The Accelerator in partnership with First Light Ventures and Shell Foundation aims to address a structural gap in the market: start-up enterprises often lack both sufficient financing and meaningful skills support necessary to progress to a scale up phase where they can attract growth capital from next-stage investors.

The Accelerator  provides high level of technical and business development assistance including access to expertise from First Light and Shell Foundation networks and partners.

They provide early-stage risk capital and focused business support to entrepreneurs that are improving access to modern energy services in under-served markets through:

• Energy provision
• Innovative solutions that lower energy footprint or improve energy efficiency
• Solutions that enable the energy eco-system