Top 40 Clean Energy VC Funds & Investors in Africa (August 2026)

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• Sproxil — Sproxil is an information technology company that focuses on supply chains and consumer engagement. It specializes in brand protection, consumer engagement, anti-counterfeiting, product authentication, and consumer promotions. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Orb Energy — Orb Energy is a vertically integrated solar company that manufactures solar panels, design, install, and services complete system, and finance C&I customers.
• MindRight Health — MindRight Health is a tech startup that provides mental health coaching over text message to empower communities to heal from trauma

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• Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
• 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.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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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.
• Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
• SolarX Africa — SolarX commercial and industrial (C&I) solar company that provides clean and efficient solar solutions, through leasing options in frontier markets.

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• 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.
• TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
• Onboard — Onboard helps hardware companies transform their text manuals to 3D, intelligent manuals with instant customer support capabilities.

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• 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.
• Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.

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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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• Meva Energy — Meva Energy provides gasification technology for the development of renewable energy from small fraction fuels. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Sweden.
• 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.
• Hayfin Capital Management — Hayfin is one of Europe's leading alternative private debt asset management firm, providing finance to companies and superior risk-adjusted returns...

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• Posos — Posos is a clinical support platform optimizing healthcare professionals’ decisions at every step of the patient journey thanks to an AI-based cross-referencing search engine. Posos allows healthcare professionals to conduct simultaneous research on several drugs and to contextualize answers based on patient data
• 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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• Easybike — Easybike designs and manufactures a range of bikes that run on electricity. It offers its clients two major ranges of bikes which includes Liberty range and Infinity range.The company is driven by a vision to democratize innovative mode of travel. Easybike was known as one of the first brands in France to have specialized in electric bikes andtailor-made solutions. Easybike was founded in 2010 and is based in Paris, France.
• Iceotope — Iceotope develops liquid cooling technology for data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and high-performance computing environments. The company designs precision liquid cooling systems that use dielectric fluids to manage heat generated by GPUs, CPUs, memory, storage, and power components within server infrastructure. Its platformreplaces or reduces dependence on traditional air cooling by using sealed liquid-based thermal management architectures for rack-scale and edge computing deployments. The company provides cooling solutions for AI workloads, hyperscale data centers, telecommunications infrastructure, industrial edge computing, and enterprise computing systems. Its product portfolio includes liquid-cooled server systems, rack infrastructure, thermal management platforms, and integrated cooling architectures compatible with existing data center environments.Iceotope also develops thermal management technologies focused on energy efficiency, heat reuse, and reduced water consumption in compute-intensive environments. The company collaborates with hardware manufacturers, semiconductor companies, and infrastructure providers to support the deployment of liquid-cooled computing systems for AI, analytics, and high-density computing applications.
• Aether Fuels — Enabling a net zero world through sustainable liquid fuels.

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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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• Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
• EcoNetix — Leading Carbon Asset Manager for voluntary and compliance markets (CORISA, Art.6), we help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity credits, and communicate impact.
• Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.

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• Phycom — Discover Phycom, enhance nutrition, reduce environmental impact for humans & animals through sustainable algae food solutions. Join our food revolution!
• Solarge — Solarge is a manufacturer of sustainable, fully recyclable lightweight solar panels. The PV modules of Solarge, developed with groundbreaking technology based on thermoplastic polymers, are 50% lighter compared to traditional glass-solar panels, 50% faster to install, and 100% recyclable.
• Karma Kebab — Karma Kebab is gruwelijk lekkere, 100% plantpowered kebab. We laten de dieren met rust en stoppen onze kebab vol lokale groente en graan. Proef je trouwens niks van; we hebben al genoeg mensen zoals jij voor de gek gehouden. Lekker en duurzaam aanvallen dus. Karmapunten gegarandeerd.

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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.

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• Candi — Combining the best of its roots in Switzerland, and extensive local presence, candi offers companies of all sizes the simplest, most efficient way to take advantage of solar power for their business.
• MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
• TBC Uzbekistan — The first next-generation greenfield digital bank in Uzbekistan, established by TBC Group - FTSE 250 constituent financial services group

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• SolarSaver — We provide customised rooftop solar PV solutions to corporate, industrial customers in Namibia & SA through its proprietary zero-capital financing model.
• CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's renewable energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper and more reliable power.
• Cold Solutions Kenya — We are a leading temperature-controlled warehouse and logistics service provider, a one stop shop for cold chain solutions.

