Ugandan company gnuGrid has raised the size of its seed funding round to US$612,500,as it pivots its product offering to move into the fintech space

Solar Sentra was launched in 2019 by David Opio and James Dailey with the goal of streamlining and automating the highly fragmented solar industry in Uganda and beyond by using AI-optimized sensors to monitor solar systems and collect data on power usage that solar companies can use to tailor service delivery.

To help solar companies operate more efficiently and at lower costs, gnuGrid bundled this hardware with digital payments, predictive analytics, customer profiling, and data management, among other features.

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