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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sevensense Robotics |
2018 ZH validation |
[ Transport & logistics of goods ] | Robotic |
| Sevensense is accelerating technological innovation in the service robotics industry by enabling robots to safely and autonomously navigate in dynamic spaces shared with humans, in- and outdoors. We strive to empower enhanced ease in the integration and use of mobile robotics through our solution that can be applied to any kind of mobile ground machine, from forklifts to delivery and cleaning machines, at minimum installation time. | |||
| ShadeMe |
2021 VD validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Electricity efficiency, Electricity grids & flexibility ] | Sensors |
| ShadeMe deliver decentralized anti-glare smart blinds and controller to turn buildings greener and lighting more comfortable | |||
| Sharely |
2013 ZH validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management,Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource sufficiency, Service pooling, Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Plattform to enable local community sharing all kinds of products, online plateform. | |||
| ROO (Share your BICAR) |
2016 ZH validation |
[ Electricity, Engineering ] | e-bike, e-mobility, e-motorbike, e-motorcycle, e-scooter, Smartcity |
| ROO - Practical, fun and sporty. With its single seat, three wheels and countless applications, roo is at home in a variety of urban and suburban settings. It’s as compact and versatile as a Swiss Army knife. It looks cool too, like a resourceful Australian marsupial, not a space alien or a carelessly cooked soufflé. And the cornering performance may just put a smile on your face. | |||
| Shematic |
2018 GE validation |
[ Energy storage ] | Battery, Motor & actuator |
| At Shematic, our mission is to provide innovative high performance tailor made electric system to improve power and autonomy of electric vehicles. We offer our clients to take advantage of a new electromobility experience and improve the performance of electric vehicles through innovation and creativity, while benefiting of custom motors. | |||
| sim2sustain (scaling4good) |
2019 ZH validation |
Behavioural change [ Financing and financial services, Information technology, Insurance ] | Construction: Resource or material optimisation, IT blockchain or algorithms, IT data usage, IT Software, Smartcity |
| We aim for a sustainable economy and society where decisions and transformation strategies of societal relevance will be reached through open collaboration, based on facts, stated goals, and declared values. Decisions, interventions, strategies, and investments reflect the ecological and societal urgency we are facing and contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). | |||
| smart conversion |
2017 LU validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Heating and cooling energy ] | Cooling technology, Heat industrial usage, Heating in buildings |
| The Delta-Stirling is a new generator for the conversion of heat energy into electricity. In the reverse process, the Delta-Stirling can also generate cold and heat energy by supplying electricity, as in a refrigeration compressor. In the moment we are developing a cooling unit that does without climate-damaging refrigerants! | |||
| Smart Energy Link (SEL) |
2017 BE validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency, Energy management solutions ] | IT network, Solarthermal energy |
| Smart Energy Link makes solar power usable in multi-party houses and in residential areas: simple, economical and ecological. The intelligent control system optimizes the own consumption of solar power and measures and bills the energy consumption within own consumption communities. | |||
| SmartHelio |
2019 VD validation |
Internet of Things, Solarthermal energy | |
| SmartHelio is a clean-tech start-up based in Lausanne, Switzerland. We optimise the return on investment for both solar roof-top companies and their clients using our IoT sensor and AI-based data analytics. | |||
| Smart Parking Systems |
2011 OW validation |
[ Road vehicles and transport ] | Enabling technologies, Smartcity |
| Smart Parking Systems AG offers a compelling vertical, robotic parking solutions and automated parking systems to the challenge of limited parking space. The Rotary Parker is an unique Automated Mechanical Rotary Parking System is designed to permit up to a maximum of 12 cars or 12 SUV’s to be parked easily and safely, on the surface area required to park 2 cars. | |||
| stirling |
2017 BE validation |
[ Electricity, Heating and cooling energy ] | Heat industrial usage, Heating in buildings |
| The FR-Stirling is much more than a motor, it is the heart of future and progressive "electricity-generating heaters," that can produce electricity and heat in households at the same time. | |||
| Smartvolt |
2013 BE validation |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity, Electricity efficiency, Energy storage, Information technology ] | Battery, Photovoltaics |
| Smartvolt is a system developer for smart and innovative solar solutions & installation service and consulting. The SmartSolarBox improves the installation for photovoltaics on flat roofs. | |||
| Softcar |
2011 FR validation |
[ Electricity efficiency ] | e-mobility |
| Softcar designed a car with the lowest carbon footprint, assembled in “nano factories”, the local production facilities. Softcar propose a new generation car considering CO2 emissions over its entire life circle. At Softcar, everything is done to reduce the carbon impact and they have achieved so by entering the circular economy where we recycle the components and remelt them into similar pieces. The Softcar's mission is to preserve a blue sky in the cities around the world. | |||
| SoHHytec |
2020 VD validation |
[ Energy Production, Energy storage ] | Renewable technologies |
| We offer cost-effective onsite renewable Fuel (Hydrogen), Electricity and Heat production and storage systems. | |||
| SolarXplorers (SolarStratos) |
2014 VD validation |
[ Energy efficiency, Engineering ] | e-mobility, Photovoltaics |
| SolarStratos is an aeronautical project aimed at flying a solar-powered airplane for the first time to the stratosphere. | |||
| Sponti-Car |
2016 ZH validation |
[ Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Sponti-Car brings electric mobility to swiss rural communities, by providing a electric car to share and organizing everythings around it, like the neccessary charging stations. | |||
| StadtOase |
2021 SH validation |
[ Gardening ] | agricultural technologies, Bio technologies, Fertilizers from wastewater, waste or other sources, Low technology |
