# Sun King funding: rounds and investors

> Sun King has raised $196M across 2 rounds since 2025. Investors include Lightrock. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/sun-king (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Kenya · [Funded startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Who invested in *Sun King*

2 rounds we have observed, with the one investor named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Cleantech Energy Fintech

Raised 11 months ago

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Funding summary Updated 15 Nov 2026

**$196M** raised across 2 rounds since 2025, from 2 sources

**$156M** Round **$40M** Round

- **Latest round:** Round, $40M Dec 2025
- **Led by:** Lightrock
- **Biggest round:** $156M Round · Jul 2025
- **Investors:** 1 (1 led)

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## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2026

**$156M** Round

**$40M** Round

- **First round:** Round, $156M
- **Biggest round:** $156M
- **Between rounds:** 5 months

## The rounds

- **Dec 2025** Round **$40M** *1 new* [Lightrock](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightrock) Lead Reported by Disrupt Africa
- **Jul 2025** Round **$156M** No investor was named in the report. Reported by Disrupt Africa

## Everyone who backed them

[Lightrock](https://millionrounds.com/fund/lightrock) VC firm **1** round, led 1

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## Also claim to have backed them

This firm lists Sun King as a portfolio company on their own website, but no report of a round names it. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[Blue Earth Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/blue-earth-capital) Private equity Per its own site

## Quick answers about Sun King

### Who invested in Sun King?

Sun King's investors include Lightrock. Lightrock led its latest round.

### How much has Sun King raised?

Sun King has raised $196M across 2 rounds since 2025.

### When did Sun King last raise?

Sun King's most recent round, $40M, was in Dec 2025, led by Lightrock.

### What was Sun King's biggest round?

Sun King's largest round on record is $156M (Undisclosed round), in Jul 2025.

### Who backed Sun King first?

Sun King's first round on record, in Dec 2025, was backed by Lightrock.

### What stage is Sun King at?

Sun King's latest named round is an Undisclosed round, in Jul 2025.

### Where is Sun King based?

Sun King is based in Kenya.

### Who led Sun King's rounds?

Lightrock led the funding round in 2025.

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