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 |
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| terrabiom |
2019 ZH 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 | |||
| uzufly |
2020 VD formation |
Construction & buildings | Drone & flight, IT Software |
| Uzufly, based at the EPFL Innovation park, generates 2D and 3D digital models with its drones. These models will be used by project owners and the various technical trades. This innovation allows optimal planning of a construction project. Uzufly uses the latest drones on the market to cover buildings to entire cities. | |||
| VIRVE |
2015 TI formation |
Behavioural change, Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Transport & Mobility [ Energy efficiency, Engineering ] | e-car, e-mobility |
| VirVe aims to support the transition to clean and fuel efficient transportation technologies through intelligent analysis of the best available data and implementation of accurate vehicle simulation. | |||
| Zarawind |
2017 ZH formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity ] | Wind energy |
| Our Lighter-Than-Air wind power system is designed compact, cost-effective and eco-friendly to be used in remote off-grid locations. For the installation of the wind power system at that altitude, the use of a buoyant gas aerostat allows the user to carry an electrical generator | |||
| AI Retailer Systems |
2019 BE formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Trade and Retail ] | Automated or self driving, IT network, Smartcity |
| Our deep tech turns points-of-sale (POS) into Autonomous Store with a superior shopping experience that makes people come back. Our promise to retailers is a solution with minimal POS retrofitting & highest accuracy. | |||
| Caminada Energy Technologies |
2008 AG formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy efficiency ] | |
| The environmentally friendly vegetable oil (Pöl) burner makes your oil heating CO2 neutral. Manly used oil should be used. | |||
| Circular Food Solutions |
2020 SG formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| They developed an innovative upcycling technology to recover proteins & fibers from food side streams and to create healthy & unique food products. | |||
| Clesana |
2015 SG formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling, Water Management ] | Enabling technologies |
| The Clesana toilet does not require a single drop of water. Also no chemicals or other pollutants, which are used in other camper toilets and pollute the environment. The Clesana toilet seals all waste after each use, odourless and leakproof. Through this consistent waterless solution we protect rivers, lakes and seas from unnecessary pollution. | |||
| cluster food & nutrition |
2022 FR formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| The Food & Nutrition Cluster is an association that has been active in the food sector since 2015. As a networking and intermediary platform at regional and national level, the Food & Nutrition Cluster aims to strengthen cooperation between the various players in the food ecosystem and support them in their innovation efforts. It combines food processing expertise with know-how on nutrition, health and new technologies, always taking into account sustainability and the principle of the circular economy. More than 80 members and partners from the food, agriculture, packaging and distribution sectors, as well as research and educational institutions, the public sector and trade associations are currently part of the Food & Nutrition Cluster network. | |||
| Croply |
2020 SZ formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Trade and Retail, Transport & logisticsof goods ] | Internet of Things, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Our goal is to empower farmers, food businesses, and local communities around the world with the tools required to develop more sustainable practices, working towards circular economies that can provide viable futures for everyone, everywhere. Our work focuses primarily on open access systems, built to dismantle the inequality that is present in such an economy driven industry. | |||
| duramon |
2021 formation |
Construction & buildings [ Construction of infrastructure (roads, bridges ..) ] | Sensors |
| Structural health corrosion monitoring solutions. To build and maintain smarter, cost-effective, safer, and more sustainably. Our solution is an embeddable multifunctional sensors in selected representative locations in concrete structures. | |||
| Easy Motors Zürich |
2020 ZH formation |
Transport & Mobility [ Road vehicles and transport ] | e-motorbike, e-motorcycle, e-scooter |
| affordable electromobility and advice for everyone | |||
| ecochair |
BS formation |
Construction & buildings [ Trade and Retail ] | Construction: Resource or material optimisation |
| The ecochair.ch association was founded with the objective of reducing the social and environmental impact of primary production (forestry, mining, oil and gas extraction), processing and manufacturing, by reducing consumer demand for new furniture, in turn reducing the demand for resources needed to manufacture it. | |||
| eMobilityLab |
2021 BE formation |
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| Advice and transfer of practical knowledge in the areas of electromobility and charging infrastructure | |||
| Enlightware |
2017 ZH formation |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Games ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Video and Film |
