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Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in Switzerland. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from Switzerland. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in Switzerland in January 2026

Investor	CleanTech Switzerland investments
Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT)	5
Contrarian Ventures	3
Founderful	3
Energy Impact Partners	2
Verve Ventures	2
Zürcher Kantonal Bank	2
TiVentures	2
Rock Creek	1
Bloomhaus Ventures	1
Qemetica Ventures (Formerly Ciech Ventures)	1
Fortescue Future Industries	1
Celsius Industries	1
TR Invest	1
David Helgason	1
Cargill	1
Amcor	1
Innovation Fund	1
Climate Capital	1
Kickfund	1
Sylvain & CO	1
Third Sphere	1
Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company	1
ACE & Company	1
BayWa	1
EMPA	1
Extantia Capital	1
Anaïs Ventures	1
Ciri Ventures	1
IWB Industrielle Werke Basel	1
Amadeus APEX Technology Fund	1
Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures	1
ACE Investment Partners Ltd.	1
Climate-KIC	1
Innosuisse	1
JD Investments	1
VAS Ventures	1
Session.vc	1
Les Crudettes	1
Crowdcube	1
Yokogawa Electric Corp.	1
exelixis capital	1
Rütters	1
BlackWood Ventures	1
Tiny VC	1
Hermann Arnold	1
Privilège Ventures	1
Technology Fund	1
Unruly Capital	1
Capagro	1
Breakthrough Energy Ventures	1

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The Foundation for Technology Innovation gives financial assistance to creative and technological projects at various phases of development. FIT funds projects in energy and the environment, information and digital technology, life sciences and health, precision industries, and nutrition and agriculture.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

INERGIO — This EPFL spin-off is developing faster, portable energy units that offer ten times the power at half the weight of current technology. Founder Mahmoud Hadad’s fuel cell innovation, which uses standard butane or propane that’s safe and available worldwide, offers high autonomy. INERGIO’s fuel cell geometry allows unlimited scaling, making thetechnology suitable for applications ranging from charging consumer electronics to auxiliary power for drones to automobile fuel cells. The team has a working prototype and is looking to have its minimal viable product by summer 2020 to start the pilot project with potential partners and customers.
Brightank — Catalyzing your Decarbonization. Brightank accelerates decarbonization with ammonia cracking catalysts, turning ammonia into fuel for heavy transport, hydrogen supply, and power. EPFL spin-off
DigeHealth — DigeHealth's approach to monitoring gut health using bowel noises and body measurements could provide some really valuable insights into digestive well-being.

We are a hands-on, community-focused and founders vetted early-stage sustainable energy transition focused VC in Europe & Israel

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Lithuania, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Eliq — A platform for utilities to engage households with personalised energy insights and give internal teams the visibility to reduce churn and unlock new revenue.
PVcase — From site selection and design to yield optimization; PVcase helps streamline your entire process.
Urbio — Intuitive online software for urban energy planning and design. Urbio helps energy providers, utilities, consultants and real estate companies save time and money with generative design and digital twins.

Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
Zuriq — We are building a quantum computer with scalability at its heart. Trapped-ion qubits with freedom to move and connect.
Chipmind — AI agents to speed-up development of chips, design and verification, collaborative, custom and confidential with open-source EDA tools.

Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP) is a global venture capital firm leading the transition to a sustainable future. EIP brings together entrepreneurs and the world's most forward-looking energy and industrial companies to advance innovation. With over $2.5 billion in assets under management, EIP invests globally across venture, growth, credit,and infrastructure.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series B, Series C
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Overstory — Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery to provide real-time analytics of natural resources. We help to prevent forest fires, deforestation, power outages and are on a mission to create a more sustainable environment. Our insights on the quantity and quality of natural resources help to improve decision-makingby electric utility companies, forestry companies and NGOs.
Atomic Canyon — The Atomic Canyon AI application is intended for use by nuclear power plants, next-generation reactor builders, and government and national laboratories.
Bedrock Energy — Bedrock Energy is developing drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to enable geothermal heating and cooling. The company develops autonomous drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to make geothermal heating and cooling more widespread, affordable, and accessible.

Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Q.ANT — Q.ANT develops photonic processors for AI and high-performance computing, utilizing light for information processing. The company also produces quantum sensors offering ultra-high magnetic field sensitivity in a compact form factor. These products aim to enable more intelligent and sustainable systems across various sectors like data centers,aerospace, and medical technology.
Lexroom.ai — Lexroom.ai allows lawyers to complete hours of legal research in seconds.Legal professionals spend up to 50% of their time in repetitive, low value-adding tasks. That’s why we’re building Lexroom.ai, a product that allows lawyers to complete hours of research in seconds, so they can focus on what really matters.Lexroom.ai perfectly integrateswith lawyers' daily workflow and enables them to speed up time-consuming legal research tasks while increasing output quality, so that they can focus more on value-adding activities.Lexroom.ai is building a bridge between advanced artificial intelligence technologies and legal professionals, through a product specifically tailored to their needs.
EarlySight — EarlySight start-up company is founded in order to accelerate the development and to bring the technology to clinics.

Zürcher Kantonalbank is an independent, incorporated public-law institution is its public service mandate. Enshrined in law, it governs the bank's economic, social, and environmental commitment.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, Japan, Spain

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
TestResults — TestResults uses the TrueTest technology and AI-based virtual user that makes it possible for the first time to test autonomously across software, system, and technology boundaries from a user perspective with the same approach. The company has simplified automated testing massively and reduced time radically. With it, the automation andmaintenance effort is reduced to a minimum that allows zero flakiness and the enlightening feeling of being in control of automation and test scenarios.
QualySense — QualySense is a Swiss start-up company focused on innovative high-throughput grain, beans and seeds sorting technology. QualySense develops a high-speed multi-tons per hour sorting device, which will change how grains, beans and seeds are processed and valued worldwide by assessing the biochemical quality of grains one by one. The QualySensesorters will enable customers to separate grain batches into different biochemical quality classes and sell the corresponding premium products at higher average prices. Food processors will be able to considerably increase the production value, and produce higher quality products in a non-interrupted process.

TiVenture is a seed investment fund owned by the Fondazione Centenario Banca Stato that invests in early stage companies with innovative technologies and high growth potential, principally in southern Switzerland. TiVenture is actively looking and ready to support exceptional founders and entrepreneurs developing scalable products for the globalmarket. TiVenture has a diversified portfolio of companies and is mainly active in the life science, medical, high-tech and IT sectors.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, Italy, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hoxell — Hoxell is an intuitive and easy-to-use integrated platform that digitizes and streamlines all hospitality operations.
Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
Gaia Turbine — Gaia Turbine SA - High-Performance Hydroelectric Turbine for micro and mini power plants

RockCreek is a global investment firm that applies innovation to our decision making, to shape a more sustainable tomorrow.

Investment focus

Battery, Software, Electronics
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
Renewance — Renewance, a leading industrial battery lifecycle service solutions company, helps you manage key battery energy storage asset activities throughout the full battery lifecycle.

We are a pioneering Swiss venture capital firm dedicated to empowering game-changing tech startups in Central Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
Skyld — Skyld create AI-powered security solutions The goal of our endeavor is to prevent reverse engineering and model theft. It is not possible to solve these issues with patents. A true "anti-theft" solution for AI models is what we are creating.
Manukai — Our AI models turn your production history into scalable automation. It runs fully on-premise, secure, and integrates seamlessly into your CAM software or NC code workflow.

An open innovation platform of Ciech Group

Investment focus

Chemical, CleanTech, Recycling
Seed
Switzerland, Poland

Portfolio highlights

DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
Xampla — Xampla's natural plant polymer technology is the innovative technology powering materials to change the world with plastic-free replacements and more.
Maxterial — Maxterial modifies the surface shape or texture of versatile materials, through a method that is very affordable and easy to introduce into the existing manufacturing process. The resulting microtextured materials dramatically reduce the contact area for the objects and droplets that contact the material surface.

Welcome to Fortescue. We're a global green energy and metals company.

Investment focus

Energy, GreenTech, Electronics
Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Hyproof — Hyproof manufactures novel fluorine-containing materials for hydrogen energy and batch preparation technologies of hydrogen energy car fuel cells.
Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
Estes Energy — Estes Energy is a California-based startup developing advanced, U.S.-made, chemistry-agnostic battery packs for mobility and industry—supporting both NMC (for high energy density) and LFP (for cost-sensitive applications)—and targeting commercial vehicles, defense, marine, rail, and off-highway markets.

