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title: "EDF"
description: "EDF is a global energy company and electric utility group headquartered in France, active across generation, transmission, and energy services. Its official website confirms EDF as a major low carbon electricity producer with a significant international footprint and dedicated activities for journalists and investors. In Africa, EDF has an active investment and partnership strategy around off grid and clean energy solutions. The group has acquired an interest in the Kenyan agri tech company SunCulture, which designs and sells affordable solar powered water pumps and customized irrigation systems for smallholder farmers. EDF has supported SunCulture as an investor and business development partner, including participation in a 14 million dollar funding round and earlier convertible instruments, and is described as a leading player in off grid solar systems in West Africa. EDF’s investment activity in Africa reflected in the data provided includes three funding rounds between 2018 and 2020, focused on Kenya and Tanzania. Over this period EDF participated in one Series A round, one Series D round, and one other round, backing SunCulture in Kenya and ZOLAi in Tanzania. These activities align with EDF’s focus on productive use of clean energy and utilities, and climate smart agriculture that uses distributed solar solutions for irrigation and water pumping."
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# EDF

EDF is a global energy company and electric utility group headquartered in France, active across generation, transmission, and energy services. Its official website confirms EDF as a major low carbon electricity producer with a significant international footprint and dedicated activities for journalists and investors. In Africa, EDF has an active investment and partnership strategy around off grid and clean energy solutions. The group has acquired an interest in the Kenyan agri tech company SunCulture, which designs and sells affordable solar powered water pumps and customized irrigation systems for smallholder farmers. EDF has supported SunCulture as an investor and business development partner, including participation in a 14 million dollar funding round and earlier convertible instruments, and is described as a leading player in off grid solar systems in West Africa. EDF’s investment activity in Africa reflected in the data provided includes three funding rounds between 2018 and 2020, focused on Kenya and Tanzania. Over this period EDF participated in one Series A round, one Series D round, and one other round, backing SunCulture in Kenya and ZOLAi in Tanzania. These activities align with EDF’s focus on productive use of clean energy and utilities, and climate smart agriculture that uses distributed solar solutions for irrigation and water pumping.

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## Summary

EDF is a global energy company and electric utility group headquartered in France, active across generation, transmission, and energy services. Its official website confirms EDF as a major low carbon electricity producer with a significant international footprint and dedicated activities for journalists and investors. In Africa, EDF has an active investment and partnership strategy around off grid and clean energy solutions. The group has acquired an interest in the Kenyan agri tech company SunCulture, which designs and sells affordable solar powered water pumps and customized irrigation systems for smallholder farmers. EDF has supported SunCulture as an investor and business development partner, including participation in a 14 million dollar funding round and earlier convertible instruments, and is described as a leading player in off grid solar systems in West Africa. EDF’s investment activity in Africa reflected in the data provided includes three funding rounds between 2018 and 2020, focused on Kenya and Tanzania. Over this period EDF participated in one Series A round, one Series D round, and one other round, backing SunCulture in Kenya and ZOLAi in Tanzania. These activities align with EDF’s focus on productive use of clean energy and utilities, and climate smart agriculture that uses distributed solar solutions for irrigation and water pumping.

## Recorded investments

| Product | URL | Stage | Amount | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SunCulture | /sunculture | Series A | 14000000 | 2020-12-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| SunCulture | /sunculture | Other |  | 2018-07-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| ZOLAi | /zolai | Series D | 55000000 | 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000Z |

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