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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soleco |
2018 ZH Growth |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | Energy: Heating in buildings, Energy: Storage other than batteries, Mobility: E-vehicle charging, Smart: Device, Smart: Home & building |
| Energy management System of the next Generation considering the building as storage, weather forecast and a powerful optimisation algorithm including machine learning. This leads to a saving of energy and lower cost. We control and optimize heat pumps, heating distribution, charging stations, battery storage and household appliances in conjunction with the electricity generated by the photovoltaic system and have implemented and successfully tested variable grid tariffs. | |||
| Soledor |
2019 BL Established |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Food tech |
| Today, we can offer a portfolio of nutritional supplement products. In the wellness equipment segment, products from brands such as "miha bodytec" or "BodyAnalyzer" are added. And for the beauty from the outside we provide the cosmetic line GUAM. | |||
| Solergy |
2021 AG Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Solergy brings together real estate owners, tenants and investors and provide a model where everybody benefits from new solar installation. So you become part of the fight against the climate change, by investing in roof solar, or providing a roof or buying solar electricity from the roof. | |||
| SolidWatts |
2022 VD Validation |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Environment: Climate tech |
| SolidWatts is a Swiss cleantech startup developing high-efficiency solid-state radio frequency heating systems that electrify industrial process heat. Their modular RF generators enable industries to replace fossil fuel-based heating with cleaner, more efficient electric solutions, helping reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions across industrial sectors | |||
| somebodyelse |
2021 ZH Formation |
Culture, Education & Media [ Behavioural Change ] | IT: Gamification |
| Somebodyelse creates embodied experiences in VR to help people to understand an issue in an immersive, educational and playful way to raise awareness and enable positive behavioural change. In 2015, the United Nations all agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. But social, cultural, and environmental problems still seem to be accumulating worldwide; sustainable cities and communities, access to health and therapy, or social wellbeing are still huge problems to tackle. People are still not sufficiently aware of the underlying problems, cannot understand, imagine, or relate to them, and therefore, will not change them either. Digital technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) allow a wide range of people to experience abstract content appealingly. And, today we know that people can better understand and emphasize through a self-made bodily experience. | |||
| Sonnenpool |
2017 ZH Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| We finance and build solar systems, smart meters, and everything else to get clean power from your roof and the grid. | |||
| Airfix |
2022 ZH Formation |
[ Carbon Removal & Storage ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Building a Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage market. Airfix, a new subsidiary of South Pole, combines decades of climate finance and carbon project development expertise with a vision for a scalable Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage market in Switzerland and beyond. | |||
| Spacetek |
2018 BE Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Efficiency Solutions, Engineering & Industrial Design, Environmental Monitoring, Resource Efficiency ] | Components: Optic devices, IT: Software, Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Sensors |
| Spacetek Technology AG is a 2018 spin-off from the University of Bern's Institute of Space Research and Planetary Sciences. The team combines 50+ years of collective expertise in space exploration and planetary sciences, having developed instruments for ESA/NASA missions (Rosina/Rosetta, IBEX, BELA, JUICE, CaSSIS/Mars). They commercialized compact, robust time-of-flight mass spectrometers originally designed for space missions for industrial applications. The company focuses on semiconductor manufacturing, providing real-time gas analysis for process control, reducing waste, and increasing efficiency. | |||
| Spirecut |
2020 FR Validation |
[ Health Solutions ] | Other: Low tech |
| No skin incision, Safe surgery, Better outcomes We commercialise Sono-Instruments® to treat carpal tunnel syndrome and trigger finger. | |||
| MILKIT (Sport Components) |
2016 ZH Established |
[ Bicycles & E-Bikes ] | Components: Pump |
| The founder, product development engineer and mountain biker Pius Kobler decided to solve this problem and invented milKit. Together with a team of biking enthusiasts and experienced entrepreneurs Pius founded the company Sport Components Ltd. Their aim is to ease the everyday lives of mountain bikers, cyclists and other athletes with innovative products, and to become a leading provider of smart bicycle solutions. Not content to rest on their laurels, the next product, the milKit Booster for more efficient tire inflation, won a Eurobike Award in September 2019. In 2020 milKit was crowned the Test Winner in sealants by Mountain Bike Magazin. milKit products make your tubeless life easier.A Swiss precision designed product, with the customary Swiss cleanliness and effectiveness, using the highest quality materials. To guarantee a high product quality and offer short delivery times milKit products are manufactured in Germany – right in the heart of Europe | |||
| Fair Recycling (fondation) |
2008 ZH Stagnant |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Other: Low tech |
| Fair Recycling is the first organisation worldwide to combine climate protection with recycling. In Brazil, where the Swiss foundation's pioneering project is located, it recycles old refrigerators containing CFCs in cooperation with its local partner Indústria Fox, thus making an important contribution to climate protection. On the basis of this verification report, an independent registration body issues climate protection certificates, which the Foundation offers to Swiss partners. Fair Recycling is proud to be the climate partner of numerous companies that reduce a large part of their CO2 emissions with their own measures and only offset unavoidable emissions with climate protection certificates. | |||
| myclimate |
2003 ZH Established |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Climate Technologies ] | Environment: Climate tech, IT: Data usage |
| myclimate is a partner for effective climate protection – both locally and globally. The Swiss Non-Profit Organisation wants to shape the future together with its partners through consultation, education and climate protection projects. myclimate pursues this as a science-based and business-orientated non-profit organisation. | |||
| storra |
