Mkyala Ventures - An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem That Works For Women

2025
IMPACT REPORT

M-Kyala Ventures

Enabling Inclusion

We are dedicated to creating an ecosystem that fairly represents women at all levels of the entrepreneurial value chain. With over 15 years in the gender lens and inclusion space, we understand the significant impact that results from designing innovative approaches to gender inclusion in entrepreneurship.

From designing financial products to gender-inclusive accelerators, we can attest to the value derived when women are provided the platform to participate in the decisions that drive their success.

The name M-Kyala comes from the word “mukyala” which means “woman” in Luganda, a common dialect in Uganda.

M-Kyala

How we work

We employ a dual, complementary approach to bridge the gender financing gap; providing strategic and advisory support via M-Kyala Ventures, and deploying capital directly to women-led businesses through M-Kyala Capital.

M-Kyala Ventures:

Strategy & Advisory

M-Kyala Capital:

Deploying Catalytic Capital

Key Figures

15,000+

Women reached and impacted

1,000+

Women entrepreneurs supported through technical assistance

1,000,000+

Mobilised as gender smart capital

30+

Organisations served

4

SMEs invested in through M-Kyala Capital

M-Kyala

Gender Equity
Transforming Entrepreneurship.

OUR GOAL

OUR GOAL

We want to reach 1,000,000 women and girls by 2030 with resources and skills to enable them to thrive as entrepreneurs.
We are building an entrepreneurial ecosystem that will ensure that women and girls view entrepreneurship as a viable pathway to economic and social success in their communities. We want African women to not only start businesses as a survival necessity but as an option that is equitable and where success is measured on their merits as entrepreneurs and not based on gender comparatives.