# Lionel Dieu

> Lionel Dieu is a Series A investor at EDFI Management Company (Brussels) backing Renewable Energy. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EDFI Management Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-development-finance-institutions)
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lionel-dieu-9a13a88

Lionel Dieu is a Series A investor at EDFI Management Company in Brussels focused on Renewable Energy. Senior Investment Officer

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Oikocredit International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oikocredit-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About EDFI Management Company

VC Fund · Brussels, Belgium

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.

5 contacts available at EDFI Management Company.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Lionel Dieu invest in?

Lionel Dieu invests primarily in Renewable Energy startups, most often at Series A stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Lionel Dieu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lionel Dieu closed in Jul 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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