Acumen injects $1.05m in Nigeria’s Koolboks, Sierra Leone’s Lizard Earth

Koolboks closes $2.5m seed round to scale solar refrigeration across Africa

Koolboks has closed a $2.5 million seed funding round.

In a bid to harness the power of entrepreneurship to disrupt poverty in Africa, Acumen, a global non-profit organisation, has invested $1.05million in Koolboks, Nigeria’s solar-powered fridge company and Lizard Earth, a producer and aggregator of high-quality organic cocoa beans in Sierra Leone.

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