Top 50 Energy VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in May 2026
Top 50 Energy VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Switzerland in May 2026
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Find investors — It's Free!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.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Switzerland, France
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- 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.
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.
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- Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Japan, Spain
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- 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.
- TECregen — TECregen is a biotechnology company that develops thymus-rejuvenating biologics to restore immune function and T-cell responses.
- 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.
Founderful operates as a venture capital firm and a Switzerland’s leading pre-seed fund.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Oxyle — Permanently eliminate PFAS from your wastewater. Book a pilot and lead the way to clean, safe waters.
- Chipmind — AI agents to speed-up development of chips, design and verification, collaborative, custom and confidential with open-source EDA tools.
- mimic — mimic builds scalable AI models for universal robotic manipulation. Intuitively automate your most complex and tedious manual labor tasks from retail to manufacturing.
SICTIC is the leading angel investor network in Switzerland with the largest Swiss seed-stage startup dealflow.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Qala — Qala delivers real-time data classification, discovery, and policy enforcement. Auto-classify sensitive data, map full lifecycles, and label at source.
- Nextesy — Nextesy is a pioneering start-up that uses AI to simplify and automate important business processes, allowing businesses to alleviate the strain of repetitive manual procedures while increasing operational efficiency and scalability.
- Scanvio — Scanvio Medical provides gynecologists, endometriosis centers and ultrasound manufacturers with an AI-guided ultrasound software for faster endometriosis diagnosis.
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.
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- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Switzerland, France, Germany
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- 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.
- Kyron.bio — Kyron.bio uses the power of glycan alterations to enable improved protein therapies.
- Phlair — Carbon Atlantis is producing energy-efficient approach for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal.
We are an early stage VC for climate tech startups.
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- Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, Finland
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- Ecair — Ecair provides software for indoor air quality and energy management. The platform aggregates data from connected sensors to track pollutants, CO2, humidity, temperature, and particulate matter in real time. Dashboards, alerts, and APIs support building operations, facility managers, and ESG teams. Algorithms estimate exposure, flag ventilationissues, and suggest HVAC adjustments to balance comfort, health, and energy use. Reporting tools support certifications and compliance, and data exports integrate with BMS, CMMS, and data warehouses. Services include device provisioning, calibration management, and analytics consulting for multi-site portfolios.
- Exnaton — Exnaton offers a flexible SaaS platform for the decarbonized, decentralized and digital energy future. We move ahead with energy communities. Exnaton offers software for energy communities and dynamic energy tariffs. With our SaaS solution, utilities can easily build a digital customer channel, offer new renewable energy products, and reduce manual effort for managing distributed resources. We enable energy communities according to REDII, models for shared investments in photovoltaic, batteries and more, collective self-consumption billing, self-consumption communities and participation models for tomorrow's energy market.
- Milvus Advanced — Our Midas-touch alloys replicate the functional properties of platinum-group metals at a fraction of the cost.
Technology Fund offers loan guarantees to Swiss companies whose novel products contribute to a sustainable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
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- Software, Energy, Information Technology
- Debt Financing, Grant, Seed
- Switzerland, Italy, Germany
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- 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 — Automating tomorrow's biology. Our technology handles all small biological entities from 0.5 to 2mm. From fish eggs to 3D models, like organoids and spheroids
- 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.
Kickfund is a Venture Capital fund that systematically backs companies that successfully complete Venture Kick.
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- Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Switzerland
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- 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
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.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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- Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
- Vennre — Build wealth through vetted private market opportunities from $5k. GCC-first, globally accessible. Regulated, Sharia-compliant, digital-first.
- PatientPoint — Discover how PatientPoint delivers content that drives better health decisions and outcomes for healthcare providers, brands, and patients.
High-Tech Grunderfonds finances startups with growth potential. Its team of investment managers supports young companies with expertise, entrepreneurial spirit, and passion. The company focuses in the fields of digital tech, industrial tech, life sciences, chemistry, and related business areas. It also focuses on financial services in varioussectors.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, Switzerland, United States
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- CorTec — Reliable products for active implantable device development. We realize your next project with you and offer individual solutions that meet your specific requirements for Medical Devices, especially in neurotechnology.
