Top 5 FinTech Angel Investors in Uganda (August 2026)

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

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Round size: Pre-Seed $350k–$875k; Series A $13M–$21M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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.

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Ed Levinson - Director @ Ensibuuko

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Stage:Seed
Geography: Canada, Uganda

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ensibuuko — Digital banking software for savings groups, SACCOs, and microfinance institutions. Join 21K+ organizations using Ensibuuko across Africa.
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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

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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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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

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: Nigeria, Egypt, Uganda

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Round size: Series A $3.6M–$200M; Series B $10M–$42M
Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

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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.

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