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SunFunder

Founders Audrey Desiderato Ryan Levinson Sameer Halai

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Total investments 20
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$16M
Portfolio companies 12
Rounds per year 1.67
Lead investments 5
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Key employees 6
http://www.sunfunder.com
https://twitter.com/sunfunder
Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Stages of investment
Debt

Areas of investment

  • Solar
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Clean Energy
  • Energy Storage
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.

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Team
Audrey Desiderato Co-Founder & COO 61db03d34e309 6673f24892d47 09fc5afedc4c 30f8cce804

Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PEG

Commercial Lending
Electronics
Energy
Financial Services
Solar
$20M22 Mar 2019
SunFunder
responsAbility
CDC Group
 Accra, Greater Accra Region

Greenlight Planet

Clean Energy
Consumer
Consumer Electronics
Consumer Goods
Renewable Energy
Social Entrepreneurship
Solar
$60M06 Dec 2017
Deutsche Bank
SIMA Funds
Apis Partners
Bamboo Capital Partners
SunFunder
responsAbility
PG Impact Investments
Eight Roads Ventures
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Total investments 20
Average round size 16M
Rounds per year 1.67
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 5
Follow on index 0.40
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

PEG

Commercial Lending
Electronics
Energy
Financial Services
Solar
$20M22 Mar 2019
SunFunder
responsAbility
CDC Group
 Accra, Greater Accra Region

Greenlight Planet

Clean Energy
Consumer
Consumer Electronics
Consumer Goods
Renewable Energy
Social Entrepreneurship
Solar
$60M06 Dec 2017
Deutsche Bank
SIMA Funds
Apis Partners
Bamboo Capital Partners
SunFunder
responsAbility
PG Impact Investments
Eight Roads Ventures
 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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