MECS Venture Building Program
About
Despite the clear opportunity for electric cooking, current financial structures are not adequately supporting its growth, creating a critical gap for nascent ventures.
Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) venture building mandate is to accelerate the transition to modern, efficient, and affordable electric cooking in the Global South by supporting ventures that combine strong user value, technical performance, and commercial viability. As a co-implementer of the MECS program, CLASP applies an experimental Research & Development (R&D) and market-shaping lens to de-risk innovation, crowd in investment, and enable eCooking businesses across Africa and Asia to scale sustainably.
Our decision framework ensure that each venture selected delivers specific criteria, aligning with our strategic objectives for accelerating the clean cooking and clean energy access transition in the Global South.
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Companies we support
EcoBora is a Kenyan-based clean energy enterprise that manufactures award-winning and grid-powered institutional electric cookstoves for large-scale kitchens, combining robust design with smart monitoring and carbon revenue pathways to expand affordable, zero-emission cooking for schools and other institutions.
PowerUp is a Uganda-based clean-tech venture delivering affordable, tech-enabled electric cooking solutions, starting with smart electric pressure cookers and induction cooktops with integrated metering and PAYGo features, supported by a data platform and carbon finance model to scale clean cooking adoption across sub-Saharan Africa.
Malawi Sun-Power Box, a spin-off of Kachione LLC, offers a de-risked, field-proven opportunity to address Malawi’s clean cooking challenge through battery-enabled off-grid solar-electric cooking systems and stand-alone batteries.