Nuru

Canada
Cap-Acadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Company profile

Nuru company profile

Nuru is a solar hybrid site. Nuru (Swahili for "light") is a company dedicated to enhancing connectivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nuru deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma, the largest off-grid mini-grid in sub-Saharan Africa. Nuru is a renewable and environment company that specializes in the fields of storage micro-grids and solar energy. The company deployed Congo's first solar-based mini-grid in 2017 and is currently constructing a 1.3MW solar hybrid site in Goma. Nuru was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Goma, Nord-Kivu, Congo.

Business identity

Contact email
[email protected]
Phone number
243828137769
Operating status
Active
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
101-250 employees
Founded
2015-01-01, Year

Headquarters

Country code
CA
Continent
North America

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
Early Stage Venture
Funding rounds
7
Total equity funding
$45M
Last funding
Series B / $40M / 2023-07-03
Last equity funding
Series B / $40M
Investors
11
Lead investors
9
Founders
1
Articles
11

Founders and investors

Founders

Jonathan Shaw

Lead investors

E3 CapitalEDFI ElectriFIGAIA Impact FundJoseph Family FoundationProparcoRenewable Energy Performance Platform (REPP)Schmidt Family FoundationThe Global Energy Alliance for People and PlanetVoltalia

Investors

AsterE3 CapitalInternational Finance CorporationProparcoVoltalia