- Senodis — The digital transformation of industry is not developed on paper; it requires pioneering work to implement specific solutions and applications off the beaten track. With our experience and our network at the interface between materials research, optical sensors, and digital data analysis, we and our partners provide the missing building blocks forthe connection and digitization of your production.
- CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering — CenterPoint was founded in 2000 and is based in Villach, Austria with an additional office in Warsaw, Poland. CenterPoint - Connective Software Engineering develops and markets process control and fault detection and classification software solutions. The company offers cause effect analysis, metrology assessment, and close loop and run to runcontrol services. It's focus are the semiconductors, electronics, and steel and alloy industries.
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.
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- Software, Analytics, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, Italy, United States
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- 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
Angel Invest is one of Europe's most active angel funds
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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- Peec AI — Peec AI helps marketing teams analyze brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Track visibility, benchmark competitors, and optimize AI search presence.
- Everphone — Everphone is the clever way to equip your workforce with smartphones and tablets. It's flexible, safe and cost efficient. everphone reduces your costs while making employees happier and more productive.
- symmetrical.ai — Symmetrical is the only payroll service & fully integrated HR platform designed for modern People Teams.
Serpentine Ventures (SERV) is the investment arm of the Swiss startup group. Serpentine refers to the meandering roads found across the Swiss Mountains. Unreachable mountain peaks become accessible by following the serpentine path.
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- Software, Information Technology, Automotive
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
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- Apaleo — Transform your hospitality business with an open platform. Easily connect 3rd party applications to build a best-in-class tech stack for your hotel
- Evulpo — Creating Futures - For students from Year 3 to Year 13. Exactly according to the national curriculum. Learn always and everywhere with evulpo.
- Isochronic — Isochronic manufactures industrial robotic products for pick and place applications by transporting multiple parts simultaneously.
We're just another venture capital firm. We invest as soon as you made up your mind to start a company. Sometimes even before that.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Switzerland, France
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- Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
- CROWN — Drive savings and supplier competition with CROWN's eAuction service. Smart reverse auctions built for procurement teams. Book your free demo today.
- mimic — mimic builds scalable AI models for universal robotic manipulation. Intuitively automate your most complex and tedious manual labor tasks from retail to manufacturing.
Singular is a generalist venture capital firm backing ambitious European entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- France, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Peec AI — Peec AI helps marketing teams analyze brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Track visibility, benchmark competitors, and optimize AI search presence.
- Orus — L'assurance professionnelle que vous attendiez. Plus juste, rapide, simple et humaine. Souscrivez en 5 minutes et recevez votre attestation sous 48 heures.
- Patronus Group — Rethinking elderly healthcare
Magility Ventures multi-level business angel and venture capital platform.
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- SaaS, Energy, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Switzerland
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- Hive Power — Hive Power provides a SaaS platform to optimise your existing electrical distribution grid, both from the technical and economic points of view.
We are a pioneering Swiss venture capital firm dedicated to empowering game-changing tech startups in Central Europe.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland, Germany, United States
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- 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.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- 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 — Specialized AI to orchestrate complex cross-channel advertising
BackBone Ventures' focus are early-stage investments, primarly in the area of innovative ICT, FoodTech and disruptive technologies in DACH & Israel. Committed to achieve a positive impact for the next generation by empowering access to proficient ventures investments.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Switzerland, Germany, Israel
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- Neon — With neon, you can pay, save and manage your money. Digitally, securely and with no hidden fees. Open your account online in less than 10 minutes!
- Evoralis — Evoralis is an enzyme development company that specializes in the discovery and development of plastic-depolymerizing enzymes. It is a spin-out from the University of Cambridge.
- Proofcheck — Proofcheck is a multilingual AI proofreading platform and a collaborative in-browser workspace for PDFs and epubs. Their next-generation AI workflow and collaboration tool helps content creators quickly catch costly mistakes before they reach audiences. Proofcheck is headquartered in Vienna, Wien and was founded in 2022.
Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in cutting-edge technologies to drive generational change in order to solve problems that matter. The firm’s central investment thesis, the Super Evolution, combines data, computational capacity, and advanced engineering to transform a range of industries including engineeringhealth, climate, computing infrastructure, intelligent software, the physical economy, and more. Its investments include Afresh, AlphaSense, Atom Computing, Color, Gatik, Eikon Therapeutics, Fabric, Homelight, Kong, Formlabs, Panther, Planet, Replica, SoFi, Uber, Upstart, Vicarious Surgical, and more. For more information, visit www.InnovationEndeavors.com.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Israel, Chile
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- Soffi — Soffi is a collaborative, AI-native product development platform redefining how enterprise teams build, edit, and ship software.Recent advances in AI make it possible to rethink the entire development cycle and create a new world where product managers, designers, and engineers work together seamlessly with contextual AI integrated directly intotheir workflows.Soffi isn’t another tool that generates prototypes or code that fails to meet your standards. We’re transforming the full product development lifecycle. Every step is versioned, visible, and automated—turning changes into production-ready tickets and PRs, eliminating friction between handoffs, and accelerating time from idea to production. Soffi is designed for complex enterprise systems and products: secure, integrated, and fast.We’re building for what’s next.
- Flai — Flai is an AI-powered virtual assistant platform designed for enhancing dealership operations and customer engagement. Its core system handles incoming calls 24/7, schedules test drives and service appointments, answers common questions, collects lead information, and routes conversations to sales teams. The platform supports dealershipfollow-ups via automated phone, SMS, and email sequences and integrates with dealership management systems (DMS) and CRM tools. Flai emphasizes capturing after-hours or overflow calls to avoid losing potential customers due to missed or delayed responses. The company was built by founders with past experience in infrastructure, data science, and engineering and operates under seed-stage financing.
- Weave — Weave together millions of source threads at the speed of AI and cut your IND application time.
We are a hands-on, community-focused and founders vetted early-stage sustainable energy transition focused VC in Europe & Israel
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- Software, Renewable Energy, Energy
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Lithuania, United Kingdom, France
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- Eliq — Energy data platform for utilities combining customer insights and operational intelligence to improve service, reduce churn and grow 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.
Backing great companies when they're tiny
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
- YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
- Genie Fertility — Our discovery platform unlocks new molecular biomarkers to better understand reproductive health.
Planet A supports founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems. We're building the economy our planet needs.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Sustainability
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
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- HIVED — Looking for a greener, cheaper and better way to send your parcels? All parcels tracked and insured. Same-day, next-day and other options. Contact us today.
- INERATEC — INERATEC provides sustainable fuels, gas-to-liquid, power-to-gas and power-to-liquid application products.
- traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!
Smart Energy Innovation Fund is a venture capital fund managed by Smart Energy Innovation Fonds. The company invests in the energy equipment and cleantech industries.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Car Sharing
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland
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- suena — We are revolutionizing the way energy storage and renewables are integrated into power trading. By using cutting-edge forecasting, optimization and algorithmic trading techniques, we're able to reduce risks, maximize as well as stabilize profits on electricity and balancing markets.
- Ucaneo — We Leveraging the magic of the human body to remove CO2 from the air.
- ELOOP — With ELOOP Carsharing you can rent electric vehicles per minute, hour or day. Download our app and rent electric vehicles in Vienna.
Interdisciplinary research institute of the ETH Domain. Empa conducts cutting-edge materials and technology research.
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Grant
- Switzerland
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- 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.
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and catalyzes venture-led solutions to increase the resilience of underserved individuals and communities. Founded in 2015 as the impact investing arm of global development agency, Mercy Corps, supports over 57 early-stage ventures to scale and raise over $515 million in follow-on capital. Their portfolio centersaround resilience-building solutions in adaptive agriculture and food systems, inclusive climate fintech, and climate-smart technologies so that those living in frontier markets can withstand disruption and plan for the future. Through capital and support, piloting new approaches, action-oriented insights, and rigorously managing impact, they catalyze the ecosystem toward smarter, more impactful investments.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Agriculture
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Kenya, United States, Colombia
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- TAPPI — TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
- Blooms — Blooms provides trade finance and global payments solutions for LatAm produce exporters.
- Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
Agility drives innovation and growth in global businesses leading logistics, supply chains, aviation, and infrastructure.
