Top 25 Transportation Startup Investors in Uganda (August 2026)

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• Wiom — Provides affordable and unlimited Internet to Middle and lower middle income households
• Dailyhunt — Dailyhunt offers personalized news in 14 Indian languages. Stay updated with the latest in news, cricket, football, viral content, entertainment, technology, travel, politics, business, lifestyle, and more. Available on Android, iOS, and the web.
• FinReach — FinReach Solutions is a company providing innovative credit guarantee programs to facilitate lending for underserved micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly those lacking collateral or formal credit history. Their solution enables financial institutions to extend credit to entrepreneurs, including women-led businesses andclimate-focused ventures, by de-risking loans through guarantees and leveraging data-driven borrower risk assessment. FinReach aims to expand financial inclusion in India’s lower-tier regions, helping thousands of borrowers access formal finance through partnerships with development finance institutions and global impact investors.

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• Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
• Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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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.
• YYTZ Agro-Processing — YYTZ Agro-Processing specializes in sourcing and processing cashew nuts.

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• Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
• Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
• Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.

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• Ecobodaa — Africa's First Electric Motorbike Taxis (BodaBoda) Designed & Assembled in Nairobi, Kenya for Africa. Built for Africa by Africans!
• Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
• ClimaVault Africa — We provide solar-powered IoT cold chains to small holder farmers in rural communities of Uganda.

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• OwnaHealth — OwnaHealth is a digital medical clinic offering proven solutions for chronic diseases.
• YYTZ Agro-Processing — YYTZ Agro-Processing specializes in sourcing and processing cashew nuts.
• The Ehlers-Danlos Society — The global nonprofit organization dedicated to change and progress in the world of Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD).

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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.
• Sitara — Apply for home loans with Sitaara Housing Finance. Enjoy affordable interest rates, quick approval, and easy documentation for your dream home.
• Light Microfinance — Light Microfinance is a non-banking finance company registered with the Reserve Bank of India. Headquartered at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Light Microfinance provides micro and meso finance products and services with gender and poverty-focused programs, targeting rural and peri-urban areas, with a specific focus on poor women. The company operates inGujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and is one of the fastest growing microfinance companies in India today.

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• Sopht — Sopht is an Environmental Services company that allows organizations to pilot their environmental impact and automate their decarbonation.Sopht provides a lever for optimizing and rationalizing the challenges of an IT department. The platform is built on a series of modules that reconstitutes the entire IT value chain of a company (multi-cloudmonitoring, management of IT assets, analysis of digital uses and services, etc.) thus allowing a vision and end-to-end management.Founded by Jérémie Veg, Julien Rouzé, Gautier Levert in 2021 and is located in Lyon and Paris.
• Eledone — Eledone operates a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model that provides agentic artificial intelligence solutions to automate back-office B2B sales administration. The platform connects directly to commercial email inboxes to extract client data from purchase orders and quotation requests. It then matches this information against internaldatabases to automatically generate quotes or pre-fill sales orders within a client's existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This value proposition centers on reducing transcription errors, accelerating order response times, and eliminating manual data entry without requiring companies to alter their current workflows.
• Mantle8 — Using bottom-up exploration and decades of geology experience, we are on a mission to deliver natural hydrogen to the world.

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• upOwa — upOwa brings electricity to Africa through our innovative Pay-As-You-Go solar technology for the poorest.
• 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.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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• BioLite — BioLite designs off-grid personal scale energy products for cooking, charging, and lighting. Perfect for camping, fishing, tailgating, power outages, and more.
• Spironet — Time 100 Influential Company 2024 | Africa's Largest EV Player | 15k bikes deployed | 9 million battery swaps | 270 million clean KM driven
• Kasada Capital Management — Kasada is the leading independent real estate private equity platform dedicated to delivering sustainable value across the hospitality sector in Africa.

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• VarsityScape — VarsityScape uses AI to power the entire academy lifecycle, assisting institutions and educators in closing the worldwide education gap.
• RideLink — Ridelink is a transport company that offers tailor-made logistics and transportation services for both SMEs and large firms.
• The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.

