Top 15 Mobile Startup Investors in Uganda in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Mobile startups based in Uganda. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from Uganda. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Mobile Startup Investors in Uganda in January 2026
| Investor | Mobile Uganda investments |
|---|---|
| MFS Africa | 2 |
| Renew Capital | 2 |
| 4Di Capital | 2 |
| Active Capital | 1 |
| Savannah Fund | 1 |
| Launch Africa | 1 |
| Serena Ventures | 1 |
| Beyond Capital | 1 |
| The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | 1 |
| East Africa venture capital association | 1 |
| Kepple Africa Ventures | 1 |
| BREEGA | 1 |
| Segal Family Foundation | 1 |
| Equilibria Capital | 1 |
| Soma Capital | 1 |
MFS Africa is the largest mobile money inter-operability hub in Africa, which connects mobile network operators across the continent through a single API. In addition to mobile remittance services, the MFS Africa API enables merchant payment, bulk payment, bank-to-wallet transfers, and an array of other cross border digital payments services.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Insurance, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Uganda, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
- maviance — Maviance is a German-based consulting (business and IT) and software development company that develops industry-specific for web and mobile applications for businesses and governments. It creates sustainable and customized solutions to meet the requirements of customers by combining its industry experience with solution-oriented skills of businessre-design, concept, project management, programming, and testing.Our commitment to excellence and sustainability is evident in suite of innovative and scalable smart mobile enterprise applications in industries like Microfinance, Metering, Insurance and Sales Automation. Each of our applications consists of a web-based back office server, mobile clients and APIs for SMS, mobile billing, mobile payment and integration into existing systems. Maviance serves clients in the financial services, telecommunications and public sectors, increasing productivity, reducing costs and improving their management capabilities. Founded in 2008, maviance GmbH is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
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.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
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
4Di Capital is an independent seed- and early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.Nurture capital is the term that best describes 4Di Capitalâ€:tm:s purpose and philosophy.We understand that in the early days of any business, support, mentoring and access to networks is just as important as seed capital.Using tried and tested international venture capital best practices, adapted for local use, we believe in entrepreneur-friendly finance without frills, and in working as a team with our investments to achieve their true potential.4Di Capital Early-Stage Technology Fund 1 targets startup investment opportunities with high growth potential at the seed- and early-stages in the mobile, enterprise software and web sectors.We look for founder teams with hungry passion, commitment, domain expertise and deep insights into the large market problems they wish to solve with their technology solutions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
- CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
- Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.
Founder led capital for founder led companies. Pre-Seed investing in the future of enterprise software.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Handraise — Handraise is a software development company that makes public relations professionals look like rock stars.Handraise allows brands and agencies, for the first time ever, to leverage the credibility of their earned media against the power of paid advertising - without needing an ad team. Easily deploy earned media ads on your own with no prioradvertising experience.Founded by Matt Allison in 2022 and is located in Austin, Texas.
- Fathom — An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar.
- finally — Finally is the easiest way for businesses to manage their bookkeeping, accounting & finance. Learn more today.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, United States, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Launch Africa is a leading Pan-African VC fund solving the significant funding gap in the Seed and pre-Series A investment landscape in Africa
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
- Bitmama — Bitmama is the best cryptocurrency trading platform that lets you buy, sell Bitcoin, ETH, Celo, USDT, XRP, and more. Available in Nigeria & over 100 countries.
- HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and giving them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Rebels — Rebelstork was born to make Parenting Lighter. We are the largest tech-driven marketplace for baby gear in North America - diverting overstock and retailer returned baby gear away from landfills and into the homes of customers at a fraction of the retail price.
- KLIQ — Fitness Coaches, launch the app you've been dreaming of with no upfront costs. Build, manage and grow your community based business using our fully managed product.
- Pixeltable — Open Source Python framework that enables AI Engineers to focus on modeling and experimentation.
Beyond Capital Fund is an evergreen impact investment fund that invests in for-profit, early-stage companies in East Africa and India. The fund invests in companies that aim to improve access to health care, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion, all of which can help consumers at the bottom of theeconomic pyramid live better lives. Despite the fact that the fund seeks market-rate financial returns, Beyond Capital is structured as a nonprofit, allowing the organization to emphasize fidelity to its social mission alongside its financial mandate.Beyond Capital, headquartered in New York, was established in 2009.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Financial Services, Medical Device
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- India, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Wellth — Improve quality scores, reduce high cost utilization, address health equity, and improve member satisfaction by using the right incentive at the right time to create life-changing healthy habits through Wellth.
