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 Phase | Areas of Activity [Subareas] | Technology |
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SUIND |
2020 ZH formation |
[ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | Drone & flight, Internet of Things |
Enabling drone companies to unlock the full potential of drones by providing them with state of the art safety solution. | |||
Swiss Alpine Fish (swisslachs) |
2020 ZH established |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Catering, Food production & retail, Resource efficiency, Restaurants ] | Enabling technologies, Hydro energy (small scale) |
Swiss Alpine Fish AG sustainably breeds salmon in an indoor facility in Lostallo, using the latest technology, making it the cleanest and most sustainable fish farm in the world. | |||
SwissFleet Services (Velobility) |
2016 ZH growth |
[ Mobility & Fleet management ] | e-bike, e-mobility |
Velobility is your partner for Bike-Sharing. Thanks to our bike and e-bike models which are engineered to be shared. And thanks to our tried-and-tested Ridebox® technology. The result is a triple benefit: higher efficiency, better security, longer durability. | |||
SwissGEL |
2004 ZH established |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ 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 established |
[ 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. | |||
taketray |
2004 ZH validation |
[ Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
The most functional pocket ashtray solves litterling. | |||
TaoTree |
2022 ZH formation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction,Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource sufficiency ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
TaoTree has the goal to build an online community focused on more environmentally conscious behavior. Ecological behavior earns you points and allows you to compete with others. The platform is also about the exchange with other environmentally conscious users. It is also intended that Taotree can be used in companies to encourage employees to behave positively with regard to the environment. | |||
Teralytics |
2012 ZH established |
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. | |||
Loopia |
2019 ZH validation |
[ Information technology ] | Wearable devices or apps |
We are Thingsy, a young start-up with a big vision: to move away from the throwaway society towards the circular economy. Thingsy is here to help you manage your warranty receipts, when one of your products breaks down, or when you want to donate, share or resell a device. In order to develop the best app for you, we are expanding and optimizing our offer step by step. You can find out more about us on our website. Thingsy - Extending the life of Things | |||
Topten |
2000 ZH established |
[ 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. | |||
Va-loo.ch |
2021 ZH formation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Engineering, Waste & recycling, Water Management ] | Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use., Construction: Resource or material optimisation, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use, Water conservation |
The VaLoo association was founded on World Toilet Day 2021 with the aim "to create value from what ends up in the Loo". Our 44 founding members from 18 different organisations are a heterogeneous group of start-up entrepreneurs, associations, researchers, students and other interested parties. | |||
VEIU Tech |
2022 ZH validation |
[ Electricity grids & flexibility, Resource efficiency ] | e-vehicle charging, Fleet management, Smartgrid |
Charge management solution that leverages E-Fleet operation data to unleash full flexibility potential and create value to grids and EV owners | |||
Verity |
2014 ZH established |
Transport & Mobility [ Transport & logistics of goods ] | Drone & flight |
Autonomous Inventory Tracking Powered by Self-Flying Drones. Optimize your supply chain & create a zero-error warehouse! | |||
viboo |
2022 ZH |
[ Building technology, Heating and cooling energy ] | IT Software |
Reduce building energy consumption by 20-40% with self-learning predictive control. viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies. | |||
Voliro |
2019 ZH validation |
[ Construction of buildings, Construction of infrastructure (roads, bridges ..), Energy Production ] | Drone & flight, Sensors |
Drones as flying inspection robot The robots are capable of performing in-depth structural integrity assessments using advanced inspection technologies. | |||
VortexPower |
2011 ZH stagnant |
Health & House & Body Care,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. | |||
Wildbiene + Partner |
2013 ZH established |
[ 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. | |||
Xilva |
2021 ZH validation |
[ climate carbon removal, Forestry ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
Xilva is a digital platform where one can invest in regenerative forests. Sourcing, screening and funding are all part of the process through which Xilva enables the support of forest projects all around the globe. | |||
Yoordi |
2021 ZH validation |
[ Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Wearable devices or apps |
Digital self-ordering solution: Yoordi's web app can be used to digitally handle ordering and payment services at events with multiple food and beverage providers. | |||
Yuxi |
2022 ZH validation |
[ Energy efficiency ] | Enabling technologies, IT data usage, IT Software |
Yuxi leverages data from Building Management Systems to optimize the building's energy consumption and indoor quality. | |||
Zum guten Heinrich |
2020 ZH stagnant |
[ 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. | |||
Zurich Soft Robotics |
2022 ZH formation |
[ Building technology, Energy Production ] | Photovoltaics |
Zurich Soft Robotics produces a novel adaptive solar façade named Solskin. It increases photovoltaic energy production compared to conventional methods. Furthermore, the façade offers additional solar protection through AI-controlled shading. | |||
RemoteScout |
2021 validation |
[ Information technology ] | IT Software |
RemoteScout creates software solutions for remote and hybrid companies. | |||
CARIFY |
2019 |
IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals | |
Your favourite car as a monthly subscription. Includes insurance, coverage, maintenance and more all in one fixed monthly price. | |||
catchfree |
formation |
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Catchfree develops ecologically sustainable and nutritionally beneficial seafood alternatives using a scalable technological platform. Their focus is on co-creating recipes and applications with specialty restaurants in Switzerland before expanding to the broader European market and eventually retail and online sales channels. | |||
CerQlar |
2020 validation |
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CerQlar is a SaaS platform in the environmental commodities space, which enables teams to collaboratively manage Guarantees of origin (GOs) and other Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs). | |||
de Cavis |
2009 established |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
De Cavis supports customers in the development and marketing of patented foaming technology for the production of highly porous mineral materials with air contents between 50 and 95vol%, on the development of ceramic buoyancy bodies for underwater vehicles as well as on the production of high-purity and ultra-high-purity magnesium. | |||
duramon |
2021 formation |
[ 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. | |||
Dyneo Technologies |
2023 validation |
[ Building technology, Energy efficiency, Heating and cooling energy, Information technology ] | Internet of Things, IT blockchain or algorithms, IT data usage, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, IT Software, Sensors, Smarthome & building |
Dyneo develops data acquisition, processing and analysis technologies to support the energy transition of thermal networks. | |||
lalana |
2021 validation |
[ clothes, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
High quality and 100% recycled textile yarn for your next project. Inspiration for #knitting #crochet or #macramé. |