CIRCULAR ECONOMY STARTUPS IN THE CET COMMUNITY

CINE.EQUIPMENT is a sharing marketplace where filmmakers and film production companies all over Switzerland can rent and hire filmequipment.

ECCO.ECO is Switzerland's frst and most inspiring online marketplace for everything upcycled.

A digital platform facilitating exchange of goods and services locally.

La Manivelle is a library for sharing objects and tools.

Go green by not going at all: connect remotely! It's greener, quicker, cheaper, more inclusive & we make it more effective.

Revamp-it offers a repair service for electronics and open source software.

Sharely offers rental services of everyday life products in the B2C sector

Swishi is a marketplace and recommerce platform that shows you sustainable trading options from people and companies to easily give items a second life.

Bli Bli Dressing is a mobile app that connects buyers and sellers of second-hand clothing via an easy-to-use and highly visual platform that incorporates social media elements and makes the shopping experience simple, as well as entertaining. Unlike other online shopping platforms, Bli Bli uses a relay store system, instead of relying on postal delivery. This way, we largely reduce pollution due to the lack of transport needed and promote local stores that benefit from a new flow of clients and cross-selling. This is an innovative and unique solution against fast fashion, which is currently unprofitable to resell on the traditional second-hand market.

faroo.ch is a sharing platform with the aim of letting everyone rent all kinds of things. At the beginning, it focusses at B2B area. The team wants to integrate different industries into the circular economy by making the entry as easy as possible for them.

Thingsy helps to make people aware of the problems of the throwaway society and provides services so that we can easily repair, share, resell and recycle our electrical appliances.

A B2B marketplace to valorize unsold fruits and vegetables from local producers.

GreenUp leverages the effect of social media and the entertaining aspect of gaming, to promote a circular economy and establish eco-friendly habits in people’s life.

A platform that values and makes social contributions count, by recognising skills and tokening time dedicated to society.

Maximising the utilisation of common items that end up in cellars, so that more people can use the same items without the need of owning a new one.

VINTS is a Swiss app for second hand clothing on which you can buy and sell commission free.

kiddos.ch rents out high quality baby and family equipment and makes parenting more affordable, sustainable, and convenient

Niatsu automates the calculation of product carbon footprints for the food industry, which helps companies to optimize supply chains and identify climate risks.

Bibou'tic facilitates clothing rental as an alternative to overconsumption and waste.

Do You Speak Lingerie is a stylish and sustainable lingerie brand. Sustainability, women's well-being & transparency are a necessity, not marketing tools.

ID Watch envisions is to bring Swiss-made watches tailored to your identity sourced from the circular economy.

KONOÏ aims to promote health using hemp to design a new generation of products.

La Corde à Linge developed the Linen Rope, a biodegradable detergent made in Geneva with more than 90% local products.

The first diapers: zero waste, zero worries. Supply, delivery and cleaning of cloth diapers designed on circular principles.

Strollers as a service: designed for servicability, reparability, durability and recycleability for a monthly subscription fee.

Miniloop is offering high-quality baby clothes that are also good for the family and environment.

Offcut fosters the creative reuse of materials of daily use.

Sustainable baby clothes - Oïoïoï rents out high quality baby clothes.

sharealook.com connects and empowers consumers and sustainable brands to create a circular fashion economy starting at the point of re-use.

TEIL, the open wardrobe in Bern. A shop where everyday clothes are rented.

Creating and selling organic, vegan, swiss-made, cruelty-free and zero-waste cosmetics.

The cure for the ‘I have nothing to wear’ syndrome: an app enabling women to see, use and style their existing wardrobe.

Blocsy offers an adaptive, environmentally conscious modular furniture system which allows you to build items of furniture, tool-lessly. Assemble, disassemble and reassemble, changing function if desired, again and again to meet your ever changing needs throughout your lifetime.

Eco-Industrial watch: CAP aims to create a watch that is in line with the vision and values of its customers: Respect for our natural, material and human resources.

