Mulago Foundation
FoundationSan Francisco · Seed · 15 people tracked
Investment thesis
Mulago Foundation looks for founders with scalable solutions to poverty across healthcare, education, livelihoods, nutrition, and environmental health. It recruits roughly twenty new Fellows each year into a program that teaches design for impact and strategy for scale. It funds organizations that emerge with promising models, strategies, and teams, making grants (and occasionally debt or equity) as bets on exponential impact over time, and stays invested as long as there is compelling progress toward scale.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 15 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 44 of 84 portfolio companiesImpact & Social Good ×38AgTech ×12Climate Tech ×11Digital Health ×11EdTech ×11AI & Machine Learning ×6Healthtech ×5Mental Health ×4
HQs:India×9Ghana×3Kenya×3United States×3Pakistan×2Brazil×1
Investments · 84 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathIntelehealth builds an open-source telemedicine platform with a digital assistant and 80+ care protocols that lets governments, NGOs, and hospitals deliver remote primary care to hard-to-reach populations.
Digital HealthHealthtechImpact & Social Good
Aceli Africa is a market catalyst that provides data-driven financial incentives to lenders, encouraging them to increase lending to agricultural small and medium enterprises (agri-SMEs) across sub-Saharan Africa.
AgTechFintechImpact & Social Good
Awana Digital co-develops technology with local and Indigenous communities to protect culture, food sovereignty, and critical ecosystems.
Climate TechImpact & Social Good
CassVita uses a process to extend the shelf-life of cassava from 3 days to 18 months and processes the crop in automated facilities into fufu, flour, starch, and animal feed, which it sells to multinationals including Nestle.
AgTechFoodTechImpact & Social Good
Pelkins Ajanoh(Cofounder)
Co-investorsDorm RoomFINCA VenturesSBXi
Chancen International provides income-share agreement financing that lets young Africans access tertiary education with no upfront tuition or collateral, repaying only after they are employed above a set income threshold.
EdTechFintechImpact & Social Good
Darsel provides a personalized learning chatbot that teaches mathematics to students in low-resource settings through simple, text-based channels like SMS, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechAmman, JO
Abdulhamid Haidar(Founder)in
Co-investorsThe Draper Richards Kaplan FoundationY Combinator
Digital Green builds AI-based decision support tools and digital advisory systems for smallholder farmers, delivering guidance in local languages and adapted to local conditions.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningImpact & Social Good
Educate Girls is an Indian nonprofit that works with governments, communities, and village-based volunteers to enroll and retain out-of-school girls and improve foundational learning outcomes in remote rural areas.
EdTechImpact & Social Good
Farmerline provides smallholder farmers in West Africa access to quality agricultural inputs, training, and market connections through a digital platform (Mergdata) and field agents, enabling them to increase income and productivity.
AgTechB2B MarketplacesCloud ComputingGhana, GH
Co-investorsCeniarthChanzo CapitalGhana Climate Innovation CentreKickstart Innovation
Farmers for Forests (F4F) is a hybrid social enterprise that helps smallholder farmers in India transition their land to agroforestry to regenerate soil, raise incomes, and build climate resilience.
AgTechClimate TechImpact & Social GoodPune, IN
Food4Education runs school feeding programs that deliver hot, affordable, and nutritious lunches to schoolchildren at scale, starting in Kenya with the goal of expanding across Africa.
FoodTechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsCeniarth
The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) is an Indian nonprofit that works with rural communities to restore and conserve land, forest, and water resources through community-governed management of the Commons.
AgTechClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Friendship Bench provides community-based psychological interventions delivered by trained community health workers to help people with depression in under-resourced settings.
Digital HealthImpact & Social GoodMental Health
Fundación Gaia Amazonas is a Colombian nonprofit that works with Indigenous peoples to conserve the Amazon rainforest through intercultural collaboration, territorial governance (Indigenous Territorial Entities), geospatial information systems, and political advocacy.
Climate TechImpact & Social Good
Healthy Learners addresses a gap in healthcare access for school-aged children, a group with few touch points with the healthcare system compared to programs focused on early childhood.
Digital HealthHealthtechImpact & Social Good
Hello Tractor operates a platform connecting smallholder farmers with tractor and farm-equipment owners for on-demand mechanization services, plus an equipment marketplace, fleet management, and pay-as-you-go financing for tractor owners.
AgTechFintechMarketplacesWashington Dc, US
Jehiel Oliver(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Folu Okunade(Executive Officer)
Honeyguide is a Tanzania-focused conservation organization that builds the governance, management, and business capacity of community-owned Wildlife Management Areas so they can operate as self-reliant social enterprises.
Climate TechImpact & Social Good
DRK portfolio organization; 2025 Audacious Project grantee.
Co-investorsThe Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Instituto Juruá is a Brazilian nonprofit organization working on community-based conservation, participatory territorial governance, and socio-bioeconomy along the Juruá River in the Amazon.
Circular EconomyClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Jacaranda Health works with governments and local partners to improve access to and quality of maternal and newborn care, using real-time data and training frontline government nurses in basic and emergency care.
Digital HealthFemTechImpact & Social Good
Karya builds AI data and evaluation pipelines, providing custom data collection (transcription, translation, multimodal datasets), foundational datasets, and evaluation benchmarks tailored to India's languages and domains such as healthcare, agriculture, finance, law, and education.
AI & Machine LearningData & Infrastructure
Kheyti provides climate-smart agriculture technologies to smallholder farmers, aiming to increase their incomes and climate resilience.
