Cold storage is a quiet crisis across much of Africa, where unreliable grids spoil food and medicine before they reach people. Nigeria's Eja-Ice has raised $1 million to attack that problem with solar — building off-grid, zero-diesel cooling from the ground up.
- Round: $1 million
- Investor: All On (impact investor seeded by Shell)
- Sector: CleanTech / cold-chain infrastructure
- Based in: Nigeria
- Products: Solar freezers, cold rooms, cooling vans & tricycles
What Eja-Ice does
Eja-Ice designs and assembles 100% off-grid, zero-diesel solar-powered freezers, cold rooms and clean cooling mobility platforms — including refrigerated vans and tricycles. The mission is to extend a reliable cold chain into off-grid and weak-grid coastal and rural areas where diesel is expensive and grid power is unreliable or absent.
Inside the deal
The $1 million came from All On, an independent impact investor seeded by Shell that focuses on off-grid energy in Nigeria. Eja-Ice will use the funding to scale up manufacturing, broaden distribution into underserved rural markets, and expand commercial models including lease-to-own, direct sales and third-party logistics.
Why it matters
This is the infrastructure-first thesis defining 2026 African funding in miniature: an asset-heavy, hardware business solving a physical problem with clear climate and food-security upside. It also shows how blended and impact capital is stepping in to fund the continent's clean-energy transition at the grassroots.
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Details as disclosed via the African Startup Deal Tracker (Launch Base Africa) and public announcements, June–July 2026. Figures are as reported.