Celsius Industries is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Waste Management, Environmental Consulting
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
Cocoon — Low carbon construction materials for the builders of tomorrow.

Private Investment Company

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Spain, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

CompPair — CompPair develops sustainable composites with an ultra-fast repair technology to extend their lifetime and reduce waste.
Pipra — PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess a patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after surgery.
Fidentity — Certified identification and signing solutions from fidentity. For better conversion rates. Maximum reliability and quick time-to-market.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

Cargill operates as a diversified agribusiness and industrial supplier, offering a broad portfolio of products and services across the food, agriculture, and bioindustrial sectors. Its food division provides meat and poultry products, edible oils, sweeteners, and salt to manufacturers, foodservice operators, and retailers. In agriculture, Cargillconnects farmers with global markets by sourcing, processing, and distributing grains and oilseeds, while also offering risk management solutions for commodities and currencies. The company supports animal nutrition through the production of feed and livestock solutions. Additionally, Cargill supplies renewable bioindustrial materials, including vegetable oils and additives for applications such as paints and coatings. Its pharmaceutical segment delivers nature-based excipients and active ingredients for various health-related products. Cargill also provides technical support, data asset solutions, transportation and logistics services, risk management services, and marketing services.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Series B, Series A
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BDMG — BDMG is a banking and financial service provider company.
TRACT — Discover how TRACT streamlines emissions tracking, social risk mapping, and compliance, helping your supply chain meet sustainability goals effectively.
Colorado State University — Colorado State University, home of the Rams, where green & gold pride runs deep. World-class researchers, passionate alumni & top-notch students make us CSU!

Amcor is a provider of packaging solutions in Australia, Western Europe, North America.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Sustainability, Packaging Services
Seed, Series C, Funding Round
Canada, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

PulPac — PulPac provides the packaging industry with a groundbreaking manufacturing technology for low-cost, high-performance fiber-based packaging and single-use products. By pioneering the technology of cellulose molding we enable our customers to replace single-use plastics with a sustainable and cost competitive alternative globally.
Nfinite Nanotech — Nfinite Nanotechnology has developed a functional nanocoating technology that accelerates the development and commercialization of cleantech for a sustainable future through transformative technologies, such as sustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics.
ePac Flexible Packaging — Flexible packaging made simple with ePac. We are a flexible packaging company that creates pre-media design, digital printing & pouch making for your business, made in the USA. Contact us today for a quote! 844-623-8603

Chemical, Advanced Materials, Cosmetics, Recycling, CleanTech, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Biosciences

Investment focus

Health Care, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Belgium, France, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Aloxy — Aloxy offers reliable IIot solutions tailored to the needs of the process industry. Our valve sensor provides an open and close indication of manual valves.
Fyteko — For a more sustainable agriculture
Graftys — Graftys, an Aix-en-Provence, France-based early stage company focused on advanced bone biologics.

Diversified investments in the most promising early stage climate startups backed by top tier VCs.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Energy, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Magnefy — Leverage AI-powered maintenance with our predictive maintenance solutions using advanced magnetic sensor technology for transformers.
Copper — Thoughtfully designed, meticulously engineered, well-made home electrification products.
ChemFinity Technologies — ChemFinity Technologies is a chemical company that offers critical metal recovery, water purification, and gas separation services.

Kickfund is a Venture Capital fund that systematically backs companies that successfully complete Venture Kick.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BTRY — BTRY is a spin-off of EMPA and ETH and is developing the industry's first energy-dense solid-state battery, using sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
Tethys Robotics — Tethys Robotics develops AI-powered application oriented robotics system that enables professionals in carrying underwater search & recovery to inspection & surveillance.
ASTRA Therapeutics — Astra - Therapeutics

Sylvain & CO offers ready-to-eat salads and ready-to-cook vegetables.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, CleanTech
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

CleanGreens Solutions SA — High-performance aeroponics systems. A unique, patented, clean, growing system, Mobile aeroponics is an economically viable and locally scalable technology that provides the best sustainability vs. yield balance

Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns.

