# SpringHill Equity Partners

> SpringHill Equity Partners is a VC fund in Santa Cruz backing Clean Energy and Renewable Energy. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Cruz, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/springhill-equity-partners?trk=public_profile_experience-item_result-card_subtitle-click
- Website: http://springhillequity.com/

SpringHill Equity Partners is a VC fund in Santa Cruz focused on Clean Energy and Renewable Energy. SpringHill Equity Partners is private investor circle providing venture capital & support to early-stage, fast-growing businesses in Africa.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clean Energy | 2 | 67% |
| Renewable Energy | 2 | 67% |
| Solar | 1 | 33% |
| Energy | 1 | 33% |
| Communities | 1 | 33% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kenya | 1 | 33% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SolarNow | SolarNow provides solar energy and financing solutions in East Africa through its subsidiary. It offers solar home systems, electrical appliances, and power solutions that are designed to fit the needs of rural and urban households, entrepreneurs, and institutions. SolarNow offers household, small business, farming, and corporate solutions.Willem Nolens founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and branch locations in Uganda and Kenya. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 10, 2014 |  |
| SolarNow | SolarNow provides solar energy and financing solutions in East Africa through its subsidiary. It offers solar home systems, electrical appliances, and power solutions that are designed to fit the needs of rural and urban households, entrepreneurs, and institutions. SolarNow offers household, small business, farming, and corporate solutions.Willem Nolens founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and branch locations in Uganda and Kenya. | $2.5M | Series A | Oct 10, 2014 |  |
| Sanergy | Sanergy makes hygienic sanitation affordable and accessible in urban slums for everyone starting with Nairobi, Kenya. It promotes the fundamental human right to sanitation in the slums of Kenya by increasing access to and usage of hygienic sanitation facilities. Sanergy creates an efficient, equitable, and sustainable sanitation cycle by building adense network of small-scale sanitation centers across the slums, a low-cost containerized waste collection infrastructure, and converting this waste at their central processing facility into useful byproducts, such as organic fertilizer and renewable energy. |  |  | Apr 19, 2013 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Acumen](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acumen-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Novastar Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/novastar-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does SpringHill Equity Partners invest in?

SpringHill Equity Partners invests primarily in Clean Energy, Renewable Energy and Solar startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did SpringHill Equity Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for SpringHill Equity Partners closed in Oct 2014. Shizune tracks 3 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?

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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