La start-up Kofa, specialized in the exchange of electric mobility batteries raised 8.1 million USD in pre-series A. It is specialized in the exchange of electric mobility batteries

Several media specify that the financing of Kofa combining debt and capital will be used to deploy new exchange stations in Ghana and Kenya, to build up a stock of batteries and to strengthen its AI-based energy management software platform. Le tour de table a été co-dirigé par E3 Capital, l' un des plus grands fonds africains de capital-risque climat, et Injaro Investment Advisors, un gestionnaire ghanéen de fonds à impact, ainsi que la Shell Foundation et des investisseurs européens spécialisés dans les batteries .

Kofa was founded in 2021 and differs from players like Ampersand (Rwanda) or BasiGO (Kenya) in that it focuses only on the supply of energy, without manufacturing vehicles. Its batteries, produced in China and integrated into motorcycles assembled by partners like TailG, are financed by asset investors. The model, which is low in capital, is based on a network of stations where users exchange their batteries for about $1 in less than two minutes