Venture Leaders Cleantech 2025 kick-off their Munich roadshow
This November, ten entrepreneurs chosen for the Swiss National Cleantech Startup Team 2025 will travel to Munich to showcase their innovations. The week will focus on pitching, meeting investors and industry experts, and exploring opportunities for international growth. Before the trip, the founders met at EPFL for a relaxed kick-off, where they introduced their startups through short pitch sessions.
The Venture Leaders Cleantech kick-off event, held on August 27 at EPFL, gave 10 selected startups an opportunity to exchange ideas, share experiences from their entrepreneurial journeys, and present their Cleantech solutions. The session concluded with a vote to elect the team captains: Estelle Clerc from Cellx and Murielle Schreck from qCella.
Swiss Cleantech startups continue to show resilience, raising substantial funding in the first half of 2025. This capital is helping them make the most of lower raw material costs and move their technologies forward, positioning them as key players in sustainable technology.
In November, the ten founders will continue their roadshow in Munich, an important step in expanding their startups internationally.
Venture Leaders Cleantech is organized by Venturelab and supported by EPFL, ETH Zurich, Helbling Technik, Rentsch Partner, Canton of Vaud, Vischer and Canton of Zurich.
Follow the entrepreneurs and the Venture Leaders Cleantech roadshow November 17-21, 2025, on social media using the hashtag #VLeadersCleantech or on www.venture-leaders.ch/cleantech.
Meet the Venture Leaders Cleantech 2025:
CellX Biosolutions AG: Novel bacterial solutions for industrial pollution treatment
CellX Biosolutions creates innovative bacteria-based products for efficient and targeted treatment of industrial chemical pollution. Pollution caused by industrial chemical by-products is a major glob... Read more
eightinks AG (8inks): Building the next generation of lithium-ion batteries.
Existing battery manufacturing solutions limit throughput, efficiency and cell performance. They can't keep up with the rising demand and requirements for better, cost-effective batteries. 8inks of... Read more
etavalve GmbH: Efficiently converting waste heat into electric power.
Conventional turbines are often unsuitable for small-scale, medium-temperature heat sources – leaving most industrial waste heat unused or diverted to low-value applications like district heating. eta... Read more
Grensol AG: Extracting useful raw materials from mixed waste.
Zurich-based Grensol has a breakthrough solution to transform mixed waste from the recycling of end-of-life cars and domestic appliances into a source of valuable raw materials for a circular economy.... Read more
H2REMA Sàrl: The most efficient electrolyzer at the lowest cost
In a world urgently seeking sustainable solutions, green hydrogen produced through electrolysis is essential to replacing fossil fuels. REMA develops and commercializes anion exchange membrane (AEM) ... Read more
Iron Energy AG: Affordable and sustainable energy storage using iron oxide.
Fossil fuels used for energy consumption are the major contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, electrification of all energy consumption with renewable energy is therefore key to reach net zero comm... Read more
qCella AG: qCella reshapes product heating for flexibility & efficiency
At qCella, we disrupt the well-established and high-potential market of electrically powered heated products with qCella's easily shape-customizable, flexible and paper-thin heating mats. The innovati... Read more
Rematter AG: Circular, low-carbon, price-competitive earth-timber slabs.
Rematter enables builders to effortlessly comply with sustainable building regulations by replacing reinforced concrete floors with a scalable, climate-positive earth-timber floor system that is digit... Read more
Verretex SA: Creating circular glass fiber textiles
Upcycling reclaimed glass fiber from any recycling process to produce high quality glass fiber mats. Read more
WasteFlow SA: Boosting recycling efficiency at facilities.
Household rubbish recycling faces challenges, with only 13.5% of waste being recycled globally due to outdated machinery and inefficient sorting processes. WasteFlow enhances recycling operations by i... Read more
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