Building for dignity
Despite progress, there remains a gap in providing a dignified home life and livelihood, in Africa and the Indian subcontinent. GFN Solutions is building ventures to solve this gap.
Millions of people remain under-served by products and services that fail to solve the problems they face every day. We leverage our 20 years of design experience to create practical solutions that enable an improved, dignified life for these communities.
The challenges we're solving
Cooking remains the most energy intensive activity for any household. Fossil fuels and dirty grids are still fuelling a large portion of this need. We are aiming to solve this at a household, commercial and an energy infrastructure level through our various ventures.
While road infrastructure has developed, mobility remains unaffordable and out of reach for a large percentage of households, hampering their access to better livelihoods. We aim to solve this through personal vehicles and the electricity infrastructure needed to support them.
We seek to solve these problems using three winning principles
Build trusted customer brands based on neighbourhood partnership
Simplify product development to make household costs as low as possible
Run frugal operations to avoid over-reliance on external financing
Our Ventures
Working to deliver low-cost induction cooking for households. This is made possible by coupling ground up hardware development tuned to cooking behaviour with an innovative subscription based market model. Cooker models can work on the grid as well as off it, using a custom infrastructure that intelligently distributes energy use.
Pilot launching in December 2026
Bringing low-cost, affordable ethanol cooking to rural households. The solution is aimed at making household transition to a clean fuel as easy and effortless as possible, from a daily cooking and fuel purchase behaviour perspective. Access to fuel at close proximity to the customers is enabled by a safe, integrated fuel distribution backbone.
Status: Under development
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A simple view of what a household spends on cooking each month. Lightweight, offline-first, for Kenya and India.
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Our partners
Our product development partner delivers world leading innovation across the full cycle from concept to production. With over 20+ years of successful launches across cooking, healthcare, industrial equipment and mobility, Bael remains unparalleled in reliable, fast, cost-effective hardware and electronics development.
Eveez is India's leading subscription based electric vehicle provider who is scaling internationally. Working across vehicle development, energy infrastructure and the software backbone, Eveez is a strategic partner on the mobility front.