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Top 50 VC Funds & Investors in Uganda (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in Uganda startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Uganda startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund
11 Uganda, Kenya, Malawi Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing $5k–$2.6M
Renew Capital
VC Fund
7 Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
Segal Family Foundation
VC Fund
3 Uganda, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, Apps, Water
Nordic Impact Funds
VC Fund
3 Uganda, Tanzania Pre-Seed, Seed Software, AgTech, Finance $300k–$1.5M
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
VC Fund
2 United States, Ghana, Uganda Seed, Grant Financial Services, Charity, FinTech $100k–$5M
FCA Investments
VC Fund
2 Uganda FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Yabx Technologies
VC Fund
2 Uganda Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services $10M–$10M
MFS Africa
VC Fund
2 France, Uganda, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Insurance, Mobile $3M–$7.3M
4Di Capital
VC Fund
2 South Africa, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, Mobile $441k–$47M
Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund
2 Italy, Kenya, India Seed, Series A Communities, Agriculture, Energy $219k–$910k
Savannah Fund
VC Fund
2 Kenya, United States, South Africa Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, FinTech, Software $25k–$8M
Soma Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech $200k–$40M
Enza Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Series A Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce $238k–$31M
FSD Africa
VC Fund
1 Kenya, South Africa, United States Grant, Seed Financial Services, Energy, FinTech $98k–$6M
Mobility 54
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire Seed, Series A Financial Services, Transportation, Payments $3M–$24M
GAIA Impact Fund
VC Fund
1 Singapore, South Korea, France Series A, Seed Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy $100k–$4.3M
East Africa venture capital association
VC Fund
1 Uganda Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Transportation, Public Transportation
Persistent
VC Fund
1 Ghana, Germany, Switzerland Seed, Series A Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy $500k–$10M
BREEGA
VC Fund
1 France, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$25M
Launch Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $200k–$4M
Serena Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Spain Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Health Care, Women's $1.6M–$20M
Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Uganda, Senegal Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Internet, Logistics, Consulting $850k–$2.1M
The Fintech Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, India Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $30k–$40M
VestedWorld
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana Seed, Series A, Series B Agriculture, Farming, E-Commerce $1.6M–$20M
AfricInvest
VC Fund
1 Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco Private Equity, Series A Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech $6.5M–$65M
Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund
1 India, Kenya, Ghana Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Rwanda Pre-Seed, Seed Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech $125k–$4M
Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund
1 Kenya, India, Uganda Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Banking, FinTech $1M–$3M
Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund
VC Fund
1 Uganda, Zambia Series A, Series B Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing $2.1M–$10M
Beyond Capital
VC Fund
1 India, United States, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services $357k–$44M
PG Impact Investments
VC Fund
1 United States, India, France Seed, Series B Logistics, SMS, PaaS $1.2M–$1.7M
Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software $300k–$4.5M
Autodesk Foundation
VC Fund
1 United States, Kenya, Uganda Seed, Series A, Series B Energy, CleanTech, Manufacturing $2.1M–$40M
GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco Seed, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Retail, Computer $50k–$1M
Creadev
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Kenya Series B, Series C Agriculture, Health Care, Food and Beverage $5.5M–$55M
Omidyar Network
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Kenya Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Education $700k–$34M
Nordic Microfinance Initiative
VC Fund
1 India, Uganda, Myanmar Series B, Series C Financial Services, Finance, Banking
LTNT Investments
VC Fund
1 Uganda Pre-Seed Finance, Payments, Software
54 Collective
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa Seed, Pre-Seed Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech $40k–$4M
CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, South Africa, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Software, FinTech $250k–$25M
European Union
VC Fund
1 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Grant, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $16k–$25M
Musha Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $125k–$10M
Future Africa
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology $100k–$20M
African Renaissance Partners
VC Fund
1 Uganda Seed Agriculture, Financial Services
Active Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Mexico Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $300k–$72M
Plesion Capital
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed B2B, AgTech, Billing
LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Egypt Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Software $100k–$37M
Sufishent
VC Fund
1 Uganda Pre-Seed FinTech, E-Commerce
Delta40
VC Fund
1 Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Solar, Energy, CleanTech
Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
1 Nigeria, United States, Kenya Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $50k–$10M
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Pearl Capital Partners
VC Fund · Kampala, Kampala, Uganda · 11 investments in Uganda startups