Capriole is giving coffee waste a second life by transforming it into briquettes.

Cheeky Campers upcycles used vehicles and transforms them with re-used and recycled materials to unique, affordable and sustainable camping vans which are rented out.

Cloudburst produces fair and ecologically intelligent products to protect our planet and raise money for charities - planet & people over profit.

Loop wants to create an online marketplace for curated, secondhand, sustainable fashion with minimal carbon footprint and maximum transparency.

NOW Care is the first Swiss brand offering a solution to plastic waste from the bathroom, that is so easy to adopt, that everyone can lead a sustainable lifestyle. Naturally, effectively, & conveniently. #careNOW

Nuniq is the only beauty brand that delivers a plastic-free, personalized, natural products offering, based on a circular economy model.

Smart Modular Reusable and Digitally Enabled Industrial Packaging.

RESLIDES aims to develop and commercialize circular + customizable deposit-based sandals for urban + fashionable everyday life.

Swapabee is a circular economy marketplace with a machine learning matching algorithm that makes swapping things 5 times faster than it's ever been. It’s the Tinder of Swaps!

VYN is a circular Sneaker System dedicated to Longevity by offering premium, self-repairable Sneakers and care products. VYN reduces environmental waste drastically and aims to establish a mindset of Care and Appreciation for Sneakers you can love for longer.

A refuge for all the textile material that does not pass the quality control.

A circular fashion startup that makes clothing essentials for the whole family.

TexUp recycles used textiles in the form of designer acoustic panels to reduce noise in interior spaces.

Specialising in apparel rental, offering skiers & snowboarders a new, circular way to reduce their impact by renting premium outerwear.

Grounding the home kitchen as an integral part of the food cycle by bringing calmness, clarity and power to everyday cooking.

Direct Coffee developed a platform that brings coffee drinkers in contact with coffee producers, together improve the social welfare of the farmers.

EDAPRO offers effective and natural plant fortifiers with the help of indigenous microorganisms. Strengthens plants - enlivens the soil.

Einmachbibliothek offers tools and methods to preserve fruits and vegetables.

The startup is fighting against food waste by purchasing second option vegetables and fruits from farmers, sells them to clients but also makes salads, soups and smoothies from them.

Grassrooted commits itself to stop food waste and operates a non-standard vegetables distribution service.

Hopvrac.ch, the Local Drive, Bio, Zero waste which democratizes bulk commissions: online ordering; choice of timing; withdrawal. And Hop!

Food production “waste” valorisation by bioconversion using edible insect and production of local and sustainable source of protein.

An online store and delivery service for plastic free groceries, making it more convenient and affordable for people to shop zero waste.

Resili realizes a new standard of resources in the food industry by means of the Circular Economy and has all 17 SDGs as guiding objectives

Terrabiom grows microbes and fungi from organic waste to regenerate the soil and create natural products for agriculture.

Bioconversion of food waste in sustainable proteins for animal feed through Black Soldier Fly Larvae.

Wepot innovates around an ecological and ancestral irrigation system. It saves up to 70% of water and makes plants autonomous.

Algae Natural Switzerland improves living and eating - Its vision is to provide a safe, cost-efficient and easy way to produce alternative food additives and to help preserve our environment.

KLY is the swiss upcycling start-up in foodtech segment with the vision to tackle food waste by eliminating resource inefficiencies in global grain production and inciting a transition to a more sustainable food market.

Organic herbs and vegetables grown without soil in a resource-efficient water cycle with sustainable fish farming.

Mission Mycelium is bringing industry waste to taste, through mushroom and mycelium based solutions.

oREgami provides reusable packaging as a service for freshly produced food for a sustainable and enjoyable experience.

Plantark wants to create a new farming system that forms its own ecosystem using several biotechnological methods. With this, it wants to reduce resource input with maximized output and create a clean and sustainable indoor farming process.

The Box is a home appliance to grow plants. Modular and fully automated, it uses telemetry to grow the tastiest and freshest vegetable and fruits all year long.

