Uwem Uwemakpan
Angel Investor @ Ingressive Capital
Uwem Uwemakpan is a pre-seed investor at Ingressive Capital focused on Financial Services and AgTech. Uwem is the Head of Investments at Launch Africa Ventures. With a decade of experience and understanding of the African startup ecosystem, he is at the forefront of identifying promising ventures and providing invaluable guidance to entrepreneurs as they build their businesses.Previously, as the VP at Ingressive Capital, Uwem managed operationsat the fund and oversaw investments in over 30 early-stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa. His expertise and ability to identify emerging opportunities played a pivotal role in the success of Fund I.As a founding team member and the Entrepreneurship Programme Manager at The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Uwem spearheaded the largest Pan-African Entrepreneurship Programme, backed by a $100 million endowment. Through his leadership, the program surpassed its initial goals by training, mentoring, and funding over 10,000 African entrepreneurs within five years. This achievement solidified his reputation as a dynamic leader and mentor within the African startup community.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Uwem Uwemakpan invests in
Stages Uwem Uwemakpan invests in
Countries Uwem Uwemakpan invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 2 (67%)
- AgTech 1 (33%)
- Banking 1 (33%)
- FinTech 1 (33%)
- Big Data 1 (33%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 2 (67%)
- Seed 1 (33%)
Country
- Nigeria 2 (67%)
- Ghana 1 (33%)
Investments
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| Grey is at the forefront of providing secure and convenient global banking solutions to meet the needs of customers and businesses. With a Money Service Business license from FINTRAC in Canada and FinCEN in the USA, our primary focus is emerging markets. We have created a range of services that enable individuals and businesses to own and managetheir foreign bank accounts easily, including currency exchange, receiving payments from 80+ countries, and access to virtual cards.For us at Grey, it is beyond just building remittance solutions. We sincerely want to enhance the interconnectivity of the evolving gig economy in developing countries; improving how we deal with cross-border remittance is just one way. | Pre-Seed / Nov 15, 2021 | ||
| Complete Farmer is an end-to-end digital agriculture platform that provides industries with an easy way to cheaply source for quality farm produce and individuals anywhere in the world with a convenient way to own a farm by eliminating middlemen and farm produce aggregators. | $400K / Seed / Mar 15, 2021 | ||
| Kwaba is an online platform for the payment of real estate services such as rentals and leases. | Pre-Seed / Nov 03, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Ingressive Capital
Ingressive Capital is a renowned $50M Pan-African Venture Capital Fund that invests in indigenous founders and startups across Africa, with focus on Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, and Nigeria. Specializing in early-stage investments, particularly Pre-Seed and Seed stages, it targets technology companies led by top-tier talent driving transformativegrowth in Africa's GDP. The firm's thesis focuses on B2C solutions that cater to the explosive growth within the tech-enabled, decentralized-learning youth demographic, as well as B2B solutions that increase Africa’s value chain ownership from resource extraction to end-product sale. Its goal is to become becoming a highly valuable VC partner on the founders' cap tables, and being at the forefront of supporting and enabling entrepreneurial success across Africa.
Ingressive Capital Contacts
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Maya Horgan Famodu
Founder & Managing Director
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What does Uwem Uwemakpan invest in?
Uwem Uwemakpan invests primarily in Financial Services, AgTech and Banking startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Uwem Uwemakpan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Uwem Uwemakpan closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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 Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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