When we last met Ryan Levinson it was 2013 and he had recently co-founded SunFunder. The San Francisco and Tanzania-based social enterprise provides financing to sellers of solar-powered lighting and ...
Daystar Power specialises in providing solar power and energy efficiency solutions for businesses in the commercial, industrial, and agricultural sectors that result in significant reduction of power ...
Seeks to Catalyze $1 Billion of Crowdfunded Investments in Solar by 2020. Over the next decade, SunFunder expects solar energy to leapfrog the electricity grid in developing countries much like ...
The co-founders of SunFunder met online. Then, two weeks after they first chatted on the phone about starting a company focused on bringing energy access to the developing world, the two decided to ...
Renewable energy financing platform SunFunder has stated that since its launch in July of 2012 the crowdfunding site has financed $1.75 million in loans for 39 different projects. Of those 39, 19 ...
PARIS & NAIROBI, Kenya--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Financing the environmental and energy transition is a key objective for Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to impact investing.
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than a billion people still live without access to electricity, presenting a challenge to socioeconomic development across low- and middle-income countries. While ...
Kickstarter meets solar projects for rural villages in Africa, India and east Asia — that’s the idea behind startup SunFunder, and on Tuesday the company announced that it’s raised a Series A round of ...
SunFunder, which funds solar projects in developing countries, was established less than a year ago. On Monday, it closed a $250,000 master loan programme with SunnyMoney, the leading seller of solar ...
The oversubscribed fund was closed with the help of a commitment by Austria’s national development bank. U.S. and Swedish state-owned lenders and impact investors dominate the pool of contributors to ...
Kickstarter meets solar projects for rural villages in Africa, India and east Asia — that’s the idea behind startup SunFunder, and on Tuesday the company announced that it’s raised a Series A round of ...