Voltiris improves commercial greenhouses energetic efficiency by producing renewable energy without impacting their agricultural yield.

A reusable shipping packaging solution for the Swiss e-commerce sector.

EasyVrac is an online marketplace for zero waste products. Our reusable packaging is collected after use, cleaned and reintroduced in the circuit.

A startup offering recycled and reusable packaging for online sales.

By gathering organic food waste from restaurants, bars and hotels, Ampuja produces through an alcoholic fermentation process, a spirit to be sold to the same bars, hotels and restaurants.

miniMenu enables small private households to make stress-free and sustainable meal decisions by equipping them with a digital assistant.

Transforming the bathroom from a waste emission towards a fertiliser production site using an innovative on-site urine treatment technology.

Producing a biodegradable packaging material out of the waste from the biological edible mushroom production to substitute Styrofoam (EPS) in a closed cycle.

Enchar is a B2B marketplace for biochar maximising its benefits and enabling rapid growth of this carbon negative industry.

1h2o3 supplies compact, modular and efficient treatment plants for complex waters made from environmentally friendly and recyclable materials.

Bloom developed a new approach for the production of biorenewable products as a sustainable alternative to fossil-based industries.

Software for Digital and Sustainable Energy - We bring the Sharing Economy to the Energy Sector.

Glärnisch Textil is developing renewable raw materials such as straw from flax and hemp for the textile industry.

ICE creates High-Performance Materials with Zero Finite resources, Zero Toxicity and design "GREEN & CLEAN" High-Tech to make our Planet Blue again.

iCEEP is a digital market place dedicated to the circular economy that stimulates and rewards societal circular behavior.

Kolbev aims to enable on demand recharging of Electric Vehicles delivered to a specific location.

Kompotoi aims to revolutionize the toilet and bring the resulting nutrients back into the natural cycle as fertilizers.

LIME is an ecosystem of regional currencies that favours local sustainable behaviour and allows the emergence of local and regional sustainable business.

Enabling circular and carbon neutral production of concrete by turning CO2 into minerals.

2050 Materials offers a digital information and research platform for the AEC industry to explore, compare and source beautiful and sustainable building materials.

Composite Recycling sustainably recycles composite plastics by separating glass fibers from the resin and produce reusable fibers to make new composites.

Recyclink is a service and platform catered to companies willing to sustainably improve their waste recycling by finding the most suitable recovery solutions through our network.

GROAM – from agricultural waste to foamed biodegradable materials for fast disposables like plant substrates, packaging materials and more.

Every year, we throw away about 1 million frying pans in Switzerland. Instead of scrapping frying pans altogether, RePan recoats them.

A complex digital solution that helps to make a transition towards a circular economy in the construction sector of Switzerland.

Sol-Haus offers hair recycling for the production of insulation panels.

WiSort is a smart waste disposal solution for eco-conscious apartment buildings aiming to increase people's awareness and recycling rates.

Yarn-to-Yarn wants to bring modern biological textile recycling from science to fashion.

Cycloune reduces the need of buying new e-bikes and reduces the usage of raw materials such as aluminium and lithium.

Aims to sustainably optimise the logistics of seaweed production by developing innovative harvesting and post-harvesting equipment.

Closing the materials Loop in Automobile Recycling.

A scalable earth-timber floor slabs help architects, civil engineers, planners and construction companies that want to build with 100% circular, low-carbon and healthy materials.

Transforming a freshwater invasive species - the Quagga mussels - into local & low carbon cement

AI-assisted waste sorting. Intelligent solutions for community education, waste management and sustainability reporting.

Offering bicycle transportation services (for people, goods, and waste collection) with a significant positive impact on society and the environment.

Mediwaste enables Swiss Hospitals to recycle their medical waste instead of incineration.

Virtuous recovery of used smartphones and tablets, via the second-hand market and recovery of metals and rare earths.

We turn e-waste into treasure by recycling critical metals focusing on Rare Earth Elements (REEs).

Repurpose used batteries to safely power anything.