Top 5 Angel Investors in Uganda in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 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 December 2024

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

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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 B, Series A, Seed
Nigeria, Uganda, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
RelianceHMO — Our next-generation business health plans are accessible, customer-focused and tech-driven. We champion preventive healthcare for your teams.

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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clinicpesa — Your Instant Secure Medical Mobile Bank In Your Palm.
Firstbase — Equip remote and hybrid workers for success across the entire employee journey with the Firstbase platform. Firstbase powers a complete equipment lifecycle, fusing SaaS automation with world-class physical operations. Simplify onboarding, streamline offboarding, centralize and simplify asset management and warehousing, and build IT sustainability. Optimize HR experiences, flex your workplace services, and maximize every asset with Firstbase.

Ed Levinson - Director @ Ensibuuko

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed
Canada, Uganda

Portfolio highlights

Ensibuuko — Ensibuuko is a Ugandan startup that provides a cloud-based micro-finance software for community-level financial entities in Africa
WealthBar — CI Direct Investing makes it easy to access financial advice. CI Direct Trading is the best online investment platform for self-directed trading.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Solar, Energy
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
South Africa, Uganda, Zambia

Portfolio highlights

Koa Academy — Koa Academy is on the cutting edge of online schooling in South Africa! We offer small classes, quality educators, and individualized, engaged online learning.
Onelamp Uganda — Distributing solar fishing lanterns and solar lights in Uganda.
Startup Circles.ai — Learn to to build and grow your business fast. Practical business school - by practitioners, experienced entrepreneurs, and investors. Join the movement of game changers in Africa.

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.