SunFunder

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SunFunder is a specialist debt provider for beyond the grid solar projects and companies: we have deployed over $72m to 46 companies. Our team of 28 people, mainly based in East Africa, are specialists in tailoring innovative loans to scale up the impact of solar for energy access. We provide inventory, construction, and structured asset finance loans for solar lighting, home systems, income generating assets and commercial solar projects. By providing catalytic debt investments, SunFunder aims to enable solar companies to reach scale, which is pivotal to help the sector achieve its potential and reach the 2.2 billion people who lack or have inadequate access to electricity. We believe that with this approach the sector can become a long-term, sustainable financing ecosystem and we will achieve our mission to finance a global energy transformation to solve the energy access and climate change problem in an economical and scalable way.