Top 30 Financial Services VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Uganda in October 2023

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• 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.
• 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.
• XENO — XENO is an investment management platform that helps people to plan, save, and invest in financial goals. XENO was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in Kampala, Uganda.

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• Tugende — Tugende helps motorcycle taxi drivers own their own motorcycles in eighteen months or less instead of renting indefinitely. Ownership significantly increases income, job security and road safety.
• Dios Dental Clinic — Dios dental is a network of dental clinics which aims to bring affordable quality dental care. Their transparent pricing policy allows its clients to know their budget, with standard treatment and sterilization protocol. It was founded on March 1, 2016, and is headquartered in Rubaga, Uganda.
• Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

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• 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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• Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
• Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.
• People's Pension — People's Pension is a pension provider that offers innovative, flexible and digitally driven financial services to successfully increase resilience within the informal economy and reduce old-age poverty.

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• Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

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• Releaf — 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.
• Norebase — Norebase knows that there's an opportunity to grow successful businesses in Africa. It also understands the complexities of the market, and so is using technology to make doing business in Africa worthwhile. With Norebase get to operate in Africa with no hassle and with minimum risk.

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• Sempli — Sempli is building the leading all-in-one finance digital bank for small businesses in Colombia.
• Accial Capital — Accial Capital is an impact-focused, tech-enabled investor in small business and consumer loan portfolios in Latin America and South East Asia. Accial Capital combines data, technology, capital and credit expertise to contribute to a world of widespread credit access and financial health.
• Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.

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• clinicpesa — Your Instant Secure Medical Mobile Bank In Your Palm.
• Nithio Holdings — Nithio has standardized credit risk to catalyze billions of dollars of capital to address climate change and achieve universal energy access.
• Africa Climate Ventures — We build climate unicorns in Africa Our Thesis Climate action is reshaping the global economy Consumers are shifting towards climate-friendly products.Governments, aiming for net-zero, are shifting policy and committing billions of dollars to climate action.New technologies, processes, and energy sources are being developed, revolutionizing markets and redefining country resource endowments.Carbon markets are flourishing, fostering new business

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• Carble — We provide carbon insetting technology to tropical commodity buyers and cash incentives to farmers that protect the forest. Our satellite-powered platform monitors carbon emissions, allowing for deforestation-free farming to be rewarded at scale.
• Orisdi — Orisdi provides customers with a wide range of products with a unique customer experience.
• Forested — Agroforestry Enterprise

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• Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.
• Numida — Growing African small businesses with affordable, convenient, and fair credit.

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• Kovalee — Kovalee is a mobile app publisher. They empower app creators. They partner with app owners through a publishing model and bring their apps to the top of the charts. They provide product enhancement, monetization boost, user acquisition, and app store optimization services.
• EyeLights — EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple,uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding.The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g.
• PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

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• Juno Medical — Juno Medical offers comprehensive, modern healthcare services for the whole family. Transparent pricing, inclusive and welcoming atmosphere. Learn more.
• Teal Health — Teal Health is on a mission to empower women when it comes to their health – starting with at-home cervical cancer screenings. We believe that it’s time for women’s health to be designed for women, their preferences, and their experiences. With this in mind, Teal Health is creating the first FDA-approved at-home cervical cancer screening makingit simple for a woman to stay current on this life-saving screening from the comfort, convenience, and privacy of her home. Through timely screenings, Teal health plans to eradicate cervical cancer in the US.Teal is backed by passionate and committed investors who share this important vision, including Felicis Ventures, Emerson Collective, Metrodora, and Serena Ventures.
• 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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• Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
• AIG Hospital — AIG Hospitals is a Gastroenterology hospital that believes and preaches that excellence is a way of life. It offers transplant surgeries including Liver, Kidney, Heart, Pancreas, and Islet Cell. It believes in creating a positive and nurturing environment that is conducive to healing. It was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Hyderabad,India.
• 80 Acres Farms — 80 Acres delivers tasty and fresh produce all year round, locally grown, clean guaranteed, and with no dependency on weather or climate through indoor farming technology. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Ohio, United States.

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• Balad — Balad is Egyptian Cross Border Payout Network primarily serving Money Transfer Operators (MTOs), fintechs and mobile wallets. Targeting sending markets including GCC, EU, US, Canada, and UK
• Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
• Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.

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• 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 — Programmable insurance that you can integrate into your product or service with ease
• 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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• 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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• 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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• BlockJoy — Easily deploy and manage enterprise-scale blockchain nodes on any infrastructure for up to 80% less than the cloud.
• ProsperOps — ProsperOps is building the robo-advisor for cloud computing.Current cost optimization tooling is recommendation based which places the operational burden on already busy DevOps and FinOps teams. This leads to lag, is error prone, and fundamentally limits what is possible to that which a human can reasonably execute.Cloud cost optimization isbest handled by AI, optimization algorithms, and real-time execution engines. Like robo-advisors in the financial investing space, ProsperOps enables customers to answer a few high level questions about their cloud use after which technology takes over to handle ongoing, day-to-day cost optimization activities.This generates superior savings outcomes (on average, customers increase savings by 68%), reduces risk, and gives customers time back. Welcome to the world of Autonomous Cloud Savings.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Austin, Texas.
• ConductorOne — ConductorOne integrates permission management for the web and modern infrastructure. Alexander Bovee and Paul Querna co-founded ConductorOne in Portland, Oregon in 2020.

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
• Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.

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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 — 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 — We are one of the top Microfinance companies in India. Light Microfinance head office is located in Ahmedabad.

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• Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
• FreshR — FreshR is a Fish and meat distribution startup. It has farmed, traded, processed, and distributed highly perishable meat products in some of the most remote geographies in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh.
• XENO — XENO is an investment management platform that helps people to plan, save, and invest in financial goals. XENO was founded in 2016 and was headquartered in Kampala, Uganda.

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Zanifu — The zanifu platform, allows small retailers in Sub Saharan Africa, to procure inventory from their suppliers & pay later.
• Fixit45 — Your best ever automobile service experience awaits you.

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• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
• Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.

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• Solerchil — Solerchil Technologies produces solar-powered cold chain technology to help Ugandan farmers and vendors safely preserve unsold food.

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• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.

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• Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
• Ansa — The closed loop platform built for your customers.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.

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• Inputi — Inputi is an online marketplace, aggregator, and distributor for farm supplies based in Kampala, Uganda.
• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• AkelloBanker — AkelloBanker is a data-driven digital finance technology company. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Makerere, Kampala, Uganda.

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• 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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• Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.

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• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• Jumba — Jumba is a construction technology platform that streamlines B2B construction material purchase and financing.
• Yebo Fresh — Powering South Africa's Township Economy.