Award ceremony

The Green Business Award is presented annually as part of an Impact Circle Event organised by “Impact Gstaad” – Switzerland’s most important platform for scale-up financing.

The 2024 award ceremony will take place in Gstaad on 14 February 2025.

All three finalists will present their solutions with an elevator pitch. Afterwards, the jury’s winner will be announced, and the Green Business Award will be officially presented.

“Impact Gstaad” promotes innovative companies in their scaling phase. The initiative has an exclusive Impact Circle of financially strong investors who are willing to invest in sustainable companies and/or enable them to scale internationally.

Prizes and benefits

The Green Business Award is the most important sustainability prize in Switzerland. Accordingly, it offers its finalists a high communicative reach and, if required, exclusive access to growth financing as well as a high-calibre network.

All three finalists will receive:

Detailed pitch at the Impact Circle event organised by Impact Gstaad in front of high-calibre investors and personalities
2 guaranteed tickets to the Impact Circle event worth CHF 6,000
Company-specific, direct networking within the unique Impact Gstaad network
High communicative reach through media partnership with Ringier (Green Circle), including extensive paid posts in Ringier’s business publications (BILANZ, Handelszeitung, PME) and blick.ch as well as SonntagsBlick
Professional national media service by JUNE / Jung von Matt LIMMAT
Paid LinkedIn Campaign, incl. short video on the solution worth CHF 20’000
Exclusive access to «Maillot Vert» – the Swiss community of sustainable business leaders

Additionally, the winner will receive:

Prize money – in the sum of Fr. 25’000.-
Additional Visibility– media partnership Ringier & national media service
Investors Roundtable – curated by Impact Gstaad especially for the winner