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title: "Energy Access Ventures"
description: "Energy Access Ventures is an investment fund focused on expanding access to affordable, low carbon energy solutions in Sub Saharan Africa. It invests in small and medium sized enterprises that generate and distribute electricity or provide electricity related services, with a particular focus on off grid and rural electrification. Public information describes the fund as a French sponsored vehicle with operations and investments across multiple African markets. Within Africa, Energy Access Ventures backs growth oriented companies at the Series A and Series C stages. Based on recorded transactions, it has invested approximately 53.0 million dollars across three funding rounds between July 2017 and December 2020. Its portfolio includes SunCulture in Kenya, which provides off grid solar irrigation and water pumping solutions for small farms, and ZOLAi in Tanzania, which offers AI based tools to run and optimize distributed clean energy assets. These investments highlight a focus on agri tech and energy and utilities solutions, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania. Across its activities, Energy Access Ventures collaborates with a range of development finance institutions and impact oriented investors. Co investors in its African deals include EDF, Acumen Fund, Aster Capital, Omidyar Network, DBL Investors, Vulcan Capital and other mission aligned partners that support clean energy access and productive use technologies. The fund’s role in financing off grid solar, distributed clean energy and energy for agriculture positions it as a contributor to broader electrification and climate resilience efforts in underserved communities."
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# Energy Access Ventures

Energy Access Ventures is an investment fund focused on expanding access to affordable, low carbon energy solutions in Sub Saharan Africa. It invests in small and medium sized enterprises that generate and distribute electricity or provide electricity related services, with a particular focus on off grid and rural electrification. Public information describes the fund as a French sponsored vehicle with operations and investments across multiple African markets. Within Africa, Energy Access Ventures backs growth oriented companies at the Series A and Series C stages. Based on recorded transactions, it has invested approximately 53.0 million dollars across three funding rounds between July 2017 and December 2020. Its portfolio includes SunCulture in Kenya, which provides off grid solar irrigation and water pumping solutions for small farms, and ZOLAi in Tanzania, which offers AI based tools to run and optimize distributed clean energy assets. These investments highlight a focus on agri tech and energy and utilities solutions, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania. Across its activities, Energy Access Ventures collaborates with a range of development finance institutions and impact oriented investors. Co investors in its African deals include EDF, Acumen Fund, Aster Capital, Omidyar Network, DBL Investors, Vulcan Capital and other mission aligned partners that support clean energy access and productive use technologies. The fund’s role in financing off grid solar, distributed clean energy and energy for agriculture positions it as a contributor to broader electrification and climate resilience efforts in underserved communities.

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## Summary

Energy Access Ventures is an investment fund focused on expanding access to affordable, low carbon energy solutions in Sub Saharan Africa. It invests in small and medium sized enterprises that generate and distribute electricity or provide electricity related services, with a particular focus on off grid and rural electrification. Public information describes the fund as a French sponsored vehicle with operations and investments across multiple African markets. Within Africa, Energy Access Ventures backs growth oriented companies at the Series A and Series C stages. Based on recorded transactions, it has invested approximately 53.0 million dollars across three funding rounds between July 2017 and December 2020. Its portfolio includes SunCulture in Kenya, which provides off grid solar irrigation and water pumping solutions for small farms, and ZOLAi in Tanzania, which offers AI based tools to run and optimize distributed clean energy assets. These investments highlight a focus on agri tech and energy and utilities solutions, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania. Across its activities, Energy Access Ventures collaborates with a range of development finance institutions and impact oriented investors. Co investors in its African deals include EDF, Acumen Fund, Aster Capital, Omidyar Network, DBL Investors, Vulcan Capital and other mission aligned partners that support clean energy access and productive use technologies. The fund’s role in financing off grid solar, distributed clean energy and energy for agriculture positions it as a contributor to broader electrification and climate resilience efforts in underserved communities.

## Recorded investments

| Product | URL | Stage | Amount | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SunCulture | /sunculture | Series A | 14000000 | 2020-12-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| SunCulture | /sunculture | Series A | 14000000 | 2020-12-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| ZOLAi | /zolai | Series C | 25000000 | 2017-07-25T00:00:00.000Z |

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