About the studio

Company building as a discipline.

Hama Group is a venture studio headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, with a pan-African scope. We do not wait for deal flow — we start the companies ourselves, alongside founders who know the market from the inside.

Our story

Hama Group began with a simple observation: the hardest part of building technology in Africa is rarely the idea. It is the second year — regulation, payments, distribution, hiring, and the cost of learning the same lessons company after company.

So we built a studio. One team of product, design, engineering and go-to-market operators that starts solutions, carries them through the difficult middle, and reuses everything learned in the next one.

From Kigali we work across East, Southern and West Africa, building in health, property and the creative economy — sectors where good infrastructure changes what is possible for millions of people.

The studio model

How a venture is made

01

We build from zero

Solutions start inside the studio — problem research, product, brand and first hires come from one team before a company exists.

02

We back with capital and craft

Founding capital is paired with engineering, design and go-to-market operators who stay on the cap table and in the work.

03

We scale across borders

Playbooks, infrastructure and regulatory groundwork are shared across the portfolio so market two costs less than market one.

Leadership

The team behind the studio

Dr. Leroy Muguti, Founder & Managing Partner

Dr. Leroy Muguti

Founder & Managing Partner

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Partner, Solutions

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Head of Product & Design

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Head of Engineering

What we stand for

Innovation with intent

We build where the gap is real, not where the trend is loud.

Technology that travels

Products designed for low bandwidth, many languages and many borders.

Connectivity

Shared infrastructure and shared learning across every solution we start.

African impact

Value created on the continent should compound on the continent.