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Tom Chaplin
Factor[e] Ventures

Tom Chaplin is Project Manager at Factor[e] Ventures. He is an emerging market specialist based in London. He is focused on funding and de-risking innovative projects at the intersection of agriculture and energy development that demonstrate the exciting opportunity this represents across sub-Saharan Africa. Before Factor[e], Tom spent 4 years in Dar es Salaam running the Tanzanian operations of BIMA, launching and scaling its first mobile money paid, mass-market insurance service using mobile technology. Before that, he was a management consultant with PwC focusing on strategy, market entry and operating model design in the healthcare, financial services, and energy sectors.

Articles by Tom Chaplin

Guest Articles

Friday
December 11
2020

Seth Silverman / Tom Chaplin

The Nexus of Agriculture and Energy in Africa: Five Lessons for Bridging the Ag-Energy Gap

Agriculture should be a key market for rural energy providers in Africa. Growing agribusinesses and smallholder farmers need modern energy to thrive, and rural energy enterprises need reliable consumers to anchor demand for their services. Yet as Seth Silverman and Tom Chaplin at Factor[e] Ventures explain, a gap remains between the two industries, and ag-energy projects struggle to draw commercial investment. They explore some promising ways to fill that gap, sharing lessons from a new report.

Categories
Agriculture, Energy

Tags
agribusiness, agriculture, energy, energy access, ESG investing, farming, impact investing, investing

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The Nexus of Agriculture and Energy in Africa: Five Lessons for Bridging the Ag-Energy Gap

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The Nexus of Agriculture and Energy in Africa: Five Lessons for Bridging the Ag-Energy Gap

Tom Chaplin
Factor[e] Ventures