Top 50 Startup Investors in Ethiopia (October 2026)

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• Jemla — Jemla is a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce wholesale platform that provides informal merchants with access to a large range of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) products at low costs, with free delivery to retail locations within 24 hours.
• Bana Records — Bana records is a first-of-its-kind record label based in Ethiopia with its team comprised of industry experts ready to revolutionize the music industry in Ethiopia.
• Across Express — Across Express is a technology based logistics platform that delivers shipments on time. The company provides convenient and reliable delivery service through strategically located drivers in Addis Ababa, enabling them to reach the pickup location in short time, hence giving shorter delivery time.

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• beU delivery — Food delivery service
• beU delivery — Food, groceries, parcels & pharmacy delivered across Addis Ababa in 59 minutes. 700K+ users.

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• Bisedge — Bisedge provides outsourcing solutions for material handling equipment including forklifts and other MHE, maintenance packages as well as the operators. Bisedge is offering this solution as a “Product-As-A-Service” for a monthly fee.
• 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.
• 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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• Kaon — Discover prompts and AI apps built by a global community, or publish your own. FlowGPT is an open platform for building and sharing with AI.
• Egoist Machines — Egoist Machines builds efficient full-stack ML infrastructure for reliable AI systems, from model serving and evaluation to secure deployment and operations.
• Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People

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• Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
• Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

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• Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
• Logidoo — Logidoo is a digital logistics marketplace-designed company that markets shuttles through smart logistics. The company's platform, which provides rapid, dependable, secure, and economical logistics, allows users to compare offers for sending and receiving items and to track parcels in real-time.
• Qene Games — Qene Games is an award-winning software development firm operating from Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Founded in 2017, the company has been focused on developing and publishing video games while providing game development outsourcing, game art outsourcing, and other software development services.

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• Mauj — Mauj is a sexual and menstrual wellness company. Mauj is driven by a common goal to challenge the stigma and misinformation surrounding female sexuality in their region.
• LEIA — LEIA is an application that provides postpartum support for new parents.
• YeneHealth — YeneHealth is a femtech startup leveraging technology and artificial intelligence to put power back into the hands of African Women.

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• Scanntech — Scanntech is a data intelligence technology firm that provides point-of-sale software to retail stores.
• Ingenix — Ingenix is building an AI Co-pilot for generating real-time hypotheses on clinical endpoints values and adverse events.
• Johnvents Industries — Johnvents Group is a leading agribusiness and global integrated value chain participant, driving sustainable growth from farm to global market.

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• 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.

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• Eshi Express — Eshi Express is a courier firm that offers business logistics solutions. They offer doorstep delivery through a professional service with a live tracking facility, enabling customers to receive their products.
• Across Express — Across Express is a technology based logistics platform that delivers shipments on time. The company provides convenient and reliable delivery service through strategically located drivers in Addis Ababa, enabling them to reach the pickup location in short time, hence giving shorter delivery time.

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• Dune Packaging — Dune Packaging is a leading global paper packaging manufacturer, based in Kenya, offering a wide range of high-quality products.
• African Queen Ltd — African Queen is a privately owned Ugandan company specializing in importing, distributing and marketing high quality products including hair care, personal care, home care and foods.
• Kisumu Concrete Products — Kisumu Concrete Products is largest supplier of construction aggregates and the pargest producer of concrete products in Western Kenya.

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• Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
• Tripesa — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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• MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
• ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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• Ethiopian Securities Exchange — Ethiopia's first organized securities exchange.

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• Silk — Hong Kong-Style Milk Tea
• Light Mind Studio — Light Mind Studio is committed to creating high-quality, in-depth, and meaningful hit games.
• HiChina Travel — HiChina Travel is an inbound tourism service platform.

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• iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
• Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
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• Bekia — Bekia is on-demand recyclable waste collection that connects people who want to get rid of their recyclable waste with the local collectors
• 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.

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• Book Village — Together Let's End The Reading Crisis In South Africa Tutor Young South African Learners From Anywhere with Book Village. Sign up now to hear first...
• Buddy Learning — Explore educational resources for families with Buddy Learning in the United States. Join us today!
• The Marking App — The Marking App provides a data-free application that automatically marks handwritten school assessments while also automating school administration.

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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.

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• Copia Global — Copia Global provides a consumer catalog order and delivery system intended to serve consumers in the developing world. Its service leverages mobile technologies and a network of agents serving as distribution points, enabling rural and peri-urban consumers to get a wide range of quality goods at reasonable prices.
• Terramar — Terramar distributes food, beverages, and other fast-moving consumer goods to serve the informal and formal markets. It also offers services including import, retailing, wholesaling, and distributing of frozen, chilled, and ambient consumer goods from Portuguese and South African procurement centers as well as from a variety of local suppliers.
• Africa Global Trade Finance — Africa Global Trade Finance is a financial institution that provides secured and structured trade finance solutions. It offers services such as pre-shipment finance, post-shipment finance, import finance with supplier payments, stock finance, and more. The company also serves small and medium-sized enterprises, commodity importers, and exporters.

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• GoRocky — GoRocky is a men’s online health clinic where one can process discreet and doctor-prescribed treatments delivered to their door.
• Jamii.one — A free digital tool to optimise the efficiency and finances of saving communities.
• Shoppable Business - Next Gen B2B Marketplace — Procure laptops, IT equipment, office, logistics, packaging, and shipping supplies in the Philippines with quotes, invoices, 30-day terms, & nationwide support.

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• Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
• Biolevate — Elevate human : Accelerating life sciences, empowering people
• Multiverse Computing — World leaders in quantum computing for the financial industry. The first quantum & quantum-inspired toolbox for finance.

