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.