Energy Camp for African Energy Startups 2025 (Deadline: 24 August, 2025)

Are you an innovative entrepreneur looking to transform the energy supply and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa? Do you have a mature product or business idea and/or a first prototype for the decentralised renewable energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa? Apply now for the Energy Camp for African Energy Startups 2025.

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.

Benefits

Here’s 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.

Eligibility

• 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
• 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.
• Headquarters registered in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• African nationals or Non-Africans living permanently in Africa have majority of the shares.
• One of the founders already has at least 2 years of business experience.
• A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is ready, first pilot customers are existing or pilot project realised.
• The company did not yet receive > 500k euros from investors.
• No branch or franchise of an international company.
• Product or service has been for a maximum of 10 years.

Application

They expressly encourage female startup founders to apply. If applications are equally qualified, preference will be given to start-ups led by women. The closing date for applications is August 24, 2025, 23:59 GMT.

For more information, visit Energy Camp for African Energy Startups.