Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) is working around the corner to ensure that Women Entrepreneurs from all over Uganda benefit from its...
Investors in early-stage startups should expand their support to science and technology-based businesses beyond funding to incorporating transfers of skills or value...
One of the biggest barriers to agricultural technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa is the limited access to agricultural inputs – coupled with...
CHIL AI Lab Group has announced a new venture capital fund set to transform technology investment in Africa, following a decision by...
Public Transport in Uganda. Considering that Uganda’s multimodal transport system is robust, there are discrepancies when it comes to ensuring all residents...
After an intense and knowledge-packed week, the 2022 Women in FinTech Hackathon, culminated in the Women in FinTech Summit on 16th September....
CHIL Food Center, trading as Solerchil Technologies, has announced the opening of its African office in Nairobi, Kenya. This comes weeks after...
All over the globe, it is well known that women are responsible for the majority share of all the healthcare provided. Beyond...
African Vehicle-hailing app Treepz has announced the expansion of its services to cater to more Africans using buses for their transportation needs....
M-KOPA, the fintech platform that provides digital credit to underbanked customers, today announced the release of its 2021 Impact Report. As a...
Following the completion of both entry submission and review process, Hipipo has unveiled the 20 teams that are going to take part...
Ugandan-based construction technology startup, Denebola Technologies has announced its expansion into the United States. This follows the recent opening of its new...
When you empower one woman, you have in fact supported an entire family. This is no longer an optimistic opinion but a...
Uganda’s leading telemedicine and digital health provider, Rocket Health, has launched its second clinic in Gayaza located along Gayaza – Kalagi road....
Following a $300,000 pre-seed funding round, Food Tech startup, CHIL Food Center – trading as Solerchil Technologies – has now set foot...
Xente Tech Ltd, a financial technology platform that simplifies payments and finance for businesses, has acquired a Payment Systems Operator (PSO) license...
Solerchil Technologies has raised $300,000 in pre-seed to support its mission of revolutionizing B2B payments. The round was led by Sufishent LLC;...
Uganda ranks as one of the global hotspots with over 55% of the youth owning or co-own a new or already running...
FinTech Uganda Limited, a subsidiary of FinTech Group is one of the oldest financial technology companies in Africa with a variety of...
At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Denis Orech and two friends from Lira University decided to devise means of...
The outbreak of Covid-19 has forced many businesses to migrate from the manual way of doing things to digital solutions. Businesses that...
Uganda has a huge but largely underdeveloped fashion industry. According to a November 2020 article by The East African newspaper, “Uganda’s fashion...
Enrolling members into savings, and investment clubs is a key stage in operationalizing such organizations. But when this is done, the harder...
The world is slowly migrating into a cash-lite and eventually a cashless global economy where all transactions are done without the exchange...
One of the biggest bottlenecks of transferring funds from one country to another is the cost involved, especially if it involves different...
FutureLink Technologies is a community-driven marketplace for affordable financial services. It is licensed by the Bank of Uganda as a digital national...
Agriculture remains Uganda’s top employer, with more than 60 percent of the population involved in agricultural activities. Despite this statistic, the industry...
True African is with no doubt among the legends of digital financial services in Uganda. They were among the pioneers of short...
Linmart is an online marketplace that links manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers, retailers and shoppers to one platform called a MARKET for convenient, timely...
One of the main reasons for the early collapse of villages Saccos and Investment groups is poor bookkeeping. Hell breaks loose whenever...
The word ‘SafeBoda’ is now a household name for the majority of Ugandans who especially use Boda Bodas – motorcycles for movement...
In 2021, Flutterwave received worldwide recognition for becoming an African FinTech Unicorn. By definition, a unicorn company is a startup with a...
Renowned marketing and business expert, Steven Jeffes once said that “innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop...
If you are a frequent user of public transport in Africa, then you know the hustle and bustle involved in getting tickets...
When Ephrance Eunice Namugenyi’s father started a paver and block-making business, he contacted his daughter to use her Information Technology skills to...
Marie Mintalucci has spent a number of years supporting female-led groups across Sub-Saharan Africa to create self-sustaining ventures. However, during this time,...
Launched in 2013, EzeeMoney is a technology company dealing in both financial and non-financial services that target people at the bottom of...
In Africa, the sources of business capital are usually personal funds, family, friends and loans. The first three are usually the ideal...
Many Ugandans are full of business ideas but their biggest bottleneck is the lack of capital and inability to access credit. For...
Almost everyone has ever received a phone call or text with the person on the other side saying that s/he has an...
Anyone doing business in Uganda will tell you that paying rent is one of their biggest nightmares. Whether you have made profits...
Many young corporates harbor dreams that would satisfy their heart’s desires. They would like to have nice cars, trendy phones, beautiful TV...
The past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic literally placed everyone in their right place – for both good and bad reasons....
Ugandan techpreneur, Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa, has sworn in as the African Representative on the Commonwealth Youth Council (CYC) Executive Committee. Ms. Nabuuma,...
With the worsening economic situation in the country, on top of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, most Ugandans have resorted to...
When Uganda was put into a total lockdown in March 2020 due to the outbreak of Covid-19, my stylist’s hair salon came...
Away from its negative consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic was an eye-opener to individuals and businesses. It brought the role and overall importance...
For those that have attended events in Uganda, you are familiar with the hustle and bustle involved in buying entry tickets. This...
Majority of Ugandans are just one medical emergency and hospital admission away from financial ruin and untold disaster. This is because accessing...
Have you ever been with an account that has money but are unable to access it? Put differently, has someone ever called...
The word Kawu must be familiar to whoever attended boarding schools in Uganda. Kawu is that period in a boarding school when...
