Top 5 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Uganda

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 5 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Uganda. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Uganda. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Uganda

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Uganda investments
Zephyr Acorn	1
Opes Impact Fund	1
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation	1
Renew Capital	1
VestedWorld	1

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Zephyr Acorn provides equity financing and business support to innovative early-stage companies in East Africa. Zephyr Acorn invests in and actively supports innovative early-stage companies across sectors in East Africa that have the potential to scale across the continent and beyond.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Kenya, India, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

Investment focus

Energy, Social Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A
Kenya, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Mygrants — Mygrants is the most widely used educational online platform for refugees and asylum seekers in Italy and Europe.
MunyaxEco — MunyaxEco is working in solar energy as well as energy efficiency sectors by selling and installing environmentally friendly and high-quality equipment.
WidEnergy Africa — Widenergy Africa Ltd , is a women – led company, registered in Zambia, dedicated in the last miles distribution of clean energy solutions. We are the official distributor of Little sun solar products in Zambia (Solar lamps, Solar phone chargers), and will start soon with the distribution of clean cook stoves, with the objective to contribute inreduction of the Zambian deforestation rate, known as one of the highest in Africa.

William H. Draper, III and Robin Richards Donohoe began investing together in the venture industry in 1994 concentrating on building companies in India. Since 1994, they have invested in over one hundred early stage information technology investments both in India and the United States. In 2010, the Foundation joined forces with Robert S. Kaplan,formerly vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently professor of leadership at Harvard Business School. Together the team raised their second fund inviting fourteen innovative philanthropists to join the fund.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Health Care
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United States, Ghana, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Dollar For — Dollar For crushes medical bills and empowers patients.
Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

Roam — The Standard for Electric Mobility in Africa.
Bosso Africa — Your plug for contruction material
Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.