One week in the Big Apple makes magic happen. During a one week stay the team had the chance to arrange meetings with several interesting actors in the social impact investment scene. Our team was specially happy to meet with the Global Social Investment Funds team at Deutche Bank. Having the opportunity to present our business case for this team that is about to setup a groundbreaking new social impact investment fund was very inspiring. That Deutche Bank is operating in novel manners on Wall Street makes one even more excited. We’d be happy to collaborate in the future when our proof of concept is up and running.

Addtinionally, our team met with the excellent Willow Impact Investors. This meeting was likewise very motivating. I am very pleased to find investors out there that share our values and this make me very excited about the future. Read more

Let’s hope it is a good one. We’d like to thank all our friends and partners for an exciting and wonderful year with you. We are more passionate than ever to work for our dreams to come true and make this world a little bit more sustainable step by step. We are looking forward to work with you on new challenges and to learn from more adventures together.

New year greetings!

Pamoja Cleantech team

Since a while ago our team has been busy preparing for an upcoming field visit in the beginning of 2012. This was due to some good news – Pamoja team was awarded a grant in the SIDA Innovations Against Poverty and we will execute a business study to explore the potential of deploying our renewable energy solution at a pilot site.

Just recently we have been working to leverage best potential from the business study. Co-ordinating a multi-stakeholder process and aligning goals with several partners has taken its time. We are now on good direction and expect to be signing agreements in near future!

Ever since month of May good news from the field has kept us super motivated to push forward. During  May our Stockholm team was busy preparing an application for the Innovations Against Poverty Programme initiated by SIDA. This work was a great process. We managed to communicate our systematic approach to rural electrification in a most simple and clear way. We learnt surprisingly lot from this and I think we discovered many new aspects of our innovation.

Simultaneously, a team of engineers have been touring East Africa with a mission to find a suitable pilot site for our first on site operations.  This activity on the ground has paid off in new interesting partnerships and increased knowledge of course.  We will disclose some amazing news in the near future, please stay tuned.

2011 seems to be a fast-moving year, January is gone and I have some news to share with you . First of all, the business challenge at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation – was an excellent learning experience. We are more confident than ever that our business case is strong and we´re also glad to find a group of new friends from all over the world in our network. Moreover, relevant contacts to potential future negotiations with BASF and KIC Innoenergy were established. The Pamoja Cleantech team is gratetful for a wonderful experience. Big thanks to the organisation team and congratulations to the winning teams from South Africa, Germany and China.

I am quite thrilled over the recent developments for our startup. Our research programme with Aalto University/ Product development department and KTH/ Sustainable Energy department has kicked off. Read more