Top 15 CleanTech Startup Investors in Africa in May 2026

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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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• Cruz Foam — Cruz Foam offers certified compostable, protective packaging foam and other solutions. Let us help you transition to compostable foam packaging solutions, today.
• MightyFly — MightyFly is enabling worldwide access to goods with fast, on-demand delivery services for businesses and consumers. We’re putting the infrastructure in place to connect remote locations together with long range, heavy cargo aircraft. Many areas in the world today suffer from an inability to obtain critical and often urgently needed goods andsupplies at an affordable cost. Our goal at MightyFly is to solve this problem through express, customized aerial drone delivery services. MightyFly drones will transport cargo to multiple locations in a single flight across hundreds of miles of remote terrain that is difficult if not impossible to cross with trucks or other ground vehicles. We are developing vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) drones that fly more than 300 miles, and carry payloads in excess of 50 pounds at a fraction of the cost of helicopters. Featuring automated cargo loading and unloading, and requiring no launch or recovery infrastructure, MightyFly drones will accommodate ad-hoc deliveries to undeveloped sites as well as servicing locations along established routes.
• Miraterra — A New Era of Measurement: Unlocking the Secrets of Soil, Plants, and Food. Our breakthrough technology, overcoming decades of limitations, provides fast, efficient and trustworthy digital measurements when and where you need them most.

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• M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
• Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
• Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.

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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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• Agenz — Agenz was founded to deliver credible real estate market data that is updated in real time, allowing individuals to make faster and more informed real estate decisions at the right time.
• Tookeez — Fill your life
• Presta Freedom — PrestaFreedom is a platform that offers a variety of home maintenance services via monthly and weekly membership options. The cleaning subscription is carried out by a group of skilled technicians, and it is paid formally with a very inspiring career plan and benefits.

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• WashMinute — Washminute strives to transform car washing into a smart, eco-friendly service that saves resources, creates jobs, and sets a new standard for cleantech innovation in Morocco and abroad.

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• PowerUP — Clean Tech For Everyone

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• Wami Agro — Revolutionizing agriculture with cutting-edge digital solutions and sustainable practices.
• Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
• Northlite Solar — NorthLite Solar is a renewable energy provider that delivers solar power solutions for both commercial and residential sectors.

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• Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
• Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
• Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

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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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• Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
• SOLshare — Sustainable, affordable energy access for low income rural people is possible right now. Their decentralised peer-to-peer microgrids deliver solar power to households and businesses, and enable them to trade their (excess) electricity for profit.SOLshare has created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity toeveryone in Bangladesh and beyond through its peer-to-peer solar energy trading platforms based on distributed ledger technology. They believe the smart peer to peer grids they are building in Bangladesh can be the future for utilities globally. SOLshare pioneers a micro-energy transition model 3.0 by interconnecting solar home systems in peer-to-peer networks, monetizing excess solar energy along the value chain in real time with mobile money and empowering communities to earn a direct income from the sun.

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• Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
• Ferntech — Take control of your decentralized power system with Odyssey's FernTech software and hardware. Get real-time insights and automate operations with our reliable data collection, system automation, and range of controllers and IoT gateways. Explore the FernTech product suite and see how it works in action. Contact us to learn more.
• 60Hertz Energy — Unify asset management with asset monitoring, enhance scheduling, and facile communication. Book a Demo Now!

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• TALATY — Talaty provides AI-powered credit infrastructure for financial institutions, enabling faster decisions, lower default rates, and modern SME lending experiences. Built with bank-grade security, explainable AI, and seamless API integration.
• ZSystems — ZSystems is a transformative super app designed to redefine B2B trade.
• WashMinute — Washminute strives to transform car washing into a smart, eco-friendly service that saves resources, creates jobs, and sets a new standard for cleantech innovation in Morocco and abroad.

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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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• SteamaCo — Discover SteamaCo: the advanced IoT smart metering platform revolutionising energy in emerging markets
• Open Access Energy — South Africa's first multilateral wheeling software platform that automates energy transactions.
• SHYFT Power Solutions — SHYFT builds industrial-grade IoT and integrated software to connect and intelligently manage distributed energy resources (DERs) in markets that struggle with resiliency. SHYFT is pioneering the development of integrated decentralized power systems in emerging markets like Nigeria, leapfrogging over traditional central infrastructure and enablingDERs to scale and support existing but unreliable grids.