Pearl Capital Partners is a specialist agriculture investment firm that has been investing in small and medium sized East African agribusinesses since 2005. Pearl Capital Partners investments generate financial returns for our investors while creating significant social impact. Pearl Capital Partners success is derived from working with ambitiousmanagement teams, providing supportive investment structures and specialist expertise that create high-growth agribusinesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Farming, Food Processing
  • Stage:Private Equity, Debt Financing, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$2.1M; Debt Financing $5k–$650k; Private Equity $18k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — Kamp Feed is a food producer of nutritional animal feeds that specializes in pelleted animal feeds.
  • 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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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 7 investments in Uganda startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Segal Family Foundation
VC Fund · Watchung, New Jersey, United States · 3 investments in Uganda startups

The Segal Family Foundation partners with outstanding individuals and organizations that improve the well-being of communities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Apps, Water
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Uganda, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

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.
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Nordic Impact Funds
VC Fund · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 3 investments in Uganda startups

Local network Sharing experience to make opportunities for jobs and income. Private Equity that will create positive impact in East Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, AgTech, Finance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Uganda, Tanzania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • REXIAL — REXIAL is automating direct debit by enabling merchants to collect recurring payments from their customers securely via ACH payments at a fraction of fees on credit or debit cards.
  • MazaoHub — MazaoHub is a AI-powered end-to-end farm management company.
  • ChapChap Africa — ChapChap Africa develops software that aims to help improve service delivery to under-served communities. ChapChap is a smartphone powered platform that’s helping small businesses stay afloat and thrive by introducing them to the digital age of doing business.
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The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, Charity, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Grant
  • Geography: United States, Ghana, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.4M; Grant $550k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $65M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
  • Ignite Reading — Ignite Reading delivers early literacy intervention based in the Science of Reading to help school districts achieve predictable, scalable gains in foundational reading skills. Our mission is simple: to ensure every child learns to read proficiently, ideally by the end of 1st grade when early intervention has the greatest long-term impact.
  • 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.
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FCA Investments
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in Uganda startups

FCA Investments is an impact investor specializing in developing countries and fragile states.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Geography: Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Amfri Farms — Amfri farms produce frozen products and herbs and spices that include frozen apple banana puree, frozen mango pulp and dice, chilli, vanilla, coffee, lemon balm, dill,  and turmeric. They also export jackfruit, avocados, Irish potatoes, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes.
  • Laboremus Uganda — Laboremus Uganda delivers digital onboarding and KYC solutions for banks and fintechs in Africa.
  • Sausage King 3000 Uganda — Sausage King 3000 Uganda offers fresh and processed beef products to all income groups in Uganda. The company aims to produce quality meat products on the African Continent and to educate consumers about the value of sausages as a nutritious food option. In addition to serving local markets, Sausage King 3000 Uganda also serves international hotelsand supermarkets.
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Yabx Technologies
VC Fund · The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Uganda startups

Provider of cloud banking platform intended to help financial service providers (FSPs) to acquire and manage a profitable loan portfolio. The company's platform uses proprietary artificial intelligence/machine learning algorithms on alternate data sources, together with loan origination and loan lifecycle management software, to offer neoage digital credit products.Product array includes micro-loans, BNPL, savings, overdrafts, loans for retail customers as well as small and medium-sized enterprises ("SME"), etc., tailored to the needs of the existing thin file as well as new to credit (NTC) segment. Yabx enables financial institutions and networks (Telecom Operators, Mobile Money Operators, e-Commerce Players, merchant aggregators, payment gateways) to acquire and successfully manage profitable digital loan portfolios.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Venture - Series Unknown $10M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Furaha — Welcome to Furaha Financial, purpose driven financing. We are a financial technology business which acts as a software-based intermediary platform.
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MFS Africa
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: FinTech, Insurance, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Uganda, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$7.3M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
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4Di Capital
VC Fund · Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 2 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: South Africa, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $441k–$6M; Pre-Seed $3M–$4M; Series A $2M–$47M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumkani — AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb, we have the right protection for you. AFFORDABLE ALARM SYSTEMS & INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS Whether you are in a township, informal settlement, or suburb ...
  • Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
  • CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.
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Opes Impact Fund
VC Fund · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Uganda startups

