Top 10 Energy VC Funds & Investors in Uganda (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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EDFI ElectriFI
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Kenya, France | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $114k–$30M |
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InfraCo Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, France | Seed, Series B | Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy | $1.5M–$28M |
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Energise Africa
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Uganda, Germany | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar | $200k–$4M |
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3rd Creek Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Rwanda | Grant, Debt Financing, Seed | Training, Manufacturing, Farming | $10k–$35k |
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BESTSELLER Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, Uganda | Debt Financing, Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Waste Management, Art | $100k–$100k |
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Autodesk Foundation
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Kenya, Uganda | Seed, Series A, Series B | Energy, Renewable Energy, CleanTech | $2.1M–$40M |
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Delta40
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, Ghana, Uganda | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Agriculture, Solar, AgTech | $1.3M–$2.3M |
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Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Uganda, Kenya, Malawi | Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed | Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing | $5k–$2.6M |
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TLG Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda | Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown | Financial Services, Finance, Banking | $3M–$600M |
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GAIA Impact Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Singapore, South Korea, France | Series A, Series B, Seed | Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy | $100k–$40M |
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Kenya, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Series A $2.2M–$30M; Debt Financing $114k–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- GOGO Electric — GOGO Electric offers lithium-ion battery production, e-mobility solution and lithium-ion battery recycling services.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3.4M; Series B $9M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Afresco — Afresco is Africa's fastest growing clean energy service company (ESCO) that leverages our expertise in mini-grids, C&I solar and large-scale IPPs to power businesses and optimize energy needs. Specialties: Energy efficiency, Solar energy, Energy production, Energy storage, Energy management, ESCO, and Smart Buildings
- SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
- Mawingu Networks — Unlimited internet packages for your home and office. 24/7 customer support. Get connected today, starting from 2,500 per month!
Energise Africa – enabling people to invest in pioneering businesses that install life-changing solar systems
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- Industry: Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Debt Financing $200k–$1.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Oolu — Oolu is the fastest growing off-grid solar company West Africa. Our Vision is to be the leading energy and financial service provider to millions of customers in the developing world.Our model, developed with local communities, allows us to reach off-grid households in rural villages offering them modern energy access. With a monthly paymentmodel reducing barriers to access, as well as maintenance, parts and battery replacements included in our service, we save our clients money and assure them a continuous, dependable source of energy. In Wolof, a national language of Senegal, Oolu means ‘trust’. By building trust with the communities in which we work, we can grow together.
- Redavia — Solar In Ghana, REDAVIA provides clean and reliable energy to customers in sub-Saharan Africa. Affordable solar power for business in Ghana
- Maskh Nigeria — Maskh Nigeria Limited is an infrastructure firm composed of professionals with experience in renewable energy, construction, engineering, electrification, and procurement services. Spanning decades of operations, the company delivers efficient solutions for both government ministries and private sector clients.
3rd Creek Foundation is a small foundation focused on global poverty alleviation through grant-making and impact investing.
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- Industry: Training, Manufacturing, Farming
- Stage:Grant, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Rwanda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Debt Financing $10k–$35k
- Lead/follow: 86% lead, 14% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $2M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- WARC Group — Sustainable agriculture, Africa, Sierra Leone & Ghana
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- Village Enterprise — Village Enterprise is a nonprofit dedicated to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa through the power of entrepreneurship. Learn more.
BESTSELLER Foundation
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Waste Management, Art
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Kenya, India, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Debt Financing $100k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ANKA — ANKA is a platform to discover, buy, and sell African fashion, arts, and crafts. ANKA’s goal is to allow African creation lovers to live their passion while allowing the creators to live from theirs. ANKA facilitates transactions and exchanges directly between buyers and sellers on both sides of the world, in a user-friendly and secure way.
