SUNFUNDER

Last month, SunFunder welcomed Christiane Würdemann to the team to lead our new Advisory business unit. We put Chris in the Q&A hot seat...

We have been recognised as a winner of the 2021 UN Global Climate Action awards to be presented at COP26.

We have published a new white paper in partnership with SNV and IKEA Foundation, highlighting the importance of including local companies.

Sébastien Duquet has taken up a new role as SunFunder’s Chief Commercial Officer.

New $4m facility for Yellow, a fast-growing off-grid solar provider in Malawi.

SunFunder has closed the oversubscribed $70 million Solar Energy Transformation (SET) Fund, following an investment by OeEB.

SunFunder disbursed a new $2 million loan to Winch Energy for the construction of 25 mini-grids in Northern Uganda.

A large part of 2020 was of course given to the pandemic but we stayed on course for our investment targets and closing the SET Fund.

Last week we disbursed a new $11m syndicated loan for SunCulture. We discussed some of the innovative aspects with the transaction team.

Today we made the first disbursement from a new $11m syndicated debt facility to SunCulture, a solar irrigation company based in Nairobi.

A new $500k loan will help InspiraFarms deploy its agricultural solar-powered cold chain installations.

Swedish development finance institution Swedfund has committed $12m to SunFunder’s Solar Energy Transformation (SET) Fund.

SunFunder acted fast to get ahead of Covid-19 impacts and help mitigate the risks to our sector as best as possible.

The end of the decade gives us a chance to reflect. SunFunder has now financed 50 solar companies and unlocked $135m for distributed...

We discussed pragmatic structuring for our first transaction in Nigeria with C&I solar developer Daystar with the transaction team.

We made our first investment in Nigeria: a facility of up to $4m with C&I solar developer Daystar Power.

We interviewed Prosper Magali, Ensol's Co-founder, to share insights into the C&I sector in East Africa.

We are supporting d.light’s growth across Africa with a new $5m working capital loan.

We are managing a new $30m debt fund with SNV for Kenya’s Ministry of Energy as part of the Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP).

We convened a roundtable in London on the financing needs for scaling up the energy access sector and achieving lasting impact.