Top 5 Climate Startup Investors in Uganda in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Climate startups based in Uganda. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Climate companies from Uganda. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Climate Startup Investors in Uganda in September 2025

Investor	Climate Uganda investments
Pearl Capital Partners	3
Jim Chu	1
Sarah Dusek	1
Opes Impact Fund	1
GAIA Impact Fund	1

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Pearl Capital Partners is a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2005. Pearl Capital Partners investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Pearl Capital Partners success is derived from working with ambitiousmanagement teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
Uganda, Kenya, Malawi

Portfolio highlights

Enimiro — Enimiro is creating an online farming platform in form of a mobile App to connect Ugandan smallholder farmers with local investors to increase harvest while enabling urban people to invest into farming and earn proceeds at just a click of a button.
Kamp Feed — Kamp Feed is a food producer of nutritional animal feeds that specializes in pelleted animal feeds.
Newman Foods — Newman Foods is an agro-processing company that manufactures, exports, and supplies a comprehensive range of fresh agricultural products. Newman Foods Ltd is a Kampala-based agro-processing company whose primary business is producing and marketing branded consumer foods sold through retail stores in the local and the regional market, as well asaggregation and export of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) to the European market.

Jim Chu is the Founder & CEO at Untapped Global.

Investment focus

Solar, Water, Energy
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Uganda, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
dloHaiti — dloHaiti is a Market Based Solution for Clean Water in Haiti. Sustainable and impactful, it provides clean drinking water to underserved areas of Haiti, areas where access to clean, safe drinking water is unreliable, expensive, or simply unavailable.
Onelamp Uganda — Distributing solar fishing lanterns and solar lights in Uganda.

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.
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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.

Gaia Impact Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in renewable energy that builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with a strong environmental and social focus. The firm supports businesses enabling sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions where energymixes are highly carbonized, it supports technological innovations and business models enabling a cost-efficient diffusion of renewable energy on a large scale.