- Yo-Waste — The Yo-Waste cloud platform helps government & private garbage collection companies and municipal authorities to manage garbage collection logistics such as maximizing garbage collection locations while lowering operating costs in terms of fuel expenses and others. This is all achieved through our hauler app and garbage collection andscheduling mobile applications.Our core objectives as a company include; To create a full waste & recycling company focussed on sustainability To work with customers and recycling firms to divert wastes from landfills To develop new & innovative technologies focussed on waste management & recycling To disrupt the waste management industry in Africa To connect haulers & recyclers with businesses & households to reduce unnecessary waste transportation costs and save both environmental & economic resources. To help haulers & recyclers get more clients and earn extra income
- Powered by People — Powered by People is a values-driven wholesale platform featuring handmade, ethical products from makers in over 40 countries. Sign up now for pre-approved credit and net 60 terms at poweredbypeople.com
Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Kenya, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$20M; Series B $40M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
- Last Energy — Last Energy develops and delivers micro modular nuclear power plants designed to provide decarbonized, reliable energy through a full-service delivery model that spans design, construction, and operations. The company offers factory-produced modular plants, like its 20 MWe PWR-20 units, that can be deployed rapidly to serve energy-intensiveindustrial customers and utilities with baseload electricity and heat. Its services include long-term power purchase agreements that eliminate upfront capital for customers while enabling flexible siting and minimal resource requirements. Last Energy’s solutions support both behind-the-meter applications for industries and grid-scale energy projects for broader power delivery. The company integrates established reactor technology with its delivery process to help clients access consistent, carbon-free energy.
- Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.
Delta40 is the venture studio that invests in African female entrepreneurs involved in energy, agriculture and mobility sectors.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Solar, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, Ghana, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $20M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
- Farm to Feed — One third of all food is lost or wasted, enough to feed the number of hungry people twice worldwide. Food loss and waste contributes to 10% of greenhouse gases globally. We aggregate and repurpose imperfect and surplus produce to create a healthier planet.
- Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.
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 ambitious management teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
- Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
- Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.1M; Debt Financing $5k–$650k; Private Equity $346k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $13M in 2017
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.
TLG Capital is an award-winning private investment firm dedicated to empowering frontier market entrepreneurs, with a focus on opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).TLG firmly believes that impact creation is crucial to sustained financial success. They are committed to tackling persistent challenges and better directing resources towards improving the lives for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Their investments have had a significantly social, environmental and development impact across Sub-Saharan Africa.TLG Africa Limited is a permanent capital investment vehicle focusing on equity opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). TLG Africa invests in sectors underpinned by the ‘rise of the African consumer’, such as: healthcare, finance, consumer goods and real estate. These investments include direct minority/majority stake investments, secondary opportunities and distressed fund restructurings. TLG Africa always seeks board representation, along with other minority protections. Notable investments include WHO pre-approved pharmaceutical plant QCIL (Uganda) and healthcare facilities in West Africa. In recognition for their efforts, their deals have won multiple awards including ‘Landmark Deal of the Decade’ in 2012 and 'Frontier Deal of the Year' in 2014 from Private Equity Africa.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
- Stage:Debt Financing, Private Equity, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Nigeria, United Kingdom, Uganda
Investor stats
- Total investments: 30
- Round size: Debt Financing $3M–$15M; Private Equity $25M–$600M; Venture - Series Unknown $5M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- NMB Bank — NMB Bank is dedicated to providing premium financial services to all existing and potential customers. Since 1993, we have offered supreme corporate, retail and investment banking solutions.
- Drive45 — Drive45 is a company that specializes in mobility solutions, notably for people who need help with transportation due to age, disability, injury, or other mobility issues.
- VivaJets — Fly private across Africa and beyond with VivaJets. Book a private jet charter, manage or buy an aircraft, or explore fractional ownership with a team built around safety, comfort and efficiency.
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.
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- Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Singapore, South Korea, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Series A $1.3M–$9.1M; Series B $1M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
- MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
- Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
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