Christopher Clarke
Managing Partner & Co-Founder @ Inspired Evolution Investment Management
Cape Town, South Africa
Christopher Clarke is a private equity investor at Inspired Evolution Investment Management in Cape Town focused on Solar and Energy. Christopher Clarke co-founded Inspired Evolution Investment Management in 2007 where he is managing partner and an investment committee member. He attended University of Cape Town.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Christopher Clarke invests in
Stages Christopher Clarke invests in
Countries Christopher Clarke invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Solar 3 (75%)
- Energy 2 (50%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (50%)
- Battery 1 (25%)
- Electronics 1 (25%)
Stage
- Private Equity 2 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (50%)
Country
- South Africa 2 (50%)
- The Netherlands 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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SolarSaver
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SolarSaver offers customized solar photovoltaic and solar-battery hybrid solutions. | $60M / Private Equity / Nov 10, 2025 | |
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Commercial Energy South Africa
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CESA, a SolarAfrica subsidiary, delivers commercial solar and battery storage via PPAs, providing capex-free clean energy to businesses. | $7.4M / Private Equity / Feb 04, 2019 | |
SolarAfrica
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SolarAfrica provides solar finance solutions through a power purchase agreement. The CAPEX-free solution encourages businesses to go green with the advantage of reducing electricity costs. Their strive to make saving with solar simple and accessible. The solar solution enables business owners to reduce monthly electricity costs and become moresustainable organizations. Offer a finance solution that delivers savings to businesses. solar service provides peace of mind that the system on the roof is always maintained, monitored, insured, and performing at its optimum to provide customer savings. Benefits of no CAPEX investment, maintenance, and operations included, insurance included, reduced electricity bills, performance monitoring, and renewable energy. | $24.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2019 | |
ALTEN Renewable Energy
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ALTEN Renewable Energy is an independent power producer that specializes in the development, financing, and operation of solar photovoltaic power plants. | $36M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 01, 2018 |
Co-Investors
Inspired Evolution established in 2007 as a specialised investment business to lead sustainable clean energy and resource efficiency investments across sub-Saharan Africa. Inspired Evolution offers a dedicated, multi-disciplinary, professional investment team with a deep track record targeting superior returns with measured development outcomes.Inspired Evolution’s investment focus is centered on clean energy and resource efficiency assets. We have demonstrated that capital deployment to investments in this specialised asset class, can generate exceptional returns at the nexus of social equity, ecological integrity and responsible economic growth. This lies at the heart of sustainable investing.Inspired Evolution’s view is that sustainability is not only everybody’s business as citizens of a rapidly globalising world, but that it will define the future of business and investment decisions.Inspired Evolution manages Evolution One Fund – its first dedicated, closed-ended third party investment fund. Evolution One Fund makes early stage, expansion and development stage, and later stage or mature equity and equity-related investments primarily for control or significant minority positions in market-leading growth businesses located principally in South and southern Africa.
Inspired Evolution Investment Management Contacts
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Mike Brooks
CEO
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Anthony Ngugi
Investment Director
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Christopher Clarke
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Steven Faure
Partne and Investment Director Southern African Region
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Wayne Keast
Managing Partner
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What does Christopher Clarke invest in?
Christopher Clarke invests primarily in Solar, Energy and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Private Equity and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in South Africa. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Christopher Clarke closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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