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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synature |
2024 VD Growth |
[ Biodiversity & Ecosystem Protection ] | Other: Unknown |
| Fully automated biodiversity measurements through the analysis of ambient noise. | |||
| 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. | |||
| Texup |
2024 VS Validation |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Circular Economy, Efficiency Solutions, Waste Management & Recycling ] | Biological: Material based on biomass, Components: Acoustic materials & tech, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| Texup develops acoustic panels from 100% recycled Swiss textiles. End-of-life cotton clothing is transformed into panels with natural sound-absorbing properties for offices and public spaces, reducing textile waste while improving indoor acoustics. | |||
| topGrid |
2024 LU Validation |
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| TopGrid is a user-friendly online tool for thermal energy planning and for the development and planning of thermal grids. It accompanies you step by step, from the area analysis to the planning of thermal grids, from the strategy to the preliminary project. | |||
| UpGrid |
2024 ZG Validation |
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility, Energy Management & Use, Energy Sufficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software, Smart: Grid |
| UpGrid is building the platform infrastructure for local energy communities. We enable private households, SMEs, and municipalities to co-own, share, and consume renewable electricity, even if they can’t install solar themselves. Our marketplace connects producers of solar energy with nearby consumers, allowing for direct sales at lower prices while producers earn more than from traditional feed-in tariffs. With the 2025 regulatory shift in Switzerland, local electricity communities (LEGs) can share electricity via the public grid and benefit from reduced grid tariffs. UpGrid provides a fully digital onboarding, billing, and visualization solution for LEGs, integrating smart metering and dynamic tariffing. Our USP is a plug and play platform tailored to the Swiss legal framework and optimized for multi-actor settings such as producers, tenants, energy utilities, and landlords. Unlike traditional utilities or isolated rooftop solutions, UpGrid offers end to end tools for transparent, fair, and profitable local energy exchange. | |||
| Winduction |
2024 ZH Formation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Energy Efficiency, Fleet & Mobility Management, Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Renewable tech, Mobility: E-vehicle charging |
| Winduction is developing a dynamic wireless power transfer system for electric vehicles, enabling real-time charging while driving. By integrating energy receivers into vehicle wheels and ground-based transmitters powered by local renewable sources (e.g., solar panels), the system allows efficient energy transfer without relying heavily on grid storage. The approach supports decentralized energy supply, fractional infrastructure ownership, and monetization for energy producers and street owners. Winduction originated from a thesis at ETH Zurich, with a prototype achieving 81% transfer efficiency. The company aims to reduce fossil fuel reliance and enhance renewable energy usage in road transport. | |||
| Zelsius |
2024 LU Validation |
[ ESG Reporting & Compliance ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Zelsius develops a software platform specifically tailored to Swiss SMEs. Its goal is to provide companies without prior knowledge with an easy, transparent, and cost-efficient way to measure, understand, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions — enabling them to start building their climate strategy. Our vision is to create transparency and empower SMEs to actively integrate climate action into their business strategy. For market entry, we focus on the MEM industry (machinery, electrical and metal sector), where pressure for climate reporting is particularly high – driven by customer requirements, regulation, and increasing public expectations. The platform combines technical intelligence with industry-specific practical knowledge: it enables process-based data collection, sector-specific emission calculations, and provides space for exchange and continuous development. Its modular structure allows companies to enter carbon accounting step-by-step and act in a targeted way. Our unique value proposition lies in the combination of, a user-friendly and transparent platform, automated, data-driven action planning, recise Scope 3 emission assessment at process level, industry-specific adaptation for manufacturing SMEs, and integrated implementation partnerships – all compliant with GHG standards and audit-ready. Zelsius turns emission data into actionable strategies – faster, more affordable, and more effective. | |||
| ZENDRA |
2024 GR Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Photovoltaics |
| Development and planning of alpine solar systems, especially in the area of substructures with in-house developments. | |||
| Apolarion |
2025 Formation |
[ Food Safety & Quality, Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Biological: Agricultural tech, Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Other: Enabling tech |
| Apolarion develops a modular cold atmospheric plasma system for seed treatment that eliminates fungal and bacterial pathogens without chemicals, heat, or water. Based on technology from the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL, the system is compatible with organic certification and applicable to a wide range of crops, from vegetables and cereals to herbs and legumes. | |||
| biZmode |
2025 Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ ESG Reporting & Compliance, Rail Transport, Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Software, Mobility: Electric |
| biZmode is a door-to-door intercity travel planner and service for business travellers, making the full trade-offs between train, flight and driving visible across total travel time, usable working time, on-time probability and CO₂ — delivering reliable, productive, low-carbon business travel without the compromises of conventional options. | |||
