Startups

Rafah Communications is today launching the First and only Android Job App in Uganda. Aspire is an Android Job App that has been invented to bridge the gap between job seekers and employers. The development comes at a time when many Youths are graduating and... Read More

One of the reasons fronted for the stagnant progress with Startups on the African continent is mainly lack of capital or funding from family, friends or financial institutions.  For comparative reasons, consider a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) that indicates that Venture capitalists invested $17.5... Read More

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is returning to Uganda on September 10th. In line with its mission to place the spotlight on entrepreneurs from emerging countries, Seedstars World has expanded its competition to include more than... Read More

Village Capital last week launched its FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa 2015 accelerator programme at a launch event in Nairobi, revealing the cohort of 12 startups selected to participate in the programme. The three-month accelerator programme aims to unlock innovations that increase access to financial services... Read More

We know Whatsapp is the gold standard in mobile messaging.  However, Whatsapp heavily relies on your mobile plan to send and receive messages. Now Woloks, a Ugandan-based mobile messaging App wants to redefine how we communicate. Whether the reciever is online or offline, Woloks "just... Read More

Uganda is a highly enterprenueral society, this is evidenced by the large number of businesses set up everyday. This energy has now quickly found its way into the budding startup ecosystem. The country already boosts of 3 hubs and with another rumored to be setting... Read More

Africa is currently having birth pangs of Technological innovations. Whether it's Lagos Nigeria where the likes of Jumia and Konga are providing convenient shopping experiences to the emerging middle class akin to what Amazon is doing in the west, iROKOTV which is a Netflix version... Read More

Wow, it has been about three and half months since we pushed the rebrand button. We renamed one of the most authentic voices in Tech in Africa from TechPost (www.techpost.ug) to Dignited (www.dignited.com). As you might already know, rebranding online is a lot different from... Read More

UPDATE: We've written an up-to date article on the current top websites to help you shop online in Uganda. This article was written in 2014. Since then, many things have changed in the e-commerce sector since then. Some of the stores mentioned below since closed... Read More