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🚀 50+ ClimateTechs to Meet in the HackSummit Startup Fair
Get a head start on who will be in the HackSummit Fair
Laura Hodgkiss
April 24, 2025
Across 10 verticals, from across Switzerland, Europe and around the world, you’ll find over 50 of the most promising DeepTech startups at next month’s HackSummit Startup Fair.
Get ready to meet the founding teams behind advancements in circular, nature-positive solutions, green chemical recycling and innovation, energy harvesting technologies and multifunctional ingredients and emulsions, plus many more.
Their Founders and CEOs come eager to showcase groundbreaking technologies and are actively seeking their next big collaboration, investment, or partnership to scale their impact.
It’s all happening in Lausanne, May 15–16. Two days. Hundreds of deeptech founders, operators, and investors in one place.
And with hundreds more founders and investors taking to the stage and joining in the audience, this is a must-attend event for changemakers, scalemakers and decision makers in Climate Deep Tech.
Ready to join them? Grab your pass and come and meet them IRL.
50+ Up and Coming ClimateTechs
Jump straight to the startups working on:
AgriTech - Built Environment - Carbon Capture - Climate Adaptation - Energy - Food - Green Chemicals - Nature - New Manufacturing - Textiles
AgriTech
What: Helping to keep fruits, vegetables and flowers fresh longer with their edible and organic pre- and post-harvest solutions for sustainable production and distribution.
What: By leveraging advanced tissue culture technology, Polyplants makes high-performance plantlets accessible to farmers, cooperatives, and agribusinesses, particularly in Africa and Central America.
What: Empowering its clients with a toolkit of Products and Services that optimize soil and plant health through the implementation of science-driven solutions.
💡 Voltiris
What: Allowing greenhouse owners to fully leverage the land and become sustainable when it comes to energy with Voltiris solar modules which allow for a double use of greenhouse area by producing electricity without reducing the yield of crops placed underneath the modules.
Built Environment
What: A ground-breaking provider of circular, nature-positive solutions that help public authorities address the challenges linked to the spread of a harmful freshwater invasive species, the Quagga mussel.
What: Home energy is the sleeping giant of the net-zero transition. Retrogreen delivers where it matters most - in people’s homes, their pockets, and for the planet. Lenders, let’s make retrofitting a strategic asset - for your portfolio performance and risk management.
🛠️ Medusoil
What: Pioneering a new class of organic binder products designed to serve earthworks and building applications.
🧱 Oxara
What: Empowering real estate projects with low carbon, circular and healthy building materials and transforming mineral construction waste into valuable resources and products.
What: Enabling customers to utilise demolition waste, concrete waste, wood waste, industrial residuals, and all other biogenic and mineral waste streams.
🏗️ Rematter
What: Combining high-tech manufacturing with innovative material use to provide highly sustainable and price-competitive solutions for the construction industry.
🏘️ TileGreen
What: Innovating technologies to make concrete-alternative, premium, and carbon-negative building materials from plastic waste.
🏡 Vaulted
What: Redefining sustainable construction through low-carbon circular structural floor solutions.
Carbon Capture
🌴 Cotierra
What: Empowering companies to sequester gigatons of carbon in tropical soils.
What: Offering industrial point source emitters an end-to-end solution for carbon capture at a fraction of the cost associated with existing technologies.
🌊 Pronoe
What: Restoring the ocean's natural ability to capture and permanently store CO2 from the air, in a sustainable, scalable and asset-light manner.
🚢 Qaptis
What: Capturing the emissions at their source, with a plug-in technology, to capture up to 90% of the emitted CO₂, store it in liquid form directly onboard and recycle it (fuel, plastics, building materials, CO₂ sequestration).
Green Chemicals
💨 Cyclize
What: Creating innovative plasma sources for chemical recycling, CO2-splitting and gas reforming.
🧪 Deasyl
What: A technology provider at the forefront of green chemical innovation, offering eco-friendly alternatives to traditional polluting processes.
🎨 Sparxell
What: Creating the world’s first 100% natural, high-performance biodegradable colour platform.
