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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEEX |
2011 ZH formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| CEEX is an exchange platform for renewable Energy like an eBay for power. A new business model with peer-to-peer exchange has been developed together with the ETH Zurich in a scientific project. In 2015 a fellowship of the ImpactHUB Zurich was won for the innovative idea. It is realtime, peer-to-peer, machine 2 machine | |||
| Chimpy (Batte.re) |
2013 ZH established |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity ] | Electric batteries, Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Renewable technologies |
| Solar power compensated battery for small electronics; Battere offers the most convenient solution for people on the go to recharge their smartphone. Users pick up a pre-charged power bank, charge their smartphone on the go and return the power bank at any other point of sale. Available at 1000 PoS | |||
| Choba Choba |
2015 BE growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| A chocolate brand in which farmers no longer are mere raw material suppliers. Instead, they have a direct stake in the company and its success. | |||
| Circle Soaps |
2018 ZH growth |
Health & House & Body Care, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Bodycare, Waste & recycling ] | |
| Circle Soaps produces handmade, cold made soaps with organic and herbal ingredients. We are an ethical company and strive to be as environmentally friendly as possible and to minimize our waste. | |||
| CitizenBees |
2013 NE growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Environmental monitoring, Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail, Hotel ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| CitizenBees is an eco-responsible company that develops a ready-to-use beekeeper service to house, on the roofs of companies and communities, technological and urban hives in order to participate in the protection of bees, essential pollinating insects. | |||
| CLARA Swiss Tech |
2015 TI formation |
Transport & Mobility [ Functional clothes, Healthcare, Road vehicles and transport, Sport ] | e-bike, LED, Wearable devices or apps |
| Urban traffic is a constant danger for cyclists, particularly in low light conditions. Every day, cyclists around the world are involved in accidents caused by the lack of attention from other road users. CLARA is the revolutionary smart jacket that thanks to the integration of directional arrows and braking sensors increases the visibility of the cyclists and makes their movements safer. | |||
| CleanFIZZ |
2011 GE growth |
Construction & buildings, Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Construction of buildings, Resource efficiency, Resource sufficiency, Waste & recycling ] | Hydro energy (small scale), Photovoltaics, Physical & chemical & nano technologies, Renewable technologies |
| CleanFizz SA is the world leader in Intelligent Active Self-Cleaning solar and glass surfaces. Innovative technology based on electrostatic waves to clean dust off surfaces. The company's main objective is to make the cleantech world cleaner than ever. | |||
| CleanGreens |
2013 VD growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | Resource saving agricultural technologies |
| CleanGreens (previously CombaGroup) is an award-winning Swiss agro-tech company that provides innovative farming solutions in mobile aeroponics. Our patented technology greatly reduces water consumption and contamination risks while offering maximum productivity per square meter. Our efficient and mechanised irrigation and spacing systems produce clean, fresh and pesticide-free lettuce and aromatic plants all year round. | |||
| Clemap |
2017 ZH validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity ] | Smarthome & building |
| Energy monitoring and disaggregation sensor for housholdes. Disaggregation service for electricity providers. The products helps to use electric tools more efficiently. | |||
| CLEVERON |
2017 BE validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Energy management solutions ] | Smarthome & building |
| CLEVERON is a Swiss Startup that invented an intelligent heating system for radiators, in order to regulate the temperature in your building optimally. We combine technology and ecology with the objective of reducing our CO2 and saving energy in a simple and economical way. | |||
| ClimatePlace |
2009 VD growth |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Service pooling ] | Climate technologies, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| The platform Climat Place seeks to highlight pre-due-diligenced, bankable climate-related projects in order to raise a blend of public and private capital required to make such green development projects a reality. | |||
| ClimateRe |
2015 ZG formation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management | Low technology |
| ClimateRe promotes and facilitates agricultural insurance and improved community-based projects to stregthen climate resilience of farmers. | |||
| Climate services |
2013 FR growth |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction [ Environmental monitoring ] | Climate technologies |
| Climate Services offers tools and support to help companties and other organizations to manage risk and identify opportunities related to climate change. The company owns the online www.CO2-Platform.ch to quantify CO2 emissions and identify the most attractif projects. | |||
| Climeworks |
2009 ZH growth |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction | Climate technologies |
| Climeworks develops, builds and operates direct air capture machines. With our technology we capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. The air-captured carbon dioxide can either be recycled and used as a raw material, or completely removed from the air by safely storing it. Our machines consist of modular CO₂ collectors that can be stacked to build machines of any size. Climeworks direct air capture machines are powered solely by renewable energy or energy-from-waste. | |||
| Coat-X SA |
2016 NE validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Coat-X provides unique solutions for protecting high value-added components against moisture penetration and corrosion. | |||
| COCOBOARDS |
2019 BE validation |
Construction & buildings, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Building technology, Resource efficiency ] | |
| Cocoboards is a novel, complete natural product, designed in Switzerland and manufactured in the Philippines. It allows to transform agricultural byproducts into sustainable and affordable bio-based materials, replace wood-based panels in the furniture and construction industry, make sustainability available and affordable to everyone, and integrate the local rural communities in the value chain. | |||
| Codingmind AG |
2020 ZH formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis | IT data usage |
| Coding Mind AG develops and programs solutions for a more efficient, resource-saving and customer-friendly marketing of real estate. In addition to SAM - the world's first inspection robot for the real estate industry, Coding Mind also offers products such as REMOTELY360°, which adds new functions to existing 360° tours, exploiting the full potential for digital inspections in a scalable way. | |||
