Solar-E-Cycles Africa Group

Affordable solar electric mobility & power for home & business in developing countries. Youth job creation. PAYGo business model. $40bn market to grow to $100bn

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location Nairobi, Kenya
  • Currency USD
  • Founded April 2015
  • Employees 30
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website solar-e-cycles.com

Company Summary

Solar powered light electric vehicles travel 50km/d on sunlight, power home&business and create youth jobs for Africa.
A $40bn market today growing 300% from population explosion
Affordable PAYGo business model with 18 mos payback but no existing competition. Rapid scaling strategy - 10,000 remotely monitored bus. units.
Value-added products for electric vehicles including On-board data, GSM, GPS, mobile money and IoT
$4m invested to date.

Team

  • Jean Vincent
    Software development

    Jean VINCENT, Software development,– France, 50 - Experience in the creation and management of a dozen startups since 1985, in France, in the United States (Silicon Valley), as well as in Morocco since 2003. ReverseRisk, ReActane, Perform, 8x8, Callbright. - Responsible for leadership of the software development and data processing ;

  • Ahmed RACHID
    Head of on-board data and power management hardware

    Ahmed RACHID, PhD Control Engineering, MBA, MSc. Eng. Control Engineering, Prof. @Université Jules Vernes, France, Robotics, Signal Processing, Industrial Computing ; More than 10 collective books ; 2patents; over 120 international scientific papers; Supervision of 22PhD’s and over 80 masters projects; – Responsible for leadership in control systems, on-board system development and university research programs ;

  • Helene Dupuis
    Impact monitoring and evaluation

    10 years with the Government of Canada in various capacities in strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation. Responsible for orientation of impact evaluation.

  • Geoffrey Ronoh
    Solar PV technology

    Geoffrey RONOH, - Engineer and M.Sc. in Renewable Energy, 37. Previous Manager Strathmore Energy Research Center. CEO OFGEN SOLAR – Solar PV start-up in Nairobi – Responsible for Solar PV technology.

  • Jibril Omar
    Legal

    Mohamed Jibril OMAR, LLB Law, 40. Partner OFGEN SOLAR LTD, Kenya. – Repsonsible for legal

  • Hamid EL OMARI
    University research

    Hamid EL OMARI, Professor and Head of Laboratoire ENR, Univresity Hassan Ier - Settat Morocco 50 ; Technial advisor CE3M ; Responsible for PV research, student research programs; french and arabic training.

  • Alex Makalliwa
    GM Solar E-Cycles Kenya Ltd

    MSc in Aeronautical engineering. An avid, budding Engineer and Entrepreneur, passionate about using engineering and public policy as a tool for economic and social development – especially in Africa.

  • Charles Badenhorst
    Managing Partner Solar E-cycles South Africa

    Charles Badenhorst is a highly experienced administrator in South Africa with serious involvement in youth job programs through his church activities. He has managed accounts on large scale power projects. He will be responsible for developing our accounting and administrative procedures.

  • Jaafar Benabbou
    Managing Partner Solar E-Cycles Morocco

    Jafaar Benabbou is a financial consultant with experience in financing energy efficiency projects.

  • Roger Christen
    Founder Solar-E-Cycles Empowering People Project.

    Roger CHRISTEN – Industrial engineer and MBA. 69. 30 years in preparing, implemented $1,5bn of private sector development investment in power, mining, value chains, tourism, agribusiness in World Bank projects in Africa. 13 years in Consulting with Price Waterhouse.

Advisors

  • Pierre Breton is a marketing consultant in Montreal. He advised Solar E-Cycles in 2015 on marketing strategies and developed the logo
    Unconfirmed
    Hajarivony Andriamarofara was a World Bank staff member and short term consultant. His specialties include governance issues, privatization, share warehousing, digital technology, municipal management, procurement.
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • VALEO INNOVATION CHALLENGE has contributed 100,000 euro to a Solar E-Cycle Subsidiary ETUKTUK LIMITED, ETUKTUK are the operational arm of Solar E-Cycles in the delivery sector in Nairobi
    Unconfirmed
    ENERGY ENVIRONMENT PARTNERSHIP EAST AFRICA granted 200,000 euros to Solar E-Cycles in 2015-2017.
    Unconfirmed
    TOYOTA MOBILITY FOUNDATION (through EXA PARTNERS) are supporting Solar E-Cycles Kenya Ltd in 2019 with purchase of a vehicle and other supports.
    Unconfirmed

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