Hive Accelerator

Run by Hive Colab.

Hive Colab's Kampala accelerator concentrates three weeks of intensive workshops across three months, followed by six months of continuing mentorship. Only 4 of the 20 startups in each cohort receive the USD 15,000 award, chosen by competitive peer selection after the programme and structured as equity or debt; no percentage is published. In person, annual, across agritech, medtech, edtech, fintech and govtech.

Investment

US$15,000 (Below Sub-Saharan Africa median $54.5k · Below global median $61.3k)

Equity taken

Not disclosed

Duration

12 weeks (Shorter than Sub-Saharan Africa median 26 wks · Shorter than global median 20 wks)

Format

in person

Cadence

annual

Location

Kampala, Uganda

Sectors

• AgriTech
• MedTech
• EdTech
• FinTech
• GovTech

How to apply

Official website

This programme has notes explaining its undisclosed figures, available in the full dataset.

Sources

Every figure above is taken from these pages, published by the programme or its parent organisation.

• https://hivecolab.org/hive-accelerator read 2026-09-06 — supports cheque amount, cheque currency, cheque note, equity note, duration weeks, duration note, batch cadence, format, sectors, application url
• https://hivecolab.org/ read 2026-09-07 — supports contact email

Other accelerators in Kampala

• ST4A-Grow

Last verified 2026-09-06.