Climate Adaptation
What: Pioneering a climate adaptation and resilience platform, matching climate risk analytics with adaptation products.
🌐 Picterra
What: Revolutionising geospatial analysis with category-leading AI technology.
Energy
🔌 Celectis
What: Developing subcomponents, balance of plants, energy systems and offering general engineering solutions and testing facilities for fuel cells, electrolysers and chemical converters.
💻 Dyneo
What: Simplifying and accelerating the deployment of AI to improve the performance of district heating and cooling infrastructures.
What: Turning underground spaces into sources of renewable heating and cooling using the world's first geothermal panel.
🔋 Evolium
What: Manufacturing and marketing second-life batteries for small and medium-scale photovoltaic storage.
What: Building a rapid reliable path to commercial fusion energy.
What: Focusing on research and development on concentrated solar thermal (CST) troughs for the generation of heat.
🔋 TaiSan
What: Creating quasi-solid-state sodium battery with best-in-class cell energy density with 2 patents pending.
What: Innovating a new type of flow battery, the simplest stationary battery.
⚡️ Waven
What: Developing energy harvesting technologies to power up the world and protect the environment.
What: Creating access to clean and affordable on-site power production with smart wind turbines.
Food
What: Offering product- and process development, a pilot plant and small scale production as well as co-packing for plant-based beverages.
🥛 Cosaic
What: Developing a unique natural multifunctional emulsion to enhance the texture and stability of dairy and dairy-free products, all at once, by itself.
What: Tackling the environmental and food security issues tied to global soybean meal production with a solution that offers a sustainable, high-value protein using advanced fermentation technology to transform excess crops and waste.
🌿 Food4P
What: Creating Mycospan, a protein grown with sustainability at its core, Mycospan is versatile enough to feed both livestock and people without the environmental toll of traditional proteins like soy.
🌱 Proseed
What: Reducing the negative impact of the food system by preserving the value of wet biomass through processing solutions.
What: Creating clean and multifunctional ingredients to empower companies in making healthy and sustainable products the new norm.
🥒 Saveggy
What: Revolutionising the way food is protected, with a plant-based protection for fruits and vegetables.
🥙 SCO2
What: Unlocking a new era of ingredient innovation, enabling rapid, green, and cost-effective purification, discovery and value recovery from food by-products.
What: Dedicated to repurpose food waste side-streams into high value ingredients using modern technologies.
Nature
What: Developing field DNA analysis tools for biodiversity identification and monitoring.
What: Restoring coastal ecosystems through the support of companies with real, holistic & data-backed impact that can easily be communicated to stakeholders.
🦜 Synature
What: Enabling fully automated biodiversity measurements through sound.
What: Deploying technology including environmental DNA and remote sensing in order to monitor ecosystems.
Textiles
🧵 EEDEN
What: Scaling an economically and ecologically efficient process that converts cotton, polyester, and poly-cotton textiles into high-quality raw materials for producing virgin-grade textile fibers.
🫗 Verretex
What: Specialising in regenerating textile from 100% recycled fiberglass, providing eco-friendly solutions for various industries.
New Manufacturing
♻️ AES
What: Offering sustainable and innovative systems for recycling plastic waste that would otherwise be landfilled or incinerated to efficiently close the gap in the raw material cycle.
🧫 Bioweg
What: Revolutionising the future of bio-ingredients with the power of microbes and green chemistry.
What: Developing a thermolysis-based technology to recycle glass and carbon fiber, preserving the properties of the reclaimed oil and fibres so that they can be used for producing high-quality new composites and decarbonised plastics.
What: Extending the lifetime of composites, CompPair is committed to waste prevention while unlocking new economic benefits.
👩🔬 Matereal
What: Leveraging breakthrough chemistry and AI to detoxify and decarbonise the plastic supply chain - everything from fashion to housing.
What: Partnering with food and biotech companies to trial, validate, and scale microorganisms from lab to 1,000L.
🏭 WA3RM
What: Creating, developing and financing projects that capture industrial waste streams and put them to good use.