Opes-Lcef is an impact investor that provides catalytic capital to early-stage social enterprises in emerging markets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Communities, Agriculture, Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, Kenya, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$910k
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Refolo — Refolo is a type B social cooperative that sees social agriculture as having a dual impact: social and environmental. Refolo was created with the aim of creating an agro-ecological and social corridor that runs through the province of Brescia from north to south with the hope that administrations and other communities will come together to generatea positive impact on the environment and the community.Refolo operates in an area located between the municipalities of Brescia, Collebeato, Villa Carcina and Montirone, territories that share the presence of agricultural areas that over the years have been abandoned due to their unsuitability for intensive agriculture and lack of interest by new generations and that are now ready to start again.
  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 2 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021

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.
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Soma Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Welcome to Soma Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 515
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$7.6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$4M; Series A $7.5M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
  • Lenk — Lenk powers the process mortgage origination in Latin America
  • Cambium — Saving wood to save the planet. By revolutionizing supply chains, we introduce the world's first carbon smart material.
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Enza Capital
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Venture investor in high-growth Founders and Teams using technology to solve large and meaningful problems across Africa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $238k–$12M; Series A $3.6M–$31M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

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.
  • Jumba — Jumba is the trusted digital partner for hardware stores. Through tech, we support hardware stores to grow. Get cement at unbeatable prices. Access cement LPOs even at midnight. Get inventory on credit through Jengwa.
  • Quro Medical — Quro Medical is an innovative digital health company pioneering premium hospital-at-home services.
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FSD Africa
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Created in 2012, FSD Africa is a £30 million financial sector development programme or ‘FSD’ based in Nairobi. It is funded by UK aid from the UK Government. FSD Africa aims to reduce poverty across sub-Saharan Africa by building financial markets that are efficient, robust and inclusive.FSD Africa is a market facilitator or catalyst. It appliesa combination of resources, expertise and research to address financial market failures and deliver a lasting impact. FSD Africa has a mandate to work across sub-Saharan Africa on issues that relate to both ‘financial inclusion’ and ‘finance for growth.’FSD Africa is also a regional platform. It fosters collaboration, best practice transfer, economies of scale and coherence between development agencies, donors, financial institutions, practitioners and government entities with a role in financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, FSD Africa provides strategic and operational support to the FSD Network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3.9M–$6M; Grant $98k–$134k
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Miarakap — Miarakap is the first impact investment company dedicated to financing and supporting Small and Medium Enterprises with high potential in Madagascar.
  • Dhamana Guarantee — An East African focused credit guarantee company whose principal business is to guarantee local currency debt obligations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
  • Africa Renewables Katalyst — Africa Renewables Katalyst is an environmental firm that supports renewable energy projects.
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Mobility 54
VC Fund · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Mobility 54 is a joint venture among Toyota Tsusho Corporation and CFAO.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Transportation, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$13M; Series A $3M–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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GAIA Impact Fund
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Gaia Impact Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in renewable energy that builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with a strong environmental and social focus. The firm supports businesses enabling sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions where energymixes are highly carbonized, it supports technological innovations and business models enabling a cost-efficient diffusion of renewable energy on a large scale.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, South Korea, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.7M; Series A $1.1M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecoligo — With ecoligo's sustainable investments - you benefit twice: protect the climate & receive attractive returns.
  • Agros — Agros exist to make farming economically viable and environmentally sustainable. The company provides farmers with carbon-reducing and income-increasing products and services, from input to market. Their unique ecosystem approach aggregates different low-carbon technologies, bundled with affordable finance, insurance, advisory and market access.Agros’ mission is to double the income of millions of farmers while reducing 100 megatons of annual carbon emissions.
  • MyJouleBox — MyJouleBox offers a solution for solar professionals in Africa to offer leased solar installations to their customers.
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East Africa venture capital association
VC Fund · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Transportation, Public Transportation
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
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Persistent
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Africa's Climate Venture Builder - We believe in the power of climate-positive economic development in Africa. For the last decade, we have been working hand in hand with exceptional entrepreneurs, investing both financial and human capital to build successful climate ventures on the continent. Our companies offer competitive financial returns required to drive lasting impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ghana, Germany, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$1.4M; Series A $1.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 78% lead, 22% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
  • EcoNetix — We help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity carbon projects, and communicate impact transparently to achieve compliance certainty, climate
  • Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.
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BREEGA
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 139
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $4.2M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $165M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
  • Didomi — Use data privacy to create value with trust. Future-proof your data strategy and find opportunity in a user-centric world thanks to Didomi's solutions.
  • CrowdSec — CrowdSec is an open-source and collaborative security stack leveraging the crowd power. Analyze behaviors, respond to attacks & share signals across the community. Join the community and le's make the Internet safer, together.
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Launch Africa
VC Fund · Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $36M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Fixit45 — Fixit45 also provides fleet management, auto parts sourcing and delivery, auto care, refurbishment and upgrades, repair financing, and mechanic workshop software as well as pre-purchase inspections, underlying these with moderation for compliance and accountability.
  • Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
  • HomecomingEx — Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.
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Serena Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Women's
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7.3M; Series A $4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $111M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Zigazoo — Zigazoo is the leader in children's short-form video. On Zigazoo, kids make creative video responses to fun challenges and share them with friends.They are American parents and teachers who get their inspiration from children and believe in the power of kid creations. Hailed as "a smarter screen-time activity" by TechCrunch andlauded by children’s media advocacy organizations for its safety, Zigazoo enables kids to share video responses to challenges built by leading museums, zoos, educators, and media stars.
  • Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
  • SoLo Funds — SoLo is a community that allows members to easily access and supply short-term funds for immediate needs. Our community works together to create mutually beneficial outcomes where members can both improve their financial health.
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Grenfell Holdings
VC Fund · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Grenfell Holdings is an investment company based in Hong Kong.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Logistics, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Senegal

