SunFunder
20
16M
12
1.67
5
0.40
- Stages of investment
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2012 was created SunFunder, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Nairobi. The company was established in Africa in Kenya.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the SunFunder, startups are often financed by Energy Access Ventures, responsAbility, Blue Haven Initiative. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are responsAbility, SIMA Funds, Oikocredit International. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by responsAbility, Shell Foundation, Norfund.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 25 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.
Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Consumer Electronics, Social Entrepreneurship. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight PEG, Greenlight Planet, SolarNow. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund.
The fund was created by Audrey Desiderato, Ryan Levinson, Sameer Halai. The overall number of key employees were 3.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 20
- Lead investments
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 1.67
- Follow on index
- 0.40
- Investments by industry
- Solar (15)
- Energy (14)
- Renewable Energy (12)
- Clean Energy (5)
- Energy Storage (3) Show 24 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (7)
- Netherlands (6)
- Ghana (2)
- Senegal (1)
- Kenya (2) Show 2 more
- Peak activity year
- 2019
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 11
- Group Appearance index
- 0.65
- Strategy success index
- 0.50
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenlight Planet | 06 Dec 2017 | Consumer Goods, Consumer, Consumer Electronics, Renewable Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Solar, Clean Energy | Late Stage Venture | 60M | United States, Illinois, Chicago |
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