2025 ZH Formation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Carbon Removal & Storage, Energy Storage ] | Environment: Climate tech, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| storra develops cost-effective software for real-time monitoring of subsurface processes in environmental projects. The solution combines geomechanical simulation, probabilistic inversion, and geological modeling to track pressure and temperature in reservoirs—particularly for hydrogen and CO₂ storage—helping reduce the high costs and risks of gas leakage. | |||
| streamwise |
2010 ZH Established |
Energy & Power Systems,Mobility & Transport [ Engineering & Industrial Design ] | IT: Data usage, Other: Enabling tech, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Fluid sensor: innovation and problem-tailored advice in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. Data analytics is the logical consequence of our work as engineers. Wireless sensor solutions. | |||
| SUIND |
2020 ZH Formation |
[ Air Transport ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Enabling drone companies to unlock the full potential of drones by providing them with state of the art safety solution. | |||
| sulytics |
2017 ZH Established |
Financials & Information Technology [ Climate Technologies, Data Platforms & Solutions, ESG Reporting & Compliance ] | IT: Data usage, IT: Software |
| Sulytics is a sustainability consulting and software company based in Zurich. With over 20 years of experience in GHG emissions calculation and climate strategies, Sulytics supports national and international companies and SMEs. The SulyticsTool is a web-based platform for sustainability data management, enabling carbon footprinting, science-based target setting (SBTi), and regulatory reporting (CSRD, GRI, CDP, TCFD). Sulytics combines software with expert consulting to deliver tailored sustainability solutions. | |||
| Sunaxer (Solaxer) |
2021 VD Formation |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Solarthermal |
| Solaxer helps industries cut reliance on fossil fuels by delivering a new method of heat harvesting. This next generation technology delivers solar receivers with high performance but with significantly reduced environmental impact and at lower cost. | |||
| Sundust |
2017 ZG Validation |
[ Building Technologies, Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| The company offers solar, battery, and charging station contracting with a comprehensive, worry-free package: from planning and financing to installation, maintenance, operation, and dismantling. All investments and risks are covered. Customers benefit from lower energy costs and the option to purchase their system at any time. | |||
| SunFlower Grid |
2025 VD Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility, Energy Management & Use, Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software |
| SunFlower Grid is a digital platform that helps property owners, municipalities, and energy professionals create and manage collective self-consumption groups (RCP – Regroupements à Consommation Propre) to share locally produced solar energy across Switzerland. https://www.sunflowergrid.ch/en | |||
| Sunstyle |
2012 BE Established |
Buildings & Construction [ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Produces solar roof shingles / tiles in different colors. With the SUNSTYLE® solar roof we have developed a versatile solution that is both a roofing material and a power plant. Thanks to the new color technology, SUNSTYLE® photovoltaic shingles can be produced in a variety of colors and surface structures. The roof as an architectural design element makes optimum use of the built-up areas for the production of valuable solar power. | |||
| SUNWELL |
2020 VD Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Our fully integrated software solution enables the most economical and efficient design of solar photovoltaic installations in the Alps and beyond. The entire process in one software: best location, optimized design, easy permitting, reliable contracting, maximum profit. | |||
| sustainaccount |
2021 ZH Growth |
Buildings & Construction,Financials & Information Technology [ Data Platforms & Solutions, ESG Reporting & Compliance, Risk Prevention ] | IT: Artificial intelligence AI, IT: Data usage, IT: Software |
| Sustainaccount is a Swiss provider of digital solutions to make the built environment more resilient to climate change. Their cutting-edge technology analyzes climate risks, performs scenario analysis and provides optimization pathways to real estate developers, investors, and businesses. This helps reduce consequences of climate risks, increase resilience and preserve asset value. Leveraging advanced data analytics and AI, the SaaS solution performs forward-looking scenario analysis aligned with EU Taxonomy, TCFD, and CSRD frameworks. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Swiss Alpine Fish (swisslachs) |
2020 ZH Established |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Forestry & Restauration & Land Use ] | Energy: Hydro (small scale), Other: Enabling tech |
| 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. | |||
| Swiss Battery |
2018 AG Validation |
[ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery |
| The young company Swiss Battery develops products in the field of renewable batteries & energy-storage for aerial vehicles, electric cars and stationary storage. Swiss Battery produces electrodes and separators for solid-state batteries and special key-components for redox-flow batteries. The company is focused on international battery research and collaborates with multiple global industries in US/Asia and Europe. Focus: Increase of energy density in Lithium-based batteries, enable recycling of the Li-Ion battery cathodes, improve the electrode-processing, and the manufacturing of high-performance composites. | |||
| SwissGEL |
2004 ZH Established |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Resource Efficiency ] | Biological: Material based on biomass, Components: New chemical materials |
| swissGEL is a plastics development company. We offer partnerships to commercialise additives and bioplastic products and make plastic biodegradable | |||
| 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. | |||
| Be the change |
2012 SG Validation |
Health, Wellness & Care [ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Food tech |
| The production of food, vital substances and sports nutrition is their passion, they work strictly according to Swiss food law and the Swissness regulation of the Swiss Confederation. | |||
| Swissloop |
ZH unknown |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission |
| Swissloop is working on developing real-world tunneling technology that could transform how cities build infrastructure—faster, cleaner, and with minimal disruption. Their tunneling systems can help reduce road and open urban area closures and pursue utility projects with minimal surface impact. The primary use case for such a technology is the deployment of water, gas, and electrical pipelines. | |||
| Swissponic |
2021 TI Validation |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Biological: Agricultural tech |
| 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. | |||