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On 6th July 2023, Ugandan security-tech startup, Yunga, was announced the winner of the prestigious Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation organised by the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering walking away with £25,000 (about shs 118 million). Yunga is a local digital security network that connects neighbours to each other and police within a 20km radius via a physical device, smartphone app or SMS service, providing security at a low cost. Yunga became the second Ugandan startup to scoop the award after Matibabu’s triumph in 2018. “The journey to winning this prize started in 2022 around September. This was the first…
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Housing Finance Bank has joined hands with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and other partners to support efforts towards building smart cities in Uganda. Last week, the bank hosted the official kick-off event of the Open Innovation Program at its headquarters in Kololo.The Program, an initiative commissioned by Make-IT in Africa, a project by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, aims at advancing innovation that promotes smart cities. The programme also bridges the gap between private and public sector needs by allowing early-stage innovators and entrepreneurs to take their technology-driven solutions to the next level. The Open…
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According to a report from the Uganda Counseling Association and the Ministry of Health, 14 million Ugandans are currently mentally sick. Essentially, this implies that in every 100 Ugandans, 35 are battling a mental disorder, most probably silently. The mental disorders can range from depression, bipolar disorder, dementia and autism among others. In Africa, Uganda ranks in the top 6 in Africa in the rates of depression (4.6% of the population) while 2.9% live with mental disorders. But these are 2017 statistics. Mental Health problems were exacerbated by COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdowns that drove more people into poverty and…
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Ugandan agri-fintech startup Emata was named the Best Newcomer at the Global Startup Awards finale in Copenhagen, Denmark held on March 30th 2023. The Ugandan ambassador to Nordic Countries and Baltics, Emata CEO, and co-founder Bram van den Bosch received the award. Emata was the only Ugandan startup nominated for the prestigious accolade and competed against startups from Portugal, Estonia, Israel, UAE, India, Indonesia, Denmark, and Turkey in the category of the best newcomer. There were more than 80,000 nominations for this year’s Global Startup Awards. This is Emata’s second win, following the agri-fintech’s “Best Newcomer” in Africa win in…
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Startups are companies that are built to grow fast. This was well articulated by Y Combinator’s Paul Graham in his 2004 article startups = growth. In this article, Paul Graham argued that what sets startups apart from small businesses/companies is their ability to scale and to scale fast. For startups to be able to achieve this kind of scale, they turn to external investors. You see, if a startup grew internally, it will have to rely on its profits. This is called bootstrapping. The problem with bootstrapping is that the growth is limited to how much money a startup can…
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Ugandan fintechs Chipper Cash, Tugende and Asaak have been named in the top 100 Most Funded African Startups in research compiled by Digest Africa, a Pan-African data and intelligence startup headquartered in Kampala. Startups, according to Forbes, is a term used to refer to young companies founded to develop a unique product or service, bring it to market and make it irresistible and irreplaceable for customers. Startups are high-growth companies, and instead of bootstrapping, they turn to investors to grow at the pace they want to. This model is followed globally, and Digest Africa has tracked this funding data for…
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Ridelink, a Ugandan e-Logistics startup has raised US$150,000 in pre-see funding to scale its operations. The US$150,000 was raised in partnership from Ortus Africa Capital, Omidyar Network and African Leadership Academy’s Young Entrepreneurs Fund (Anzisha). This brings the total investment into Ridelink to US$250,000 with the start-up having attracted private investments in 2020 from seedstars. “We plan on using the capital raised to build globally competitive and robust technology and accelerate our marketing campaigns,” says the company Chief Executive Officer Daniel Mukisa. “The Young Entrepreneurs Fund is designed to incentivise co-investments into graduates of our programs like Daniel who have chosen to become…
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