Venture: We Care Solar

Investment: $3M grant

Portfolio: Scaling Capital

Investment date: December 2024

Region(s) served: Global

Sector: Healthcare

Core Impact Metric: Reduction in perinatal deaths

Power to Save Lives

We Care Solar designs, produces, and delivers solar suitcases to last-mile health facilities around the world, enabling midwives and doctors to provide timely and safe maternal and newborn care.

Why Rippleworks Invested:

This is a locally-informed innovative solar solution that enables healthcare providers to provide timely and effective maternal and newborn care. We Care Solar takes a sustainability-first approach to ensure the government and other partners have the capacity to own and maintain the equipment long after installation. This is critical given the many “solar graveyards” often found at facilities representing wasted investments due to inadequate planning.