Persistent Energy Capital
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Persistent is a climate venture builder that invests in and supports early-stage climate ventures in Africa, focusing on energy, resource, and agricultural transitions. It provides investment and venture building support to help companies grow and scale.
Persistent Energy Capital is an investor headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in energy Transition, resource Transition, agricultural Transition and ecosystem Enablers. 25 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Persistent invests in early-stage climate ventures across Africa.”
— Persistent Energy Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture studio
- Invests in
- Africa
- Sectors
- Energy Transition, Resource Transition, Agricultural Transition, Ecosystem Enablers
- Founded
- 2012
- Portfolio
- 25 companies
Team, as Persistent Energy Capital publishes it
- Tobias Ruckstuhl Managing Partner
- Wairimu Karanja Partner
- Toukam Ngoufanke Partner
- Chris Aidun Partner Co-founder Director of the Board
- Eva Stolz Investment Principal
- James Wambua Senior Investment Associate
- Léa Bouguern Investment Associate
- Yewande Oyewole Investment Associate
- Charles Ambuga Senior Finance Venture Builder
- Jess Rono Finance Venture Builder
- Dami Aremu Investment Associate
- Nahashon Mwangi Senior Investment Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on persistent.energy. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Persistent Energy Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://persistent.energy/name, is_investor, layer, type, description, status, confidence
- https://persistent.energy/about-us/hq_country, hq_city, founded
- https://persistent.energy/what-we-do/invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, portfolio_count
- https://persistent.energy/what-we-do/persistent-acv-fund/sectors
- https://persistent.energy/about-us/team/people
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Record 6441 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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