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• RideLink — Ridelink is a transport company that offers tailor-made logistics and transportation services for both SMEs and large firms.
• Crown Beverages — Pepsi Uganda official Twitter account. Crown Beverages Limited. Music, Lifestyle, Movies, Football and Events. #ThirstyForMore
• East African Crude Oil Pipeline — EACOP is a pipeline that will deliver oil from Uganda's Lake Albert oilfields to the Tanzanian port of Tanga, where it will be sold to global markets.

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• GoRocky — GoRocky is a men’s online health clinic where one can process discreet and doctor-prescribed treatments delivered to their door.
• Jamii.one — A free digital tool to optimise the efficiency and finances of saving communities.
• Shoppable Business - Next Gen B2B Marketplace — Shoppable Business is a trusted, hassle-free B2B eCommerce marketplace for buying and selling 100% authentic branded products and services in the Philippines.

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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

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• HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
• Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
• Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.

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• Koolboks — Koolboks: solar-powered, financially accessible fridges with an integrated pay-as-you-go platform dedicated to making cooling accessible to all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Get a Koolboks refrigerator for as little as 25k Naira down payment today!
• 80 Acres Farms — FRESHER FOOD AWAITS! VIEW ALL PRODUCTS CHANGING FOOD FOR THE FRESHER Zero Pesticides Locally Grown Fresher Longer Sustainably Grown OUR STORY WHERE TO BUY Find In Store
• Oorja Development Solutions — Oorja is a project developer of solar PV systems to power livelihoods in emerging markets.

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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.
• Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
• Drive to Own — Drive to Own allows users to purchase private cars with no maintenance or insurance costs and grants miles for running the vehicle based on their prepaid amount, allowing customers to acquire ownership of private cars without any long-term commitment or loan screening process.

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• PayTic — PayTic enables payments issuers to manage their card programs by providing dedicated back-office solutions that streamline the end-to-end operations in customer support, chargebacks, fraud, AML, reporting, and reconciliation. Our proprietary solutions are unique in automating and centralizing the program management processes, regardless of thenumber of processors and the payment networks involved in the payments products. We impact payments providers by eliminating the defragmented and manual processes and replacing them with a SaaS platform that increases proactivity, mitigates risks, and delivers value. It reduces the burn rate to near 0 in operational costs and offers an unprecedented competitive advantage. PayTic is introducing the Zero Ops model in managing payments.
• Pumpkn — Need reliable funding? We provide quick loans and capital tailored for Agriculture businesses in South Africa. Grow your business with Pumpkn. Apply now!
• Scale — Scale accelerates market entry and revenue for fintechs with a people-first approach.

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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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• Farmnet — Farmnet trading arm of Singapore-headquartered TechCoop, operates as a key player in Vietnam's agricultural supply chain, focusing on commodities trading and related services.
• iFarmer — iFarmer connects farmers, agri-suppliers and funders with technology, financing, and advisory to boost agricultural productivity and sustainability.
• Platinum Credit Uganda — We are an ISO Certified Microfinance Company, licensed & regulated by @UgMicrofinAuth Proud Sponsors of the Platinum Credit @HeathensRFC #ThereWhenYouNeedUs

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• Matale Hill Brothers — Matale Hill Brothers is a secondary processing and marketing of coffee from smallholder farmers and local markets.
• JKCC General Supplies — JKCC General Supplies is the producer and exporter of quality coffee.
• MiCreditoYa Microfinanciera — MICREDITOYA was established to offer financial solutions to a subset of microentrepreneurs who had limited access to the financial sector because of their socioeconomic and geographic circumstances.

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• Yakeey — Yakeey is an end-to-end transactional marketplace that radically simplifies the experience of buying, selling and renting real estate.We leverage on data and technology to connect all real estate market players through a state of the art platform, create a chain of trust and powerful network effects and accelerate transactions.Yakeey is builton a community of real estate advisors, YakeeyPRO, to deliver a continuous professional and tailored service at every step of the transaction.
• Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
• Aethex — End to end voice agents localized for your market.

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• Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• 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.

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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

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.