| DeltaSpark |
2025 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Carbon Removal & Storage, Climate Technologies, Energy Production & Supply ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Hydrogen tech and fuel cells, Environment: Carbon capture and storage |
| DeltaSpark transforms captured CO₂ into stable carbonates for use in construction materials while simultaneously producing clean hydrogen — using a patented electrocatalytic process packaged in a containerized unit that connects directly to industrial emission sources. | |||
| SoliTrack (Dirt-Master) |
2025 ZH Formation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Building Construction, Circular Economy, Waste Management & Recycling ] | IT: Data usage, IT: Platforms or networking solutions, IT: Software |
| SoilTrack is a digital B2B platform connecting construction companies with excavation material suppliers and receivers, enabling VVEA-compliant material declaration, regional matching and integrated transport coordination to reduce unnecessary disposal and lower CO₂ emissions. | |||
| Elenir |
2025 Validation |
Buildings & Construction [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management & Use ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Software, Smart: Grid |
| Elenir develops energy management software that combines classical optimisation transparency with data-driven insights, enabling industrial and commercial operators to safely optimise multi-energy systems and participate in grid flexibility markets. | |||
| Solinea (Falchi Innovations) |
2025 AG Formation |
[ Infrastructure Construction, Road Transport & Vehicles, Technical Risk Prevention ] | Components: New chemical materials, Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Other: Low tech |
| SOLINEA develops photoluminescent road and guidance system markings that become visible through ambient light — including sunlight, diffuse daylight and vehicle lighting — providing passive, light-based visibility support as an additional function within existing norm-compliant road marking systems. | |||
| FarmAid |
2025 TI Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Disaster Risk & Hazard Prevention, Food Safety & Quality, Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Biological: Agricultural tech, IT: IOT Internet of Things, Smart: Sensors |
| FarmAid offers IoT solutions for crop protection. The patented modular FarmAid™ device deploys protective nets and covers in seconds via a smartphone app or autonomously, shielding crops from hail, rain, frost, excessive heat, fungi and parasites. https://farmaid.ch/en | |||
| FireDrone |
2025 ZH Validation |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Disaster Risk & Hazard Prevention, Technical Risk Prevention ] | Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Robotic |
| FireDrone develops autonomous drone systems engineered to operate in extreme heat up to 200°C, using patented polyimide aerogel insulation and integrated thermal management. The technology provides real-time visual and thermal situational awareness to firefighters and industrial operators in environments where conventional drones cannot survive. | |||
| fortyfour |
2025 SG Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards,Energy & Power Systems [ Carbon Removal & Storage, Energy Production & Supply, Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Energy: Renewable tech, Environment: Carbon capture and storage, Environment: Climate tech |
| fortyfour develops modular, fully electric Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere and supply it to greenhouses on-site. Replaces fossil CO₂ supply while enabling carbon sequestration at agricultural scale. https://fortyfour.earth/ | |||
| GoNeon |
2026 LU Formation |
Buildings & Construction [ Fleet & Mobility Management ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| goNEON is an AI-native planning service that unifies transport networks, street space, and urban design into a single digital twin. Its engine, N!, enables instant assessment of infrastructure, land-use, and mobility changes, replacing fragmented legacy tools and accelerating city-wide decision-making. | |||
| Ionic Wind |
2025 SG Formation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Energy Efficiency, Engineering & Industrial Design, Resource Efficiency ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| This startup is revolutionizing cooling or ventilation by replacing conventional fans with a silent and energy-efficient technology known as Ionic Wind (based on an electric field). Rather than relying on spinning blades, it uses an electric field to move air, cutting down on noise, energy consumption, and mechanical wear. As a result, laptops and other compact electronics stay cooler, enjoy longer battery life, and have an extended lifespan. Delivering 48% more airflow while using less power, this breakthrough makes modern electronics quieter, more efficient, and environmentally friendlier. | |||
| Kelva Systems |
2025 ZH Formation |
[ Energy Storage ] | Energy: Storage other than batteries |
| Kelva Systems is developing a novel technical approach to Thermal Energy Storage (TES) to support industrial decarbonization. TES stores energy as heat and releases it on demand. We provide flexible, on-demand steam generation for industrial processes, replacing fossil-fueled boilers and reducing CO₂ emissions in sectors like chemicals, food processing, paper, and district heating. We are developing a proprietary high-temperature concrete to act as the heat storage medium, at around 600°C. Unlike competitors that rely on off-site, containerized systems, we focus on bulk, on-site construction; significantly reducing insulation and transport costs. Our philosophy is to build systems that are locally sourced, as simple and robust as possible, and certified to last decades with minimal maintenance. We are initially targeting Switzerland and broader European markets, where policy and energy pricing increasingly favour TES. The Kelva Systems team brings decades of experience in clean energy, engineering, and finance. We are also partnering with Empa to advance development of our high-temperature concrete. | |||
