Top 10 Finance Startup Investors in Uganda (October 2026)

BIO invests in SMEs in developing countries and makes a structural contribution to the socio-economic growth.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
Stage:Debt Financing, Non-Equity Assistance, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: India, Kenya, Ecuador

Investor stats

Total investments: 137
Round size: Debt Financing $1.6M–$18M; Non-Equity Assistance $16k–$145k; Venture - Series Unknown $43k–$9.8M
Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
Orchidia Pharmaceutical — Orchidia Pharmaceutical Industries (Orchidia) is an outstanding Egyptian company specialized in the production of pharmaceutical ophthalmic products.

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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

Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Lead/follow: no public data

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

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Local network Sharing experience to make opportunities for jobs and income. Private Equity that will create positive impact in East Africa

Investment focus

Industry: Software, AgTech, Finance
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: Uganda, Tanzania

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

REXIAL — REXIAL is automating direct debit by enabling merchants to collect recurring payments from their customers securely via ACH payments at a fraction of fees on credit or debit cards.
MazaoHub — AI-first SaaS connecting soil, farmers, inputs, agronomy care, field operations, traceability and markets through real last-mile intelligence.
ChapChap Africa — ChapChap Africa develops software that aims to help improve service delivery to under-served communities. ChapChap is a smartphone powered platform that’s helping small businesses stay afloat and thrive by introducing them to the digital age of doing business.

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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

Industry: Software, Finance, Payments
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Ghana, Uganda

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
Rivia Clinics — Rivia is an asset-light healthcare chain that partners with existing clinics to improve their quality of service to patients. They offer their partners:1. Loans for infrastructure upgrades and inventory. 2. A hospital management system to simplify administrative tasks. 3. Support with customer acquisition and marketing. 4. Adherence to"Rivia Standards", a set of patient-centric quality guidelines. Overall, Rivia aims to provide a "modern healthcare experience" for patients in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: India, Uganda, Azerbaijan

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Round size: Debt Financing $4.9M–$267M
Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

Rabitabank — Rabitabank offers comprehensive digital banking and financial services to individuals and businesses for development in the future.
Premier Credit — We are a Microfinance Institution offering loans to Civil Servants, Logbook Owners, Salary earners, School Proprietors & SME Business Owners in Uganda.
Samunnati — Driven by a passion to become enablers of the value chain of the agricultural finance sector, Samunnati offers advisory support and agriculture loans.

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Kaleo Ventures is an investment firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies across Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, Software
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 58
Round size: Seed $25k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M; Series A $100k–$15M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $1.1M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

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ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments.

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Leapfrog Ventures Japan is a joint venture with Samurai Incubate which will invest in seed-stage startups of Eastern Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Payments, Mobile Apps, Sales
Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Uganda, Japan

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Pre-Seed $40k–$100k
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.5M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

Xente — Xente offers smart Visa cards & payment solutions that simplify finance and admin for companies operating in Africa.
Swipe2Pay — swipe2pay is a payment solutions company, that empowers SME’s to accept both card and mobile money as a mode of payment and not only to accept payments but also make sense of their sales data, to have quick access to loans.Swipe2pay offers merchants a choice of mobile card readers that connect to their smartphone/tablet allowing them toaccept payments quickly and simply.The solution goes beyond payment processing in that it includes a free point-of-sale app and a free business intelligence portal, enabling business owners to monitor store performance.At the back of all this, we have built a one step checkout process to enable merchants to take on payment from mobile money in less than 20 seconds. “magical”Swipe2pay offers merchants a choice of mobile card readers that connect to their smartphone/tablet allowing them to accept payments quickly and simply. The solution goes beyond payment processing in that it includes a free point-of-sale app and a free business intelligence portal, enabling business owners to monitor store performance.
Africa Incubator — SENRI, a Mobile and Web combined app for sales automation, will help you in end-to-end productivity improvement of your sales operation.

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Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 92
Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$40M
Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

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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.

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We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 45
Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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