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• Qotto — Qotto designs a "triple play" offer including a solar kit, access to the internet and / or financial services , intended for peri-urban or rural populations with limited or nonexistent access to electrical and telecommunications networks. we transform the daily lives of our customers by installing solar kits to help you achieve yourdreams, we offer electric autonomy with great flexibility and quality customer service.
• Easy Solar — Easy Solar distributes solar energy solutions, life improving products and financial services to the households and businesses in Sierra Leone.
• SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.

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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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• 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.

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• MyNextCar — MyNextCar promotes equal access to car ownership and supports individuals in the process to earn an income and drive for Bolt to improve their lives.
• WAYVE — Wayve, also known as Wayve Mobility, Wayve Africa, Wayve Drive to Own, Wayve Work & Pay or Wayve DTO, is an Africa-focused, EV-first mobility fintech and infrastructure platform enabling vehicle access and ownership for commercial drivers across the continent. Founded in Ghana, Wayve is designed to address the structural barriers that preventride-hailing, delivery, and logistics drivers from owning reliable vehicles, while supporting the transition to cleaner, more efficient urban transport systems.Wayve operates a drive-to-own (DTO) and Work & Pay model that aligns vehicle repayments with driver earnings, allowing drivers to progress toward ownership through structured weekly payments rather than traditional loans. The platform uses alternative credit signals such as driving activity, platform performance, and fleet data to broaden access to mobility assets for drivers who are underserved by conventional financial institutions.Beyond financing, Wayve provides integrated fleet operations and digital infrastructure, including vehicle management, insurance coordination, maintenance programs, charging access, and performance monitoring. While the company prioritizes electric vehicles as the foundation of its long-term strategy, it also supports approved low-emission vehicles where necessary to ensure operational reliability during early-stage infrastructure development.Wayve’s ecosystem includes WAYVE, a driver-facing platform that supports onboarding, payments, ownership tracking, and fleet operations; WAYVE Go, a passenger and commuter engagement layer designed to enhance the in-ride experience and enable future loyalty and content features; and MUVEO, Wayve’s mobility media network. MUVEO enables in-motion advertising and brand engagement through connected vehicles, creating an additional revenue layer that improves unit economics while offering advertisers targeted, high-attention urban media inventory.Positioned as a long-term mobility partner, Wayve works with ride-hailing platforms like Bolt, Uber and Yango, telcos like MTN, financial institutions, and global partners seeking to operate or expand within African cities. The company’s mission is to transform driving from a short-term income activity into a pathway for ownership, stability, and economic mobility, while building scalable infrastructure that supports the future of urban transport across Africa.
• Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.

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• Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
• Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
• Africa Renewables Katalyst — ARK (Africa Renewables Katalyst Ltd) a Kenyan based company focused on helping Africa realize its full renewable energy potential through I-RECs

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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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• African Clean Energy — Producers of the #ACE1 Solar Biomass Cookstove. Enjoy cooking anywhere.

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• Hsabati — Une vision à 360° de votre entreprise
• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.

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• Eja-Ice — Eja-Ice is a technology company that provides solar cold chain systems, refrigeration solutions, and temperature-controlled transport.
• Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
• Hinckley Recycling — Hinckley Recycling is dedicated to the responsibility of being a good steward of the environment and will in all circumstances aspire to constantly emphasize awareness of the natural environment, whilst maintaining a level of proficiency which demonstrates bona fide leadership in all spheres of the environment.

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• BURN — The future of clean cooking
• GOGO Electric — Bodawerk is an innovations and engineering company. Our products are created to serve the needs of people at the bottom of the pyramid.
• MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.

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• Altech Group — Altech Group aims at expanding access to clean, renewable, and affordable energy both for poor-grid and off-grid households.
• Solstroem.com — We offer a transparent and tamper-resitant software infrastructure, based on a distributed ledger system, on which off-grid solar providers (in the first instance) can monetize the CO2 emissions reductions created by their deployed solar systems. This infrastructure is robust and scalable and is designed to ultimately become the digital backbone onwhich all carbon projects in the voluntary carbon market, also beyond off-grid solar, can be rolled out. By integrating with Solstroem, solar providers can gain access to the carbon market in a simple and affordable way and generate an additional revenue stream by selling their generated carbon offsets. This additional revenue stream allows for (i) the deployment of more solar systems, (ii) an accelerated access to renewable energy in developing and emerging markets, and (iii) a tangible climate impact through increased displacement of CO2 emitting fossil fuels such as kerosene and diesel.
• Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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• Ukrposhta — Ukrposhta sends and receives shipments from all over the world, as well as orders mail products sent to the most distant corners.
• IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
• Santander Brasil — Banco Santander in Brazil, its largest division in Latin America and one of the world's most important, accounting for 50%.

