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Funded Companies
Yellow
Yellow’s purpose is to make life better for customers living in Africa. Through a digital technology platform, Yellow enables a distributed network of sales agents to serve rural households with life changing products and services.
Zuwa Energy is addressing energy poverty to improve the lives of Malawians and helping businesses to succeed through access to clean, better, reliable and affordable solar power. We achieve this in 2 ways; Firstly, through leasing-to-own of Solar Home Systems, more than 20,000 people have lights at night, charge their phones, watch TV and keep perishable food longer and cooler every day. Secondly, through solar-as-a-service, 9000 people per month are accessing better health care service day and night thanks to the micro grids that we operate and maintain in different healthcare facilities.
Green Impact Technologies(GIT), is a Malawian enterprise. It was established in November, 2015. The enterprise is developing innovative clean-energy deployment mechanisms of technologies in Malawi through social impact. ​It seeks to promote clean energy access by conducting awareness and advocacy in energy access, practical training to youths on energy technologies, promotion of energy efficiency/conservation initiatives, distribution of Energy Technologies through proven business models, and development of mini grids in Malawi.
At VITALITE Malawi, we believe that access to clean and sustainable energy is the key to unlocking a brighter and more prosperous future for all Malawians. We are dedicated to providing innovative energy solutions that empower individuals and communities, transforming lives and fostering economic growth.
SolarAid is an international development charity working alongside communities in the most rural and hard to reach areas of sub-Saharan Africa to tackle poverty and the climate crisis through access to clean, safe solar lights.

Founded in 1988, StarTimes Group is a Chinese multinational media company headquartered in Beijing. After many years in development, StarTimes has become a major System Integrator, Technology Provider, Network Operator, and Content Provider in African television broadcasting industry.
Since 2008 when StarTimes started operation in African market, the company has been sparing no effort to realize its ambitious mission: “To ensure that every African family can access, afford, watch and share the beauty of digital TV”.
Today, as the leading digital-TV operator in Africa, StarTimes is 13 million DVB subscribers and 20 million OTT users, and covering whole of the continent’s population with a massive distribution network. It has established subsidiaries in 30+ African countries.
StarTimes now is the only brand who is simultaneously running DTT, DTH and OTT businesses in African market, and the only company who is engaged in B2B and B2C business at the same time. StarTimes aims to become a media group with international influence.
StarTimes is assisting to ensure that the African continent and media development progresses to the next level in digital television broadcasting. StarTimes is the key partner to Africa in her effort to migrate from analogue to digital.

In the rural and semi-urban areas of Malawi, a vast majority of households, schools, businesses and healthcare facilities do not have access to reliable electricity, and most operate without electricity at all. As a result, more than 15 Million People are losing their chance at a better standard of living, and are losing economic opportunities that could lift them out of poverty

Kumudzi Kuwale means “Bringing Light to the Villages” in Chichewa, the most widely spoken language in Malawi, and is a social for-profit company registered under the Malawi Companies Act 13135. The company was registered in August 2013, and is currently owned 41,8% by YouthCODE in Nkhotakota, Malawi, 54% by the Grønn-Hagen Bjørke Malawi Foundation in Norway, and 4,2% by other smaller investors. What started off as a project with only a single employee in 2013, has rapidly grown into one of the biggest employers in Nkhotakota Boma and a large contributor to local empowerment and progress in villages across Malawi. Kumudzi Kuwale currently has 17 full time employees in Nkhotakota, 2 in Kasungu, and more than 50 in the field. The company seeks to provide every layer of society with access to sustainable, renewable and affordable electricity and light, and does this through its three solar business units; installations, charging stations and shops. From July 2019, Kumudzi Kuwale introduced a fourth business unit, Water Wells, where we aim to provide access to clean and reliable water to rural Malawians, as well as offering solar irrigation and solar water pumping solutions to those in need of this.

RECAPO Solar Systems has been established as the leading supplier of affordable, renewable and clean energy solutions for rural and peri-urban households. The company has received support and commendations from various organizations including World Bank Institute on Climate Change, US African Development Foundation, Ministry of Energy and Mining, Cancer Association of Malawi among others for its product and its business model; a Pay-As-You-Go electricity solution. We value our customers dearly,and we have established a strong team of installers and customer support in Lilongwe and Blantyre that provide quick response to customer inquiries and problems.