For investors · Pre-seed
Making the SME side of the supply chain ready to deliver.
ZEROvia is the SME-native platform on which group programmes generate paying SME customers, in a market that is consolidating right now.
Deck and data room on request. This page is not an offer to subscribe to financial instruments.
Problem
The requests come through the supply chain.
SMEs are not subject to reporting obligations, but in practice they are subject to data obligations: new with every customer, with evidence, and every year again.
Surveys per year, in Excel, portals and emails; 5 of 8 SMEs surveyed have no system.
Source: PMF interview study 2026, 8 cases, not representative
of finance managers in SMEs feel professionally capable of handling sustainability.
Source: ACCA 2021, n = 2,459
Why now
Rules with dates.
The need for evidenced supplier data is growing, including after the Omnibus package.
CBAM, definitive phase
Importers need emissions data from their suppliers, for example for steel and aluminium.
Source: EY
ESG Ratings Regulation (EU) 2024/3005
Providers of ESG ratings are being regulated. ZEROvia delivers data instead of a rating.
Source: Stibbe
PPWR
The EU Packaging Regulation applies: product data becomes mandatory.
Source: EUR-Lex; Coolset
EmpCo, Directive (EU) 2024/825
General environmental claims without evidence are prohibited. Customers need evidenced data from their suppliers.
Source: EUR-Lex
Voluntary standard with value-chain cap
Requests to smaller suppliers only within the voluntary standard. VSME becomes the standard request.
Source: Garrigues; BCLP
Digital product passport for iron and steel
Probably the next product group with a data obligation.
Source: DPPA
Solution
Five levels on one data set.
Entry is level 2 via buyer programmes. We only build each further level once demand is proven.
Help at every level
live 2 ProveAnswer customer requests
Most start here 3 ImproveGoals and measures
live, expansion planned 4 SourceRequest your own suppliers
live, expansion planned 5 ConnectBe found in the network
plannedBusiness model
Two growth engines, one data set.
Every supplier that releases data is already there for the next buyer.
Engine 1 · SMEs
SME subscriptions, direct and via partners
- ESG self-assessment & profile CHF 400 per year
- Climate & Compliance Basis CHF 2,400, Pro CHF 4,900
- Direct, via fiduciaries, consultants and associations
Engine 2 · Buyer programmes
Supply Chain Data Management
- CHF 6,900 incl. 5 suppliers, then CHF 390 per supplier with data release
- Invited suppliers respond for free and become subscription customers
- First case in preparation
Pre-seed: convertible loan open.
We discuss terms, financial plan and data room in the conversation. We run investor calls in English.
Market
Where the questionnaires arrive.
Counted are SMEs with 10 to 249 employees. Companies with 250 to 999 employees have not been subject to reporting since the Omnibus package and are added; the statistics do not report them separately.
SMEs in Europe (EU-27, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland).
Source: Eurostat SBS 2024 (sbs_sc_ovw), BFS STATENT, UK BPE
of which in the 8 core markets Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland.
Source: Eurostat SBS 2024, BFS STATENT
of which in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the first sales territory.
Source: Eurostat SBS 2024, BFS STATENT
Competition
As simple as an SME tool, as deep as a platform.
The market is consolidating: Assent acquires iPoint (July 2026), Greenly acquires Normative. Our differentiation lies on the SME side.
Enterprise platforms
- Direction
- top down
- Buyer receives
- scorecard, risk profile
Mid-market suites and SME tools
- Direction
- implementation project or a single task
- Buyer receives
- report
ZEROvia
- Direction
- bottom up, levels 1 to 5
- Buyer receives
- released primary data per section and item (PACT format)
Categories, no statements about individual providers or their customers.
Status October 2026
What exists, and what comes next.
Status
Product live since 01.07.2026
- Live: carbon footprint Scope 1–3, climate target assistant, PCF in PACT format, data campaigns, AI screening, helpdesk
- Supplier pilot with a listed mechanical engineering group in preparation
- Research letter of intent with FH Graubünden signed
What comes next
Product and security
- AI in the EU from 01.12.2026
- Sustainable Sourcing add-on: tenders, supplier development, cost-benefit per measure (planned)
- SSO and API (planned, on request)
- ISO 27001 in preparation
We discuss milestones, figures and the data room in the investor call.
Team
Team from procurement, supply chain and software.
25 years in cost management, software implementation and procurement in financial services, industry and pharma. Lecturer in Sustainable Supply Chain Management at FH Graubünden.
20+ years in digital products and platform architecture, with his team at Treibstoff.
Development of the platform, Treibstoff.
Helpdesk, testing and point of contact for suppliers in the pilot.
Advisory board
Lead angel · former COO and board member of a listed industrial group
Procurement · former Global Head of Strategic Sourcing, Credit Suisse
Legal · financing, contracts, IP
ESG methodology · VSME, CSRD, EU Taxonomy
Coach, Surselva Impact Lab
FH Graubünden · research partnership