E3 Capital

Energy Access Ventures invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors.

Emmanuel Beau

Investment Manager and Co-Founder

VD

Vladimir Dugin

Partner

Michael Gera

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

KK

Kumayl Karimjee

Investment Manager

Paras Patel

Managing Partner

Ravinder Sikand

Senior Partner

RW

Ruth Wairimu

Associate

28 past transactions

PayGo Energy

Venture Round in 2018
Globally, three billion people cook with biomass. The use of open fires and inefficient cookstoves with fuels such as wood, charcoal, and kerosene causes serious environmental and health impacts that disproportionately affect underserved communities. PayGo Energy is a revolutionary cookstove solution and distribution system that enables consumers to access clean and efficient fuel at a price point that is within their daily energy budget.

Nuru, SARL

Convertible Note in 2019
Nuru, SARL generates and manages renewable electric energy. The company offers solar micro grid energy to the Congolese households, businesses, and organizations. Additionally, the company installs solar PV and storage micro grid across country. Nuru, SARL was formerly known as Kivu Green Energy and changed its name to Nuru, SARL in September, 2019. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

SunCulture Kenya Ltd

Convertible Note in 2018
SunCulture Kenya Ltd manufactures and markets solar powered irrigation systems. It offers irrigation kit that includes irrigation tapes, filtration systems, PVC layflat pipes, connectors, fittings, and valves. The company also provides solar pump system, which includes DC submersible solar pumps, solar panels, security stand for solar panels, electrical cables, and HDPE pipes. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mawingu Networks

Series B in 2023
Mawingu uses high-performance low-cost wireless technology and solar power to build fast internet networks in rural areas. Customers use Wi-Fi to connect. Mawingu’s unique application of open technologies enables a world-class scalable network, with open and secure roaming in a highly challenging geographical environment

d.light design

Series D in 2016
d.light design inc. designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells solar light and power products for households and small businesses worldwide. The company solar lanterns, home systems, and appliances. It serves customers through a network of importers, distributors, and retailers, as well as online. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Shenzhen, China; Gurgaon, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; and Lagos, Nigeria.

ZOLA Electric

Debt Financing in 2018
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

InspiraFarms

Series A in 2018
InspiraFarms supplies turnkey, modular, and affordable agricultural processing and value addition platform to the small scale fruit, vegetable, and dairy industries that meet global food safety certification and quality standards for the supply of healthy and nutritious food to local and international markets.

Nuru, SARL

Series A in 2019
Nuru, SARL generates and manages renewable electric energy. The company offers solar micro grid energy to the Congolese households, businesses, and organizations. Additionally, the company installs solar PV and storage micro grid across country. Nuru, SARL was formerly known as Kivu Green Energy and changed its name to Nuru, SARL in September, 2019. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

PEG Africa

Series A in 2016
PEGAfrica is an asset financing company currently selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG’s Pay As You Go solar systems give our customers access to better quality light, mobile phone charging, and appliances like radios and televisions. Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller founded PEG in 2013. It has its headquarters in Accra in Ghana.

Solarise Africa

Series A in 2019
Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewable energy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.

SunCulture Kenya Ltd

Series A in 2020
SunCulture Kenya Ltd manufactures and markets solar powered irrigation systems. It offers irrigation kit that includes irrigation tapes, filtration systems, PVC layflat pipes, connectors, fittings, and valves. The company also provides solar pump system, which includes DC submersible solar pumps, solar panels, security stand for solar panels, electrical cables, and HDPE pipes. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Candi

Convertible Note in 2019
candi solar AG installs, finances, and operates rooftop solar equipment. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland with an additional office in Mohali, India.

Solarise Africa

Series B in 2020
Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewable energy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.

PEG Africa

Series A in 2016
PEGAfrica is an asset financing company currently selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG’s Pay As You Go solar systems give our customers access to better quality light, mobile phone charging, and appliances like radios and televisions. Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller founded PEG in 2013. It has its headquarters in Accra in Ghana.

