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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Locatee |
2014 ZH Validation |
[ Building Technologies ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Locatee is the leading workplace analytics solution that empowers workplace leaders to make fact-based decisions about their real estate portfolio by transforming complex data into space utilization insights. By leveraging various IT data sources, Locatee transforms information into actionable insight, thereby shaping the way employees interact with the workplace and making office buildings truly human-centric. | |||
| TerraRad Tech |
2020 ZH Validation |
[ Environmental Monitoring ] | Components: Optic devices, Mobility: Drone & flight, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| 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 |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Internet of Things IOT, Smart: City, Smart: Home & building, Smart: Sensors |
| 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. | |||
| Transmutex SA |
2019 GE Validation |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Nuclear |
| 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 |
[ Energy Production & Supply ] | Energy: Grid & Electricity transmission, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Wind |
| 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 & Power Systems [ Water Management ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech, Energy: Photovoltaics |
| 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 |
Financials & Information Technology [ Energy Efficiency, Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Software |
| Sympheny offers a SaaS web application that enables energy planners (engineering firms, consultants, utilities) to digitalize and optimize energy concept planning. The platform combines digital energy-twin technology with powerful algorithms and interactive dashboards, enabling holistic planning across electricity, PV, heating, cooling, storage, networks, and e-mobility. This allows planners to deliver higher-quality concepts, work more efficiently, win more projects, and build long-term customer relationships. The tool is applicable to a wide range of projects, from urban districts and heat networks to industrial sites and municipalities. | |||
| Urbio |
2020 VS Validation |
[ Energy Management & Use ] | IT: Software |
| Urbio is a software for planning sustainable cities that combines the strengths of humans and artificial intelligence. | |||
| Vir2sense |
2016 ZH Validation |
Energy & Power Systems [ Road Transport & Vehicles ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric, Smart: Device |
| Vir2sense GmbH provides ready to use, optimized fast combustion and emission models for internal combustion engine calibration, continuous emissions monitoring and real-time control. The virtual sensors have been used successfully in automotive, heavy duty, power generation and ship propulsion applications. | |||
| Vuna |
2016 ZH Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Waste Management & Recycling ] | Components: Filters & membranes, Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..) |
| VUNA designs & implements specialised sanitation systems to: - recover nutrients & water - save water - avoid costly sewers Participation: VUNA designs & implements specialised sanitation systems to:- recover nutrients & water- save water - avoid costly sewers | |||
| Prana Sustainable Water (W2AREX) |
2012 VD Validation |
[ Waste Management & Recycling ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| The WasteWater Reuse and Energy Exchange (W2AREX ©) is a platform designed to commoditise wastewater treatment capacities and matching offers and demands of treated wastewater with wastewater supplies. It boost circular economy by proactively matching the following needs: @ B2B buyers of treated wastewater @ B2B sellers of treated wastewater for future deliveries @ C2B suppliers of wastewater for future deliveries of wastewater including inputs easy to treat to get shared profits of its transformation into water, energy, fertilizers, bio-cements, fertilizers. | |||
| WattAnyWhere |
2021 VS Validation |
[ Energy Efficiency, Energy Production & Supply, Energy Storage ] | Energy: From Biomass (e.g. biofuels, biogas ..), Energy: Hydrogen tech and fuel cells, Energy: Renewable tech, Energy: Storage other than batteries, Environment: Carbon capture and storage, Environment: Climate tech, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| WattAnyWhere is a global provider of clean energy solutions, specializing in off-grid power generation. The company's innovative generators offer reliable and independent power solutions that can be deployed anywhere, anytime. With a focus on sustainability and environmental responsibility, WattAnyWhere is committed to delivering clean energy solutions that meet the increasing energy demands of today's world. | |||
| WeGaw AG |
2016 VD Validation |
Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Environmental Monitoring ] | IT: Data usage, Smart: Measuring & monitoring |
| Wegaw is a pioneering tech company specializing in digital hydroelectric energy solutions. Our "water intelligence" product provides precise modeling and forecasting of snow reserves and water inflow rates, crucial for optimizing hydroelectric power generation. By leveraging AI and merging various data sources, we deliver accurate predictions up to 180 days ahead of water inflows. Our target market comprises hydropower owning utilities and power traders, seeking to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve energy trading strategies. This market, hydropower asset optimization and power trading, is as big as $ 10B worldwide. Wegaw's unique selling proposition lies in its access to +2 billion high fidelity geospatial data points to train our AI models, which improves the accuracy of hydrological models, reduces operational costs, and enables better decision-making. Our solution can be integrated into existing systems within two weeks, delivering a return on investment of x5 to x10 for hydropower asset managers. | |||
