Technology Fund Switzerland (Technologiefonds)

Funds Swiss clean technology companies through credit guarantees for climate, energy, and materials projects.

Technology Fund Switzerland (Technologiefonds) is a Swiss federal policy instrument under the Federal Office for the Environment. The fund sits inside the CO2 Act framework and is operated on the Confederation's behalf by Emerald Technology Ventures AG and South Pole Group. Its mandate is to support climate and resource-efficiency innovation in Switzerland, especially where a bankable loan still needs credit enhancement.

The fund does not pay cash grants. It provides loan guarantees of up to CHF 3 million for as long as 10 years, with a total outstanding portfolio cap of CHF 500 million. The supported sectors in the available data are energy, climate, and materials, and the named route is the Swiss Technology Fund — Loan Guarantee Programme. Applicants are Swiss companies, and the application process runs in German, French, or Italian.

The fund is most useful for clean-tech SMEs that already have a willing lender and need help closing the financing gap without giving up equity. Its practical value is that it sits between start-up capital and standard corporate lending, so the applicant has to show both environmental impact and a project structure a bank can underwrite.