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Overview

SunCulture is a Kenyan technology company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Nairobi. It builds solar-powered irrigation systems with connected monitoring. The products are sold to smallholder farmers on financing.

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Shared investors1
EndeavorVia a fund
1347 portfolio companies

News

News Kenya Today 2 months ago
SunCulture Launches Hydromax Solar Pump to Boost Irrigation for Smallholder Farmers
Clean-tech company SunCulture has unveiled its latest solar-powered irrigation solution, the Hydromax Solar Surface Pump , targeting smallholder farmers seeking faster irrigation, improved water access and greater productivity. The new system, which...
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News TechBooky 2 months ago
SunCulture's Profit-Sharing Plan Gives African Startup Workers A Bigger Stake
Kenyan climate-tech startup SunCulture has launched a profit-sharing plan that gives full-time employees a path to benefit from a future liquidity event.
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Blog 6 months ago
SunCulture Advances Climate Resilience with First Insurance Payout Cycle in Kenya
SunCulture is pleased to announce the successful completion of the first payout cycle under its climate insurance program in Kenya. The initiative is delivered in partnership with IBISA Networks (product design and trigger monitoring) and APA Insurance (u
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Blog 10 months ago
SunCulture Pioneers Africa's First Carbon Market Ecosystem for Solar Water Pumps
SunCulture, a leading climate-smart agriculture company and developer of the first carbon project for solar irrigation in Africa, has sold 10,000 Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) to EDF Trading (EDFT). SunCulture's carbon activities to date have been supporte
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Blog 10 months ago
SunCulture Launches Climate Insurance to Protect Smallholder Farmers
SunCulture, in partnership with Humanity Insured, APA Insurance and IBISA, has launched SunCulture Protect - Climate Insurance, a first-of-its-kind product designed to help smallholder farmers in Kenya manage the risks posed by drought and extreme rainfal
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Blog 1 year ago
SunCulture Launches ClimateSmart Battery 2: Powering Pumps and Homes for a More Resilient Africa
SunCulture today launched the ClimateSmart Battery 2 (CSB2), a powerful solar energy solution that strengthens the performance of SunCulture's solar water pumps while also providing affordable household electricity for rural communities. The Enabler of Su
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Blog 1 year ago
SunCulture and IWMI Partner to Drive Sustainable Water Management in Solar Irrigation
SunCulture, a leader in off-grid solar irrigation solutions, has joined forces with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in a groundbreaking partnership to promote sustainable water management across sub-Saharan Africa. This initiative, lau
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Press release 1 year ago
CNBC: This 33-year-old raised $40 million to give rural farmers solar power and help fight climate change
In 2012 Samir Ibrahim and Charles Nichols launched SunCulture, a start-up that helps farmers grow food without relying on rainfall by using solar power instead.
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Nithio Invests in SunCulture to Drive Solar Irrigation and Farming Innovations Across Africa
Nithio, a leading energy finance platform in Africa, has announced an investment in SunCulture, an industry leader in solar irrigation...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at SunCulture over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
58/100
Databases
ClickHouse
Cloud & platforms
Grafana
Developer tools
Eagle
Great Expectations
dbt
Practices & domains
Anomaly Detection
ETL/ELT
Machine Learning
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
11
4 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
36% ▲
Management
18% ▲
Operations
18% ▲
Data Science
9% ▲
Hardware
9% ▲
Customer Success
9% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+4 in 30 days)

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Nairobi
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Nairobi Kenya
HQ
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales, Data Science, Operations
Location: No. 19 Kanjata Road, Muthangari Drive, Nairobi, Kenya
seen since Oct 2026 company site, job postings
Kampala Uganda
Sales office
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Management
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Nanyuki Kenya
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Hardware
seen since Oct 2026 job postings

Jobs

In office · Full-Time · Nanyuki
Machine Learning
Chips/EDA
Eagle
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In office · Full-Time · Nairobi
ClickHouse
AI/ML
dbt
Great Expectations
Anomaly Detection
DevOps
Grafana
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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