"The summer of 2026 showed what inaction costs; the courts, for their part, have begun to say who must be held responsible for it," emphasize François de Cambiaire and Lydia Méziani, lawyers at de Cambiaire & Méziani Associates.
After more than ten years devoted to the design and industrialization of its technology, the company is now entering a new phase: the commercialization of its very first factories installed on a truck.
Since 2020, the Swiss start-up has pursued a clear ambition: to transform passenger transport on the water through a new generation of foils. Behind this technology lies an enticing promise of fast, quiet, comfortable, and electric vessels.
In 2026, Venturelab celebrates twenty years of commitment to Swiss start-ups and innovation. It is an opportunity to look back, with its co-founder Jordi Montserrat, on the evolution of an ecosystem in which cleantechs have gradually established themselves as one of the most dynamic sectors.
Based near the Energypolis campus in Sion, the start-up is developing there a particular kind of capture technology: a graphene membrane perforated with holes at the molecular scale.
Since its founding in 2021, the young startup has made it its mission to find a good compromise between energy production and plant growth. The solution is called "spectral filtering".
"It is neither fair nor constructive to pit technologies against each other in a supposed race for funding: it's a false debate," says Eric Plan, secretary-general of the CleantechAlps association.
Spin-off of EPFL, the start-up has set itself an ambitious mission: to make wind energy compatible with professional activity zones thanks to smaller, quieter turbines equipped with vertical-axis blades.
"Electricity, everywhere." The Valais-based start-up lives up to its name very, very well, given the ambitions it harbors with its technology, designed to meet the challenges of the transition to renewable energies.
Two months ago, CleantechAlps published the second edition of its report dedicated to start-ups active in the field of cleantech. Interview with Eric Plan, Secretary General.
