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Vladimir Dugin

Investment Director / Renewable Energy in Africa

📍 Kenya, Kenya🔄 Updated October 2026💼 11 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
Angel investor🌍 Kenya
11
Total investments
3
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3
Mid stage
3
Late stage
6y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Member
May 2025
Plentify is a pioneering home energy management company based in South Africa and the United States, specialising in innovative technologies that connect home appliances to cheaper, cleaner energy. Our focus is on developing smart, sustainable solutions that not only save energy, but also work together across homes to enable a more resilient energy system. Our team fuses advanced hardware, artificial intelligence and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight our customers and strengthen electricity systems for everyone.
Board Observer
Nov 2024
CutStruct’s mission is to provide products and services that help you buy materials, hire for, and manage construction projects more efficiently and effectively. We build technology products that bring efficiency, convenience and cost savings to construction projects. Our product, Livevend Bulk is a digital platform that provides real time prices of construction materials as well as comparison with other brands of construction material for effective decision making on pricing. It also facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers of construction materials online that enhances efficiency and transparency while providing additional value such as insurance, financing and competitive pricing- https://livevend.com/
mid stageConstruction
Board Member
May 2024
Spark Energy Services Inc is a climate and technology holding company for a portfolio of companies in Africa
Board Member
May 2024
Candi Solar partners with businesses to provide simple, end-to-end solar & battery solutions. Our flexible approach, coupled with our financial expertise, enables us to tailor an offering to your exact needs. Our shared value model guarantees we are invested for the long run, owning the risk and ensuring you reap the full rewards.
Board Member
Oct 2023
On a mission to reshape profitable investing in emerging markets, Untapped Global offers profitable, data-driven investment opportunities for global investors to finance high-growth businesses across Africa. Our innovative Smart Asset Financing investment model leverages technology to track usage and revenue of capital assets in real-time, giving global investors on our investment platform access to a transparent, safe and profitable solution to investing in emerging markets. Based in San Francisco and across Africa, the Untapped team aims to create shared prosperity by unlocking economic opportunity where it’s needed most. Find out more at untapped-global.com.
Board Member
Sep 2023
Hohm helps homeowners and businesses to go solar with accredited solar installers, product suppliers and embedded solar finance in just a few clicks. We are evolving the solar purchasing experience for our clients by using scalable technology that seamlessly manages your entire solar journey. Visit our website for more info or to generate a proposal for your solar requirements.
Board Member
2020
Solarise Africa is a pan-African Energy-as-a-Service company. Through our smart financing solutions, we unlock possibilities and empower our partners to thrive and actively drive Africa’s progress.
Board Member
2020
InspiraFarms provides agribusinesses, exporters, 3PL and food distributors in Africa with cold chain solutions and finance for cooling and handling their fresh produce, significantly cutting energy costs, reducing food losses and ready to meet the major international food safety certifications, and allowing real time remote performance monitoring. Engineering, construction and servicing of modular and high-efficiency dry steel infrastructures, high-efficiency industrial refrigeration machinery and equipment integrated through an IoT platform.
Board Member
2020
By tackling both the technical and financial barriers, SolarX is able to provide the most adequate and customisable solution for you. SolarX act as a one-stop shop for renewable energy solutions. Our team fully onboards you, from the feasibility study to the installation and commissioning of the solar system, O&M as well as financing!
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2025
Board Member
May 2025
Plentify is a pioneering home energy management company based in South Africa and the United States, specialising in innovative technologies that connect home appliances to cheaper, cleaner energy. Our focus is on developing smart, sustainable solutions that not only save energy, but also work together across homes to enable a more resilient energy system. Our team fuses advanced hardware, artificial intelligence and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight our customers and strengthen electricity systems for everyone.
2024
Board Observer
Nov 2024
CutStruct’s mission is to provide products and services that help you buy materials, hire for, and manage construction projects more efficiently and effectively. We build technology products that bring efficiency, convenience and cost savings to construction projects. Our product, Livevend Bulk is a digital platform that provides real time prices of construction materials as well as comparison with other brands of construction material for effective decision making on pricing. It also facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers of construction materials online that enhances efficiency and transparency while providing additional value such as insurance, financing and competitive pricing- https://livevend.com/
mid stageConstruction
Board Member
May 2024
Spark Energy Services Inc is a climate and technology holding company for a portfolio of companies in Africa
Board Member
May 2024
Candi Solar partners with businesses to provide simple, end-to-end solar & battery solutions. Our flexible approach, coupled with our financial expertise, enables us to tailor an offering to your exact needs. Our shared value model guarantees we are invested for the long run, owning the risk and ensuring you reap the full rewards.
2023
Board Member
Oct 2023
On a mission to reshape profitable investing in emerging markets, Untapped Global offers profitable, data-driven investment opportunities for global investors to finance high-growth businesses across Africa. Our innovative Smart Asset Financing investment model leverages technology to track usage and revenue of capital assets in real-time, giving global investors on our investment platform access to a transparent, safe and profitable solution to investing in emerging markets. Based in San Francisco and across Africa, the Untapped team aims to create shared prosperity by unlocking economic opportunity where it’s needed most. Find out more at untapped-global.com.
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