# EDFI Management Company

> EDFI Management Company is a VC fund backing Renewable Energy and Energy. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edfi-management-company
- Website: https://www.edfimc.eu/

EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC) is a multilaterally owned impact asset manager which delivers innovative development finance solutions that enable European DFIs, development banks and private sector investors to increase the scale and impact of their work. The company focuses on business models, technologies and geographies where other investorshave not been able to operate at the desired scale given their resources and investment criteria. To learn more visit www.edfimc.eu.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $7M–$15M |
| Debt Financing | $3.3M–$9M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $2.6M–$4.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Renewable Energy | 5 | 50% |
| Energy | 3 | 30% |
| Solar | 2 | 20% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 20% |
| Fuel | 1 | 10% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 4 | 40% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 20% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Zambia | 2 | 20% |
| Benin | 1 | 10% |
| Ghana | 1 | 10% |
| India | 1 | 10% |
| Kenya | 1 | 10% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gunilla Nilsson | Member of the ElectriFI Investment Committee | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gunilla-nilsson-621a |
| Liesbet Mijlemans | Senior Investment Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liesbet-mijlemans |
| Lionel Dieu | AgriFI Fund Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lionel-dieu |
| Quentin De Hoe | Fund Manager ElectriFI | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quentin-de-hoe |
| Rodrigo Madrazo | CEO | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rodrigo-madrazo-eeab |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sawa Energy | Sawa Energy is a provider of solar electricity services, It designs, installs, owns, consults, and operates solar systems to provide clients with reliable solar electricity and project development, empowering small and medium-sized businesses by lowering electricity pricing and volatility. | $2.9M | Seed | Oct 31, 2025 |  |
| Complete Farmer | Complete Farmer is an end-to-end digital agriculture platform that provides industries with an easy way to cheaply source for quality farm produce and individuals anywhere in the world with a convenient way to own a farm by eliminating middlemen and farm produce aggregators. | $2.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Arnergy | ARNERGY's mission is to deliver energy solutions for productive use by deploying products, services and systems that power business operations and improve economic outcomes for our clients. Vision: Providing sustainable solutions to energy reliability issues across emerging markets. | $15M | Series B | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| SupaMoto | Supamoto is a social enterprise that aims to provide clean energy solutions. The company's main product is the Supamoto cookstove, a pellet gasifier stove designed for field testing in multiple African locations. This stove is part of the company's commitment to renewable home energy. Supamoto also offers opportunities for individuals toinvest in Zambia's renewable energy sector, further promoting the use of clean energy. The company has a significant impact on the renewable energy industry, as evidenced by its various campaigns and initiatives. | $4.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| Hydrobox | Hydrobox provides smart power plant, AI technology, mini-grid, hydropower, energy, renewable energy, solar, sustainability, turbine, electrification, reliability, off-grid, power, kenya, and smart grid services. | $9M | Debt Financing | Nov 26, 2024 |  |
| Freyr Energy | Freyr Energy is a full-service solar company that offers a range of smart solar rooftops, pumps, petrol pumps, and micro grids. Freyr Energy was founded by Saurabh Marda and Radhika Choudary in 2014 and is based in Andhra Pradesh, India. | $7M | Series B | Oct 16, 2023 |  |
| Les Soleils du Bénin | Electrification company | $3.3M | Debt Financing | Sep 04, 2023 |  |
| Gebana | Gebana is an e-commerce platform that provides online fair trade & organic foods. | $6.5M | Debt Financing | Jul 01, 2023 |  |
| Solar Panda | Solar Panda is a Pay-As-You-Go Solar Home System provider, bringing clean, affordable solar energy to rural African communities without access to electricity.Solar Panda designs, manufactures and sells products that provide lights, mobile phone charging, radio and TV to families. These products are financed for customers to enable affordabilityand have the ability to greatly improve many facets of the customer's life, including eliminating the need for harmful kerosene lanterns, saving families money, supporting education, enabling greater productivity improving safety.Solar Panda is a Canadian company selling in Kenya. We made our first sale in December 2017, and are now powering hundreds of thousands of homes in Kenya. This is the fastest rate of growth ever achieved by a company in this industry, but we are just getting started. We believe access to electricity should be a right for everyone, everywhere, and our mission is to lead in the affordable solar energy revolution by reaching as many customers without electricity as possible. | $8M | Series A | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| Good Nature Agro | Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income. |  | Debt Financing |  |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does EDFI Management Company invest in?

EDFI Management Company invests primarily in Renewable Energy, Energy and Solar startups, most often at Debt Financing and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Zambia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is EDFI Management Company's check size?

EDFI Management Company typically joins rounds of $7M–$15M at Series B, $3.3M–$9M at Debt Financing and $2.6M–$4.2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds EDFI Management Company participates in.

### How do I contact EDFI Management Company?

Public channels for EDFI Management Company include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at EDFI Management Company?

The team at EDFI Management Company includes Gunilla Nilsson (Member of the ElectriFI Investment Committee), Liesbet Mijlemans (Senior Investment Officer) and Lionel Dieu (AgriFI Fund Manager). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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