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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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. | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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. | |||
| Switzerlend (LEND) |
2015 ZH Established |
[ Financial Services ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| The crowdlending platform LEND matches investors with borrowers. Both benefit from our fair and transparent business model. | |||
| taketray |
2004 ZH Validation |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Other: Low tech |
| The most functional pocket ashtray solves litterling. | |||
| TALPA |
2025 ZH Growth |
[ Building Technologies ] | Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Sensors |
| Talpa inspects retaining walls with an innovative and non-destructive approach to identify corrosion in the rear bending reinforcement of horizontal construction joints in retaining walls. | |||
| TaoTree |
2022 ZH Formation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Behavioural Change ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| 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 |
Mobility & Transport [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| 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. | |||
| Terensis |
2024 ZH Formation |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | IT: Data usage, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Terensis is an agricultural intelligence platform offering predictive insights into global crop production. It provides forecasts up to six months in advance, supporting strategic planning for analysts, sourcing specialists, and investors. The platform delivers detailed yield and quality estimations from field to regional level and consolidates fragmented agricultural data into a single source. With over 40 years of production insights and a strong focus on sustainability, Terensis enables informed decision-making across the agricultural value chain. | |||
| Loopia |
2019 ZH Validation |
[ Circular Economy ] | Smart: 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 | |||
| Too Good To Go |
2022 ZH Growth |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Waste Management & Recycling ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Too Good To Go is a social impact company on a mission to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together with an APP, which is the world's largest marketplace for surplus food. It helps users rescue good food from going to waste, offering great value for money at local stores, cafes and restaurants. | |||
| Topten |
2000 ZH Established |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Web portal highlighting the most energy efficient consumer products: domestic appliances, office electronics, consumer electronics, lighting, building components and vehicles. | |||
| Unbound Potential |
2023 ZH Validation |
[ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery, Smart: Grid |
| We are developing the fastest scalable battery technology. It is a membrane-less flow battery platform solving the key bottlenecks of current flow battery technology and thus filling the technology gap for large scale stationary storage. Relevant use cases include behind and in front of the meter applications. We have been contacted by major energy producers, AI data center operators, as well as Amazon, all looking for the breakthrough technology enabling stationary storage at TWh-scale. | |||
| UpCircle Technology |
2024 ZH Validation |
[ Resource Efficiency, Waste Management & Recycling ] | IT: Artificial intelligence AI |
| UpCircle's AI technology helps collectors, sorters, and recyclers manage baled waste. Don't waste your waste, work with us! We analyze waste bales with cutting-edge computer vision technology developed at ETH Zurich. | |||
| Va-loo.ch |
2021 ZH Formation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization, Components: Resource or material optimisation, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use, Environment: 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 ] | Mobility: E-vehicle charging, Mobility: Fleet management, Smart: Grid |
| Charge management solution that leverages E-Fleet operation data to unleash full flexibility potential and create value to grids and EV owners | |||
| Verdant Data |
2023 ZH Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Data Platforms & Solutions, Efficiency Solutions, ESG Reporting & Compliance ] | IT: Artificial intelligence AI, IT: Data usage, IT: Software |
| Verdant Data leverages advanced process mining technologies to convert ESG metrics into tangible process improvements, enabling organizations to achieve their net-zero ambitions with precision and accountability. The company dissects the process landscape to spotlight inefficiencies, prioritize high-impact sustainability gaps, and implement data-driven optimizations. By integrating sustainability metrics into daily operations, Verdant Data helps businesses reduce their carbon footprints, enhance compliance with environmental regulations, and streamline resource management. The company also provides due diligence services, empowering strategic acquisitions with operational transparency. Selected for the Tenity Zurich Fintech Accelerator (Batch 13, 2024). | |||
| Verity |
2014 ZH Established |
Mobility & Transport [ Efficiency Solutions ] | Mobility: Drone & flight |
| Autonomous Inventory Tracking Powered by Self-Flying Drones. Optimize your supply chain & create a zero-error warehouse! | |||
| viboo |
2022 ZH |
[ Building Technologies ] | 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 |
[ Building Technologies ] | Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: 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 |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources,Health, Wellness & Care [ Water Management ] | Energy: Hydro |
| VortexPower AG is specialized in the development and the sales of highly efficient products for water recovery thru natural swirling. | |||
| vyzn |
2022 ZH Growth |
[ Building Construction, Building Technologies ] | IT: Artificial intelligence AI, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| vyzn is a leading AI-driven software platform for optimizing new-build and renovation projects based on 3D and BIM data. It enables construction professionals to design sustainable, cost-efficient buildings with unprecedented ease and precision. | |||