Investment focus

Software, Real Estate, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

AccessGrid — AccessGrid provides APIs for managing NFC access passes on mobile devices with MIFARE DESFire compatibility. Create and manage secure digital access credentials for your organization.
Near Space Labs — Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response.
Earth Force Technologies — Earth Force is a Vegetation Management System platform.

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Along AI — Join our waitlist and try it first!
IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
Motley — Manual reporting costs business teams 2.4 billion hours a year. Get your time back with Motley, your AI reporting assistant.

ACE offers three core investment strategies across the stages of private investment: Secondaries, Buyout, and Venture. Our portfolio construction guidelines ensure that our investors access the necessary customization to achieve their risk and return requirements.ACE aims to drive returns by managing risks and strategically adjusting investmentexposure to the stage of a company’s development. We strongly believe that diversification and sizing of investments according to the risk profile are the most effective approaches to investing private capital.ACE’s specialized investment teams provide the support to create long-term and sustainable investment results.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.

BayWa is a global corporation with the core segments of agriculture, energy and construction as well as the innovation and digitalization development segment. As a global player, it develops leading solutions and value-added projects for the basic needs of nutrition, energy and construction. Seat of 1923 founded parent company is Munich. It has itsorigins in the cooperative agricultural trade with the task to provide the rural area with everything that agriculture needs. The cooperative idea and the regional connection are still shaping the company. Traditionally, the core markets lie in southern Germany and Austria, but within the scope of a growth strategy BayWa has expanded strongly internationally in recent years. In the meantime, the company is the largest agricultural trader in Germany and one of the leading international suppliers of agricultural raw materials. The Renewable Energies business segment has developed into a significant pillar. BayWa re, which bundles all activities in the field of renewable energies, is driving its project business around the world with great success.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, AgTech, Agriculture
Series A, Seed, Series D
Israel, Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Neggst — Neggst develops plant-based whole egg alternative that consists of a white, yolk, and a biodegradable shell. The company has begun pilot projects with several food service providers and is planning on launching at supermarkets.
Equinom — Equinom is a fully integrated food-tech company, combining agricultural know-how, culinary expertise and deep technology to develop delicious, nutritious, affordable and sustainable non-GMO plant-based ingredients – from the ground up.Sustainable, plant-based proteins are key to feeding Earth’s 10B people by 2050 The plant-based food market grew27% in 2020 and is projected to reach $162B by 2030.The industry is unable to supply the full demand for food vs. feed For decades, crops have been farmed primarily for animal feed – not for human consumption. To be palatable in human food, these crops require extensive and expensive processing. . With limited processing facilities equipped for this use, the industry is on track to supply only 50% of projected demand for plant-based foods.What is Equinom doing about it? Equinom is using science and technology to develop superior ingredients naturally, at the source – in a fraction of the time typically required to breed new crops. Equinom crops are bred naturally, without genetic editing or modification, and are optimized to make meat and dairy analogues more delicious, nutritious, cost-effective and sustainable. Ingredients designed by deep tech to bring out nature’s best The company’s proprietary Manna™ technology platform uses AI to speed the development of superior, high-yield, non-GMO ingredients as nature intended – featuring the quality traits that satisfy consumer expectations. The technology also ensures biodiversity and climate resilience that are critical to ensure food security in light of climate change. What makes Equinom a compelling foodtech investment and collaborator? Working with great partners including Meatless Farm, Roquette with GoodMills Group., Equinom is recognized as a trusted developer and supplier of unrivaled ingredients. Prestigious strategic investors such as BASF and Roquette have helped position Equinom as one of the breakout Round C companies to fuel the worldwide surge in plant-based eating.
Greenforce — Greenforce offers meat alternatives for a sustainable future with the power of plants and proteins.

Interdisciplinary research institute of the ETH Domain. Empa conducts cutting-edge materials and technology research.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sympheny — Ingenious software for ambitious energy planners
Perovskia — Perovskia digitally prints custom solar cells based on patent-protected technology, operating at the intersection of printed electronics, photovoltaics, and material science.
kuafu — kuafu is committed to accelerating grid decarbonization and driving the energy transition to net zero.

