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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| kaiosID |
2019 VD validation |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, [ Information technology ] | IT blockchain or algorithms |
| Counterfeiting and grey markets pose two growing challenges for brands. kaiosID fights counterfeiting and illicit trade by covering the product's packaging with invisible patterns that can be easily identified by an intuitive smartphone app. Once printed on the packaging, the random patterns become the fingerprint of the product and allow for product authentication (genuine/fake) and identification (traceability), thus restoring trust in brands and logistics. | |||
| Karibou |
2015 GE validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| karibou.ch strengthens the local stationary trade with its online deployment! Find the service and diversity of a market by finding the best products at the same price as at the market! What makes the strength of a market is the diversity of products, the quality of products, and the personalized customer service. With all our passion, we have created a technology that enhances the existing stationary infrastructure and deploys it in the digital world. Because what you eat matters! | |||
| Keller Technologies |
2000 ZG established |
Construction & buildings, Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Construction of buildings, Resource efficiency ] | Smarthome & building |
| Plan, design and build to level, environmentally friendly buildings, neighbourhoods with interessting architecture in China | |||
| Kern |
2021 BE validation |
Transport & Mobility, [ Trade and Retail, Transport & logistics of goods ] | Construction: Resource or material optimisation |
| The patented shape of the corrugated cardboard box enables securely transport of content, space-saving storage, and simple handling during sorting and stacking. | |||
| kickbag |
2020 SG validation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management, [ Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| Online shopping without packaging waste. The foldable shipping bag made of recycled PET is a first in Switzerland: reusable up to 30 times and 100% climate-neutral. | |||
| kleandrop |
2021 ZH validation |
Health & House & Body Care, [ Cleaning ] | Low technology, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Cleaning products in tab or power form, without water to save transport energy and packing plastic materials. | |||
| Klepsydra |
2018 ZH No website - probably failed |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, [ Information technology ] | IT Software |
| Klepsydra is a professional software engineering and cloud computing tool for computationally intensive intelligent devices and embedded systems applications. It has a two-fold purpose: accelerate the development of complex embedded software, and optimise, or increase, the computational performance of the on-board software for complex tasks like sensor fusion or image processing. | |||
| KnowS IT |
2017 ZH validation |
Communication, Media, Education or Games, | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Job portal & community. The safe way to find people with the right skills. | |||
| Kohlenkraft |
2023 ZH formation |
Construction & buildings, Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction [ climate carbon removal ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Carbon capture and storage, Construction: Resource or material optimisation |
| KohlenKraft develops, designs and produces climate positive building materials. Their plaster and insulation are made out of charcoal. The insulation stores carbon from the atmosphere and can be reused, recycled, landfilled or composted after its use. | |||
| Kokojoo |
2020 BS growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| With KOKOJOO, we make two important contributions: On the one hand, we contribute to a reduction of resource waste. On the other hand, we contribute to the creation of value in Africa (Ivory Coast). | |||
| Kuori |
2022 ZH growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management, | None |
| KUORI, a Swiss cleantech company founded in 2022, creates sustainable, bio-based materials from food byproducts like olive pits and banana peels. Their materials are biodegradable, break down microplastics, and meet composting standards, offering a greener alternative to traditional plastics. Supported by the EU's Horizon program and awarded the Renewable Material of the Year 2023, KUORI is leading the transition to a post-oil economy. | |||
| Kyburz battery recycling |
1991 ZH formation |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management, [ Energy storage, Waste & recycling ] | Battery, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| The e-mobility pioneer KYBURZ is breaking new ground in battery recycling: The Zurich-based company has put an innovative in-house system into operation - the first of its kind in Switzerland. The recycling process developed in collaboration with Empa is environmentally friendly and offers potential beyond the company's own electric vehicle production lines. KYBURZ has deliberately not patented the process and makes the know-how available to all interested parties. The entire basic research and all process steps of the own recycling plant are made transparent. | |||
| Lantal Textiles |
2016 ZH established |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps, | None |
| Conventional airplane carpets are dyed using a yarn dyeing process. This process is slow, energy-intensive, and the carpets are often heavy. Lantal Textiles' carpet technology digitizes the manufacturing process while simultaneously reducing water and CO2 consumption as well as waste. Additionally, the use of ultra-light materials reduces the weight of the airplanes. | |||
| Légumes Perchés |
2020 VD growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Biodiversity and ecosystem protection, Farming & agriculture, Gardening, Resource sufficiency ] | None |
| The purpose of the company is to design, carry out and support urban and peri-urban agriculture projects | |||
| Leibacher Biber-Manufaktur |
2015 growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| The traditional Swiss Biber with lokal and fresh ingredients and also vegan alternatives. | |||
| Lieferdienst Seetal |
