Top 10 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Uganda in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 10 Agriculture (agtech) Startup Investors in Uganda in July 2025

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

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

Investment focus

Communities, Agriculture, Service Industry
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Italy, Kenya, India

Portfolio highlights

Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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

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

Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for 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, Education, Non Profit
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United States, Ghana, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Ignite Reading — Ignite Reading closes decoding gaps with one-to-one, virtual, tutoring rooted in the Science of Reading. We teach the foundational skills students need to read with confidence.
American Journalism Project — The American Journalism Project is a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news. By providing course-altering investments and venture support to civic news organizations, we are building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.

Marcus Boström

Investment focus

Email, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Sweden, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
Causiq — Causiq combines data science with the principles of marketing mix modeling while unifying teams with a single source of truth, across online and offline.
Hypertype — Smartest email experience ever made.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Portfolio highlights

EMTECH — EMTECH provides solutions for Digital Currency regulatory compliance, development and management to help Central Banks and FinTechs build, run and manage modern financial systems.
Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...

Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation & management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.