Interview With Jonathan Ntege Lubwama of Benue Capital
This interview was conducted and contributed to TechCabal by Luke Sheehan , chief editor and copywriter at CrossFund , an investor collective focused on emerging markets. Jonathan Ntege Lubwama is a young Ugandan with a challenging mission to build Ugandan startups to maturity. During a nine-month gap before starting university, and just a few years before the COVID crisis, he started reading about tech startups. Around the time he commenced his own studies, he founded a food delivery company for students. As with many first tries, it crashed after initial success, but he was not deterred. He moved on to his next idea: online real estate. That play received a grant but was impacted by the COVID lockdowns. He moved on from that, too, joining Kampala’s Digest Africa as a writer and editor. The journalism skills he developed in media would teach him how to carry out due diligence with founding teams. Lubwama’s focus now is building Benue Capital , which launched on March 31 this yea