Fenix News
Alphamundi Investment in Fenix International
May 2, 2012
ZURICH, Switzerland - AlphaMundi Group and Fenix International are proud to announce the beginning of their collaboration with an investment from AlphaMundi’s SocialAlpha-Bastion impact fund to finance the next stage of growth of Fenix. GVEP International, an international NGO and AlphaMundi’s technical advisor on renewable energy investments in Africa, actively supports the collaboration. Tim Radjy, CEO of AlphaMundi, stated: “Our investment in Fenix is the first of a series of contributions by AlphaMundi to the UN Year of Sustainable Energy for All, and the prelude to the launch of Prometheus Fund, a private equity impact fund. Prometheus will be managed by AlphaMundi, with technical advisory from GVEP, and invest in renewable energy access in Africa.”
AlphaMundi Group
AlphaMundi is a Swiss company exclusively dedicated to poverty reduction and environmental preservation through Impact Investing, with an emphasis on developing countries. AlphaMundi provides debt and equity financing to profitable and scalable ventures in strategic sustainable development sectors such as Microfinance, Education, Agriculture and Renewable Energy. AlphaMundi also contributes to market building through Impact Investing education events, publications, and advisory services.
GVEP International
GVEP (Global Village Energy Partnership) aims to reduce poverty through increased access to modern energy services in developing countries. GVEP helps establish and grow micro, small and medium size energy enterprises so that they can deliver sustainable access to clean energy and in turn improve the quality of life in developing countries. In the last five years, GVEP’s work has helped improve the lives of over one million people. GVEP and AlphaMundi are also partners in the Prometheus Fund, an impact investment fund focused on renewable energy in sub Saharan Africa, which is currently in its pre-launch, fundraising phase.
Fenix International
Fenix produces ultra-affordable power generation and smart energy storage solutions to empower more than 1.3 billion people living off-grid. The flagship product is called the ReadySet: an intelligent plug-and-play energy system that can power lights, radios, mobile phones, and a range of additional applications. Fenix is a for-profit corporation based in San Francisco, California with customers across multiple markets and core expertise in power electronics, product design, and base-of-the-pyramid marketing. Fenix has been prominently featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Popular Mechanics, CNET, VentureBeat, and has won several awards and honors since it was founded in 2009.
UN Year of Sustainable Energy for All
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is leading a global initiative on Sustainable Energy for All to mobilize action from all sectors of society in support of three interlinked objectives to be achieved by 2030: providing universal access to modern energy services; doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.The United Nations General Assembly declared 2012 the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, recognizing that “…access to modern affordable energy services in developing countries is essential for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and sustainable development, which would help to reduce poverty and to improve the conditions and standard of living for the majority of the world’s population.”The UN General Assembly is encouraging Member States and other actors to increase the awareness of the importance of addressing energy issues and to promote action at the local, national, regional and international levels.
