Whitepaper: Introducing VentureBuilder
Published October 2018.
In 2018, VentureBuilder published a white paper to make public as many of its early learnings as possible. VentureBuilder and its local companies alone would not be able to deliver electricity to 120 million households. That's why the organization committed to sharing its lessons and experience as VentureBuilder evolved, in the hope that this would enable the broader energy access community to partner with it and innovate in related areas.
The whitepaper introduced VentureBuilder's approach to partnering with locally owned distributors across Africa to help them launch pay-as-you-go solar platforms. It covers the organization's investment thesis, enterprise development methodology, and the role of patient capital in catalyzing a new generation of homegrown, African-owned and managed off-grid solar companies.
VentureBuilder's final learning report looks back at how that approach worked in practice.