Energy Camp for Startups in Sub-Saharan Africa

From 17 to 21 October 2025, the next Energy Camp will take place in Nairobi (Kenya), bringing together up to 12 visionary founders like you.

For an entire week, you will engage in an intensive programme that includes interactive training sessions, networking opportunities with other innovators and tailored workshops.

What awaits you at the Energy Camp?

• Customer-Focused Product Development: Discover how to refine your product to meet customer needs effectively.
• Exploring Sales Channels: Identify and leverage the best sales channels for your business.
• Building a Dynamic Team: Learn the best ways to put together and manage a powerful team.
• Financial Planning Essentials: Get crucial insights into financial planning and management.
• Pitching to Investors/Partners: Master the art of presenting your startup to investors and potential partners.
• Funding Applications: Understand what funders look for in applications and proposals to increase your chances of success.

Why Apply to Energy Camp?

• Proven Success: 80% of their Fellows generate revenue, and collectively, they have raised nearly USD 3 million in grants, loans, and equity and won 18 Awards. Join a program with a track record of tangible results.
• Practical Focus: Their Energy Camp is practice-oriented, not just theoretical. The training is tailored to the specific needs of African energy startups, ensuring you get relevant and actionable insights.
• Expert Guidance: Benefit from the expertise of their trainers and coaches, who are experienced entrepreneurs with deep knowledge of the African market. Receive hands-on support from those who understand your unique challenges.
• Valuable Connections: While they don’t offer cash rewards, they provide access to investors and the opportunity to present your startup to an international audience. Open doors to funding and global exposure.
• Peer-to-Peer-Learning: As a Fellow of Startup|Energy, you’ll gain excess to exclusive peer-to-peer learning sessions with other startup founders, where you can share insights, collaborate, and inspire each other.
• The Energy Camp will culminate in an International Demo Day (online), where you get the chance to pitch your solution to a global audience of investors, organisations, corporatives.

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible startups must fulfill the following criteria:
  • Business sector
    • Your startup must offer a product or service for decentralized energy market in sub-Saharan Africa, such as:
      • Energy production or distribution
      • Storage systems
      • Energy solutions or services for example for health, education, water, sanitation, consumption, mobility, agriculture
      • Energy-efficient products and services
      • Financing solutions
      • Energy management
      • Recycling / Repurposing
      • Digital solutions for decentralized energy
      • Smart Grid
  • Type of product / service
    • Your business idea:
      • is a development of a new product or service with MVP (not just an idea), or
      • a significant improvement of an existing product / service, or
      • you introduce with your startup a known product / service into new markets.
  • Location
    • Headquarters registered in Sub-Saharan Afria
  • Majority of shares
    • African nationals or Non-Africans living permanently in Africa
  • Experience
    • One of the founders already has at least 2 years of business experience
  • Status
    • A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is ready, first pilot customers are existing or pilot project realised
  • Independence
    • No branch or franchise of an international company
  • Age of product/service
    • max. 10 years
  • Investment
    • The company did not yet receive > 500k euros from investors

For more information, visit Startup|Energy.