Companies · Climate / Cleantech
Africa · Climate / Cleantech · founded 2017
Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Yellow — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.→Yellow looks under-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.
Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the climate/enviro sector profile.
Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.
No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.
Yellow is one of 207 Climate / Cleantech companies tracked from Africa, on record since 2017. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 63% of sector peers), and in the upper tier by modeled valuation est..
Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.
SA PAYG energy startup Yellow raises $3.3m Series A to scale in Malawi, Uganda 0 By Tom Jackson on September 8, 2020 News , Southern Africa South African pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar energy startup Yellow has raised a US$3.3 million Series A funding round to scale-up its footprint to over 100,000 customers in Malawi and Uganda. Founded in 2017, Yellow has enabled 30,000 low income, rural households to access electricity through solar home systems on a financed basis.
SA PAYG energy startup Yellow raises $3.3m Series A to scale in Malawi, Uganda 0 By Tom Jackson on September 8, 2020 News , Southern Africa South African pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar energy startup Yellow has raised a US$3.3 million Series A funding round to scale-up its footprint to over 100,000 customers in Malawi and Uganda. Founded in 2017, Yellow has enabled 30,000 low income, rural households to access electricity through solar home systems on a financed basis.
As reported in public records reported — not modeled.
Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.
The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.
Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed, Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 33%.
Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series A — a $4.0M–$15M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the climate/enviro sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.
Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.
Benchmarked against 207 companies in Climate / Cleantech. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.
Raised more than 63% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 73% of peers (estimate).
A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Series A) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful. This company ranks #7 of 9.
| Company | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | vs peer med. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SunCulture | Series A | $14.0M | $262.1M | 1.89× |
| Complete Solar, Inc. | Series A | $20.4M | $244.6M | 1.76× |
| Zitara Technologies, Inc. | Series A | $16.4M | $193.5M | 1.39× |
| Heimdal Inc. | Series A | $10.8M | $141.0M | 1.02× |
| TGP Solar Investments, LLC | Series A | $7.0M | $138.7M | 1.00× |
| Easy Solar | Series A | $5.0M | $99.9M | 0.72× |
| Yellow this company | Series A | $3.3M | $67.9M | 0.49× |
| Toledo Solar, Inc. | Series A | $8.8M | $45.5M | 0.33× |
| Climate Service, Inc. | Series A | $8.3M | $7.5M | 0.05× |
Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.
| Stage | Amount · real | Announced | Post-money · est | Value · est | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | $3.3M | 2020-09-08 | $15.0M | $67.9M | 45% |
Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.
Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.
Yellow is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.
Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.
| Company | Sector | Stage | Raised · real | Value · est | Why similar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Metals, Inc. | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $4.3M | $18.2M | same sector · same stage |
| Easy Solar | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $5.0M | $99.9M | same sector · same stage |
| Tizeti Inc. | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $5.2M | $115.6M | same sector · same stage |
| Zero Carbon Charge | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $5.6M | $19.1M | same sector · same stage |
| Renewable Water Resources, LLC | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $5.7M | $125.9M | same sector · same stage |
| Insight Terra | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $5.7M | $22.4M | same sector · same stage |
| Wren Climate, PBC | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $6.6M | $81.2M | same sector · same stage |
| TGP Solar Investments, LLC | Climate / Cleantech | Series A | $7.0M | $138.7M | same sector · same stage |
Public records name issuer insiders, not the funds in a round — these investor links come from corroborating sources.
| Firm | Round | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Investment Partners | Series A | 55% |
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