• Ugandan entrepreneur Hakiza Ronald co-founded Vestafi, a real estate co-acquisition platform launched in 2025.
• Vestafi allows members to pool capital to acquire apartments and receive shares of rental income.
• The platform operates through an invitation-only model designed to maintain network quality and investor selection standards.

Hakiza Ronald co-founded Vestafi in 2025 and currently serves as the company’s chief executive officer.

Vestafi operates through a private-circle model in which members pool financial resources to acquire residential properties and receive proportional shares of the rental income generated by those assets.

According to the company, several properties in its portfolio already operate commercially and distribute dividends to participants.

Vestafi adopted an invitation-only structure to preserve the quality of its network and investor base. The registration process remains relatively straightforward. Applicants submit membership requests, and Vestafi’s team manually reviews each profile before granting access.

Once the company validates a profile, members gain access to a private platform where they can review detailed apartment listings and freely select both investment assets and contribution amounts.

Hakiza Ronald also serves on the board of Golden Boots Uganda, an organization that develops community programs focused on healthcare, sports and professional integration. Before launching Vestafi, he co-founded UgaBus in 2016, a startup specializing in travel technology solutions. Hakiza Ronald graduated from Makerere University and started his professional career in 2010 as a project manager at Straight Talk Foundation, an organization specializing in communication for social change. From 2017 to 2025, he also served on the advisory committee of Mr. Gift Uganda, a last-mile flower delivery platform.

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange J.A de Berry Quenum