ZOLA Electric

Venture Round in 2017
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

PayGo Energy

Series A in 2017
Globally, three billion people cook with biomass. The use of open fires and inefficient cookstoves with fuels such as wood, charcoal, and kerosene causes serious environmental and health impacts that disproportionately affect underserved communities. PayGo Energy is a revolutionary cookstove solution and distribution system that enables consumers to access clean and efficient fuel at a price point that is within their daily energy budget.

PayGo Energy

Seed Round in 2017
Globally, three billion people cook with biomass. The use of open fires and inefficient cookstoves with fuels such as wood, charcoal, and kerosene causes serious environmental and health impacts that disproportionately affect underserved communities. PayGo Energy is a revolutionary cookstove solution and distribution system that enables consumers to access clean and efficient fuel at a price point that is within their daily energy budget.

SunCulture Kenya Ltd

Seed Round in 2017
SunCulture Kenya Ltd manufactures and markets solar powered irrigation systems. It offers irrigation kit that includes irrigation tapes, filtration systems, PVC layflat pipes, connectors, fittings, and valves. The company also provides solar pump system, which includes DC submersible solar pumps, solar panels, security stand for solar panels, electrical cables, and HDPE pipes. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Mawingu Networks

Convertible Note in 2019
Mawingu uses high-performance low-cost wireless technology and solar power to build fast internet networks in rural areas. Customers use Wi-Fi to connect. Mawingu’s unique application of open technologies enables a world-class scalable network, with open and secure roaming in a highly challenging geographical environment

PEG Africa

Series B in 2017
PEGAfrica is an asset financing company currently selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG’s Pay As You Go solar systems give our customers access to better quality light, mobile phone charging, and appliances like radios and televisions. Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller founded PEG in 2013. It has its headquarters in Accra in Ghana.

PEG Africa

Series C in 2019
PEGAfrica is an asset financing company currently selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG’s Pay As You Go solar systems give our customers access to better quality light, mobile phone charging, and appliances like radios and televisions. Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller founded PEG in 2013. It has its headquarters in Accra in Ghana.

Port It Global Inc

Seed Round in 2018
Over the past decade, financial inclusion has risen as a global priority. Extending affordable, effective, and client-centric financial services, especially to low-income populations and small businesses, creates countless opportunities—allowing individuals to put food on the table, afford better health care, start a business, or save for retirement. For governments, financial inclusion lays the foundation for stability and inclusive economic growth For the global community, financial inclusion helps accelerate economic progress, reduce extreme poverty, and build shared prosperity. Together we can make a significant contribution to help increase financial inclusion with those people who are unbanked and that have a smartphone.

InspiraFarms

Series A in 2017
InspiraFarms supplies turnkey, modular, and affordable agricultural processing and value addition platform to the small scale fruit, vegetable, and dairy industries that meet global food safety certification and quality standards for the supply of healthy and nutritious food to local and international markets.

Nuru, SARL

Convertible Note in 2019
Nuru, SARL generates and manages renewable electric energy. The company offers solar micro grid energy to the Congolese households, businesses, and organizations. Additionally, the company installs solar PV and storage micro grid across country. Nuru, SARL was formerly known as Kivu Green Energy and changed its name to Nuru, SARL in September, 2019. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

ZOLA Electric

Series C in 2015
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Solarise Africa

Series A in 2018
Solarise Africa is a pan African energy leasing company for solar PV and other energy assets focusing on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) clients. Its business model is designed for scalability. Solarise Africa focuses on providing smart financing through close collaboration with a selected group of partners across solar and other renewable energy technologies. For solar PV it is focusing on captive rooftop and ground mounted solar projects ranging from 100kW to 3MW. It is currently active in Kenya, looking to open in South Africa and has plans to expand into East, Southern and West Africa.

Zonful Energy

Seed Round in 2018
Zonful Energy Pvt (Ltd). sells and installs solar home systems in Zimbabwe. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Harare, Zimbabwe.

InspiraFarms

Series B in 2020
InspiraFarms supplies turnkey, modular, and affordable agricultural processing and value addition platform to the small scale fruit, vegetable, and dairy industries that meet global food safety certification and quality standards for the supply of healthy and nutritious food to local and international markets.