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- Apps, Solar, Travel
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Egypt, Sweden, Switzerland
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- Swvl — Swvl | Book Your Daily Ride or Make Money Driving Now
- TVP Solar — Our target Industrial Process Heat is the largest energy sink Urgency Industrial decarbonization has yet to be addressed and is critical to achievingESG targets. TVP cuts industrial fossil fuel use
- Volta Trucks — Discover the future of electric transportation with Volta Commercial Vehicles
VisVires New Protein is a pioneering investor focused on solving the persistent challenges of our food and feed system.
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- Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- France, Israel, Germany
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- MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
- Infinite Roots — Mushlabs is a biotech company using fermentation to create the next generation of sustainable foods from the roots of mushrooms.
- Abolis Biotechnologies — Abolis is a biotech innovator providing sustainable, tailor-made solutions for food, health, cosmetics, and chemicals industries. Embrace biotechnology for a better future.
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.
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- Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Swimlane — Swimlane is the leader in AI-enabled security automation, unifying security operations in and beyond the SOC into a single system of record.
- Clevest Solutions — Empower your teams with Mobile Workforce Management Software Solutions. Get in touch to enhance productivity and service quality.
- Urbint — Urbint uses artificial intelligence to predict threats to workers and critical infrastructure and stop incidents before they happen.
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.
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- Water, CleanTech, Construction
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, Canada
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- 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 decarbonisation. 95% emission reduction, retrofittable design, sub-15ppm NOx compliance.
Founderful Campus aims to educate students and support entrepreneurs to disrupt the startup culture on campuses, producing the next generation of tech leaders, and creating more value for society.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Switzerland, Bulgaria, United States
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- Avientus — Avientus is a revolutionary drone network with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities to autonomously transport a variety of payloads—including parcels, food, medical supplies, and spare parts—across both urban and rural areas.
- Recreate — Recreate is a technology platform that focuses on AI-driven content generation and creative automation.
- Aurora Analytics — Track and optimize your brand visibility across AI search engines. The leading GEO tracking and AI search optimization platform.
Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City.
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- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
- Otis — Otis is a fractional ownership platform that makes it possible for almost anyone to buy and sell shares of collectibles, sneaker grails, rare comics, art, and more. Low minimums. Get started today.
- Reservoir — Infrastructure and APIs to bring efficient token markets to every chain, wallet, and app
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
- BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
- Mythic Protocol — The Central Hub for Mythic Operatives to conduct their operations
Swiss Federal Office of Environment
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- Water, Battery, Recycling
- Seed, Grant, Debt Financing
- Switzerland
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- Librec — Librec provides technology for “closed-loop” recycling of large lithium-ion batteries from e-mobility, with all components recoverable by more than 90% and re-used in new batteries. Besides Cobalt, Lithium, Nickel, Copper, Aluminium, Manganese, electrolyte, separator, and all housing components.
- TreaTech — TreaTech is a Swiss Cleantech company founded in 2015 by EPFL engineers. We are developing a ground-breaking treatment technology that will enable an eco-friendly treatment of the ever-increasing quantities of wastewater while recycling its valuable by-products and most notably, clean water. Our catalytic hydrothermal gasification (HTG) systemhas been developed for the disposal of different types of liquid wastes (such as sewage sludge) that are usually incinerated or landfilled and instead, turns them into by-products such as biogas, clean water, and mineral salts that can further be upgraded into phosphorus products (e.g. fertilizers).
Impact investment in sustainable energy
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- Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series A
- Kenya, United States, France
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- Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
- Amped Innovation — At Amped Innovation, we design breakthrough products for people living on less than four dollars per day. Our first product, the Blossom, is a solar home power system which is the lowest-cost and highest-performance product in its class, at one third the price and twice the power handling of competing systems. We built the Blossom with asoftware-enabled Pay-As-You-Go interface, which allows customers to purchase it in payment installments that are equivalent to what they currently spend on kerosene, while providing much more light, cell-phone charging, and ability to run appliances like televisions and sewing machines.
- Powergen Renewable Energy — PowerGen is leading the clean energy transition in Africa as a developer, builder, and operator of solar mini-grids throughout the continent. PowerGen is backed by sector leaders including Shell, Acumen, Omidyar Network, Sumitomo, DOB Equity, ElectriFI, REPP, and the Rockefeller Foundation. PowerGen has pioneered the solar mini-grid sector inAfrica and is a founding member of the Africa Mini-grid Developers Associaiton (AMDA).
