagline “play naturally smart”, Bcomp has defined what looks like a paradox at first sight as its mission: designing and marketing sustainable intermediate goods with no compromise on performance. Bcomp replace aluminum, carbon- or glass fibre composites and make structures more efficient in terms of weight, resistance, rigidity, shock absorption, and damping. Bcomp serves different industries such as sports & leisure, motorsports and automotive, as well as aerospace. | |||
| Climate services |
2013 FR Growth |
[ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Environment: Climate tech |
| Climate Services offers tools and support to help companties and other organizations to manage risk and identify opportunities related to climate change. The company owns the online www.CO2-Platform.ch to quantify CO2 emissions and identify the most attractif projects. | |||
| Cortexia |
2016 FR Growth |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | IT: Data usage, Smart: City, Smart: Device |
| Cortexia's solution allows the cities to monitor urban littering, improving the city's cleanliness while reducing cleansing costs. Our intelligent vision measurement systems provide an objective measurement and detailed mapping of urban litter. Mobile cameras recognise and map the littering according to categories in the whole city and compute a cleanliness index. | |||
| ECCO2 Solutions |
2019 FR Growth |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Other: Enabling tech, Smart: Device |
| We make buildings intelligent to save CO2. With AI, predictive heating control and high-precision energy measurement. Smart sensors in your building provide millions of data points for our AI to “learn” your building and systematically adapt the heating path: Automated data analysis will allow you to better understand your portfolio’s energy performance and monitor and document your CO2-reduction plan. | |||
| Enoki |
2018 FR Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Building Construction ] | Energy: Renewable tech |
| We are a start-up of architects and engineers which aims to imagine, build and activate the sustainable city of tomorrow. | |||
| Freshape |
2011 FR Growth |
Buildings & Construction,Food, Agriculture & Forestry [ Building Technologies ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization, Components: Resource or material optimisation, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Freshape is an established tech company based in Switzerland and China offering a new generation of sustainable and patented technologies developed in-house to enable a convenient lifestyle, while reducing the footprint on our planet. The rise of advanced green technologies, combined with distributed approaches, enables a more balanced living. These two ingredients are both necessary to overcome the massive challenges in the fight against global warming. Let’s work together to protect natural resources and foster social developments. | |||
| GBY (Go By Yourself) |
2016 FR Validation |
Health, Wellness & Care [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: E-bike, Mobility: Electric |
| For people with limited mobility who want to independently expand their physical capabilities in their daily and family activities, GBY improves their mobility with the GO-TRYKE®, an electric tricycle that does amazing things while bringing relief to their disability. | |||
| Geoazimut |
2011 FR Established |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Environmental Monitoring ] | Components: Geophysical, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| GeoAzimut Sàrl is a company active in the fields of geosciences, geographical information systems and electronics. | |||
| Go Electric |
2013 FR Established |
[ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Mobility: Electric |
| Go Electric offers advice on clean mobility and selling/ retail of electric vehicles of all brands and at the lowest prices in Switzerland. The vehicles offered benefit from a manufacturer's warranty and are generally recent or even very recent vehicles. | |||