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Energy Startup Pawame secures 2.5M for Market Expansion, prepares for $5M Series A

by Nike Abati
2021/06/07
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Pawame, a UAE-based, but Africa-focused solar energy startup has closed $2.5 million in grants.

Grants were secured from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency; the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP); Dutch development organization SNV, AECF REACT Kenya as well as the flagship World Bank-funded Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP).

In addition, the startup raised $750,000 in equity investment and $250,000 from Launch Africa Fund.

With these newly raised funds, Pawame plans to accelerate its geographical expansion and develop new products to improve people’s access to a regular water supply, solar-powered water pumps, and refrigerators.

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The company also announced that it is now launching its US$5M series A funding round to further boost its growth and expansion into Africa, empowering individuals to build a sustainable future for themselves.

Pawame was founded in 2016 by Alexandre Allegue, Majd Chaaya, and Nick Sparks, to provide solutions to off-grid communities in sub-Saharan African countries.

Already operational in Kenya, Pawame offers its customers a pay-as-you-go subscription model for its home systems. It also allows individuals living in underserved communities to obtain micro-loans via their mobile phones so that they can access affordable, safe, clean, and reliable energy.

Set on an ambitious course, Pawame aims to become a pan-African company that will help electrify millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025.

In addition, the energy startup is also looking to extend its product range to other life-enhancing products, which include income-generating gadgets such as water tanks, solar water pumps, and solar refrigerators.

These product offerings afford individuals in rural communities an opportunity to make an income and enable farmers to improve the life cycle of their crops.

At a time when businesses are trying to stay afloat and tweak their model in the wake of the pandemic, the startup was able to deliver exceptional results in 2020, achieve bottom-line profitability and positive cash flow for the first time.

According to Alexandre Allegue, Chairman and Co-Founder of Pawame, this was all thanks to the company’s unique and sustainable value proposition, alongside a cost-effective execution and an exceptional team.

Maurice Parets, CEO of Pawame, also said, “Energy is just the beginning, supplanting dirty kerosene lamps, our solar products help protect as well as change the lives of off-grid families.

The funds from our Series A equity round will allow us to accelerate our growth by delivering a broader array of life-changing products to more families in more of Kenya and, eventually, to other parts of Africa.”

The Director at Launch Africa Ventures, Baljinder Sharma, revealed that the rationale for investing in Pawame is because individuals cut off from electricity or connectivity, are excluded from the exponential growth this digital world has to offer.

“Although Pawame’s products essentially offer off-grid hardware with an affordable pay-as-you-go model, their value offering is far beyond simply electricity – which will be a defining factor for the company as they bring economic growth to a historically excluded set of people”, he added.


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