EIT Food is a European Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), which was set up to transform our food ecosystem. By connecting consumers with businesses, start-ups, researchers and students from around Europe, EIT Food supports innovative and economically sustainable initiatives which improve our health, our access to quality food, and our environment
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- Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- Israel, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Fyteko — For a more sustainable agriculture
- Ficosterra — fertilizers and bio-fertilizers, 100% vegetable and ecological, with algae and microorganisms that favor the maximum development of crops and plants.
- PFx Biotech — PFx Biotech transforms food through bioinnovation by creating sustainable and nutritional alternative protein solutions.
We support early-stage founders in building global, category-defining companies. From Seed to IPO and beyond.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Sweden, Germany, United States
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- Vivino — Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, andeffortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
- Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.
BASF Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of BASF Group. They invest worldwide in promising young enterprises relevant to BASF’s current and future business fields and also in funds. Besides innovations in the fields of chemistry, new materials and sustainability, their areas of focus include digitization and new business models.They support their portfolio companies through selective interactions with the global research, partnership and customer networks of the BASF Group. They are headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany and have offices in San Francisco, Boston, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, and Tel Aviv.
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- Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Electronics
- Series B, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- Gastrograph — Gastrograph AI has designed the first artificial intelligence platform to interpret and predict flavor preferences for over a billion unique consumer groups. This technology empowers CPGs to look beyond trends, and formulate unique, novel and successful food and beverage products based on custom sensory intelligence.
- Bellatrix Aerospace — Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion.
An open innovation platform of Ciech Group
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- Chemical, CleanTech, Recycling
- Seed
- Switzerland, Poland
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- 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.
Alpana Ventures is a Swiss VC focusing on digital transformation.Since 2016 we backed 45 founder teams with 3 Funds, supporting them in their journey towards a positive impact.Committed to value creation, we discover deep tech solutions in Switzerland, Europe and the US.We invest to embed them into innovative business models and back them tobecome global market leaders.Applying ESG criteria, our portfolio companies help create a more sustainable future.
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- Software, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Switzerland, Germany
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- Sinay — Use the full potential of your data with intelligent solutions. Become more efficient on a daily basis and reduce your environmental impact.
- Nezasa — Discover how to grow your business with Nezasa TripBuilder, the world's leading travel commerce solution for travel businesses.
- Tinamu — Tinamu Labs has developed a technology that converts commercially available drones into camera equipment reaching professional standards.
EREN Groupe is recognized as a key player in renewable energy production, mainly in the wind and photovoltaic sectors.
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- Energy, Energy Efficiency, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Seed, Corporate Round
- France, Israel, Singapore
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- Tigi — TIGI optimize & increase the utilization of renewable thermal energy generation & storage. Our solutions reduce energy costs & emissions
- HEXANA — HEXANA is an energy platform that combines flexible sodium-cooled fast neutron reactors with a thermal management system.
- Blue Capsule Technology — Blue Capsule Technology is a nuclear power company that specializes in the development of advanced innovative reactors to produce industrial-grade heat for industry.
Collab Capital - Transforming genius into generational wealth. A New Institution for Black Entrepreneurs
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- Software, Internet, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Switzerland
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- Janta Power — Janta Power specializes in 3D solar technology, designed to optimize energy generation in limited spaces. Their solutions focus on improving efficiency by using innovative designs that maximize solar capture. Additionally, their systems come with remote management features, allowing for monitoring and control from a distance.
- BoxedUp — Hundreds of products, delivered to your door in 2 days or less.
- Culina Health — Connect with one of Culina Health's virtual dietitians for inclusive, science-backed nutrition plans that are covered by insurance.
Swisscom Ventures is an venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, that specializes in early stage tech investments founded in 2007.Swisscom Ventures invests in growth companies with emerging business models and technologies of strategic relevance to Swisscom's core business. As a value-add investor, Swisscom brings its investees the technicalexpertise and strategic insights of an incumbent telecom operator. We act as a bridge to Swisscom's operational business units, which portfolio companies can also leverage as a test environment for their products and services.Swisscom Ventures seeks minority stakes in companies related to the information/communications/entertainment space.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Series B, Series A
- Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom
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- viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.
