Inachee(noun) [In-a-chee-]: Home Grown Energy in Motion.

Target client:

• Agro-processors/Agri-businesses

• SME Owners

• etc

Sector focus:

• Agriculture

• ICT

• Transport

• Services sector

• SMEs/Trade

• etc

Amounts provided:

• From UGX500,000 to UGX2,000,000 – Individual

• Up to UGX625,000,000 – SMEs 

Funding type:

• Loans

Key criteria:

Target:

Nature Conservation/Biodiversity

Sector focus:

Eco-tourism, Wildlife Conservation, General Tourism Sector

Amounts provided:

The maximum grant for 1 year is $2,000.

Funding type

Grant

Key criteria

Projects:

• Must be an environment impacting project such as eco-tourism, wildlife , and general nature
• Appli...

Target:

Typically established businesses (3 years)

Sector focus:

None in particular but likely to prefer: consumer products, manufacturing, logistics and transport, food and agri business and real estate.

Amounts provided:

 $1,000,000 - $20,000,000 (depending on type)

Funding type

Private equity (typically funding for established businesses)

Key...

Target:

·         Farmers and

·         Agro - processors only

Sector focus:

·         Agriculture

Amounts provided:

·         Amounts of up to  UGX 2.1 billion

·         Funding up to 90% of the project cost

·         Long Term loans 6 months - 8 years

·         Grace Period up to 3 years

·         Subsidized lending rate of...

Target:

·         Agriculture

·         General Businesses (SMEs)

Sector focus:

Different sectors but a focus on the agriculture value chain in line with Gatsby Charitable foundations overall objectives.

Amounts provided:

·         Min: Ushs1,000,000

·         Max: Ushs30,000,000

Funding type

·         Loan (6 – 24 months) �...

Target:

Working capital - for Agri business entities with the repayment of the loan being dependent on the nature and season of the agricultural activity to be financed.

Sector focus:

Agriculture

Amounts provided:

Minimum: Ushs100,000 Maximum: Ushs 3 billion

Funding type

Collateralized Loan – but structured around the agriculture activity and its se...

Target:

Late start up for profit companies (at least 2 years’ audited results) who have:

“Innovative ideas that will specifically help to remove poverty in rural Africa through a partnership with private enterprises.

The purpose is to improve the incomes of small holder farmers and the rural poor.”

Sector focus:

These are 6 focus areas for the fund:

• Agriculture
• Agribusiness
• renew...

Target:

Businesses that have been in operation in Kampala at least 6 months

Sector focus:

No particular sector focuses but skewed towards micro and small entrepreneurs’ (MSEs) market segment including women merchants/traders.

Amounts provided:

Ranging from Shs. 1 million to Shs. 50 million.

Repayment Period:  Up to 36 months

Monthly Interest Rate  2%

Target:

Start ups – But primarily not every start up. They are: targeting entrepreneurs creating solutions to the world’s biggest social and environmental problems.

You might want to take their “eligibility quiz”

Sector focus:

Any sector where the entrepreneur is providing solutions to East Africa’s biggest social and environmental problems.

Amounts provided: