Last updated: July 9, 2024
Here is the list of the top 10 solar energy tech startups in Africa
Provider of agent-based payment solutions. Services include bill payments, money transfers, cash withdrawals, loans, etc. It also enables consumers to start small businesses. Additionally, it provides solar lights to rural schools.
Important Facts About Baobabs +
A decentralized crowdsourcing based solar power project investment platform. It allows private and corporate investors to purchase or lease solar power cells through crowdlending solutions. After the cells are installed, users can lease these projects to businesses, hospitals, schools, etc. Additionally, users can avail lease rentals in the form of fiat and cryptocurrencies based on their solar power consumption and usage.
Important Facts About Sun Exchange
Provider of solar technology based irrigation and lighting solutions. They use off-grid solar technology to provide farmers with access to irrigation, lighting and mobile charging stations. They also combine solar water pump technology with drip irrigation. Products include solar cells, solar pumps and solar agriculture cells.
Important Facts about SunCulture
Solar power finance management platform provider, offering solutions such as payment plan schedule tracking, energy management, etc.
Important Facts about SunFi
Provider of IoT solutions for grid network infrastructure monitoring. The company offers off-grid solar energy systems and equipment with digital tools for applications such as custom drones, robotics, medical diagnostics, monitoring and treatment systems, enabling users to build their solar power business, remotely monitor and control their solar power projects and equipment, and serve their customers.
Important Facts about Innovex
ARED has developed a portable solar kiosk that offers a range of services and products including charging solutions, top-up services such as talk time, prepaid electricity, e-vouchers available in the market, and Intranet/Internet services provided using an in-built WiFi network within the kiosk. The target customers are in the BoP category. The portable kiosk comes with an in-built M2M system for hardware monitoring, WiFi Internet/Intranet access capability and GPS sensor technology.
Key Facts about ARED
Majik Water offers a solution to generate water from air. It harvests water from the air by drawing air through a solar-powered intake fan and absorbing droplets from the moisture in the air.
Important Facts About Magic Water
Devergy is a microgrid-based social utility company that provides solar power to homes and businesses. Users can connect appliances such as lights, radios, televisions and refrigerators. Devergy uses Digi XBee technology for its solar microgrid and smart meter communications network and Digi’s ConnectPort X4 for its ZigBee to GPRS gateway. The company uses M2M technology to enable a pay-as-you-go approach for mobile money to provide economically sustainable energy services.
Important Facts about Devergy
Centurion Solar is a provider of solar panel monitoring and control systems, offering services including yield analysis, performance forecasting, equipment monitoring and measurement, and performance analysis.
Important Facts About Centurion Solar
Founded: 2015Location: Centurion (South Africa)Stage: UnfundedTracxn Score: 22/100 What is it?Competitor Ranking: 29th out of 188 competitors
P2P Loans for Solar Power Systems. A P2P lending platform that helps people in Africa own solar power systems. The company partners with solar power companies to offer a rent-to-buy business model for home solar power systems. The company offers these loans to private and institutional investors.
