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Energy Access Ventures

Founders Emmanuel Beau Michael H. Gera

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 21
Rounds per year 4.67
Lead investments 11
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Energy
  • Solar
  • Agriculture
  • Renewable Energy
  • Financial Services
Summary

The company was established in Europe in France. The main department of described VC is located in the Paris.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Kenya. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Financial Services, Food and Beverage. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PEG, SunCulture, Mawingu Networks.

The current fund was established by Emmanuel Beau, Michael H. Gera. The overall number of key employees were 3.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Energy Access Ventures, startups are often financed by Aster, Vulcan Capital, Village Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Electrification Financing Initiative, Blue Haven Initiative, Pymwymic. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by SunFunder, Electrification Financing Initiative, United States Agency for International Development.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

YoLa Fresh

Agriculture
AgTech
B2B
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Supply Chain Management
$7M30 May 2024 Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco

Hohm Energy

Energy
Energy Management
Online Portals
Solar
$8M22 Feb 2024 NA - South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

Badili.Africa

Internet
Publishing
$2M09 Jan 2024 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Cavex

Payments
$6M30 Oct 2023 -

Untapped Global

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M20 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Nuru

Energy
Solar
$40M03 Jul 2023 -

Mawingu Networks

Information Technology
Internet
ISP
Solar
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M01 Feb 2023 Kenya, Kenya

SolarX Africa

Energy
Solar
19 May 2021 Bamako, Bamako, Mali

SunCulture

Agriculture
Farming
Solar
$14M08 Dec 2020 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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Total investments 42
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 4.67
Peak activity year 2018
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.50
Group Appearance index 0.86

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

YoLa Fresh

Agriculture
AgTech
B2B
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Supply Chain Management
$7M30 May 2024 Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco

Hohm Energy

Energy
Energy Management
Online Portals
Solar
$8M22 Feb 2024 NA - South Africa, Gauteng, South Africa

Badili.Africa

Internet
Publishing
$2M09 Jan 2024 Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

Cavex

Payments
$6M30 Oct 2023 -

Untapped Global

Finance
Financial Services
FinTech
$3M20 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Nuru

Energy
Solar
$40M03 Jul 2023 -

Mawingu Networks

Information Technology
Internet
ISP
Solar
Telecommunications
Wireless
$10M01 Feb 2023 Kenya, Kenya

SolarX Africa

Energy
Solar
19 May 2021 Bamako, Bamako, Mali

SunCulture

Agriculture
Farming
Solar
$14M08 Dec 2020 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
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