Equator
VC Fund
Nairobi, Kenya
Equator is a VC fund in Nairobi focused on Software and Renewable Energy. Equator operates as a venture capital firm.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Equator invests in
Stages Equator invests in
Countries Equator invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$5M
- Series A
- $14M–$15M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (36%)
- Renewable Energy 4 (36%)
- Agriculture 3 (27%)
- Solar 2 (18%)
- Energy 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (36%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (27%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
Country
- Kenya 3 (27%)
- United States 3 (27%)
- United Kingdom 2 (18%)
- Luxembourg 1 (9%)
- South Africa 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter Gutman
Chairman of the Investment Committee for Africa focused climate tech fund
|
Chairman of the Investment Committee for Africa focused climate tech fund | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Access Energy provides energy management software. | $1.8M / Seed / Jun 17, 2025 | ||
| Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods. | $5M / Seed / Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| 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. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 19, 2024 | ||
| At the last mile, where the O&M costs are high and connectivity is scarce, live two billion underserved energy consumers. SteamaCo offers the world’s most data-efficient energy management system, enabling utilities to operate in previously unreachable places. | Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 04, 2024 | ||
| IBISA is an index-based insurance marketplace with satellite adoption. Inclusive mutual risk sharing solution with low fees and fast assessment and payment. Crop Protection for Smallholder Farmers | $3M / Seed / Jun 25, 2024 | ||
| Downforce Technologies is a pioneering leader in science-led, data-driven land management solutions focused on optimising soil health, soil organic carbon levels and biodiversity. With over 30% of the world's soil already degraded, urgent action is needed to address this pressing global challenge. Our platform offers a complete,high-resolution view of the land's carbon profile, enabling precise analysis and site-specific strategies for optimizing carbon levels. | $4.2M / Seed / Jun 13, 2024 | ||
| SunCulture is a company based in Nairobi, Kenya which sells the AgroSolar Irrigation Kit, an entirely solar-powered drip irrigation system. The kit combines solar water pumping technology with high-efficiency drip irrigation and includes everything a farmer needs to grow more while spending less, in a sustainable and energy-efficient way.SunCulture has developed a novel and unique product that simplifies farming and increases crop yields. They are also the only "one-stop shop" for Kenyan farmers, as they provide a solar water pumping solution, an entire drip irrigation kit, agronomic services, educational training, access to capital and access to markets in rural Kenya —Â their approach focuses on quality of both product and services. | $27.5M / Series B / Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Roam is a technologically oriented electric mobility firm that creates and develops electric motorbikes and electric buses for emerging markets. Roam provides supporting infrastructure, fleet management software, and after-sales services to create an ecosystem that speeds up the transition to sustainable mobility in new frontier markets. | $14M / Series A / Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that candouble farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models. | $6.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 17, 2023 | ||
| Odyssey is at the center of one of the biggest economic and climate opportunities of our lifetime: the clean energy transition in emerging markets, where aging/weak grids, favorable policies, and high diesel costs are making distributed renewable energy systems THE energy infrastructure of the future. Odyssey provides financiers and renewableenergy project developers with leading-edge technologies and a data-driven software platform to aggregate and scale investment in distributed renewable energy. (DRE)Odyssey is the only end-to-end platform to scale project development across all phases: planning, financing, procuring, and operating projects. Our solutions solve the key challenges facing the distributed renewable energy industry in emerging markets:Planning + Finance Solutions: Financiers lack the information to navigate the investment landscape in many countries that most need their support. By leveraging our network of 2000+ renewable energy companies, we are helping private and concessional financiers access projects that were previously inaccessible. We have $1.3 billion of financing for distributed renewable energy projects on the platform and a pipeline of more than US$785 million in active discussions with concessional and commercial financiers. We also offer advanced software tools to efficiently plan projects, aggregate portfolios and streamline diligence between developers and investors.Procurement Solutions: Smaller renewable energy companies can’t access economies of scale pricing and terms when buying equipment. By aggregating their orders and connecting them with financing that would otherwise be out of reach, we help developers access equipment more quickly, reliably, and at better prices.Monitoring & Control Solutions: As renewable energy companies scale their operations, ensuring they are performing reliably and optimally is a challenge. We offer hardware and software to make it easy to spot any issues, remotely control components, as well as provide data back to investors about portfolio performance in the form of customized dashboards for commercial, financial, operational, and impact metrics. | $15M / Series A / May 19, 2023 | ||
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FAQ
What does Equator invest in?
Equator invests primarily in Software, Renewable Energy and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Equator's check size?
Equator typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$5M at Seed and $14M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Equator participates in.
How do I contact Equator?
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Who are the partners at Equator?
The team at Equator includes Peter Gutman (Chairman of the Investment Committee for Africa focused climate tech fund). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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