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• BURN — The future of clean cooking
• Hydrobox — Hydrobox transforms communities and empowers people using the most affordable, reliable, and sustainable power.
• Emerging Cooking Solutions — Emerging Cooking Solutions' mission is to improve health and stop deforestation caused by poor cooking conditions in developing countries

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• iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
• Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
• Homethings — Single-use plastic is bonkers. Homethings makes cleaning products that make sense. No more shipping water in plastic bottles. We send non toxic cleaning tabs so that you can refill over and over again using your tap.

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• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
• Sindhuja Microcredit — Sindhuja Microcredit is a new generation digital and rural-focused Micro Finance Institution (MFI) providing financial services to the bottom of the pyramid self-employed women entrepreneurs.

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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.

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• Farmnet — Farmnet trading arm of Singapore-headquartered TechCoop, operates as a key player in Vietnam's agricultural supply chain, focusing on commodities trading and related services.
• iFarmer — iFarmer connects farmers, agri-suppliers and funders with technology, financing, and advisory to boost agricultural productivity and sustainability.
• Platinum Credit Uganda — We are an ISO Certified Microfinance Company, licensed & regulated by @UgMicrofinAuth Proud Sponsors of the Platinum Credit @HeathensRFC #ThereWhenYouNeedUs

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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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• African Clean Energy — Producers of the #ACE1 Solar Biomass Cookstove. Enjoy cooking anywhere.

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• Coelba — Coelba is an energy distribution company.
• Infinity Power — Infinity Power is the largest African renewable energy company, offering innovative solutions in solar power, wind energy, and low-carbon hydrogen technologies. Discover our projects and commitment to sustainable energy solutions.
• ANSA McAL — ANSA McAL specializes in automotive, beverage, manufacturing, financial services and retail.

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• Qorax Energy — To find out more about the distribution companies Qorax incubated, please visit: Altech - https://www.altech-rdc.com (DRC), HelloSolar - https://www.hellosolarint.com (Ethiopia), Enersom - https://www.enersom.us (Somalia),
• Sun Plugged Energy — Sun Plugged Energy is a renewable energy solutions company focused on achieving SDG7, by delivering low cost renewable energy solutions to the last mile users

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• Autochek — Welcome To Autochek Group's Homepage. Read About The Company's Vision And Mission. Select A Country And Apply For Car Loans
• Aether Bio — Aether uses its state of the art platform to rapidly engineer enzymes, enabling our customers to manufacture complex and novel products at fractional cost.
• Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.

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• InspiraFarms — InspiraFarms provides on-and-near farm, grid & solar powered Cold Rooms & Packhouses for agribusinesses & distributors. Reduce energy costs & food losses!
• Ariya Finergy — Ariya Finergy, your leading service provider for energy solutions, focusing on solar PV, solar thermal, batteries and energy stabilisation.
• MPower Ventures — MPower Ventures finances and distributes a powerful combination of software and solar products to improve energy access in emerging markets.

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• Spark Energy Services — Spark Energy Services works with experienced developers across Africa, providing their partners with up to 100% upfront financing for the installation of on-site renewable energy and energy efficiency equipment for C&I businesses. Spark provides access to a diversified portfolio of clean energy projects across Africa, offering investors aclimate-positive investment with a strong, transparent, and robustly measured ESG profile. Through their development partners, Spark offers C&I companies a zero up-front cost solution to their energy needs, whilst significantly reducing their monthly power bills.

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• PeroCycle — PeroCycle is an industrial decarbonization company that enables closed-loop carbon recycling in the production of steel.
• Applied Carbon — Applied Carbon is scaling ground-breaking technology to regenerate soils and trap atmospheric carbon for the benefit of people and the world.
• Alloyed — OxMet Technologies develops, licenses, and manufactures proprietary alloys, alloy powders and alloy components for the aerospace, automotive, industrial and biomedical markets.