No serious storyteller can narrate Uganda’s post-independence story without giving prominence to the famous Luweero triangle. It is that pivotal but that...
In April this year, Private Sector Foundation Uganda’s new Chief Programs and Projects Officer, Damali Ssali presented about the vast business and...
The second HiPipo 40 Days 40 FinTechs that ran in the months of July and August 2021 set the bar very high....
Online shopping startup Kweli.shop (a brand of Dreamstar Digital Limited) has announced an expansion of its home deliveries service (also called door-to-door...
Shamim Nabuuma’s CHIL Group is among the 30 women-led startups that have been admitted into the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) growth...
The Uganda National pitch event for Digital innovations for business resilience in the East African community was held Saturday 26th March at...
Ugandan techpreneur, Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa, has been nominated in the inaugural Business Insider Africa Awards. The awards aim to recognize African business...
HiPipo and the Ideation Corner have announced the start of the We Will Win initiative, a project that is set to make...
Fuzu Uganda has officially unveiled the Free Forever Campaign, an initiative aimed at helping startups and SMEs professionalize their hiring processes while...
The dSkills Program, full name Digital Innovation for Business Resilience in the East African Community Program has successfully come to the conclusion...
Africa-focused fintech firm Flutterwave has raised $250-million in its single-biggest funding round to date. This has pushed the start-up valuation at more...
EzyAgric and Airtel Uganda have embarked on a partnership to extend free farm advisory services to Airtel subscribers across the country. This...
15 women-led Ugandan startups have been shortlisted for the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) project. The virtual Acceleration Program seeks to provide...
After three years of successful networking, advocacy work, and enhancement of human rights structures both for the Ugandan society as well as...
MFS Africa has raised $100-million through an equity and debt financing round. The fundraising marks another milestone in the digital payment gateway’s...
Kenyan B2B e-commerce platform Twiga has raised a US$50 million Series C funding round to help it scale its affordable food solutions...
MFS Africa has announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire Baxi, one of Nigeria’s leading super-agent networks. The deal, which...
Participants at the ongoing Women in FinTech Hackathon have been challenged to make good use of the Internet as it has several...
Day four of the ongoing Women in FinTech Hackathon was a huge success as participants learnt about Product Management, Prototyping, and the...
Day Three of the Women in FinTech Hackathon successfully ended with discussions focusing on why young innovators must draw proper business cases...
Day Two of the Women in FinTech #LevelOneProject Hackathon was successfully concluded with discussions centered on how participants can improve their projects...
The 2021 Women in FinTech Hackathon officially kicked off Friday 8th October with 17 shortlisted teams and over 70 participants altogether. Speaking...
Following a two-week-long online registration process and continuous evaluation of all entries, HiPipo has unveiled the 17 teams that will participate in...
The 2021 edition of the Kampala Innovation Week has been unveiled! The event, organized by Start-up Uganda in partnership with UNCDF, is...
Andela has turned on the unicorn status after raising a tune of $200 million in Series E financing. Well, this feat means...
In its commitment to secure the health and safety of its employees and the communities at large, SafeBoda has announced a vaccination...
The high operating costs shouldered by financial services providers have always been blamed for the high-interest rates that businesses and people who...
Smallholder farmers have for long been exploited and cheated at various stages of agricultural production; be it buying inputs, where they have...
While the majority of Uganda’s youth have resorted to running small businesses due to the high unemployment rate, their businesses suffer high...
While the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to market and sell their products and services online, in what is...
Providing a better customer experience is every business owner’s dream as it helps build customer loyalty, which in turn supports business growth....
Cashless and contactless digital payments are increasingly playing a significant role in ensuring safety, speed, convenience, and seamlessness in business operations globally. It...
While access to credit is what micro and small business owners need to expand their enterprises and work their way out of...
With parents pacing against time juggling a number of things to make ends meet, anything that helps them conclude their children’s school...
The delay in settling digital money transactions is among the reasons most people in Uganda prefer cash to electronic transactions. This explains why...
More Ugandans are set to access health insurance following the introduction of Bomba MED, a micro health insurance product on the market. Innovated...
When you talk about software engineering, many females will tell you that it is a preserve for males. This is basically because, in...
Transport operators lose a lot of revenue as untrustworthy conductors charge money that is not recorded anywhere in the operator’s books, thus...
While not many people in Uganda and across the African continent are using Blockchain technology mainly due to its complexity, YTIB Capital...
People bored of buying foodstuffs, fruits, and meat that have stayed long on market stalls may have a reason to smile now...
Despite contributing immensely to Uganda’s Gross Domestic Product and employing the largest number of Ugandans, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) face...
While there has been growth in the number of Financial Technology Companies (FinTechs) integrating with telecoms and banks to facilitate easy payments...
Spending a day or a week at home for lack of school fees is something that no parent would wish their child...
Bolt has raised 600 million euros from investors to aid quick grocery delivery. The round was led by Sequoia Capital alongside other...
Many businesses always find themselves entangled in non-core business functions and end up giving little time to core operations, which affects their...
From bricks and cement to painting, plumbing, and décor services, anyone undertaking a construction project can now access them under one roof,...
It is one thing to develop a financial solution and another thing for that solution to be accepted in the market. It is...
Many micro and small enterprises in Uganda still lack online presence due to, among others, the absence of digital skills to enable...
Several people across the country have fallen victim to land evictions or have their pieces of land lying idle for lack of...
It is estimated that at least 80 percent of Ugandan farmers are smallholders. Despite their everyday challenges, they contribute the largest share...
While some people saw the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic as a major setback, to Erasmus Okurut and his team at PayTota...