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Yellow Africa is a digital platform that operates an online marketplace for pay-as-you-go solar power devices, primarily targeting households in rural areas of Malawi and Uganda. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Lilongwe, Malawi, with an additional office in Uganda, the company provides solar home systems that offer essential services such as lighting, phone charging, and access to music through radio and MP3. In addition to its solar initiatives, Yellow also supports informal merchants across Africa, enhancing their business capabilities through its platform.

Solar Panda is a Pay-As-You-Go Solar Home System provider, bringing clean, affordable solar energy to rural African communities without access to electricity. Solar Panda designs, manufactures and sells products that provide lights, mobile phone charging, radio and TV to families. These products are financed for customers to enable affordability and have the ability to greatly improve many facets of the customer's life, including eliminating the need for harmful kerosene lanterns, saving families money, supporting education, enabling greater productivity improving safety. Solar Panda is a Canadian company selling in Kenya. We made our first sale in December 2017, and are now powering hundreds of thousands of homes in Kenya. This is the fastest rate of growth ever achieved by a company in this industry, but we are just getting started. We believe access to electricity should be a right for everyone, everywhere, and our mission is to lead in the affordable solar energy revolution by reaching as many customers without electricity as possible.

Inyenyeri gets the even the poorest of Rwandan households to switch from cooking with wood and charcoal by providing clean and renewable fuel that cooks better and is more affordable. Inyenyeri is a for-profit social enterprise. Profitability ensures sustainable social impact and increases access to financial capital needed to scale quickly.