Here is a list of the top ten ventures from Uganda as ranked by the VC4Africa community.
1) Yo! Payments Uganda
Yo! Payments is a secure web-based mobile payments gateway which enables businesses and other organizations to conveniently and securely manage mobile money payments.
2) Earlylife Radio Uganda
EarlyLife Online Radio is an advocacy platform aimed at youth participation. The target audience is young people from 16 yrs. to 39 yrs. old, university going students as well as urban youths all over Africa and community leaders.
3) Design Kingdom Uganda
Design Kingdom is a training school / online community for digital artists, web developers and designers in Uganda. The Design Kingdom objective is to create an environment from which students learn relevant design principals.
4) Uganda Medicinal Plants Growers, ltd. Uganda
UMPG is a commercial farming initiative based in Masindi, Uganda. The project is designed to assist farmers in the community to commercialize their medicinal crops internationally. The company is a registered Ugandan company.
5) African Alternative Energy Solutions Uganda
AAES started 5 years ago. The company’s mission is to provide electricity during load shedding and to places where their is no grid power. Alternative Energy solutions taps into a vehicle’s generating capability to generate and store electricity for later use.
6) LOOK4.CO.UG Uganda
Intuitive web-based market that provides a centralised portal for the advertising of various items for sale, and notification of services provided within the Ugandan community; with short-term revenues to be made from online brand advertising.
7) RealtrOnline Uganda
It is a new real estate multiple listing service meant to make it easy for Real Estate developers, Owners and Agents in the East African Community to showcase their property and for the general public to find it with ease.
8) Hypereviews Uganda
Hypereviews is a community website dedicated to showing description and reviews of local places to shop, drink and eat in the major cities and districts of East Africa. Currently this includes Nairobi, Kampala and Dar es Salaam.
9) Node Six Uganda
Node Six is an internet solutions provider. Their core forte is website development/design services, online community site development, domain name registration and diverse web-hosting solutions.
10) SWINE FRIENDS FARMS AFRICA (SWIFFA)
SWIFFA is a multinational agribusiness initiative that is aimed at managing and developing a complete piggery industry business chain right from producing cereals for animal feed to processing final pork products.
Check out these ventures and follow the ones you like. We look forward to following their progress and to welcoming new entrepreneurs from the country.