Top 10 Transportation Startup Investors in Uganda
A list of 10 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Transportation startups based in Uganda. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from Uganda. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Transportation Startup Investors in Uganda
Investor | Transportation Uganda investments |
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Omidyar Network | 1 |
Segal Family Foundation | 1 |
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund | 1 |
Enza Capital | 1 |
Musha Ventures | 1 |
Mobility 54 | 1 |
Symbiotics Group | 1 |
PG Impact Investments | 1 |
East Africa venture capital association | 1 |
CRE Venture Capital | 1 |
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Education
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Vyng — Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond.Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and isbacked by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.
- Doubtnut — Doubt solutions for Maths, Science, CBSE, NCERT, IIT JEE, NEET & Class 6 to 12. Click, type question to get instant video answers solved by Doubtnut team.
- RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri
The Segal Family Foundation partners with outstanding individuals and organizations that improve the well-being of communities.
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- Financial Services, Apps, Water
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Uganda, United States
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- 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.
Global Partnerships' Social Venture Fund bridges the pioneer gap in sub-Saharan Africa by providing impact-led funding to early-stage social enterprises.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing
- Series A, Series B
- Uganda, Zambia
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- 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.
- Good Nature Agro — Their priority is to generate lasting income with small-scale farmers. They build local community leaders into qualified Private Extension Agents (PEAs) who oversee and train farmers throughout the growing season. They support PEAs to provide frequent trainings and personalized recommendations on how their growers can make their field healthier andmore productive. PEAs promote improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs. At harvest, Good Nature is a guaranteed market for the certified legume seed that their growers produce. Choosing to produce these high-value crops over traditional cash crops - maize and cotton - more than doubles their income.
Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa
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- Logistics, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa
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- MNZL — MNZL is on a mission to expand access to capital for Egyptians.Every person who owns an asset has accumulated wealth in it. When they want liquidity for their projects and needs, they should be able to tap into it as easily as withdrawing from a bank.With an innovative digital platform and products, we are working on making digital access tocapital a reality, and building the future of asset-backed financing in Africa.
- Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
- Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.
Seed capital for technology startups globally.
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Nigeria, Kenya
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- Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
- Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.
- Startbutton — We help multi-national businesses sell products and get paid in African countries in a compliant and tax-efficient manner, without the need to register locally.
Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Transportation, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire
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- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- 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.
- ETAP — ETAP is a digital insurance application that allows you to set up your car insurance in just 90 seconds.
Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing. Symbiotics offers investment, asset management and capacity building services.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Seed, Angel
- India, Colombia, United States
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- Sempli — Sempli is building the leading all-in-one finance digital bank for small businesses in Colombia.
- Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
- Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
They are a global impact investment firm backed by Partners Group, one of the world's leading private market investment managers.
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- Logistics, SMS, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, India, France
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- Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
- AIG Hospital — AIG Hospitals is a Gastroenterology hospital that believes and preaches that excellence is a way of life. It offers transplant surgeries including Liver, Kidney, Heart, Pancreas, and Islet Cell. It believes in creating a positive and nurturing environment that is conducive to healing. It was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Hyderabad,India.
- 80 Acres Farms — 80 Acres delivers tasty and fresh produce all year round, locally grown, clean guaranteed, and with no dependency on weather or climate through indoor farming technology. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Ohio, United States.
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
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- 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
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
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