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $850k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
  • Yobante Express — Yobante Express offers a web & mobile platform that connects retailers, businesses & individuals with carriers for point-to-point delivery.
  • Rocket Health Africa — Rocket Health is a bundled service of The Medical Concierge Group, a licensed and registered clinic, laboratory, and pharmacy. Rocket Health offers telemedicine healthcare services such as doctor consultations, laboratory sample pickups, and medicine delivery.
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The Fintech Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Uganda startups

We support the best teams in fintech and defi today.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$20M; Pre-Seed $30k–$6.5M; Series A $10M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.
  • Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
  • The Better Money Company
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VestedWorld
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

VestedWorld is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in emerging markets companies that have the potential to generate competitive financial returns while contributing towards the growth and development of the markets in which they are located. The firm supports these businesses through the infusion of capital, active involvement incorporate governance, and by providing direct strategic and operational assistance.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Farming, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5.9M; Series A $2.5M–$4.4M; Series B $9M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $187k in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
  • Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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AfricInvest
VC Fund · Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia · 1 investments in Uganda startups

AfricInvest was founded in 1994 and is part of Integra Group, an investment and financial services company based in Tunisia.Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced private equity investors on the continent, AfricInvest has dedicated investment teams focused on North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, and employs 66 professionals based inseven offices.AfricInvest manages USD1 billion across 16 funds and benefits from strong, long-term support from both local and international investors, including leading development finance institutions in the United States and Europe.Having co-founded the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as well as the Middle East North Africa Private Equity Association (MENAPEA) and the Euromed Capital Forum, the firm is an active promotor of the private equity industry in the region.Since 1994, AfricInvest has invested in 135 companies across 25 African countries in a variety of high growth sectors and maintains a broad network of high quality executives across Africa, offering extensive expertise in key growth industries, including financial services, agribusiness, consumer/retail, education and healthcare.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series A
  • Geography: Tunisia, Kenya, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 102
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$65M; Private Equity $6.5M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
  • Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
  • Lapaire — Get the best affordable eyeglasses in Africa with Lapaire. Book your free vision test today at our locations across Benin, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya & Uganda. Quality glasses, professional optometrists, unbeatable prices.
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Beyond Capital Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Beyond Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Retail
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Ghana

