About
SunCulture is a climate-smart agriculture and productive-use service provider to smallholder farmers, offering solar-water pumps, energy access, and financing in sub-Saharan Africa. SunCulture accelerates farmer access to energy through its innovative business model, which incorporates energy assets with enabling farmer services.
Project Focus
Shell Foundation supports SunCulture to pilot and commercialise their PAYGrow asset financing platform, and develop associated sales process, systems, distribution channels and KPIs.
Most recently Shell Foundation has enabled SunCulture to pilot carbon financing to demonstrate the impact on increased sales through lowering the cost of assets; that has confirmed investments by BII and others, and expansion into markets outside of Kenya, including Ethiopia, Zambia, Uganda, and Ivory Coast.
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Transporters
Southeast Asia
Charging Infrastructure
Electric Vehicles
Energy Storage
Shell Foundation partners with Zypp Electric to empower transporter livelihoods, accelerate EV rental solutions, and support women’s EV adoption in India
Zypp Electric, India’s leading EV Rental platform, has partnered with UK Charity Shell Foundation to increase access to electric vehicles…
09th October 2025
FCDO
Financial Solutions
Gender
Mobilising Finance
Micro-Entrepreneurs
Smallholder Farmers
Transporters
East Africa
West Africa
Elite Founders and Invisible Markets: Lessons from our inaugural eco pilot fund journey in African eco-dynamism
Shell Foundation is pleased to share insights from EchoVC’s inaugural Eco Pilot Fund, launched in partnership with UKaid via our…
02nd October 2025