SteamaCo

Intelligent energy and water automation for industries and geographies that have never had it. IoT and SaaS for emerging markets, this is Nest for the Rest.

  • Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
  • Industry Industrial/Energy
  • Location Nairobi, Kenya
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2012
  • Employees 11
  • Website steama.co

Company Summary

2015 Ashden Award Finalist SteamaCo's cloud-enabled smart meters with remote switching capabilities put the power of the internet into commercial assets in the world's toughest locations.

With SteamaCo’s inexpensive, non-intrusive technologies, our customers spend less time measuring and more time managing their business with valuable IoT capabilities such as minigrid automation, mobile payment collection and remote irrigation control.

Team

  • An entrepreneur and Yale scholar, Harrison combines battle-tested operational sense with the mathematical, financial and legal ability to win contracts and drive the company forward. Harrison has assembled and led an interdisciplinary team, raised $1.3m in equity, grants and project finance, drafted every financial model and contract in the company's history, and architected the product strategy behind SteamaCo’s deployment across two continents.

  • CTO

    Sam is an influential technology developer with many years consulting and publishing in clean-tech and robotics. His PhD in energy technology design was rated by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as ‘Outstanding, tending towards Internationally Leading’. An UnLtd. Award winner, Sam was selected to present to Ed Miliband (UK Labour Party leader) and Sir Tim Smit, founder of the Eden Project.

  • Digital Product Manager

    A B.S.E from Princeton University with proficiency across renewable energy and computer programming, Emily develops fluently in 5 programming languages and has developed cross-platform software for Princeton Plasma Physics Lab and North China Electric Power University among others.

    Emily manages an international team of developers and integrates SteamaCo's cloud software and smart metering hardware with a plethora of third party web services.

Advisors

  • Alan Roux
    Advisory Board Member
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

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