| Empowering Humans at the Age of Artificial Intelligence. We pursue the mission to foster autonomy, creativity and collaboration skills of each individual through digital products. For more information, read our social impact description. | |||
| Epios |
2021 GE formation |
Health & House & Body Care [ Healthcare ] | Sensors, Smart device, Wearable devices or apps |
| The Epios system comprises a series of thin leads incorporating sensing electrodes and a miniature implant, inserted beneath the skin. The neural signals are wirelessly transmitted to an external receiver held in place on the skin directly over the implant with a magnet, and from there are conveyed to a wearable data processor and are finally securely stored in the Epios Cloud. | |||
| Flatev |
2012 ZH formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Engineering, Food production & retail ] | food tech, Robotic |
| Flatev describes itself as a Nespresso machine for flatbreads. The Flatev dough-pods are filled with nothing but natural, whole ingredients, made with the body and brain in mind. | |||
| Flowconverter Energy |
2007 ZH formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity ] | Hydro energy (small scale) |
| The company aims to develop, manufacture and operate innovative environmental technologies. The main produkt is the FLOWCONVERTER™, an innovative flow generator for the generation of electric current. The fields of application of FLOWCONVERTER™ are brooks, rivers, canals and ocean currents, where it can be installed without a negative impact on fish or the waters natural behaviour. | |||
| Flux Mobility |
2021 ZH formation |
Transport & Mobility [ Road vehicles and transport ] | e-cargo, e-mobility |
| The start-up develops and builds high-quality e-transporters based on a modular platform concept. | |||
| Food from Wood |
formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| Food from Wood explores the production of edible insects whose feed does not compete with human staple foods. The focus is on giant and rose beetle species. | |||
| Graphene filter carbon capture |
2021 VS 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 pick (Green Now) |
2020 ZH formation |
Behavioural change, Communication, Media, Education or Games, Construction & buildings, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Energy sufficiency, Trade and Retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| GreenPick is your sustainability compass. With GreenPick, you can find sustainable alternatives in your region in no time and get tips for your everyday life. GreenPick makes local change pioneers from over 50 areas of life visible in an instant, such as nutrition, living, circular economy, health or doing good. | |||
| Hängry |
2022 formation |
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| Ready to eat dishes from food waste, delivered to you. | |||
| Kyburz battery recycling |
1991 ZH formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Energy storage, Waste & recycling ] | Battery, 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. KYBURZ has deliberately not patented the process and makes the know-how available to all interested parties. The entire basic research and all process steps of the own recycling plant are made transparent. | |||
| LUUUP |
2021 SG formation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ clothes ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| LUUUP is a recycling company that uses a chemical process to dissolve cellulose-based fibres to generate feedstock for yarn production. It is working on improved circularity of textile waste to reduce its ecological impact | |||
| Mycrobez |
2019 BS formation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas), Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Farming & agriculture, Waste & recycling ] | New chemical materials, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| MYCROBEZ is based on the insight that it is more efficient to change material instead of changing behavior patterns. In the face of increasing consumption and globalization, Mycrobez does not seek to stop throwaway culture culture, but works to make packaging products disposed of in nature packaging products disposed of in nature are fully degradable and sustainable. The vision, then, is to replace the status quo of petroleum-based packaging products such as Styrofoam in the marketplace and establish a new, circular material standard in the packaging and construction industries. | |||
| nematx |
2020 ZH formation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Building technology ] | 3D Printing |
| At NematX, we develop an industrial 3DP platform based on our proprietary «Nematic 3DP Technology». We are the pioneering company to make liquid crystal polymers available for AM. In combination with proprietary part design algorithms and high-precision 3DP hardware, we can offer the combination of part performance & manufacturing precision required for industrial production. | |||
| Neology |
2017 VD formation |
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| Neology aims to bring an affordable and clean solution to the commercial transportation, by utilizing ammonia as the carbon-free energy vector. | |||
| Nutrai |
2016 ZH formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Healthcare ] | Smart device |
| We discover the how, when, & why of food consumption patterns that are affecting patients health | |||
| Oxyle |
2020 ZH formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling, Water Management ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Oxyle uses clean energy to degrade hazardous micropollutants from wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, chemicals etc. | |||