Pioneer Facility

November 14, 2022

Pioneer Facility invests in Agros to expand solar irrigation access for smallholder farmers

Phnom Penh, November 14, 2022 – The Pioneer Facility, an impact investment fund managed by Nexus for Development, signs an agreement with Agros, a social enterprise specialized in providing solar-powered irrigation systems [...]
September 6, 2022

Pioneer Facility invests in Techno Hill to expand solar microgrids in Myanmar

Phnom Penh, September 6, 2022 – The Pioneer Facility, an impact investment fund managed by Nexus for Development, signs its first investment in Myanmar with Techno Hill, a pioneering solar microgrid developer [...]
April 13, 2022

Pioneer Facility makes 300,000 USD loan to E-Green in Vietnam

Phnom Penh, April 13, 2022 – The Pioneer Facility signed its first investment in Vietnam with E-green, an eco-engineering company that provides biogas-to-energy solutions [...]
December 24, 2020

Pioneer Facility signs a USD 500,000 loan agreement with Okra solar for last-mile electrification

Phnom Penh, December 24, 2020 – The Pioneer Facility, an impact fund managed by Nexus for Development, closed its last 2020 financing with Okra Solar [...]
October 20, 2020

Pioneer Facility raises additional half million dollars for Clean Energy and Water access in Southeast Asia

Phnom Penh, October 20, 2020 – The Pioneer Facility is happy to welcome onboard two new investors, in the Facility’s mission to provide scale-up capital to enterprises [...]
September 29, 2020

Pioneer Facility finances biogas-to-energy development in Indonesia

Phnom Penh, September 29, 2020 – The Pioneer Facility, an impact fund managed by Nexus for Development, signed its first investment in Indonesia, with GREE Energy, an integrated biogas-to-energy operator [...]
May 21, 2020

Meet Mrs. Eam Kheng newly connected to safe drinking water

Like millions of Cambodians, Mrs. Eam Kheng from Trapang Russei village used to rely on expensive water deliveries by truck, as there are no readily available sources [...]
May 14, 2020

Pioneer Facility approves USD 220,000 loan to TapEffect for piped water infrastructure in rural Cambodia

Phnom Penh, May 05, 2020 – The Pioneer Facility, an impact fund managed by Nexus for Development, signed a new financing agreement with TapEffect Co., a water utility [...]
September 3, 2019

USD 1M invested in collateral-free debt to deploy solar energy solutions in the Philippines

The Pioneer Facility has worked with OREEi to directly finance a project that replaced over 140 diesel generated irrigation pumps with over 250 solar-powered pumps. [...]
February 6, 2019

Nexus for Development’s Pioneer Facility signs a USD500,000 agreement to support clean water access in rural Cambodia

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, February 6, 2019 – The Pioneer Facility, a fund managed by Nexus for Development, has signed a new deal to provide debt funding to KWSH [...]
August 27, 2018

Nexus for Development’s Pioneer Facility Fund Awards $500,000 to Philippine Social Enterprise

Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Nexus for Development has disbursed the first investment of the Pioneer Facility to One Renewable Energy Enterprise Inc.(OREEi), a Philippine social enterprise specializing in [...]