Top 5 Biotechnology Startup Investors in Ethiopia (September 2026)

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• MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
• ARC Ride — Leading the emobility revolution in East Africa - starting with Kenya #emobilityrevolution
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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• Fibra Nova — Fibra Nova is a real estate investment trust that specializes in the acquisition, management, and development of properties for leasing.
• Combio Energia — ComBio Energia Provide energy generation solutions with renewable sources, creating, growing, and long-term economic value. They develop projects for steam generation and cogeneration of electricity with biomass, which promote environmental improvements and significant cost reductions for customers in the industrial segment. They offer, based on adetailed analysis of the needs of each customer, a dedicated energy solution, adapted to their consumption profile.
• MSU Green Energy — MSU Green Energy is a solar investment company that develops renewable energy and solar projects.

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• HelloTask — Hellotask is an Uber-like technology platform to connect verified and skilled domestic helpers to users on-demand basis.In Bangladesh, it usually takes more than 7 days to source a domestic helper through social relationships and word of mouth. Further, the average salary of a domestic helper is below US$70 per month. Hellotask gives its usersan Uber-like user experience to hire a helper in 5 minutes and gives the helper income opportunity up to 3X through a skill-based training program. In partnership with international development organizations including Oxfam GB and BRAC, Hellotask is working to train more than 16,000 domestic helpers to formalize the care economy through its platform. The World Bank also recently partnered with Hellotask to conduct a 2 year-long research on the impact they are creating in the care economy in Bangladesh. Hellotask envisions to revolutionize the care-economy across Asia.
• Farm Trust — Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain.
• River Poultry — River Poultry is addressing a critical gap in Uganda's poultry industry. Consumers struggle to differentiate between fresh, high-quality eggs and those that are potentially spoilt. Simultaneously, farmers grapple with low profitability due to inefficient production and limited market information.To tackle these challenges, we'vedeveloped Kuevos-AI, an advanced egg-scanning technology that accurately detects defects and determines egg freshness. This ensures consumers receive only the highest quality products while empowering farmers to make data-driven decisions. Additionally, our AI-powered systems predict market demand, enabling us to optimize production and reduce waste. By combining these innovative solutions, River Poultry is enhancing food safety, increasing farmer incomes, and building a sustainable poultry value chain.

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• SUN Energy — SUN Energy - Pengembang Proyek PLTS Terkemuka untuk Mendukung Perjalanan Keberlanjutan Perusahaan Anda.
• Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.
• Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!

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• M-Shule — M-Shule is the first personalized knowledge-building platform in Africa to connect learners to tailored learning, evaluation, activation, and data (LEAD) tools over SMS. Meaning “mobile school” in Swahili, M-Shule combines SMS with artificial intelligence to reach offline or low-income communities with self-paced, interactive, and personalisedresources to power their success. Organisations leverage this award-winning approach to help individuals learn new skills, evaluate their progress, activate them to new behaviors, and collect and analyse data on their progress. By making an all-in-one skill-building platform possible with the simplest feature phone, M-Shule unlocks new opportunities for millions across Sub-Saharan Africa and the world.
• FarmDrive — FarmDrive is a technology company that applies data science and machine learning to build software that increases access to meaningful financial services - loans, digital payments insurance, savings. FarmDrive’s mission is to drive capital to underserved rural clients and transform them into sustainable and profitable businesses.
• Bloom Impact — Bloom Impact is a digital marketplace that lets small business owners in emerging markets easily access financing for their business, like loans and savings, through their smartphone. We eliminate the costs and hassle involved in finding financing. We're digitizing and disrupting how financial services are delivered!Small businesses arecritical to growing the economy in emerging markets and creating much needed employment opportunities, yet they lack access to financial products like loans and savings accounts that will help them grow and become sustainable. With over 60 years of combined experience in Fintech, financial services and emerging markets, the Bloom Impact team deeply understands the problem, the opportunity and the best solution.