Top 5 FinTech Startup Investors in Ethiopia (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Nigerian Exchange Group
VC Fund
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2 | Ethiopia | Series A | Financial Services | |
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KFW DEG
VC Fund
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1 | India, Kenya, United States | Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $100k–$820M |
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European Investment Bank
VC Fund
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1 | France, Germany, Spain | Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown | Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care | $8.7M–$587M |
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Faisal Alabdelsalam
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps | $150k–$2M |
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Finnfund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, India, South Africa | Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B | Financial Services, Energy, FinTech | $2.1M–$137M |
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Nigerian Exchange Group focuses on listing and trading securities, licensing, market data solutions, and ancillary technology services.
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- Industry: Financial Services
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ethiopian Securities Exchange — Ethiopia's first organized securities exchange.
KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Grant, Post-IPO Debt
- Geography: India, Kenya, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 127
- Round size: Grant $100k–$1.1M; Post-IPO Debt $12M–$820M; Debt Financing $15M–$350M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Banco de Occidente, S.A. — Banco de Occidente is the fifth largest bank in Colombia by asset level and portfolio at June 30, 2016. It has national coverage and a portfolio of integrated products and services, offered through a network of 241 offices and 336 ATMs 9,671 banking correspondents and other features.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) offers lending, borrowing, and treasury services primarily within the European Union. It provides project loans for public and private sectors, loans to banks and intermediaries, structured finance products, guarantees, and securitization instruments for debts. Additionally, EIB offers equity and fund investmentproducts, including infrastructure and environmental funds, as well as venture capital funds. EIB also supports microfinance and risk-sharing finance for research and innovation, and provides technical expertise for sustainable energy projects. Its services include infrastructure advisory, urban development support, guarantees for transport infrastructure, and funding for public-private partnerships and small- to medium-sized enterprises. The bank serves various sectors, including transportation, energy, health, education, and agriculture.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care
- Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: France, Germany, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 595
- Round size: Post-IPO Debt $18M–$587M; Debt Financing $16M–$355M; Venture - Series Unknown $8.7M–$90M
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VaxThera — VaxThera develops and produces vaccines to prevents and treats diseases.
- Santander Brasil — Banco Santander in Brazil, its largest division in Latin America and one of the world's most important, accounting for 50%.
- Reactive Technologies — Reactive Technologies we are committed to enabling a more intelligent use of energy, for the largest and most complex business to the smallest household. Our aim is to develop new technologies that will positively assist the energy industry to deliver cleaner, greener and more affordable energy, through more efficient and effective energymanagement and control. Through our innovative, cloud-based solution for Corporate customers – Tradenergy® – we have begun this process and with our pipeline of ground breaking new technologies we intend to continue.
Faisal Alabdelsalam is the Founder and CEO of Zetta Technologies. He previously worked at STC as a Database Manager. Faisal Alabdelsalam attended King Saud University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bekia — We are proud to say that Bekia is the most flexible company when it comes to recycling.
- SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
- T7D Gaming — Gaming infrastructure for 600M+ players across MENA. Home of Pulse.
Finnfund is a Finnish development finance company that provides long-term risk capital for private projects in developing countries. Apart from co-investing with Finnish companies they can finance ventures that use Finnish technology, cooperate with Finnish partners on a long-term basis or generate major environmental or social benefits.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Energy, FinTech
- Stage:Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown, Series B
- Geography: Kenya, India, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Series B $5M–$41M; Debt Financing $4M–$137M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.1M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $93M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Transvolt Mobility — Transvolt Mobility is an early-stage, technology-driven EV fleet operator, enabling India’s transition to sustainable, zero-emission transport by providing a scalable, multi-partner platform for commercial electric mobility across urban and industrial segments.
- ETG — ETG, established in 1967, is one of the largest and fastest growing integrated agricultural conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa, importing and exporting soft commodities to and from 48 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa. It also has supply chain operations in China, India, America, Middle East, andSouth East Asia; merchandising desks in Europe, and; treasury companies in Singapore, Mauritius and UAE. Globally, ETG is present across 48 countries. ETG runs its business under five business verticals: 1. Fertilizer and Farm Inputs: ETG is one of the largest importers and distributors of fertilizers and farm inputs in sub-saharan africa 2. Cash traded products: Pulses, Sesame seed, Cashew and Rice are key commodities in this vertical. ETG is the world largest trader and processor of Pulses as well as world largest trader for raw cashew nuts. 3. Exchange traded commodities: Grains & oilseeds, sugar, coffee, cocoa, maize and soybean are key products in this segment. ETG is one of the major players for maize and soybean in sub-shara africa 4. Consumer Branded (Vamara): ETG operates multiple processing plants across 14 countries to manufacture products that are targeted to African consumers. ETG has 22 brands in its portfolio that offers products from vegetable cooking oil, condiments, and spreads, etc. 5. Logistics: ETG operates a very successful and integrated Logistics platform. ETG has a network of more than 400+ warehouses across 32 countries and a fleet of more than 900 trucks. ETG provided end-to-end Logistics services across sub-Sahara Africa.
- EVF General Finance Joint Stock Company — EVF provides a wide range of financial services, including credit lines for micro, small, and medium-sized firms (MSMEs).
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