- Floworks AI — Floworks is an AI-powered assistant for the sales team to track, analyze and automate all operations running over WhatsApp.
- Haqdarshak — Made with Framer
William H. Draper, III and Robin Richards Donohoe began investing together in the venture industry in 1994 concentrating on building companies in India. Since 1994, they have invested in over one hundred early stage information technology investments both in India and the United States. In 2010, the Foundation joined forces with Robert S. Kaplan,formerly vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs and currently professor of leadership at Harvard Business School. Together the team raised their second fund inviting fourteen innovative philanthropists to join the fund.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Education, Non Profit
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- United States, Ghana, Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
- Ignite Reading — Ignite Reading closes decoding gaps with one-to-one, virtual, tutoring rooted in the Science of Reading. We teach the foundational skills students need to read with confidence.
- American Journalism Project — The American Journalism Project is a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news. By providing course-altering investments and venture support to civic news organizations, we are building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.
EAVCA is the representative organization for private equity and venture capital funds in East Africa, with a growing membership of private capital investors and advisors looking at the region for growth.At the core of what we do is promote East Africa as a private capital destination, while ensuring a favorable environment for trade for theprivate capital sector. Our advantage is in being able to provide local access to our members, which is critical to their East Africa strategy.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Transportation, Public Transportation
- Pre-Seed
- Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- Seconds — Seconds technologies is a Next-generation e-hailing platform providing technology in a double sided market place connecting people and things mobility everywhere, anytime with a multi-modal person’s transportation. Pivoted to modeling disruptive, distinctive technological solutions while integrating the transport system under one Application.Devoted to partnering with policy experts, the taxi industry, auto sector, and our communities to integrate localized and smart transportation innovations to confront the world’s transportation, environmental, and employment challenges. By building a safe, inclusive, and sustainable transportation and local services system. We hope to improve people’s lives and increase societal value for cities of the future. Seconds' mission is to provide a unified transportation solution at the touch of a buttonVision To become: The largest 360-degree transportation platform in the worldThe world's largest smart transportation operator A global leader in intelligent transportation systemsA global leader in the transportation and automotive technologies revolutionsValues Seconds was founded with the goal of providing clients with value.Safety first, experience second and efficiency third. Data-driven thinking and working is ingrained in our culture..We place a high priority on data collection and use it to make sensible judgments.In order to produce a win-win situation, we treat our partners and coworkers with humanitarian spirit.Before making any decisions, we thoroughly communicate and commit to exceptional execution.Respect and appreciate each other’s differences and embrace diversity
Kepple Africa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
- Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
- TIBU Health — TIBU Health is a disruptive HealthTech logistics company that provides high-quality healthcare services.
- Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
VCs use all sorts of tricks to attract the best companies. We do too. But as founders, we know that the main reason you choose an investor to be a part of your journey is because you like them. You trust them. Their values align with yours.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ensol — Ensol offers custom-made photovoltaic installations at low prices as well as personalized guidance assisting homes in selecting the optimum sizes and solar equipment for their needs and maximizing their return on investment.
- Pensero AI — Pensero.ai is an AI-powered performance review platform for engineering teams, offering real-time insights, automated analysis, and ongoing feedback. Setup in just 15 minutes to enhance transparency, save managers 50 hrs, and promote a culture of growth.
- Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.
The Segal Family Foundation partners with outstanding individuals and organizations that improve the well-being of communities.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Apps, Water
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Uganda, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Dios Dental Clinic — Dios dental is a network of dental clinics which aims to bring affordable quality dental care. Their transparent pricing policy allows its clients to know their budget, with standard treatment and sterilization protocol. It was founded on March 1, 2016, and is headquartered in Rubaga, Uganda.
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Equilibria Capital is an asset management firm that manages investment funds and separate accounts for private and institutional clients.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed
- Uganda
Portfolio highlights
- Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
Welcome to Soma Capital
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
- Inventive AI — Inventive is an AI-powered RFP & Questionnaire Response Management platform that drives 70%+ efficiency in sales response workflows.
- Orchard Robotics — We develop advanced camera systems and computer vision software to enable precision crop load management for growers.
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