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Kenya’s SunCulture Raises $5 Million to Expand Rural Water Access in Africa

Rural communities face the greatest challenges in accessing reliable water, with over 80% of Africa's rural population using sources that require collecting water outside their home, a huge time burden for mainly the women and girls who are responsible. Kenya's...

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SunCulture, Turaco Launch “SunCulture Protect” to Protect Smallholder Farmers’ Against Climate Change

SunCulture, a solar-powered irrigation solutions firm has partnered with Turaco Microinsurance, to launch SunCulture Protect to protect smallholder farmers using SunCulture's pay-as-you-go (PAYG) devices. Each year, health shocks push 14 million people into financial hardship, a figure projected to...

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Kenya’s SunCulture raises $27.5 million to scale up its solar irrigation solutions across Africa

Currently, many farmers in Africa rely on rainfed agriculture or carbon-emitting diesel or petrol pumps for irrigation. Kenya's SunCulture has raised $27.5 million to scale up its solar irrigation solutions throughout sub-Saharan Africa and provide access to Internet-of-Things (IoT)-enabled...

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Nithio Invests in Kenya’s SunCulture to Drive Solar Irrigation and Farming Innovations Across Africa

Nithio, an energy finance platform in Africa, has announced an investment in SunCulture, a solar irrigation and farming technology solutions firm. Nithio’s investment, made through its investment vehicle, Nithio FI, is part of the Productive Use Appliance Financing Facility...

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Cleantech start-up, SunCulture among seven African ventures recognized by WEF as 2022 tech pioneers

Kenyan cleantech startup, SunCulture is among ventures recognized as 100 Promising Technology Pioneers of 2022, worldwide, by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Sunculture is expanding its technology platform that facilitates the transition of rural African farmers to solar irrigation while...

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SunCulture raises $11 million to expand solar irrigation across sub-Saharan Africa

SunCulture has received its first disbursement from a new $11m from SunFunder to help it expand solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. SunFunder arranged as well as invested in the facility, leading a group of lenders comprising Triodos Investment Management, Nordic...

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Kenya’s SunCulture raises $14m Series A to take its solar water pumps to more smallholder farmers in Africa

Kenya's SunCulture, a provider of solar power systems, water pumps, and irrigation systems for smallholder farmers, has raised $14 million to accelerate direct sales in Kenya, continue to expand internationally, and fund existing product improvements and new product innovation. The Series...

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Energy Access Ventures Invests in PayGo Energy, InspiraFarms and SunCulture

Energy Access Ventures (EAV) has doubled its portfolio size with investments in PayGo Energy, InspiraFarms and SunCulture. PayGo Energy is a distribution service that provides an affordable supply of clean cooking fuel to homes in East Africa via pay-as-you-go technology. Paygo...

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Equator Announces Final Close of $55M to Invest in Africa’s Climate Tech Startups

Equator, a climate-tech venture capital firm focused on Sub-Saharan Africa, announced the final close of its first fund with approximately $55 million USD in commitments to support Seed and Series A-stage, tech-enabled ventures in the sectors of energy, agriculture...

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Equator Africa Fund Gets $5 Million from Proparco for Startups Addressing Climate Challenges Across Africa

Equator Africa Fund has received $5 million from Proparco to invest in startups addressing climate challenges across Africa. Proparco made the investment, through the FISEA+ facility to supporting early-stage African start-ups with innovative solutions to address climate challenges across sub-Saharan...

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Equator Africa Fund Raises $5M to Invest into African Climate Tech Startups

Equator Africa Fund has received $5 million from the IFC to invest in startup in the climate sector. The $5 million is the fund’s final close, taking its size to $54 million. IFC's investment is supported by a $1.5 million...

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Brookside Partners with Sun-Culture to provide farmers with Solar-powered irrigation system

The Kenyan milk processing company Brookside has partnered with an off-grid solar technology company Sunculture, in a bid to enable farmers access solar-irrigation system. According to John Gethi, Brookside’s director of milk procurement and manufacturing, the system will enable...

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EDF Group takes a 23% stake in BBOXX Kenya to ramp up move to green energy

EDF, a global leader in low-carbon energies has taken a 23 percent stake in Bboxx Kenya to provide access to clean, reliable and affordable and CO2-free energy to over two million Kenyans with solar home systems by 2025. EDF is...

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Bboxx raises funding from Trafigura Group to bring clean energy to all in Africa

Bboxx, the solar-powered systems manufacturer, distributor, and financier in developing countries, has received undisclosed funding from commodities trading group Trafigura to bring clean energy to all in Africa. Operating across Africa and Asia, Bboxx has positively impacted over one million...

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Microsoft partners with AGRA to digitise agriculture in Africa

Microsoft has partnered with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to build agri-tech solutions. The collaboration was facilitated through Microsoft's 4Afrika Initiative. It's main aim is to support AGRA’s digital transformation in a bid to improve food security...

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Microsoft for Start-ups initiative to empower 14 Kenyan social enterprises

Microsoft, through its Microsoft for Start-ups initiative, today announced the launch of its Global Social Entrepreneurship programme at a plenary session of the Sankalp Africa Summit 2020. Microsoft's Global Social Entrepreneurship programme has benefits aimed at elevating start-ups addressing an...

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Small-scale African farms helped by solar-power irrigation kits

The Kenyan government is known to take extra measures for food security at times a bit too late than expected. The rainy season usually commences in October but this time it is expected to be below average, according to...

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Here are the Nominees for The Future Africa Awards 2014

The Future Africa Awards & Summit (TFAAS) has today released the Nominees List for 2014 for its 10 categories who will be hosted in Lagos July 31 by the Consul-General of US. The list has five nominees per category and...

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Unreasonable East Africa Launches Own Crowdfunding Marketplace & Announces First Class of Fellows

Launched with a mission to give entrepreneurs world-class mentorship from over 50 mentors, capital, and forge networks, Unreasonable East Africa has launched its Unreasonable Marketplace , a crowdfunding platform through which the public can make donations to support ventures...

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