We are all about Climate First. We invest in deep decarbonization technologies that lead us to a world beyond fossil fuels. Extantia literally aims at the aspect of survival; not only of our planet, but also of humanity, of our values, of our culture of inclusion and progress. There is no better way to achieve this than by supporting the nextgeneration of mission-driven Gigacorn founders.We are actively searching for companies that have the potential of becoming a “Gigacorn”. Our goal is to find exceptional companies that are ultimately capable of saving in excess of 1Gt of CO2e emissions per year and are also commercially viable with scalable business models.We assess Gigacorn potential by measuring and forecasting CO2e savings over time and place the evaluation of this impact corridor at the core of our investment decisions. This means we only back companies that are capable of reducing at least 100 Mt of CO2e a year, either through direct technology impact or indirectly as a significant digital enabling force across sectors.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Chemical Engineering
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
AssetCool — AssetCool is a thermal metaphotonics company. It produces photonic coatings and materials that enhance the functionality of electrical networks.
LeydenJar Technologies — LeydenJar created a pure silicon anode with extreme high energy density, allowing companies to benefit from powerful and small batteries.

Anaïs Ventures SA is a financial investment corporation.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Chemical
Series A, Series B
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
Bloom Biorenewables Ltd — By transforming natural materials found in biomass, we create the first true alternative to petroleum.

Ciri Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides investment and support for early stage companies. The firm engages in pre-seed and seed round. It emphasizes on funding companies that are focused on climate innovation technology.

Investment focus

Water, Construction, Renewable Energy
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

BioEsol — BioEsol offers energy storage solutions to solar energy users who want to become more resilient to outages and independent of the saturated grid.
New Iridium — Kemvera is a sustainable chemical innovation company empowering customers to reduce carbon impact through sustainable, cost-effective, drop-in chemicals and materials with equal performance as fossil products.-
Crosstown H2R — Industrial-grade hydrogen burner technology for decarbonization. 95% emission reduction, retrofittable design, sub-15ppm NOx compliance.

IWB is a commercial company that specializes in energy, water and telecommunications service.

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, GovTech
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Sympheny — Ingenious software for ambitious energy planners

Amadeus APEX Technology Fund operates as a ventures capital firm. Amadeus APEX Technology Fund will initially invest between €1-1.5M in seed and series A stage deep tech ventures with unique and defendable technology.

Investment focus

Chemical, CleanTech, Oil and Gas
Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.
Fiber Elements — Fiber Elements offers technology for the fully automated production of basalt fiber reinforcement structures.
ATMOS Space Cargo — ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments, Commercial products to entire rocket stages.

Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Aramco Oil Company. It's mission is to invest globally into start-up and high growth companies with technologies of strategic importance to Saudi Aramco, and to accelerate their development and deployment in Saudi Aramco’s operations. Based out of Dhahran (Saudi Arabia),SAEV also operates through regional offices in North America and Europe. SAEV's Objectives are: - Enhance reserve identification, management and production - Increase energy production - Improve operational efficiency - Increase value in downstream processes - Optimize energy & water consumption in Saudi ArabiaSAEV's investment Focus Areas are: - Upstream Oil & Gas - Downstream & Petrochemicals - Sustainability - Digitalization and IR4.0 - New Drivers of Hydrocarbon Demand

Investment focus

Energy, Oil and Gas, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United States, Norway, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Maana — Maana is the pioneer in knowledge-centric technology. The Maana Knowledge Platform accelerates knowledge discovery to increase profitability. Maana’s patented Knowledge Graph— a breakthrough invention — at the core of the platform expedites extracting knowledge from data silos, to reveal the relationships within the context of an asset or processcompanies wish to optimize. Global companies such as GE, Chevron, and Shell are increasing profitability with Maana by operationalizing insights into line-of-business applications for thousands of employees to make faster data-driven decisions. Investors include Chevron Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, Frost Data Capital, GE Ventures, Intel Capital, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, and Shell Technology Ventures. Maana is privately held with offices in Palo Alto, California, and Bellevue, Washington.
Hydrogen Mem-Tech — Hydrogen Mem-Tech aim is to make the green shift happen through our state-of-the-art hydrogen separation technology with carbon capture.
Data Gumbo — Data Gumbo is the smart contract company trusted by global industrial enterprises. The only network of enterprises and their customers, suppliers and vendors that successfully incorporates real-time sensor level and field data to validate transactions, GumboNet™ reduces costs by more than 10% for all network members by automatically eliminatingpayment delays, disputes and complicated reconciliations.To date, Data Gumbo has received equity funding with Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Saudi Aramco; Equinor Ventures, the venture subsidiary of Equinor, Norway’s leading energy operator; and L37, a hybrid venture capital and private equity company. Data Gumbo is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with global offices in Stavanger, Norway, and London, UK. For more information, visit www.datagumbo.com.

