Top 5 Climate VC Funds &amp; Investors in Zimbabwe (August 2026)

E3 Capital 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.

Investment focus

Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 49
Round size: Seed $900k–$8M; Series A $1.8M–$7.5M; Series B $9M–$40M
Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

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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Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.

Investment focus

Industry: Energy, Solar, Software
Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
Geography: Kenya, Denmark, Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Seed $900k–$2.7M
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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Aster is a Venture Capital firm with offices in 4 major innovation hubs: Paris, London, Tel Aviv and San Francisco. Since 2000, they have partnered with more than 60 teams of entrepreneurs that are transforming markets with disruptive offers and technologies. They are always open to exploring new ideas related to mobility, energy and industrysectors that they have been covering until now. They invest in all stages, with a preference for the early phase.They are more than investors and they intend to act as an ally for entrepreneurs by connecting them to a valuable ecosystem of experts, influencers and business leaders. From marketing to executive talent, their commitment to the growth of their portfolio companies as well as the entire venture ecosystem also involves the commitment of their dedicated Operations team, their innovation strategy consulting firm (Aster Fab) and a crowdfunding branch to further expand opportunities (Aster Crowd).Some of their success stories include Solairedirect (acquired by Engie in 2015), Digital Lumens (acquired by Osram in 2017) and Avantium (IPOed in 2017).

Investment focus

Industry: Energy, Software, Manufacturing
Stage:Series A, Series B
Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 137
Round size: Series A $1.6M–$22M; Series B $6.6M–$27M
Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $281M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

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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Vakayi Capital supports outstanding entrepreneurs providing essential services in Zimbabwe. Vakayi is uniquely positioned in Zimbabwe to tap into the exceptional investment opportunities in businesses with proven business models, strong growth prospects and the potential to significantly create jobs and impact the lives of low-income people. Theteam’s experience and extensive business network generates a robust deal flow for capital deployment in the clean energy, housing, education and healthcare sectors. Currently, Vakayi is the only fund in Zimbabwe focused on supporting small businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Industrial, Real Estate
Geography: Zimbabwe

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Homelux — Homelux is one of the leading property development companies in Zimbabwe and will deploy the funds towards the development of residential stands in the Tynwald suburb area of Harare.

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