What We Do
Two Ways We Put Capital
to Work in Africa
Impact Projects via SPVs — $5M to $20M
Our core business. We structure purpose-built special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to raise capital for high-impact African projects — connecting them with investors who want exposure to real assets and measurable impact. Our flagship is Umoja Agricultural Hubs.
Startup Fund — $20k to $100k
A focused early-stage fund backing East Africa's most promising founders with cheques of $20,000 to $100,000. We invest in technology and consumer businesses building for the African market — companies like Carmie, Lumasa Sports, and commodity.plus.
Deal Origination
Great projects fail to attract capital not because they lack merit, but because they lack preparation. We source, structure, and de-risk opportunities — building the feasibility studies, financial models, and investment cases that make a project genuinely fundable.
Portfolio
Projects & Companies We Back
From a continent-scale agricultural project to the startups building Africa's digital economy — here is some of what we are funding.
Umoja Agricultural Hubs
Flagship Impact ProjectOur own social-impact venture: a network of contract-farming hubs across Uganda that connect smallholder farmers to guaranteed markets and fair prices while eliminating post-harvest losses. Targeting 15,000 farmers, 6,000+ jobs, and ~12,000 tonnes of food saved each year across four hubs by 2033.
Carmie
Auto-tech
A super-app for car owners across East Africa — digital fuel cards, garage booking, genuine spare parts, and a permanent vehicle health record, all mobile-money native.
Lumasa Sports
Sports management
A FIFA-licensed football intermediary based in Kampala, with offices in London and Dubai, representing 20+ footballers and a growing roster of rugby talent.
Commodity Plus
Commodities
A technology platform modernising how East African commodities are traded, priced, and moved to market.
Sector Focus
Sectors We Invest In
We focus on sectors that form the productive backbone of African economies — where capital unlocks employment, import substitution, food security, and sustainable income.
Agriculture & Agro-Processing
Sub-Saharan Africa holds 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land, yet imports $40 billion in food annually. We fund irrigation infrastructure, storage and cold-chain facilities, agro-processing plants, and contract-farming hubs — the focus of our flagship project, Umoja.
Housing & Urban Development
Africa needs 50 million new housing units by 2030. We structure capital for affordable housing programmes, urban infrastructure, and real estate developments that serve citizens and generate durable returns.
Export & Hard-Currency Income
Economic resilience requires export earnings. We back projects that generate hard currency — from value-added manufacturing and mineral beneficiation to export processing zones and trade infrastructure.
Technology & Consumer
Through our startup fund we back the founders digitising African daily life — mobility, commerce, fintech, and consumer platforms built for how the continent actually lives and pays.
Our Capital Network
The Investors We Bring to the Table
We bring together the capital that funds African growth — from development finance institutions to family offices and angels. We structure the vehicles, do the diligence, and align everyone's incentives around outcomes.
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)
Institutions with mandates to support economic development in emerging markets, often anchoring our impact-project SPVs alongside private capital.
IFC • British International Investment • Proparco • KfW
Family Offices & HNWIs
Family offices and high-net-worth individuals seeking direct, asset-backed exposure to African impact projects with measurable returns.
Single & Multi-Family Offices • Private Wealth
Institutional & Commercial Investors
Private equity, impact funds, and institutional investors who co-invest through our purpose-built SPVs.
Impact Funds • Private Equity • Institutional Investors
Angels & Startup Syndicates
Angel investors and syndicates who back our early-stage portfolio companies alongside the Ubuntu Capital startup fund.
Angel Investors • Diaspora Syndicates • Strategic Operators
Why Choose Us
Why Ubuntu Capital
We bring together African insight and international finance expertise — and we put our own capital to work in the projects and companies we believe in.
We Have Skin in the Game
We don't just structure deals and walk away. We originated and own our flagship impact project, Umoja, and we invest our own capital alongside our portfolio founders. Our incentives are aligned with outcomes, not fees.
We Do the Preparation Others Skip
Capital is rarely the bottleneck — readiness is. We work projects from the earliest stages: feasibility assessments, financial models, stress-testing assumptions, and SPV structuring — so that by the time an opportunity reaches an investor, it is genuinely fundable.
African-Led, London-Based
Founded by Africans with direct business operations across East Africa, we bring genuine local knowledge and deal flow. Our London base gives us proximity to European DFIs, private wealth, and international capital markets.