Ground Up

In this episode of Ground Up, your hosts Ham Namakajjo and Fay Kakai from UEEI sit down with Rachel Crawford and Makena Odongo from Village Capital. Rachel and Makena share insights on Business Development Services (BDS) sustainability, investment readiness, and other lessons from over a decade's work with Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneur Support Organisations.

Find out more: vilcap.com

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Fay Kakai from UEEI sits down with Dr. Joyce Tamale from Capital Solutions. Dr. Tamale shares insights on social entrepreneurship, financing bottlenecks and how they can be navigated, and collective action for impact.

Find out more: capitalsolutionsug.com

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Fay Kakai from UEEI sits down with Najimah Katete, Founder/CEO of Go5 Packaging, to talk about environmental sustainability and social responsibility, as well as her entrepreneurial journey and the need for collective action in the eco-friendly packaging industry.

To find out more about Go5 Packaging, visit go5-packaging.business.site

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Fay Kakai from UEEI sits down with Diana Ninsiima Kibuuka from Business Networking International (BNI). Diana shares insights on why networking is important for small businesses, the entrepreneurial successes and challenges faced, as well as the need for more partnership and collective action.

Find out more: bni.com

In this episode of Ground Up, your hosts Ham Namakajjo and Fay Kakai from UEEI sit down with Dr. Davis Musinguzi, CEO of Rocket Health, to talk about transformation of medical services through telemedicine, the startup financing journey, talent acquisition, and collective action.

To find out more about Rocket Health, visit rockethealth.africa

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Fay Kakai from UEEI sits down with Aéko Ongodia from Xeno Investment. Aéko shares insights from his entrepreneurial journey and discusses investment, the common misconceptions that people have, how Xeno has used technology to make investment services more accessible to everyone, as well as how he has navigated skilling and financing challenges as a Ugandan startup.

To find out more about Xeno, visit www.myxeno.com

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Ham Namakajjo from UEEI sits down with Paula Mugisa from Teesa Advisory Services. Paula shares insights on the role of tech in supporting entrepreneurs, challenges faced as a local ecosystem actor, collective action, and doing business differently.

To find out more, visit www.teesa.co.ug

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Fay Kakai from UEEI sits down with Primera Muthoni from Project Girls 4 Girls Uganda. Primera shares insights on the organization's focus on young women, the impact of mentorship, challenges faced, and how the program supports womenpreneurs.

To find out more, visit www.projectg4g.org

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Fay Kakai from UEEI sits down with Allen Asiimwe from TradeMark East Africa. Allen shares insights on the African Continental Free Trade Area and its implications for small businesses, collective action, as well as the leadership and mentorship work she does with young women at Project Girls4Girls.

Find out more:

www.trademarkea.com

www.projectg4g.org

In this episode of Ground Up, your host Fay Kakai from UEEI sits down with Carolyne Kirabo from M-Kyala Ventures. Carolyne shares insights on investment finance, gender equality, and financial inclusion for African women.

Carolyne Kirabo is the founder and CEO of M-Kyala Ventures a specialized consulting firm that designs gender strategies to enable organizations to better integrate gender across their decision making to increase support to women entrepreneurs. Carolyne set up her practice after gathering 15+ years of experience in investment finance , management consulting and social innovation where she had a front-row seat to the disproportionate nature of the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs. Carolyne’s vision is to see an entrepreneurship ecosystem that fairly represents and supports women and to see financing reaching women where they are already being successful.

To find out more, visit www.mkyalaventures.com