Top 5 Angel Investors in Uganda in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in startups based in Uganda. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Uganda. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Angel Investors in Uganda in July 2025

Investor	Uganda investments
Peggy Grigus Mangot	1
Eric Osiakwan	1
Tidjane Deme	1
Sarah Dusek	1
Ed Levinson	1

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Peggy Grigus Mangot is the MD Fintech Partnerships, Commercial Banking of JPMorgan Chase & Co. She previously worked at PayPal as an Operating Partner, PayPal Ventures. Peggy Grigus Mangot attended Indiana University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

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Eric Osiakwan, Managing Partner of Chanzo Capital is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech startups. He Co-Founded Angel Africa List,Angel Fair Africa and currently serves on the board of Farmerline, SMS GH,Forhey, Teranga Solutions, SeeSayDo, Oasis Websoft, Siqueries, Amp.it, SameLogic, Bisa app, Wanjo Foods,Ghana Cyber City and WABco – some of which are his investments. He was part of the team that built the TEAMS submarine cable in East Africa and an ICT Consultant for the WorldBank, Soros Foundations, UNDP, USAID, USDoJ, USDoS as well as African governments and private firms.He authored “The KINGS of Africa’s Digital Economy”, co-authored the “Open Access Model”, adopted globally by the telecommunications industry, “Negotiating the Net” – the politics of Internet Diffusion in Africa and “The Internet in Ghana” with the Mosaic Group. He was invited to contribute ideas to Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa. Eric is a TED, Stanford, MIT and Harvard fellow.

Investment focus

Finance, Payments, Software
Pre-Seed
Uganda

Portfolio highlights

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Tidjane DEME is a General Partner at Partech, co-leading Partech Africa Fund, Partech’s multi-stages tech fund exclusively dedicated to Africa digital markets. He joined in May 2016.Prior to joining Partech, Tidjane has worked for 15+ years in the tech industry in Africa, as an entrepreneur, a consultant as well as a senior business manager. Heworked for 7 years as a senior manager at Google, leading activities in Africa. He started the Google Francophone Africa office in Dakar in 2009, led ecosystem efforts to support developer communities and tech startups across 15+ countries, led Google’s Africa Content Strategy, launching and growing YouTube in 6 markets. He also led business development for Google’s Infrastructure investments in Africa. Prior to Google, Tidjane was a tech entrepreneur who founded and led CommonSys, a consulting and integration company deploying e-gov platforms and enterprise solutions in west Africa. He also cofounded 2 startups, an e-reputation platform in Europe and a SaaS platform for African SMEs. Tidjane started his career working with Cap Gemini in France before joining Cosine Communications, a Silicon Valley startup building network virtualization technology for carriers.Tidjane grew up in Senegal until age 18, then moved to France to attend Ecole Polytechnique (Msc Physics), did an exchange program at Imperial College London, and attended Ensta-Paritech (Telecom and IT Engineering).

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments
Series A, Series B, Seed
Nigeria, Egypt, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

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Sarah Dusek is the Managing General Partner of Enygma Ventures. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder of Under Canvas; the leading US adventure-hospitality company offering luxurious glamping accommodations just minutes from America’s most popular and iconic national parks.In 2017, under Sarah’s leadership Under Canvas received a spot on thecoveted Inc. 5000 list and Sarah was named to the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women list from Ernst & Young. Under Canvas has set an unprecedented new standard in ecological development while also redefining experiential hospitality in a meaningful way.She graduated from The University of Manchester and the University of Exeter.