2020 LU growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| As a delivery service Seetal we run the webshop with mostly regional products. Since many markets were canceled in the last two years, there were few opportunities for producers and manufacturers, including many family businesses, to sell their products. Therefore we decided to expand our webshop for beeswax cloths with high quality, fresh food from the region and to offer a delivery service. The region of Seetal and its surroundings has many innovative producers, whose products are made with the greatest care, and who are often not known. The delivery service Seetal wants to make these producers better known and act as a distribution channel for family businesses. We offer our customers a wide range of products, delivered fresh to your doorstep by our own delivery service. With every order you make an important contribution to the added value in the region. | |||
| Local'ice |
2021 FR growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Farming & agriculture, Food production & retail ] | None |
| Natural and Local Soft-Ice and Granite | |||
| VRM Switzerland |
2016 ZH growth |
Transport & Mobility, [ Airplanes & transport, Information technology ] | IT data usage, Robotic |
| VRMotion designs and develops simulators that give prospective pilots the impression of sitting in a real helicopter while training. The simulation software features realistic flight physics with real-time multi-body simulation and flight data validation, which offers an exact replication of flight behaviour. The simulation is also tailored to the needs of trainees, right from introductory training on a turbine helicopter to demanding scenario-based training, mountain flying and emergency training | |||
| Wheycation |
2018 SG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail, Waste & recycling ] | food tech |
| We don’t see waste products, but new and valuable raw materials: We develop healthy and tasty food by upgrading (upcycling) side streams of food production. Therefore, they process whey to high quality products. | |||
| Loonawell |
2020 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| Loonawell stands for healthy dog living. Our organic dog treats are made with premium, hand-picked ingredients, of human-grade quality and tailored to your dog's nutritional needs. In a Loonawell treat, every single ingredient adds value to its nutritional content. | |||
| loopi |
2021 NW validation |
Behavioural change, [ Waste & recycling ] | Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| "We’re pioneering stroller design to last well beyond the needs of one user. Committed to the circular economy, our concept is repairable, refurbishable and recyclable. By offering our strollers as a subscription, it‘s given back to us at the end of its use so we can give it a new life with another family." | |||
| CookEat |
2014 ZH validation |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Trade and Retail ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Your marketplace for home-cooked food. You can find delicious offers from your neighborhood and offer your food for sale yourself. | |||
| Lumiphase |
2020 ZH growth |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency, Engineering ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Our world is becoming increasingly digital and data traffic is exploding. The infrastructure behind data centers and telecom networks is hitting a wall, and the industry needs a disruptive solution. Lumiphase develops novel optical communicatiion chips that are very inexpensive, super compact and highly efficient. They allow the industry to replace today's costly and power-hungry connections with a new generation of electro-optical links, ultimately enabling a new paradigm in datacenters' architecture and leadin to more flexible, efficient and sustainable use of computing resources. | |||
| LUUUP |
2021 SG formation |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps, [ clothes ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| LUUUP is a recycling company that uses a chemical process to dissolve cellulose-based fibres to generate feedstock for yarn production. It is working on improved circularity of textile waste to reduce its ecological impact | |||
| Luya Foods |
2021 BE growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | food tech |
| Luya is a flavor loaded plant-based alternative to meat taking sustainability to the next level. We rescue organic okara - a by-product of tofu and soymilk production of which more than 1500 tonnes go to waste in Switzerland every year - and turn it into ready-to-cook slices, chunks and patties. | |||
| Lynus |
2020 SZ growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity efficiency ] | Battery, IT Software, Photovoltaics |
| Lynus is a technology company focused on open software development and batteries for renewable energy systems. All energy components of buildings can be connected on one platform. By using machine learning the platform can help to reduce the CO2-emissions and energy production costs of buildings and generators by predicting weather changes and adjusting accordingly. | |||
| Madame Frigo |
2019 LU growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Trade and Retail ] | Low technology |
| To save as much food as possible from going to waste, publicly accessible refrigerators are set up throughout Switzerland and operated by volunteers. | |||
| magnes |
2016 ZH stagnant |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas), [ Many fields ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Magnes has extensive know-how and engineering capabilities to develop tailor-made magnetic materials that meet the highest customer-specific requirements. The scalability of the manufacturing process enables small series up to mass production. | |||
| Mastercoldbrewer (re-coffee) |
2017 SG growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry, [ Food production & retail ] | Low technology |
| Coffee - Drinks that are manufactured without the effects of heat. This lead to preserved aromas and vitamines. The products are fair and mostly organic. | |||
| matriq |
2019 SG validation |
Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas), | Enabling technologies, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| matriq offers innovative solutions for the part-indiviual marking of plastic components of all kinds. With the DynamicMold technology, marking takes place directly in the manufacturing machine, whether in injection molding, blow molding or thermo forming. Besides the application for traceability, the DynamicMold technology also offers the possibility to integrate anticounterfeiting features for brand protection. | |||