| StadtOase produces and sells automated planting systems, allowing the users to easily grow their own food and have a steady supply of fresh and healthy vegetables with minimal effort. | |||
| Starlac Energy |
2013 VD validation |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction,Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity, Energy efficiency ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Smartgrid, Smarthome & building |
| Consultants for developing 100% autonomous and renewable energy concepts, that are highly profitable solutions and investment, in the goal of ridding completly houses and commerces of fossil energy. | |||
| Stignergy |
2012 VD validation |
[ Electricity efficiency, Energy efficiency ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals, Smartgrid |
| Stignergy developed and commercializes Smart Energy Management System (SEMS), an innovative solution for the management of the electrical energy demand. SEMS is also able to manage the storage of the local production energy, and provide prediction charge to the SmartGrid for the balance of Demand/Response. | |||
| Swisseldex |
2018 BE validation |
[ Energy management solutions, Energy Production, Information technology ] | IT data usage |
| Swisseldex AG is an association of Swiss distribution system operators and the initiator of the industry solution. We cover a quarter of all metering points in the Swiss electricity grid. Together with Supercomputing Systems we develop and operate the central data exchange platform. | |||
| SWISS PV |
2015 SO validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Construction of buildings, Electricity ] | Photovoltaics |
| Planning and implementation of complex solar projects, to integer the solar technology not only in buildings, but also in the living environment and people's awareness. | |||
| swizz-e |
2016 SZ validation |
e-mobility, e-motorbike, e-motorcycle, e-scooter | |
| swizz-e GmbH designed a new e-scooter (Roller) that is produced completely in Switzerland. | |||
| System-Alpenluft |
2011 BE validation |
[ Waste & recycling ] | |
| System-Alpenluft AG stands for sustainable and economical waste management. System-Alpenluft AG assists their customers in the optimisation of community service and logistics processes. In so doing, System-Alpenluft AG works in a target-oriented and practical way towards at least guaranteeing the quality of services and processes and, wherever possible, to reduce cost at the same time and to improve cost-effectiveness Participation: System-Alpenluft AG stands for sustainable and economical waste management. System-Alpenluft AG assists their customers in the optimisation of community service and logistics processes. In so doing, System-Alpenluft AG works in a target-oriented and practical way towards at least guaranteeing the quality of services and processes and, wherever possible, to reduce cost at the same time and to improve cost-effectiveness | |||
| TerraRad Tech |
2020 ZH validation |
Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management [ Environmental monitoring, Landscape conservation and management, Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection, Prevention of or protection from technical risks ] | Drone & flight, Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data, Optic devices |
| TerraRad Tech AG is a spinoff of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) focusing on environmental radiometers and remote sensing technologies | |||
| Tesenso |
2020 SH validation |
[ Information technology ] | Internet of Things, Sensors, Smartcity, Smarthome & building |
| Tesenso is a full-stack IoT solution provider, from IoT consulting, proof of concept / MVP projects to mass IoT rollouts. Flexibility, time-to-market, and scalability combined with profound knowledge of the underlying hardware are the key strengths of Tesenso, making sure that customers can rely on solid IoT solutions. | |||
| Tinamu Labs |
2018 ZH validation |
[ Airplanes & transport ] | Drone & flight, Video and Film |
| Tinamu Labs is at the forefront of intelligent drone cinematography turning drones into reliable and safe flying cameras, delivering stunning footage at a fraction of the cost. Their flying multi-camera system enables boundless possibilities including longtime events via combining multiple drones into one single virtual camera, multi-camera productions, mobile lighting, AR solutions in sports as well as motion tracking over long distances to name just a few. | |||
| Transmutex SA |
2019 GE validation |
[ Energy Production ] | Nuclear energy |
| Transmutex is pioneering an entirely new type of nuclear energy that promises scalable carbon-free energy without the traditional challenges of existing nuclear plants. Today’s issues with nuclear energy are safety, long-lived waste, and proliferation. Transmutex will allow significant improvements on all these matters while delivering cost-competitive carbon-free electricity. | |||
| TwingTec |
2013 ZH validation |
[ Electricity, Energy efficiency ] | Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Renewable technologies, Wind energy |
| TwingTec has developed the energy drone. The drone flies on a tethered wing which flies similar as a kite to harness the energy of wind. This unlocks huge unexploited wind energy resources to produce clean energy cheaper than with fossil fuels. | |||
| Unisers |
2019 ZH validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Engineering ] | Photovoltaics, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Detection of trace-impurities in ultrapure water UNISERS created a fully-automated universal chemical sensor capable of identifying multiple and different impurities in water. This technology will help the semiconductors industry to maintain the purity level of the rinsing water in the chip production, eventually improving the reliability and the manufacturing yield of the chips. | |||
| Urban Sympheny |
2020 ZH validation |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production),Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Energy efficiency, Energy management solutions, Information technology ] | IT Software |
| Design optimized energy supply solutions for buildings and districts. Faster than ever. Sympheny offers a cloud-based software platform to support the planning of efficient and economical renewable energy-based decentralised energy systems for neighbourhoods, districts and cities. Using cutting edge algorithms, we empower energy planners to quickly and accurately identify the optimal energy supply solution for any site. Our software fits ideally with current planning workflows, enabling energy planners to quickly evaluate a broad range of conventional and novel supply solutions, and to consider multiple demand vectors simultaneously. | |||