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Providing Japan affordable, renewable, and local energy through rooftop solar
SOGO Energy is a decentralized integrated infrastructure company. The company works with local entrepreneurs to serve rural communities with affordable valued-added services powered by clean energy. The company's first offering is "irrigation as a service" in Cambodia via its subsidiary, Pteah Baitong. The company has built 2 pilot solar-powered pumping stations in Prey Veng Province along the Mekong River offering irrigation to local smallholder farmers. SOGO also invested and partners with Equatorial Power, a similar decentralized integrated infrastructure company in Africa. Equatorial Power designs, installs and operates solar minigrids and productive hubs used to offer multiple products and services to its customers in Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Rwanda.
Notable Achievements
- Raised SGD $3.3 million Series Seed in August 2022
- SOGO Energy investors include Idemitsu, TheVentures, and Unfold Ventures.
- Founder, Jeffrey Char is a successful serial entrepreneur and was previously the Director of Venture Capital at Tokyo Electric Power Company
Currently Operating in Five Regions
Press Mentions
December 1, 2020
TRENDE selected to join 11 leading edge companies focused on solving the world's greatest challenges at Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific 2020
TRENDE Inc., a renewable energy retailer in Japan, has been selected to join 11 other ground breaking growth stage ventures at the 2020 Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific program.
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