| co-kitchen |
2018 BE formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Health & House & Body Care [ Food production & retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Co-kitchen began as a small vegan gastronomy business offering caterings,workshops and event organization based in Bern, Switzerland. Through these experiences, Kremena, the founder of co-kitchen, realized her passion lies in inspiring and empowering people to take charge of their home kitchens by cooking everyday meals which are healthy for themselves, other beings and the planet as a whole. | |||
| CompPair |
2020 VD validation |
Construction & buildings [ Airplanes & transport, Maritime and waterways transport, Rail transport, Road vehicles and transport, Sport, Waste & recycling ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| CompPair is a forthcoming university spin-off solving damage issues for the composite materials industry. They develop the next generation of smart and sustainable material products to overcome damages.The new materials enable repeated damage healing after a moderate heat trigger. Their technology is the first competitive one with extremely high commercial potential in terms of multiple repair ability and recycling, while preserving mechanical properties, cost and processing methods as in many industrial systems. By extending their product portfolio to other fibres and resins, they have the ability to disrupt the industry; bringing repair and recycling functionalities to composites while matching current requirements. | |||
| ConceptIris |
2020 LU formation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Recreation, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| They developed and created the best and most convenient reusable cup. | |||
| NEEO |
2014 SO established |
Communication, Media, Education or Games, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Games, Heating and cooling energy, Information technology, Media, Service pooling ] | Communication, Enabling technologies, Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Heating in buildings, Lighting, Smart device, Smarthome & building |
| NEEO is a smart system that lets you control all your devices from one place and even knows who you are when you pick it up. There are two parts to NEEO, the brain and the remote. The brain communicates with your devices and the remote allows instant control. These two devices are new thinking both in design and technology. To manage your home you can use the NEEO app on your smartphone and for the ultimate experience use the NEEO remote. | |||
| CO-OBJECTIFS 21 |
2017 GE validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| Supporting Businesses and Communities of Switzerland in optimizing their performance ENVIRONMENTAL material in waste management and reduction of costs associated with it. To propose innovative solutions. | |||
| Cook Eat |
2019 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Healthcare ] | Communication, Low technology |
| Cook Eat mediates home-cooked food from private to private on the online community marketplace. It closes the gap between expensive restaurants and time-consuming self-catering. Wherever our members register, culinary diversity is created around the clock. | |||
| Cortexia |
2016 FR growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Cleaning, Waste & recycling ] | IT data usage, Smartcity, Smart device |
| Cortexia's solution allows the cities to monitor urban littering, improving the city's cleanliness while reducing cleansing costs. Our intelligent vision measurement systems provide an objective measurement and detailed mapping of urban litter. Mobile cameras recognise and map the littering according to categories in the whole city and compute a cleanliness index. | |||
| Cowa Thermal Solutions |
2019 LU formation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Energy storage ] | Energy storage other than batteries, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| We develop compact thermal energy storage systems based on phase change materials for building services engineering and industrial plants. Our technology can be ideally combined with renewable energy sources and increases their own consumption by linking supply and demand of energy through our storage systems. COWA-Caps increase the storage capacity of water-based thermal energy storage systems by exploiting the melting and solidification processes of the filling material (phase change material PCM). COWA-Caps filled with PCM can be easily inserted into existing or new hot water, buffer or cold storage tanks. By selecting the PCM, the storage tank temperature can be ideally adapted to the application. | |||
| CPD-Swiss |
2012 AG growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Waste & recycling ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Renewable technologies |
| Production of bio-diesel from biomass, old oil and household waste. | |||
| csquare |
2021 VD formation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Financing and financial services ] | IT data usage |
| csquare is a purpose-built MLOps platform created to enable maximal efficiency and minimize go to market time. We have also developed and built dedicated hardware configurations to support our platform. Our idea was to create a work environment that incorporates all of your favourite tools and frameworks, as well as the best industry practices, and at the same time to eliminate hardware optimisation worries from you. Together, our software and hardware platforms make a powerful tool you yet have to discover. | |||
| CyanoGuard |
2016 ZH growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Engineering, Environmental monitoring, Food production & retail, Healthcare, Prevention of or protection from technical risks, Resource efficiency ] | Bio technologies, New chemical materials |
| CyanoGuard AG is a chemical technology company with innovative solutions for the detection of cyanide in water, food extracts and blood samples. Participation: CyanoGuard AG is a chemical technology company with innovative solutions for the detection of cyanide in water, food extracts and blood samples. | |||
| Cymmersion |
2016 AG growth |
Communication, Media, Education or Games [ Information technology ] | Gamification, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Our main focus is on the development of immersive applications, especially Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. | |||
| Daphne Technology |
2017 VD validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Maritime and waterways transport, Transport & logisticsof goods ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Daphne Technology SA is developing a catalyst-free scrubber technology to help the petrochemical, power and transportation industries to reduce air emissions to the levels required by international and national regulations. Daphne Technology’s patented nanotechnology based solutions can be miniaturized and is especially well-suited to meet the requirements of marine vessels. | |||