Top 20 Clean Energy Startup Investors in Africa in May 2026

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• BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
• Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
• MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver

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• BURN — The future of clean cooking
• Juhudi Kilimo — Juhudi Kilimo is a social enterprise that provides asset financing and technical assistance to smallholder farmers and small-to-medium agro-businesses.
• Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network — Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network (GUARDIAN) is addressing the complex water and sanitation problems faced by low-income communities in India through its innovative water credit solution. GUARDIAN provides microloans to low-income families seeking to install water and sanitation facilities in their households.

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• GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
• Insight Terra — Insight Terra supports data driven risk management in critical situations where business operations, people and the environment all come together.
• Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.

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• Ecoligo — With ecoligo's sustainable investments - you benefit twice: protect the climate & receive attractive returns.
• Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
• MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.

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• Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
• Eneza Education — Eneza Education, a.k.a. MPrep, was founded in 2011 by Kenyan teachers and educators serious about making technology useful for their students. From the rural areas of Nyanza to Wajir Town and the Mombasa Coast, Kenyan teachers united to create the content of our initial Class 7 and Class 8 study tool. We wanted a tool that combined the best ofgreat teaching practices: scaffolded assessments, direct feedback, and high engagement. And we wanted to make sure ALL kids had access to our system. What better way to start than with a simple SMS-based system?
• Sun King — Greenlight sells, installs and finances solar home systems for the 1.8 billion off-grid and under-electrified consumers in Africa and Asia.

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• Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
• Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
• Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.

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• Sanergy — The Sanergy Collaborative is a partnership of 3 independent companies, who are united by a common vision. Explore more about our vision here!

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• Iceotope — Iceotope has developed technology with a blank drawing board and an open mind. So when we look at conventional problems, we find unconventional solutions.Built around our liquid-cooling approach and shaped by an extensive portfolio of patents, we’ve proven what our technology can do for HPC and data centre applications - dramatically reducingenergy consumption, space and noise. But it’s just the start. We’re going to keep innovating, working toward a day when wasteful, inefficient air-cooling is a thing of the past. We have created a business to look forward, but we’re also proud of the heritage that British engineering is built on. Iceotope is delighted to own the Made in Sheffield mark to show our dedication to the area’s tradition of engineering excellence. With decades of technical, design and engineering experience, we’ve established Iceotope as a trusted partner at the forefront of liquid-cooling technology. Now we’re investing to make sure we stay there: refining our designs, improving performance and engineering new applications.
• Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
• Neural Concept — Neural Concept is the first AI software for enhanced engineering. Leverage your historical CAD and CAE data to drastically shorten and improve your design cycles.

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• Xenothera — Xenothera is a xenotherapy platform with embedded technology that renovates immunological treatments. Xenothera creates new therapeutic modes in numerous domains from immunomodulation to infectious diseases.Xenothera's technological platform is built on a double expertise of animal genetics and mastery of immunology processes. It renovatespassive immunotherapy by marketing a new generation of hyperimmune polyclonal sera.Xenothera’s platform ensures short-time development thanks to their mastery of the entire process, from animal genetics, choice of the immunogen, selection, and purification of interesting immunoglobulins, and access to market authorization in accelerated timescale.
• Check & Visit — In Brittany, in Rennes Check & Visit was born from the desire to help the owners of the whole world to realize the conditions of their apartment. In France each year, there are over 3,400,000 inventories made. For the 2,500,000 owners, which they are part of it is not always easy to make the inventory of his apartment. Whether due to lack ofavailability, legal knowledge, or the reliability of paper status reports. The inventory quickly becomes a tedious and time-consuming task that any owner would like to do without.
• PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology

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• Agilize — Agilize offers online accounting services for micro and small businesses. It allows customers to check passive invoices from smartphone, tablet or computer, without worrying about numbers.
• Latour Capital — In creating the VCF Latour Capital at the request of some great French entrepreneurs, we wanted to build a new tool entirely focused investment , majority LBO in business to potential.
• Rivage Investment — Rivage Investment offers asset and investment management solutions for private debt and equity derivatives along with advisory solutions.

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• EcoNetix — We help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity carbon projects, and communicate impact transparently to achieve compliance certainty, climate
• Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
• Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.

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• Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
• Floworks AI — Deploy AI agents that prospect, personalise emails, handle replies and book meetings 24/7. Floworks AI replaces repetitive SDR work so your team closes more deals.
• Haqdarshak — Made with Framer

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• Arone — Idebet ialah situs slot ternama di indonesia resmi hadirkan slot gacor terbaru dengan inovasi perkalian x1000 gampang menang hari ini. Cobain sekarang juga!

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• Hadean — Synthetic Environments that provide cutting edge training, real-time situational understanding and predictive intelligence for Governments, National Security and Commercial Enterprises
• Warehousing1 — Warehousing1 is building the number one warehousing and distribution network in Europe. Companies can utilize the innovative platform to find ideal warehousing solutions anywhere, manage them digitally and optimize processes by gaining real-time visibility and data transparency.
• Eatron Technologies — Delivering AI-powered Battery Optimisation Software that Enhances Safety, Extends Lifetime, and Boosts Performance for Lithium-ion Batteries.

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• Arone — Idebet ialah situs slot ternama di indonesia resmi hadirkan slot gacor terbaru dengan inovasi perkalian x1000 gampang menang hari ini. Cobain sekarang juga!

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• Easy Solar — Easy Solar distributes solar energy solutions, life improving products and financial services to the households and businesses in Sierra Leone.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
• GridBeyond Storage — GridBeyond Storage is a cooperative venture accelerating the adoption of behind-the-meter (BTM) energy storage devices.

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• Thea Energy — Discover Thea Energy, a fusion energy company reinventing the stellarator to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
• Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
• Marathon Fusion — The fuel cycle for fusion energy.

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• Oolu — Oolu is the fastest growing off-grid solar company West Africa. Our Vision is to be the leading energy and financial service provider to millions of customers in the developing world.Our model, developed with local communities, allows us to reach off-grid households in rural villages offering them modern energy access. With a monthly paymentmodel reducing barriers to access, as well as maintenance, parts and battery replacements included in our service, we save our clients money and assure them a continuous, dependable source of energy. In Wolof, a national language of Senegal, Oolu means ‘trust’. By building trust with the communities in which we work, we can grow together.
• Ecobodaa —
• Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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• SeA Bank — SeA Bank is a banking institution that provides services like preferential loans, tax service, online transaction solutions and more.
• Ace International — ACE International manufactures and distributes dairy powders, milk proteins, and other food grade components.
• QNB Finansleasing — QNB Finansleasing company provides domestic and international financial leasing.

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• upOwa — upOwa brings electricity to Africa through our innovative Pay-As-You-Go solar technology for the poorest.
• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.