# Uma Ventures

> Uma Ventures is a VC fund in Hong Kong backing B2B and Retail. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/umaverse/
- Website: https://uma.inc/

Uma Ventures is a venture capital firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$4.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| B2B | 1 | 25% |
| Retail | 1 | 25% |
| Delivery | 1 | 25% |
| Logistics | 1 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 25% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Senegal | 2 | 50% |
| Congo | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vinay Vaswani | Founder & Managing Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vinay-vaswani-e9e9 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Noki Noki Services | Noki Noki Services is a last-mile delivery app that specializes in local logistics, delivery services, and digital payment. | $3M | Seed | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| 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 | $4.5M | Seed | Jan 19, 2022 |  |
| Kwely | Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team. | $250K | Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| 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 | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 02, 2021 |  |

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## Co-investors
- [4DX Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/4dx-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Uma Ventures invest in?

Uma Ventures invests primarily in B2B, Retail and Delivery startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Senegal. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Uma Ventures's check size?

Uma Ventures typically joins rounds of $250k–$4.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Uma Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Uma Ventures?

Public channels for Uma Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Uma Ventures?

The team at Uma Ventures includes Vinay Vaswani (Founder & Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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