Samba Solar unlocks $2.5 billion in solar power

Fuelling good growth: ‘Green Energy for a Green Planet’

Samba Solar Developments is an Austro/Brazilian group that aims to contribute to the energy transition and help make our planet green. They are a leading aggregator/developer of alternative energy projects in Brazil.

Martin W. Steininger is CEO and co-founder of Samba Solar Developments, based in Vienna Austria. 

"I'm a mountaineer, I'm Austrian - so therefore I'm of course a skier. Of course, my family is very important to me. But also in the summertime, I like being a mountaineer. It's very important to me to preserve the environment - and this is what Samba’s always about."

"We want you to support the energy transition, keeping the planet still liveable for the generations to come. This is the passion that is thriving in our whole team," says Martin.

With the slogan, 'green energy for a green planet', Samba has offices in Vienna, Dresden, Sao Paulo, Istanbul and Beijing, comprised of a diverse team of professionals.

"We are a combination of financial professionals with private equity investment banking. Then we have our developers, we have our own engineers, we have our construction guys, our project managers; I think this is a unique setup," says Martin.

"Coordinating international teams is always about chaos. And this is where Ansarada helps a lot because we're exchanging a lot of data, because lots of people are providing information and materials from different time zones - you get all these notifications, and everybody knows how to work with that. Ansarada definitely brings order into the chaos, when it comes to structuring the documents and the data room."

An extraordinary capital raise to support the clean energy transition

Samba Solar's unique approach is paying off. The company is actively pursuing USD $2.5 billion in capital on the Ansarada platform to fund alternative energy projects in Brazil. 

"When we basically have ready-to-build status, we approach our investors pool, and we have investors from all over the globe that the big infrastructure funds, sovereign wealth funds, and super high net worth individuals, trust. We have been able to identify the most efficient, professionally planned, and lucrative alternative energy projects in the areas we are operating," says Martin.

Brazil is the world’s second-largest hydropower producer by installed capacity, and the largest in South America. Samba Solar’s projects will help the country move away from the dependency on large, centralized hydropower plants and significantly increase the share of solar and wind-generated power.