🇺🇬Financial Technology in Uganda

4 financial technology providers in Uganda, publishing 5 APIs.

4 providers 5 published APIs 5 indexed documents
Thin cohort — 4 providers, below the 5-provider floor. This page publishes its roster and deliberately generates no statistics about it. A distribution over 4 providers is not a small characterisation of financial technology in Uganda — it is a wrong one. Read the number as a statement about what the catalog has profiled, not about the market: Uganda holds 5 providers overall and Financial Technology holds 2152. If a company belongs here and is missing, add it.

Financial Technology in Uganda — 4 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 5 indexed APIs.

This cell is below the 5-provider floor, so it carries no generated statistics. A distribution over 4 providers is not a small characterisation of financial technology in Uganda, it is a wrong one. What follows is the roster and nothing more. The gap is a statement about catalog coverage rather than about the market: Uganda holds 5 providers in total and Financial Technology holds 2152, so the intersection being this small is worth reading as a queue of organisations not yet profiled.

Country membership reads a tag, a stated headquarters or a stated nationality. A provider lands in Uganda when one of its own top-level tags names the country, when its own description states a headquarters that names the country or one of its cities, or when it describes itself by nationality (“a French company”; roadmap#542, #719). Region words (“Latin American”), language uses (“French-speaking”) and a city named outside a headquarters statement are not counted, so this cell is a floor, not a census.

Providers (4)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Wave Mobile Money Wave is a Dakar, Senegal-headquartered mobile money company on a mission to "make Africa the first cashless continent." Founded by Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk (who previously ... 5 emerging
Tugende Tugende is a for-profit social enterprise founded in 2012 in Uganda that uses asset finance, technology, and a customer-centric model to help informal-sector entrepreneurs (MSME... 0 minimal
Chipper Cash Chipper Cash is a pan-African fintech (legal entities Critical Ideas, Inc. and Voyse Technologies US, Inc.) operating a mobile-first cross-border money transfer, digital payment... 0 minimal
Asaak Asaak is an East African fintech company, headquartered in Kampala, Uganda, that provides asset financing and working capital to small businesses and individual entrepreneurs wh... 0

Indexed API documents (5)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 5 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 5 documents.

Wave Checkout API

Hosted payment session API for accepting one-off payments from Wave wallet users. Create a checkout session, redirect the customer to the...

Wave Payout API

Programmatic disbursement API for sending money from a business wallet to individual Wave wallets, identified by E.164 mobile number. Sup...

Wave Balance & Reconciliation API

Read-side API for inspecting a business wallet's current balance and enumerating its transactions for accounting and reconciliation. GET ...

Wave Aggregated Merchants API

Sub-merchant management API for aggregators, payment service providers, and platforms that accept Wave payments on behalf of many downstr...

Wave Webhooks

Outbound event delivery channel for asynchronously notifying merchant systems when state changes on the Wave platform. Events include che...

Other industries in Uganda

Financial Services 2 Mobility & Fleet 2 Payments & Money Movement 2 Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 1 Cybersecurity & Identity 1 Investing & Venture Capital 1 Logistics 1 Supply Chain & Procurement 1 Telecommunications & Connectivity 1 Transportation 1 All of Uganda →

Financial Technology elsewhere

Europe 238 North America 157 Latin America 143 India & South Asia 101 United Kingdom & Ireland 100 MENA (Middle East & North Africa) 81 Africa 76 Southeast Asia 76 Middle East 61 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 44 France & Iberia 32 Greater China 21 All of Financial Technology →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Uganda and Financial Technology. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Uganda membership is matched on tag, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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