Top Tech Startups in Uganda in 2027

LILT is a language translation services and technology company. We're building the next generation of localization, making it possible for every organization to communicate with their customers in the language of their choice through LILT's high-quality, scalable, and affordable translation services. We recruit the world's best human translators and equip them with our software, allowing them to translate better and faster than ever. By combining human expertise and machine efficiency in a complete enterprise localization solution, we can deliver technology-enabled translation services to our customers. Lilt is backed by some of the world's leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and Redpoint. Our customers include some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the world who rely on Lilt every day to provide more personal customer experiences in 300+ languages. Our team is headquartered in the Bay Area with additional hubs in Indianapolis, Washington DC, Berlin, Dublin, and the UK.

Blockstream is the leading Bitcoin company, providing cutting-edge infrastructure solutions for enterprises, institutions, and individual Bitcoin users. We develop industry-leading Bitcoin self-custody solutions, Bitcoin-based financial products, second-layer scaling technologies, and enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure. OUR PRODUCTS: - The Liquid Network: sidechain-based settlement network for traders and exchanges - Blockstream App: A multi-platform, feature-rich Bitcoin and Liquid Wallet - Blockstream Jade: A fully-open source hardware wallet for Bitcoin and Liquid - Blockstream Enterprise: Enterprise-grade custody and treasury management tool - Blockstream Satellite: the Bitcoin blockchain beamed from space - Many major contributions to Bitcoin open source software and research

DriveWealth is a financial technology firm pioneering embedded finance, fractional investing in US equities, and API-driven brokerage infrastructure. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015. We help banks, fintechs, RIAs, and global brands build investing experiences in 153 countries. Some of our partners are Revolut, Hatch, MoneyLion, Stake, and Avenue.

Our products enhance the guest dining experience, streamlines operations, and increase our clients’ brand value. With PrestoPrime, diners can order food, provide feedback, play games, and pay their bill at the table, without waiting. Our system includes not only specialized hardware, but also a complete software solution designed to meet the specialized needs of restaurants.

Aptos is building a Layer 1 blockchain designed with an emphasis on absolute safety, extensible scalability, and credible neutrality — values that we know firsthand and viscerally understand. Now, on the fourth iteration of the consensus protocol, we are confident that Aptos is capable of bringing affordability, decentralization, and speed to the daily lives of billions of internet users. It is the lowest latency, optimistically-responsive BFT protocol available, and it features a robust, on-chain reputation system and novel methods for parallel execution — a key enabler of speed at scale. We will rapidly deploy many key innovations in performance, functionality and improvements to the overall user experience and leverage our ability to do major upgrades seamlessly in the process.

Entrupy aims to fight the global problem of counterfeits to become the de-facto standard for instant authentication. Entrupy is a hardware-enabled SaaS company that uses computer vision algorithms and microscopy to bring trust to transactions of high-value physical goods. Currently in use by thousands of secondary resellers and marketplaces worldwide, Entrupy provides the only scalable technology capable of authenticating luxury products from brands such as Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Hermès, among others. The service launched in 2016, following four years of research led by Ashlesh Sharma, Vidyuth Srinivasan and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Professor at New York University. Investors include DG Lab Fund, deep learning pioneer and Facebook AI Research (FAIR) director, Yann LeCun, serial entrepreneur and investor Zach Coelius, cloud computing pioneer and Google VP of Infrastructure Eric Brewer, and Japanese venture capital firm, Accord Ventures.

Alpaca is a series B fintech startup that’s raised over $70M in funding. Alpaca’s technology and suite of APIs powers hundreds of thousands of individual traders and hundreds of businesses worldwide. From developers and product managers to founders and CTOs, a broad audience interacts with Alpaca’s products and uses them to start, run, and scale their companies. Removing the barriers to embedded finance helps more new businesses get started and expedites growth for existing companies. Alpaca API allows developers to build apps, services, and trading algorithms that can access US financial markets. *Securities by Alpaca Securities LLC (alpaca.markets/#disclosures )*

We use a founder-friendly approach to improve the product and scale the team while maintaining the company’s original identity that drove its success. through knowledge, leadership, and independence we are determined to provide a full spectrum of services to help our brands reach their full potential.

DUSH is a block chain enabled P2P platform for micro payments, remittances and currency exchange. It’ll have a multi currency wallet and USSD capacity for users with limited internet access. DUSH will have customized fiat and crypto payment gateways at its core. The fiat payment gateway that will allow users in P2P transactions, request payments for B2C or C2C, support online merchant integrations, exchange crypto for fiat and make payments (scan to pay & scan to send), buy cryptos using local currency and API integrations. The crypto gateway will allow businesses to receive crypto payments, make exchange etc. DUSH is built for communities with limited access to conventional financial services, expats in foreign countries sending money back home, cross border traders, banks, telecommunications companies providing financial services (Mobile money), financial institutions seeking to expand into untapped illiterate markets, government agencies such as revenue services, business

Maroon is a hybrid cryptocurrency exchange that combines a centralised order book with hybrid deposit wallets for which the user always retains a key. Through a smooth UX that enables and encouraging self-custody, we turn the “Don’t be evil” ethos into a “Can’t be evil” reality.