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fasal — Fasal offers smart irrigation automation and fertigation automation system, soil moisture & temperature sensors, weather stations for precision irrigation
  • Ampersand — Ampersand catalyzes and power mass-market electric mobility. By supplying the battery swap network and operating system the company makes sustainable mobility rapidly accessible and affordable for developing markets, to improve livelihoods and the environment. With over a million km already covered by e-motorcycles in Africa using our plug-and-playpowertrain and energy network.
  • Alt Mobility — ALT Mobility is a full-stack EV leasing platform offering mobility as a service (MaaS) for commercial vehicle users.
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Norrsken Foundation
VC Fund · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Norrsken Foundation is non-profit organization solving problems such as poverty, famine, environmental issues and mental health.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Health Care, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Rwanda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4M; Pre-Seed $125k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
  • Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
  • ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.
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Zephyr Acorn
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Zephyr Management is a global emerging markets investment manager, specializing in the creation and management of highly focused private equity and venture capital funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, India, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$3M; Series A $2M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
  • Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
  • Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health
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Global Partnerships/Eleos Social Venture Fund
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Logistics, Agriculture, Car Sharing
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Uganda, Zambia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $2.1M–$6.3M; Series B $8.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • 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.
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Beyond Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $357k–$4M; Pre-Seed $800k–$1.5M; Series B $20M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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 — Deploy AI agents that prospect, personalise emails, handle replies and book meetings 24/7. Floworks AI replaces repetitive SDR work so your team closes more deals.
  • Haqdarshak — Made with Framer
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PG Impact Investments
VC Fund · Little Switzerland, North Carolina, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Logistics, SMS, PaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.7M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $246M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Kepple Africa Ventures
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in Uganda startups

We back exceptional founders in and from Africa who are addressing deep gaps between the status quo and the ideal.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

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
  • Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
  • Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.
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Autodesk Foundation
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Autodesk Foundation is the first foundation to focus investment exclusively on the people and organizations using design for impact.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, CleanTech, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Kenya, Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $5M–$20M; Series B $40M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • M2X Energy — M2X Energy is a scalable methane conversion technology company that provides automated gas-to-product systems for methane conversion.
  • Last Energy — Last Energy is creating a new system for the development and delivery of small modular nuclear power plants. Combining proven reactor technology with a first-of-its-kind delivery model and fully modular plant design, Last Energy aims to decarbonize energy production and increase access to clean, affordable power.
  • Found Energy — Found Energy's aluminum-thermal power systems extract renewable energy from aluminum at double the energy density of diesel and at a competitive cost. Compact, modular, safe, and carbon-free, our technology makes industrial decarbonization practical.
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GreenTec Capital Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Uganda startups

GreenTec Capital Partners is Germany's premier investor into African start-ups and SMEs. GreenTec invests through its unique Results4Equity model, acting as a co-founding partner that is only compensated on business success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $1.2M in 2017

Portfolio highlights

  • Ecodudu — Ecodudu is a waste-to-value company. It uses a proprietary innovation to recycle organic waste into high-protein animal feed and organic fertilizer using the black soldier fly. It harnesses insects (nature’s recycling agents) to address global issues which include waste management, demand for protein, and environmental conservation.
  • Asilimia — Asilimia is a simple, fun mobile app for sending money through M-PESA quickly and without any transaction fees. Simply deposit money to your M-PESA, download Asilimia and send money for free to any other M-PESA account.
  • ShapShap — ShapShap enhances delivery experience through its commission-based marketplace by assigning efficient orders to drivers to ensure their sustainability and scalability.
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Creadev
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Creadev is an evergreen investment company believe that shareholders' timing should match with the entrepreneur's vision, up to an unlimited amount of time. Creadev invest in and support companies able to scale-up and become worldwide best players in their sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: France, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Series B $5.5M–$34M; Series C $10M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mydawa — MYDAWA is here to ensure that every Kenyan can get quality, secure and affordable medicine and wellness products online
  • Nxtfood — Nxtfood is a specialist in vegetable alternatives to meat.
  • The Jackfruit Company — The Jackfruit Company (TJC) is the producing convenient, whole food, plant-based products.
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Omidyar Network
VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Omidyar Network is a philanthropy whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Education
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 237
  • Round size: Seed $700k–$3.7M; Series A $2.5M–$15M; Series B $4.8M–$34M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • SafeTraces — Delivering veriDART, the first field diagnostic platform leveraging aerosol tracers that safely simulate airborne pathogen mobility and exposure levels.
  • Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.
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Nordic Microfinance Initiative
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investments in Uganda startups

The Norwegian Microfinance Initiative (NMI) is an innovative strategic partnership between the Norwegian public and private sectors that will invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries and provide professional assistance and technical support for these institutions. The mission of NMI is to contribute to the empowerment ofpoor people and to the creation of jobs, wealth, and economic and social sustainability in developing countries by investing in and supporting MFIs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Finance, Banking
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: India, Uganda, Myanmar

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
  • Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.
  • 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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LTNT Investments
VC Fund · 1 investments in Uganda startups

LTNT Investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Payments, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
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54 Collective
VC Fund · Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Building and scaling African tech startups with catalytic capital, value-add support and our global network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 107
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$4M; Pre-Seed $40k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
  • REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
  • Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.
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CRE Venture Capital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, South Africa, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.3M; Series A $1.1M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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.
  • Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
  • Asoko Insight — The most comprehensive database of African private companies for due diligence and business development
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European Union
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 159
  • Round size: Seed $16k–$5.5M; Grant $55k–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Chessed.me — Chessed.me is a digital platform that improves children's concentration and cognitive abilities through individual chess lessons led by teachers.
  • Adamo Foods — Adamo Food is a UK-based food tech company developing plant-based whole-cut meats using proprietary fermentation technology combined with mycelium.
  • Dakar Mobilite — Dakar Mobilité is the Senegalese business that operates the Dakar BRT. The company is concerned with road safety, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Musha Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Seed capital for technology startups globally.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.9M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.2M; Series A $2.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • nGrow.ai — Boost revenue and engagement
  • 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.
  • Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
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Future Africa
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Future Africa is a collective of mission-driven founders and funders building unicorns to solve Africa’s biggest challenges. They are build a future where purpose and prosperity are within everyone’s reach.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$3.7M; Series A $7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.
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African Renaissance Partners
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

African Renaissance Partners backs entrepreneurs and innovators that lead the region's economic transformation. The company focuses on renewable energy, payments/fintech, logistics, ag-tech, and health/education.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Agriculture, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
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Active Capital
VC Fund · San Antonio, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Founder led capital for founder led companies. Pre-Seed Investing in AI-Native Business Software. We back technical founders building the future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $535k–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $300k–$3.3M; Series A $5M–$72M
  • Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $27M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Slang — Slang.ai is an AI answering service that's dead simple to set up. It's a better alternative to sending your customers to voicemail and losing business when you can't answer the phone.
  • Dreambase — Dreambase develops AI-powered analytics software that enables organizations to generate insights, dashboards, and reports directly from their database without requiring traditional data infrastructure. The platform connects to data sources such as Supabase or PostgreSQL and analyzes schema, relationships, and usage patterns to automatically producemetrics and visualizations. Its system uses AI agents to perform tasks typically handled by data teams, including querying databases, identifying trends, building pipelines, and delivering recommendations based on real-time data. The platform eliminates the need for external data warehouses or manual event tracking by treating the database as the primary source of truth and generating insights directly from it.
  • Schematic — Convert more users, expand accounts, and prevent churn with better monetization powered by Schematic.
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Plesion Capital
VC Fund · Vienna, Virginia, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Plesion Capital is a venture capital firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: B2B, AgTech, Billing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.
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LoftyInc Capital
VC Fund · Carmel, California, United States · 1 investments in Uganda startups

LoftyInc Capital Management empowers Afropreneurs to build a prosperous and equitable future in Africa. We deliver value to both founders and investors.........

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Egypt

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 147
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.4M; Series A $250k–$37M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
  • AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
  • Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.
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Sufishent
VC Fund · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Sufishent is a venture capital investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Uganda

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Solerchil — Solerchil Technologies produces solar-powered cold chain technology to help Ugandan farmers and vendors safely preserve unsold food.
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Delta40
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya · 1 investments in Uganda startups

Delta40 is the venture studio that invests in African female entrepreneurs involved in energy, agriculture and mobility sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Solar, Energy, CleanTech
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SunFi — SunFi tech solution help people access solar energy with installation and payment plans.
  • 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.
  • PowerUP — Clean Tech For Everyone
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria · 1 investments in Uganda startups

We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$3.3M; Pre-Seed $450k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
  • Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
  • Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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VC funding in Uganda at a glance

Stats across 201 deals from 147 investors.

147
investors
in Uganda startups
201
deals
in Uganda startups
$350k
median round
in Uganda startups
59%
lead investors
lead at least one round
19%
Grant
most common funding stage

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