| KLARK |
2025 GR Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Building Construction, Carbon Removal & Storage ] | Components: Construction - Advanced materials & energy optimization, Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| KLARK develops Switzerland's first CO₂-neutral concrete for the construction industry. The company captures and permanently stores CO₂ in concrete, turning buildings into carbon sinks. Their technology can store up to 250 kg of CO₂ per cubic meter of concrete while maintaining comparable technical properties to conventional concrete. KLARK's solution is industrially available, fully recyclable, and externally verified according to ICROA-recognized standards, enabling immediate climate impact through long-term carbon storage in construction projects. | |||
| kuafu |
2025 ZH Formation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Electricity Grids & Flexibility, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management & Use ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Software, Smart: Grid |
| kuafu is an AI-powered grid-edge orchestration hub enabling electrical grid operators to use local distributed resources (EVs, batteries, heat pumps) to manage grid congestion. Connects grid operators and energy management system providers via a neutral platform. https://kuafu.ch/ | |||
| levitate aerospace |
2025 BE Validation |
Energy & Power Systems,Mobility & Transport [ Data Platforms & Solutions, Environmental Monitoring, Technical Risk Prevention ] | IT: Data usage, Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Sensors |
| Levitate develops TENEO|E, a hybrid-lift aircraft combining helium buoyancy with aerodynamic flight for up to six hours of silent, electric operation. Instead of selling aircraft, Levitate provides Aerial Data as a Service: standardized, georeferenced Digital Twins of infrastructure corridors for grid, rail and construction/geohazard clients. | |||
| MESH |
2025 ZH Validation |
[ Circular Economy ] | IT: Data usage, IT: Software |
| MESH uses System Dynamics to transfer company data on materials, costs, and logistics into a “digital twin,” which we use to simulate variants of new circular models. This enables decision-makers to evaluate scenarios based on KPIs such as EBIT, cash flow, CO₂, and resilience, reduces risks, and accelerates budget approvals. | |||
| MontaConnect |
2025 LU Validation |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| MontaConnect is the digital white-label platform for construction management, project owners, and executing trade contractors. It connects everyone involved in a construction project in one shared environment to streamline workflows, document decisions transparently, and deliver projects smoothly—without friction. Everyone works from the same data foundation—your team, your brand, your standards—resulting in fewer delays, less rework, and greater cost certainty. Optional site supervision available as a service. | |||
| NeoTurbo Energy |
2025 GR Formation |
Mobility & Transport [ Energy Efficiency, Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Components: Pump, Energy: Cooling tech, Mobility: Electric |
| NeoTurbo Energy develops turbocompressors for manufacturers of electric vehicles and heat pumps, aiming to increase efficiency and reduce costs compared to conventional compression technology. | |||
| NEUNOI |
2025 ZH Validation |
[ Fashion & Apparel, Waste Management & Recycling ] | Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| When it comes to our materials, we rely on clever recycling. Available by subscription or with a buy-back guarantee. For a more conscious approach to children's clothing. Designed to be efficiently repaired again and again. | |||
| nuorail |
2025 ZH Formation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Data Platforms & Solutions, Energy Efficiency, Rail Transport ] | IT: AI Artificial intelligence, IT: Software, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Nuorail develops predictive control software that automatically drives trains from departure to destination with minimum energy consumption, continuously optimising train operation in real time to reduce energy costs while improving timetable robustness, operational reliability and safety. | |||
| Optimal Energy |
2025 VD Formation |
[ Electricity Grids & Flexibility, Energy Storage ] | Energy: Battery, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| We help mid-size balance groups to reduce their imbalance penalties, with zero investment, based on dynamic pricing and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) capacity reservation through APIs. The stability of electricity grids & the security of energy supply depend on maintaining a permanent balance between generation and consumption. With the increasing integration of intermittent renewable energies, such as solar and wind, mid-size energy actors in CH and worldwide are facing growing challenges & huge financial penalties for the energy imbalances. Large-scale battery site is an ideal solution, but th mentioned actors lack financial or in-house technical capacity to own a site. Cloud for Energy Sector: Our solution addresses this problem by offering a Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution, allowing the actors to reserve and obtain access to the battery capacities on-demand. The platform is composed of IoT field devices to interact with battery facilities, intelligent APIs for interaction with client and optimisation algorithms for capacity planning and pricing. Client can have access to batteries with zero initial investment to mitigate their imbalance penalties. | |||
| OptiZone |
2025 VD Formation |
Tourism, Leisure & Hospitality [ Health Solutions, Sports & Recreation, Wellness & Preventive Care ] | IT: Software, Smart: Measuring & monitoring, Smart: Sensors |
| OptiZone develops a sensor-based athletic management system that tests ground force and knee alignment to detect ACL injury risk, identify causes, and provide personalized training recommendations for high-level athletes. https://optizone.ch/ | |||