“Last year urban households across Africa spent $10 billion on charcoal for cooking,” said Sagun Saxena, Managing Partner of CleanStar Ventures. “The ‘business as usual’ approach to this market is to DO NOTHING! We’ve created a new business to target this problem as a market opportunity. In Mozambique women are now using modern cookstoves that burn a liquid fuel produced locally by CleanStar and sold price-‐competitively with charcoal.”