ACE Investment Partner is a Geneva based investor with a focus on early & venture opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Renewable Energy, Collaboration
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Switzerland, United States, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Enuu — Connected Epods and Ecargos.
Skydweller — Skydweller is a US-Spanish aerospace company developing solar powered aircraft solutions capable of achieving perpetual flight with the highest—and most meaningful—payload capacity. Utilizing technology based upon the longest continuous solar powered flight program in history, our fast-growing startup is developing a new class of unmanned aircraft,providing the persistence of geosynchronous satellites with the powerful sensing capabilities and range of a large, airborne platform.
Natufia — At Natufia, we believe you can transform your life by growing food in your kitchen. Health and wellness is a lifestyle and the Natufia Hydroponic Home Kitchen Garden was created to offer families a holistic, forward-visioning solution to healthy living. With a team comprised of technologists, architects, botanists and chefs, Natufia has risen tothe forefront of technological development, making it possible to grow food to scale all of your family’s produce right at home. The plants and herbs are available to harvest immediately for cooking and eating, giving life to your diet, and transforming the way you relate to your food.

EIT Climate-KIC is a European knowledge and innovation community, working to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon economy.Supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, we identify and support innovation that helps society mitigate and adapt to climate change. They believe that a decarbonised, sustainable economy is notonly necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change, but presents a wealth of opportunities for business and society.

Investment focus

Sustainability, CleanTech, Energy
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Everimpact — We help cities, businesses and industries measure, reduce, and monetise their GHG emissions (CO2 and methane). We measure GHG emissions accurately and in real time with satellite imagery, big data and sensors and certify the data.
Latitudo40 — Empower sustainable growth with AI-driven satellite insights from Latitudo 40. Unlock precise, real-time data for smarter urban planning, climate risk management, and industry innovation. Enhance resilience and lead with confidence.
WindCapture Technologies — WindCapture Technologies utilises the scale of wind turbines to provide affordable and scalable direct air capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Innosuisse’s role is to promote science-based innovation in the interests of industry and society in Switzerland.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hemetron — Over 100 million people globally suffer from Inflammatory Rheumatic Diseases (IRD), causing chronic pain, fatigue, and flare-ups that significantly reduce quality of life. Traditional monitoring, with doctor visits every 3-6 months, leaves gaps in tracking disease progression, leading to poor outcomes and suffering. Hemetron AG addresses thisproblem with a groundbreaking remote monitoring system, enabling patients to conduct at-home blood tests. Results are digitally sent to physicians for timely treatment adjustments. This solution improves disease tracking, patient engagement, and reduces costs. We revolutionize chronic patient care through more personalized and effective treatments, delivering better outcomes at lower costs.
HAYA Therapeutics — Pioneering next-generation therapies for fibrotic diseases. Learn more about our approach here.
Synendos Therapeutics — Synendos Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that aims to develop breakthrough safe and effective therapies for unmet needs in neuropsychiatric disorders through modulation of a new drug target in the endocannabinoid system that enables restoration of natural functioning of the brain.

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Investment focus

Health Care, AgTech, Medical
Series A, Series C
China, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

LifeDojo — AI-Driven Behavioral Health Care Solutions designed to empower employees and health plan members while delivering measurable value.
SiBionics — SiBionics is a medtech specialized in R&D & commercialization of implantable medical devices and medical imaging artificial intelligence.
AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.