- Lumotive — Lumotive is a Seattle-based startup company developing high performance, solid-state lidar for autonomous systems in the automotive, UAV, robotics and related industries. The company's revolutionary beam-steering technology leverages Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces (or LCMs) implemented in mature semiconductor manufacturing processes to deliversmall, inexpensive 3D perception systems with unprecedented performance and reliability. For more information, visit us at www.lumotive.com.
- RTDT Laboratories — Make real-time decisions to optimise fleet operation through unique structural health insights
3wVentures provides seed money and venture capital to international internet startups. As they focus on early stage projects and prototypes, our investments and co-investments target a volume of up to USD 250,000.
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- Software, Health Care, Medical
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Switzerland, Spain, Austria
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- Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
- GUURU — Discover how community-powered advice can turn your PDPs into trusted, high-converting content and get cited in AI search.
- Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.
ETH Zurich Foundation is an independent, non-profit-making foundation under private law for the promotion of education and research at ETH Zurich.
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- Information Technology, Medical, Software
- Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Switzerland
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- qCella — qCella Impregnate natural fibers with copper and utilize them to create heating mats that outperform commercially available heating wires. When linked to a power source (e.g., a battery), the mats have the right electrical resistance over the entire structure, allowing them to heat uniformly.
- Microcaps — Explore the ethanol-free fine fragrance solution. Perfume Pearls are a water-based perfume technology for your water-based perfume.
- Tethys Robotics — Tethys Robotics develops AI-powered application oriented robotics system that enables professionals in carrying underwater search & recovery to inspection & surveillance.
Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets. With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operationsprofessionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem. The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide. True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Athos — The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.
- Chameleon — Chameleon offers software application with the features including microsurveys, launchers, tooltips, integrations, status, styling, analytics, templates, goals, testing, checklists, feedback loop, dashboard reporting, no coding, targeting surveys, data access, trigger surveys, track performance, and more.
- Scythe — Revolutionize commercial landscaping with Scythe's all-electric, autonomous mower. Smell grass, not gas. Boost productivity and sustainability with intelligent robotics.
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- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
- Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
- Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
Baker Hughes is an energy technology company that provides solutions for energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Corporate Round, Seed, Series A
- Spain, United States, The Netherlands
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- Elcogen — Elcogen is a manufacturer and developer of high-performance anode-supported Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (IT-SOFC) and SOFC stacks based on proprietary materials and technological solutions. Fuel cells will help enable a clean energy future. Fuel cell technology significantly reduces emissions from natural gas systems,delivering twice the power for the same amount of gas. Fuel cells also unlock greater renewable energy generation, converting electricity to hydrogen for long-term storage. Solid oxide fuel cells are the most efficient energy conversion method possible, and Elcogen manufactures the highest performing SOFC. Elcogen makes the fuel cell technology underpinning the clean energy systems of the future.Elcogen was established in 2001.
- HIF Global — HIF Global is an eFuel company engaged in the production of carbon neutral fuels.
- Baseload Capital — Baseload Capital leads partnerships to scale up geothermal energy: a 24/7 available source of clean power and heat.
Statkraft Ventures is a long-term partner for entrepreneurs disrupting the energy sector.
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- Renewable Energy, Energy, Software
- Funding Round, Series A, Series B
- Norway, France, Germany
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- Wakeo — Wakeo provides real time tracking on door-to-door multimodal transport flows including sea, air, rail and road freight. Discover the real-time visibility platform to manage disruptions, drive performance and collaboration and transform your business.
- Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
- Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
Polytech Ventures are an early stage VC firm based in Switzerland with a strong international focus. Their strategic location at EPFL in Lausanne grants us access to one of the most dynamic and recognized innovation centers in the world
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Switzerland, United States, Spain
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- yamo — Frische Bio-Kindernahrung von yamo, so lecker wie selbstgemacht und kostenlos direkt zu dir nach Hause geliefert. Jetzt probieren und profitieren.
- Relai — Relai is the easiest way to invest in Bitcoin for the long-term investor. A simple and intuitive app that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin directly from their bank account within 1 minute, without registration, KYC verification or deposits. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle
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