Top 15 Health Care Startup Investors in Uganda (October 2026)

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• ORIKI — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
• Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
• Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.

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• Kwit — Start your smoking-free life today with Kwit, number 1 stop smoking app. Available on iOS and Android.
• OMORPHO — OMORPHO manufactures and sells Gravity Sportswear™ - revolutionary weighted training gear that helps any athlete reach their goals faster.
• Vidrovr — Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos with specific domain constraints, such as in sports, government, and media verticals. Its technology enables its users to search an indexed video corpus and retrieve content inside videos and link it to other media likephotos and text.The company Integrates social media to enable direct interactions between multimedia content. Vidrovr was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.

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• Groccery store — Groccery store is a local Groccery store based in Hlotse, Leribe, Lesotho, designed to address a key challenge in the community
• Excel And Impact Agro — Excel And Impact Agro aims to tackle the chronic shortage of vegetable production in Côte d'Ivoire.
• Mercy Community School — Mercy Community School is a community-driven education initiative based in Linda Compound, Lusaka, Zambia.

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• Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
• WafR — WafR is a reward-based loyalty startup that allows users to earn phone recharges while shopping at retail shops.
• Nucleon Security — Zero-Trust and ML-based Endpoint Detection and Response Platform #EDR #FDR #EndpointSecurity

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• Nxtfood — Nxtfood offers a range of food products, including vegetarian irish pie, vegetarian shepherd's pie with sweet potato, vegetarian meatballs, vegetarian mushroom pie, vegetarian pithiviers, welsh vegetarian, vegetarian stuffed cabbage, vegetarian stuffed butternut, and more.
• InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
• DAMAE Medical — Damae Medical is a Paris, France-based medtech company. It has developed a medical device capable of seeing biological tissues in depth, at a cellular level and in vivo. This innovative optical imaging technology will especially allow dermatologists to evaluate in a precise, efficient and rapid way malignancy of tumors by a simple contact with thesurface of the skin. DAMAE Medical’s mission is to put the great power of bio-photonics at the service of opening new opportunities in medical imaging and diagnosis.

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• Vivid Gold — Vivid Gold is not just a brand, it’s a game-driven ecosystem built at the intersection of four powerful pillars: commerce, content, culture, and careers. Together, these pillars reflect our commitment to transforming how gaming is experienced, monetized, and empowered across the East African region.1. Commerce – Accessible Gaming for All We powerthe hardware, physical games and accessories backbone of gaming in East Africa. We make it easier for gamers to access what they need, locally. Our phygital retail store approach ensures that whether online or in-store, customers enjoy seamless, convenient shopping with local payment options and trusted support.2. Content – Unlocking Digital Worlds We break barriers between African consumers and global digital platforms. Through instant delivery of gift cards and subscription codes, we enable local access to gaming content (PSN, Xbox, Steam), streaming (Netflix, Spotify), and productivity apps (Android, Apple) via frictionless local currency payment across African countries.3. Culture – Gaming as a Lifestyle We celebrate the role of gaming in shaping youth identity, creativity, and social connection. From leasing gaming equipment to community events and tournaments to collaborating with local creators, influencers, and esports enthusiasts, we embed gaming in lifestyle and everyday conversations. Our brand is deeply rooted in African culture, while remaining globally fluent and digitally native. 4. Careers – Building Africa’s Gaming Future We’re laying the foundation for education, employment, and entrepreneurship in game development & esports. design, and brand management, we aim to deliver structured programs that merge education with entertainment, offering skill based learning opportunities in esports and game development through holiday bootcamps, after school activities, alternative academic pathways, facilitate masterclasses by providing access to industry experts for mentorship and ensure the efficacy of all programs through active, future focused research integration.Together, these four pillars form a unified vision: to make gaming not just a pastime, but a platform for progress, expression, and economic inclusion in Africa.
• Viebeg — Viebeg transform the way medical products are bought and sold, advancing the 4th industrial revolution in the developing world.
• FutureLink Technologies — Africa's Community-driven marketplace for affordable financial services, focused at enhancing the financial resilience of Africa's low & middle income earners

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• EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
• Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
• ZohoOptimizer AI — ZohoOptimizer AI is a platform designed to enhance Zoho’s suite of business applications by providing AI-driven process automation.

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• Nilus — Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food companyin the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty.
• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
• Let Me Snack — Let Me Snack offers gourmet snacks made from popped water lily seeds. Our healthy snacks are grain-free, vegan, with clean ingredients and no seed oils.

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• 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 — We are a company dealing in the production and sale of animal feeds (Pigs, Poultry, Cattle, Rabbit).
• 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.

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• Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
• Dhamana Guarantee — Dhamana provides guarantees that unlock local currency financing, mobilise domestic capital and support sustainable growth across East Africa.
• Africa Renewables Katalyst — ARK (Africa Renewables Katalyst Ltd) a Kenyan based company focused on helping Africa realize its full renewable energy potential through I-RECs

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• Denebola Technologies — Denebola Technologies empower women through accessible and affordable healthcare solutions.

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• 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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• Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
• KaliSpot — KaliSpot is a 24/7 automated network of ATMs servicing Mobile Money, Bank and Fintech consumers in West & Central Africa. Combined with a mobile app, we provide a PhyGital transformative solution to Financial Services access in WCA.
• Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.

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• Trenderz — Trenderz connects hotels, restaurants and spas in Africa with content creators to generate trackable bookings. Free sign-up, pay only for results.
• AppCyclers — We provide a web-based platform digitizing e-waste collection, sourcing, and purchasing of recyclable electronic materials.
• COMESO GmbH — Boosting revenue by ensuring secure, direct healthcare payments and improving patient access to services.

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• 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.
• Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
• ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.