| WEPOT |
2020 VD Validation |
[ Smart Farming & Agritech ] | Other: Unknown |
| The plant fixes its roots around the pot and, thanks to the natural porosity of the clay, it drinks as needed. This avoids any water stress, the development of weeds but above all a saving of 50% to 70% water! | |||
| Yasai |
2020 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Biological: Agricultural tech, Biological: Bio tech, Environment: Waste recovery, recycling and re-use, IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Yasai offers Farming as a Service with Vertical Farms based on circular economy within Smart Cities | |||
| YORD |
2021 FR Validation |
Buildings & Construction,Climate, Sustainability & Hazards [ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Blockchain or algorithms |
| YORD reduces your heating consumption by up to 40%, while increasing your comfort. YORD is a Swiss solution that can be adapted to any type of building and heating system. | |||
| ZeroGeo Energy |
2022 ZG Validation |
None | |
| We are a leading European renewable energy low carbon power generation and reservoir production optimisation company delivering Energy From Rocks™. | |||
| Zevvy (EVG-Zentrum) |
2017 LU Validation |
Circular Economy, Waste & Resources [ Energy Efficiency ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Supports the development of ZEVS and community solar projects and runs the software Zevvy to help customers with the billing of solar power systems and other energy systems. | |||
| zoë circular building |
2017 BS Validation |
[ Building Construction ] | None |
| Building with natural, untreated and local materials: healthy, sustainable and affordable. | |||
| 2nd Peak |
2020 ZH Validation |
[ Fashion & Apparel ] | None |
| 2nd Peak buys and sells second-hand, high-quality outdoor clothing. As good as new - only cheaper and more sustainable. 2nd Peak kauft und verkauft gebrauchte, hochwertige Outdoorbekleidung. So gut wie neu – nur günstiger und nachhaltiger. | |||
| 4QT |
2020 ZH Validation |
[ Energy Efficiency ] | Energy: Battery |
| 4QT produces high power electricity drives specifically for the heavy equipment industry. Through those drives producers of heavy polluters like excavators and dozers can begin to electrify their fleets with a reduction of environmental fines and improvement of their unit cost in mind. By implementing no rare-earth permanent magnets in their motor it is not only cheaper in unit economics in scale but also recyclable by design. | |||
| carvelo2go (ACADEMIE MOBILITE) |
2007 BE Validation |
[ Bicycles & E-Bikes ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions, Mobility: Electric |
| Carvelo2go offers an online sharing platform where you can rent different eCargo bikes via their app or website. The bikes can be rented on an hourly basis and can be picked up from as well as brought back to various hosts. | |||
| adultimum |
2015 SG Validation |
Manufacturing & Industrial Processes [ Resource Efficiency ] | Components: Resource or material optimisation |
| Adultimum develops technically sophisticated carbon components. The precise design enables lightweight construction under static and dynamic loads - even for complex structures. Design and function go hand in hand: the components impress with high series fidelity and brilliant surfaces. | |||
| ting (Agentur für Weiterentwicklung) |
2019 ZH Validation |
[ Behavioural Change ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Ting builds collective wealth with monthly contributions that are available to all members as a temporary income. We share money, invest in people, create time, advocate for opportunity, and shape the future. | |||
| Agilery |
2021 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | IT: Platforms or networking solutions |
| Agilery helps manufacturing food products in small to medium scale quantities for quick launches in a fully collaborative model through a network of partners. it therefor helps to speed up the innovation process and the market introduction and testing of new producs. | |||
| aikemy |
2020 ZH Validation |
[ Food Systems & Food Tech ] | Environment: Water pollution abatement, Smart: Sensors |
| The World's Smallest Nutrient Composition Analyzer. Our technology uses novel accurate portable NIR sensors, AI, and digital intelligence for animal nutrition. The application tracks the data on feed cost savings and sustainability indicators. | |||
| AITHON |
Validation |
[ Building Technologies, Efficiency Solutions ] | None |
| Access worksites like never before. Get close with your asset while keeping workers safe. Whatever needs to be done. | |||
| Aleph-Insight |
2021 VS Validation |
[ Air Quality Management ] | Components: Physical & chemical & nano tech |
| Aleph Insight uses photochemistry to clean the air in livestock buildings, with a patented cutting-edge technology, that is very energy efficient. | |||
| Alligator |
2021 ZG Validation |
[ Freight & Logistics, Road Transport & Vehicles ] | Energy: Battery, Energy: Renewable tech |
| Alligator offers the world's first scalable solution for charging trucks during the journey from their trailer, by connecting high-voltage lines between the semi tractor unit and the trailer. So while loading the trailer with goods at the same time fully charged batteries can be placed on the trailer. This energy can then be transferred to the semi tractor unit through the expanded energy network while driving. | |||
| Amazentis |
2007 VD Validation |
[ Health Solutions ] | Biological: Bio tech |
| Amazentis is an innovative life science company dedicated to employing breakthrough research and clinical science to bring advanced therapeutic nutrition products to life. Our most advanced product targets the reversal of age-related muscle decline by improving the activity of mitochondria – the “powerhouse of the cell” – to optimize muscle function. | |||