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Sunsave

The UK’s first solar subscription

21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • Sustainability
  • Home improvement
Soho, London

Company mission

To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.

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Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Sunsave, founded in 2022, is on a mission to make solar energy and battery storage accessible to the mass market by removing the upfront costs and providing a subscription service that takes care of everything - from installation to maintenance - so that more UK households can save on their energy bills.

The model is designed to remove the biggest barrier to installing rooftop solar and storage - the ~£10k typical upfront cost and long payback period - allowing customers to save on their energy bills from day one. This is wrapped into a hassle-free service, with installation, monitoring, and maintenance included, which also enables households to sell excess electricity and participate in the smart grid.

The green company has already attracted the attention of blue-chip VC funds such as Norrsken, the UK Department of Energy, and household name entrepreneurs including Michael Spencer and Stuart Rose, raising ~£11M in funding and growing to ~30 FTEs. Sunsave is the first company to bring the tied and tested solar subscription business model to the UK and in doing so, will build the next green unicorn.

Benefits

  • Private health insurance
  • Mental health support
  • Flexible working hours
  • Monthly wellness budget (Juno)
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Team social events (remote & live)
  • Hybrid working
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)

Company values

  • Outcome not ego
  • Empowered to thrive
  • Act on your curiosity
  • Strength in diversity
  • Build trust through transparency and communication
  • Live your mission

Funding (2 rounds)

Dec 2023

$6.8m

SEED

Jan 2022

$5.9m

SEED

$12.7m

Total funding

This company has top investors

Founders

Alick Dru

(Co-Founder)

ex VC Investor at SoftBank Vision Fund, ex Strategy Consultant at Strategy&, ex Founder at Spires, ex Founder at Tripr. Ex Oxford University.

Ben Graves

(Co-Founder)

Ex PE Investor at EMK, ex Strategy Consultant at BCG, ex Customer Success at Triptease. Ex Oxford University.

Diversity & Inclusion at Sunsave

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Juliet Mance (Head of Sales)

  • One of our core values as a young start up is that there's strength in diversity.
  • We believe that a team with different perspectives, backgrounds and life- experiences will always outperform a homogenous one.
  • We believe in creating a team that actively celebrates and benefits from all types difference - including, race, gender, sexuality & neurodiversity.
  • We're committed to recruiting a team that doesn't look, feel and think the same way we do. And we have formal processes and measures in place to hold ourselves to account (at every level). This is to try and ensure that our values aren't just things written down on a Notion page somewhere (sadly many of us have experienced workplaces like that!), but are actually values that we live and strive to demonstrate daily.
  • Practical ways we show our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive team are:
  • Flexibility of working hours, location and benefits to ensure employment suits different circumstances
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Utilising software to test all job descriptions for unconscious bias
  • Recruitment processes that are inclusive of our wider team and include an objectively measured skills based assessment wherever appropriate

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Hard working team (2)

Growing fast (2)

Opportunities to learn (1)

Meaningful work (1)

Nice people (1)

Intelligent people (1)

Open and honest communication (1)

Great work is recognised (1)

Diversity is a priority (1)

From Heads of Department to Co-founders, you can see a really high level of leadership skills across the team. Honesty and communication are valued as well as transparency. I feel motivated, inspired and encouraged by managers and co-founders, even when workload and pressure are high.

Operations & Strategy

Strong leadership

Dec 2022

We are literally starting from scratch, which means there is a lot of manual work that needs to be automated by building processes, systems and tools. However, at Sunsave, no idea is dismissed or shut down, as we are constantly encouraged to fail and learn from those mistakes so we can continue learning and developing our problem-solving skills.

Operations & Strategy

Challenging work

Dec 2022

It is not easy to find a company that recognises great work as well as Sunsave does. Everyone across the organization makes sure to highlight your accomplishments and praises your hard work weekly, if not daily.

Operations & Strategy

Great work is recognised

Dec 2022

We are very mission-driven at Sunsave, we want to tackle climate change & help UK households save on their electricity bill by making solar more affordable, the customer journey less fragmented & more transparent. Every day, we work to achieve this meaningful goal & every sale we make, we help save the planet.

Sales & Account Management

Meaningful work

Dec 2022

Every single person at Sunsave is very motivated, curious & ambitious! It's really stimulating to work with smart people, you learn & grow so much every day. My colleagues are very supportive, always keen to transfer their knowledge & expertise, I really feel valued & listened

Sales & Account Management

Intelligent people

Dec 2022

Sunsave is a VC backed startup. We are growing fast & this couldn't be a more exciting moment to join our team! With energy costs increasing & the geopolitical challenges of climate change, solar has never been more attractive today. If you join our team, you will see how a business is created from scratch & you will have a direct impact in the growth of the company!

Sales & Account Management

Growing fast

Dec 2022

Everyone is aligned to the mission at Sunsave. We are all trying to disrupt the residential solar and storage industry to make solar accessible to all households in the UK and help the UK meet its climate goals.

Operations & Strategy

Hard working team

Dec 2022

One of the core values at Sunsave is transparency and honest communication. We believe that is how people can get the best out of each other and we can most effectively solve problems.

Operations & Strategy

Open and honest communication

Dec 2022

Sunsave is growing really fast at the moment and we hope to only accelerate this next year. We are investing in all areas of the business and things are developing almost weekly which is very exciting to be a part of.

Operations & Strategy

Growing fast

Dec 2022

Since I met the Sunsave team, right the way through the hiring process to my first day, without fail everyone I have met has been cheerful, helpful and very engaging. Alick and Ben (co-founders) are both very driven and really friendly, which is hugely reflected in their leadership team and their hiring choices across the business.

Sales & Account Management

Nice people

Nov 2022

The mission at Sunsave is critical, helping consumers take back control of their energy bills and accelerating the journey to net zero. These are not easy objectives, but everyone on the team is truly motivated by them and clearly cares about the impact of their work. Knowing you are surrounded by like-minded individuals is inspiring and motivating!

Sales & Account Management

Hard working team

Nov 2022

On your way into the company it is really clear just how important creating a learning culture is to SunSave. No matter your experience or role, everyone is encouraged to embrace a growth mindset and continually develop themselves.

Sales & Account Management

Opportunities to learn

Nov 2022

We're very early days at SunSave, and we're putting in the work now to establish a diverse team. We're working hard to ensure that we bring on board people from as wide a range of backgrounds as possible.

Software Engineering

Diversity is a priority

Jul 2022

Simply put, SunSave are building the country's future sustainable energy system. Climate change is the most critical issue facing our generation, and traditional energy networks are not designed to handle the shift to clean energy that is going to have to take place. Solar panels and battery storage are a huge part of the clean energy transition, but the costs make it difficult for many to justify. This is where companies like SunSave will play a vital role. Using storage, solar panels, and smart energy management, combined with an affordable subscription model, we're making solar energy systems accessible to all.

Software Engineering

Inspiring mission

Jul 2022

We've got lots to build and a clean slate on which to do it. The solar industry traditionally relies on manual processes, which gives us huge scope for building tools and processes for automation. In addition, the smart energy management aspect of what we're building will require building complex data-driven systems. Last but not least, we want to provide a stellar customer experience, from initial quote generation through to everyday management.

Software Engineering

Challenging work

Jul 2022

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