AgTechClimate TechImpact & Social GoodShort Hills, US
Saumya(Cofounder)
Co-investorsAutodesk FoundationCeniarth
Kidogo operates a network of affordable childcare centres serving low-income communities in East Africa.
EdTechImpact & Social Good
Labhya works with Indian state governments to embed daily wellbeing classes into public schools, delivered by existing public school teachers within the regular school day.
EdTechImpact & Social GoodWellness & Fitness
Last Mile Health partners with governments and Ministries of Health to build and support teams of community and frontline health workers who deliver primary healthcare to remote communities.
Digital HealthHealthtechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsThe Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Lively Minds partners with governments to integrate parent-focused early childhood development (ECD) content and approaches into existing public systems, including pre-primary settings and government-run parenting courses and radio programming.
EdTechImpact & Social Good
Maliasili works to strengthen and support local conservation organizations by amplifying their voices, influence, and access to funding and resources.
Climate TechImpact & Social Good
Mati builds and deploys enhanced rock weathering (ERW) systems to enable smallholder farmers in the global South to access carbon markets.
AgTechClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsAutodesk FoundationCongruent Ventures
Medha helps students plan their careers and connects them to jobs, industry training opportunities, and an alumni network to start their professional journeys.
EdTechFuture of WorkImpact & Social Good
Nexleaf Analytics develops sensor-based IoT technologies and data systems that help health workers monitor, maintain, and repair medical equipment such as vaccine cold chain refrigerators in lower-resource countries.
Digital HealthImpact & Social GoodIoT
Co-investorsAutodesk Foundation
Noora Health equips families and caregivers with health education and skills to support patient recovery in hospitals and at home.
Digital HealthHealthtechImpact & Social GoodTraverse City, US
Edith Elliott(Founder/CEO)inKaty Ashe(Cofounder)
Co-investorsY Combinator
OneReef is a nonprofit that partners with Indigenous and local coastal communities across the Pacific to protect coral reef and island ecosystems, funding and supporting community-led stewardship such as enforcing managed fishing zones and monitoring conservation impact.
Climate TechImpact & Social Good
Peepul is an education nonprofit in India that works to improve government school education by training teachers, building high-engagement classrooms, and strengthening school administration and systems.
EdTechImpact & Social Good
Planet Indonesia is a conservation organization that partners with rural Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities across the Indonesian Archipelago to improve governance of natural resources and address biodiversity loss and climate change.
AgTechClimate TechImpact & Social Good
Rising Academies works with governments to improve teaching and learning in public school systems, using structured curriculum, teacher coaching, assessment data, and AI-enabled tools.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechImpact & Social Good
Co-investorsFINCA Ventures
Rocket Learning is a nonprofit using an AI-powered digital platform to deliver early childhood education to children under six in India, working with parents and Anganwadi (public preschool) workers.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechImpact & Social Good
Saha is a Ghana-based non-profit that provides access to safe, affordable drinking water in rural, last-mile communities by training local women to launch and operate community water treatment centers.
CleantechImpact & Social Good
SaveLIFE Foundation is a non-profit organisation focused on improving road safety and trauma care, working with government, academia, healthcare, and private-sector partners on infrastructure, driver behaviour, regulation, and emergency medical response.
Impact & Social GoodMobility & Transportation
Sehat Kahani is a telemedicine platform in Pakistan offering 24/7 online consultations with doctors and specialists via app, along with mental health sessions, at-home lab sample collection, and medicine delivery.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental Health
Co-investorsInvest2Innovate
Shamiri operates a youth mental health care model that uses trained lay and semi-professional providers to deliver brief interventions, backed by software (shamiriOS and shamiriAI) that lets governments and partners run the program themselves.
Digital HealthImpact & Social GoodMental Health
Tom Osborn
StrongMinds is a nonprofit that treats depression using layperson-led interpersonal group therapy (IPT-G), providing free community-based mental health care to people in low-resource settings, with a focus on women and adolescents.
Digital HealthImpact & Social GoodMental Health
Sean Mayberry(Founder & CEO)
Taleemabad uses technology to train teachers, provide structured lesson plans, AI-powered assessments, and government-aligned textbooks, with real-time dashboards giving administrators, policy makers, and parents visibility on learning outcomes.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechGovTech
Samaki practices aquaculture using native Tilapia species in Lake Tanganyika, aiming to produce food while protecting the lake's biodiversity and ecosystem.
AgTechFoodTechImpact & Social Good
Warc builds first-mile agricultural infrastructure, a network of Trading Hubs, and a sourcing platform connecting rural African farmers directly to buyers such as feed and food processors, FMCG companies, and specialty traders.
AgTechB2B MarketplacesImpact & Social Good
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesMati Carbon · energycapitalhtx.com · Feb 19, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Mulago Foundation made?
- Mulago Foundation has 84 tracked investments.
- What stage does Mulago Foundation invest at?
- Mulago Foundation invests at the Seed stage.
- What is Mulago Foundation's typical check size?
- Mulago Foundation typically writes checks of $200K.
- What sectors does Mulago Foundation focus on?
- Mulago Foundation focuses on AgTech, Climate Tech, Digital Health, EdTech, Healthtech, Impact & Social Good.
- Where is Mulago Foundation located?
- Mulago Foundation is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Who does Mulago Foundation co-invest with?
- Mulago Foundation most often shares deals with Autodesk Foundation, Ceniarth, The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, among 12 tracked co-investors.
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