VAS Ventures is Martin Varsavsky's early stage investment fund. They are looking for companies whose innovative founders think big and are courageous enough to shape the future. Martin is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School and investor.As a founder, he has built 5 successful companies,Viatel, Jazztel, Ya.com, Fon and Prelude. Viatel, Jazztel, and Ya.com all sold for over $700m. As an investor, he backed fascinating companies such as 23andMe, Eolia, Smarthings, Tumblr and Aura Biosciences.VAS Ventures’ key for success is offering hands-on mentoring from Martin.

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Food Delivery
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Enuu — Connected Epods and Ecargos.
Jüsto — Jüsto is an online delivery-only grocery store chain that offers a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meat products, beauty products, and house supplies that can be delivered at every consumers' doorstep. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico City.
Mox — Mox mission is to use technology and smart operations in order to provide an end-to-end last mile logistics solution that allows us to maintain a sustainable relationship with our workforce, our environment, and our customers.

At session we back early-stage companies in the Software and Consumer space. As active investors, we can only partner with a few companies. When we do, we roll up our sleeves and get to work, providing entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Switzerland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
Cerrion — Cerrion is a visual AI that helps production teams react faster to process deviations, automate root cause analysis, and implement targeted improvement actions. They believe that process transparency enabled by AI and computer vision is key to achieving more autonomy and sustainability in manufacturing. Their software is built and designed withproduction teams from all over the world in the loop.
deskbird — Most intuitive and people-centric - deskbird's hybrid workplace solution that employees will love. For all flexibe companies, from startup to corporate.

Les Crudettes offers green salads, raw vegetables, and mixed salads. Since 1984, Les Crudettes, a company of the LSDH Group, has been located in the heart of the plant production areas of the Loire Valley (at Châteauneuf-sur-Loire - 45) and Provence (at Cabannes - 13). It transforms and distributes on a national level, on the Supermarkets andOut-of-Home Catering circuits, with its brand or private label, fresh salads and vegetables ready to use, as well as snacking salads made from plants.

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, CleanTech
Series A
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

CleanGreens Solutions SA — High-performance aeroponics systems. A unique, patented, clean, growing system, Mobile aeroponics is an economically viable and locally scalable technology that provides the best sustainability vs. yield balance

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced investor, we make it simple to buy and sell shares in Europe's most exciting high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Financial Services, FinTech
Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mintos — Mintos is a platform that provides retail investors with an accessible way to build wealth through loan-based investments. Through their platform retail investors can invest in a diversified way in income-producing assets to build wealth in the long term. They implement environmental, social, and employee matters, respect for human rights,anti‐corruption, and anti‐bribery matters within their remuneration policy practices and other internal company documents.
Vancubic — Vancubic is a company that specializes in developing innovative modular products for van conversions, enabling easy and efficient customization for individuals and businesses.
Emerald — Take control of your long-term health with Emerald. Get continuous GP support, in-depth screenings, wearable data integration, and a personalised plan to prevent disease and boost longevity.

Founded in 1915, the US$3.7 billion company engages in cutting-edge research and innovation. Yokogawa is active in industrial automation and control. This segment plays a vital role in a wide range of industries including oil, chemicals, natural gas, power, iron and steel, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, and food.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Manufacturing
Corporate Round, Funding Round, Series A
Japan, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

GridBeyond — Endeco's Energy ManagementSystem (EMS) provides wirelessenergy management and controlsystems for retail, commercial andindustrial users. Applications includebuilding control, refrigeration control,demand management, priceresponse, energy efficiency, anddemand response. Our automatedwireless systems seamlesslyintegrate intoyour existingoperations and/or BuildingManagement System (BMS) withoutany training of retail staff required.
waylay — Waylay is a leading Enterprise IT-OT digital unification software company delivering low-code based orchestration, automation and analytics software solutions. Waylay has a passion for supporting enterprises on their IoT automation journey and ensuring it puts all valuable data to work for developers, data scientists and domain experts.
Tsubame BHB — Tsubame BHB is a Sales company

Leading the charge in sustainable investment with a focus on longevity, circular economy, and exponential technologies. Join us in shaping the future.

Investment focus

Jewelry, Textiles, CleanTech
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OceanSafe — OceanSafe is a textile technology company for circular, biodegradable, and toxin-free circular textiles.
ID Genève — We make watches that reflect the values and principles of people who are committed to fight climate change and who wish to have a positive social and environmental impact. The materials used are circular and have a lower carbon footprint than the industry average.

Rütters operates as a family investment office.

Investment focus

Textiles, CleanTech, Recycling
Seed
Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

OceanSafe — OceanSafe is a textile technology company for circular, biodegradable, and toxin-free circular textiles.

BlackWood Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on supporting tech startup founders. BlackWood Ventures was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Transportation
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, France, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Hybr — Find your next student accommodation with Hybr, the UK's best student letting platform. Over 5000 happy students served. Click to find your next property.
Oditi fka PROSPECT 100 — PROSPECT 100 is building the digital space for co-creation, democratizing the creative industries
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Backing great companies when they're tiny

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Genie — Genie is a provider of a Shopify inventory management solution for fast-growing merchants.
Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.
Massive Dynamic — Massive Dynamic is an AI based software development and digital marketing company.

Hermann Arnold - co-founder, co-initiator @ 42hacks.com

Investment focus

GPS, SaaS, Software
Pre-Seed, Angel
Switzerland, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Thingsy — Thingsy is the digital hub for the implementation of the circular economy.
Manax — Manax is a business management software that helps field service businesses digitalize their operations and close more sales.
Kollabo — Kollabo - the deep job platform for skilled blue collar workers. Thanks to our large network of temporary offices & our qualified team, we excel at finding the perfect match for job seekers and staffing agencies. Never before has the recruiting process been so easy and hassle-free for everyone involved. The goal is to digitally enable allstakeholder, generating a win-win-win situation. It can be that simple with Kollabo – We make work easy.

Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary over five decades of combined investment experience Where Entrepreneurs Thrive Rooted in reality, reaching for the extraordinary Authentic, dedicated, disciplined, and goal-oriented, our team drives meaningful and lasting success About Team

Investment focus

Health Care, Hardware, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Switzerland, France

Portfolio highlights

Wyth — Wyth creates private digital spaces for virtual and hybrid audiences. With our fully customizable platform organizations can build a seamless experience and an online home for their communities to connect, learn, work, share and play without ever leaving Wyth. We give our customers full control over their brand experience, data ownership andbusiness relationships.
Smeetz — Smeetz is the future of a unified, data-driven and dynamic pricing-oriented commerce for attractions and cultural venues.
Avelo — Our mission is to save lives by bringing fast and actionable infectious disease diagnosis closer to the patient. Avelo's solution is a breath collection device. It works with existing molecular tests to detect multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia

Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Information Technology
Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
Switzerland, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Distran — Distran ultrasonic cameras detect leaks of any type of gas in industrial facilities at a distance with live leak rate quantification. ATEX-certified.
Bionomous — Bionomous combines innovative micro-engineering design and machine learning methods to develop devices that automatically inspect and sort miniature biological entities.
AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.

Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal

Investment focus

Biotechnology, CleanTech, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ephos — Designing and manufacturing glass-based integrated photonic circuits that power the most advanced classical and quantum devices
AtmoCooling — AtmoCooling transforms coastal deserts into thriving hubs of agriculture, clean energy, and climate resilience. It was founded in 2022 and operates in the USA and UAE.
Terran Robotics — Terran Robotics is a construction company that specializes in AI and robotics. The company's headquarters are in Bloomington, Indiana.

The First European Independent Venture Capital fund dedicated to AgTech and Food Tech

Investment focus

Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Food Processing
Funding Round, Series A, Series C
France, Sweden, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Agriodor — Agriodor is to provide concrete and effective alternatives to insecticides to help farmers produce more sustainably.
Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness
Phagos — Phagos uses AI and phages to create personalized bacterial treatments in 2 months. Our sustainable antibiotic alternative targets specific bacteria without resistance, serving chicken, cattle, swine, and shrimp farms worldwide.

Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Still Bright — Still Bright has discovered transformative reaction chemistry to enable the rapid, clean, and complete recovery of copper.
ZeroAvia — ZeroAvia is producing the world's first practical zero emission aviation powertrain, initially targeting 20-seat airplanes to start replacing dirty jet fuel in regional transport
Commonwealth Fusion Systems — The fastest path to clean, limitless fusion energy.

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