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• Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
• Zeraki — Zeraki is to use technology to address some of the obstacles learners encounter in accessing quality education. We use technology to enhance the quality of education students get at each level of education and use technology to help students transition from one level of education to the next, and ultimately from education into employment.
• Leta — Leta Technology is a software development company that creates supply chain and logistics software to enable the efficient and automated movement of goods.

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• Carry — Ocho is everything you need to build wealth as a business owner.
• Qene Games — Qene Games is an award-winning software development firm operating from Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Founded in 2017, the company has been focused on developing and publishing video games while providing game development outsourcing, game art outsourcing, and other software development services.
• Hone Health — Hone Health is a telehealth clinic that helps people improve healthspan through advanced biomarker testing, clinician-guided care, and personalized protocols.

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• ORIKI — ORIKI is a luxury skin and hair care brand that fuses all-natural ingredients primarily sourced from the continent of Africa with scientific research to create extraordinary products.
• Mukuru Clean Stoves — Mukuru Clean Stoves is a social enterprise The company is engaged in designing, producing and distributing improved, reliable and affordable cook stoves for low income households. The company's stoves are produced using locally sourced recycled waste metal enabling them to reduce production costs and make affordable products in the market.The company distributes its products through networks of local women business owners and microfinance institutions.
• Loom Craft Chocolate — Loom Craft Chocolate is a artisanal cocoa processor with a strong focus on the quality of our products and the sustainability of our processes.

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• Nuvolaris — Nuvolaris develops a portable serverless distribution, a low-code environment to speed up cloud-native development and run anywhere, either public or private clouds. It provides an open source community distribution, a supported enterprise subscription, a no-code application builder and a marketplace for distributing and reselling serverlesscomponents.
• Swag Kicks — Guaranteed Original Sneakers, Trainers and Casual Shoes. Easy Return & Exchange.
• Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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• CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power.
• mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• AMPIN Energy Transition — AMPIN Energy Transition (Formerly Amp Energy India) is a leading renewable energy company driving India's green future with solar, wind, and storage solutions.

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• Victory Farms — Victory Farms is an aquaculture farm for tilapia fish comprising of hatcheries, nursery ponds and deep-water cages for farming.
• Planting Naturals — Planting Naturals is a group of companies focused to the long-term production of organic products. Planting Naturals was founded by Kevin Godlington.
• Hybrid Poultry Farm — Welcome to our Hybrid Poultry Farm. We breed high quality, robust and pre-vaccinated day old chicks making us Zambia's number one chick supplier. Talk to us.

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• Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
• A10 Lab — A10 Lab is a company that aims to make people happy with technology that is independent of Sony's new business creation program. It provides Google Play with an app that allows users to do things that they have never been able to do with the custom app 'Min Chale' selected for two consecutive years. It is a company that bringsprofits to companies by improving lifetime value sales through the habitation of users that companies have.
• Rapidus — Rapidus is an Electronic component research, development, design, production, and sales that includes semiconductor elements and integrated circuits. Environmentally friendly, energy-saving semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing technology are being researched and developed. Human resource development and training for the semiconductorsector.

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• Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
• EcoNetix — Leading Carbon Asset Manager for voluntary and compliance markets (CORSIA, Art. 6), we help companies reduce emissions, offset with high-integrity credits, and communicate impact.
• Circadian Technologies GmbH — AI-driven VPP unlocking revenue for telecom towers.

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• Mettle.net — Mettle was established in 1995 as a specialist financial services company and has, since its inception become recognised for innovation in the creation of specialised financial solutions.With clients ranging from international corporates to small and medium enterprises and individuals, clients experience a different kind of insight from Mettle.This level of vision and considered intuition can also be found in Mettle’s investments.
• SunCulture — At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of that with a single system.
• Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.

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• beU delivery — Food delivery service
• Xiaoman Technology — Xiaoman Technology is a food delivery platform that delivers food and services to the marketplace.

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• Lemma — Surface silent failures, pull context across traces, improve your agent before users churn.
• TesterArmy — TesterArmy provides an AI-powered QA testing platform for websites and mobile applications. The product uses agent-based testing to launch real browsers, navigate interfaces like a user, and evaluate results based on test instructions written in plain language. It supports web, mobile web, iOS, and Android builds, handling authentication flows such as stored credentials, OAuth, and one-time passwords. Teams can connect GitHub and other CI pipelines to run checks on pull requests, schedule production monitoring, or trigger tests via webhooks. Each run produces screenshots, recordings, and structured bug reports that are accessible in a dashboard, via CLI, or directly on pull requests. The platform also offers integrations with tools like Slack, Discord, Vercel, and Expo and provides APIs and documentation for development workflows.
• Crimson — Crimson understands the whole case and helps litigators analyze case files, build chronologies, draft briefs, and stay on top of correspondence and deadlines.

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• EPhone — EPhone is a dialer and SMS application. They offer features like managing user SMS and calls, saving money, and smart notifications. They instantly updated the package list.

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• Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.

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• TestSprite — AI powered fully automated end-to-end testing solutions to help enterprises launch their products faster.
• Excellent Vision — Excellent Vision is a spatial intelligence company focused to transforming video creation into a 4D world model, enabling AI big models to grasp, generate, and reason about 4D space.
• Gongji Technology — Gongji Technology is an idle computing power sharing platform that combines distributed computing power with leading scheduling techniques to address elastic computing power requirements.

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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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• Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
• TANAAKK — TANAAKK provides “HITSERIES”, Growth-as-a-Service especially for Fortune Global 500 in-house startups to migrate R&D fruits into cloud-native scalable SaaS. HITSERIES delivers reference architecture, platform and related DevOps, RevOps, EquityOps services. There is annually US$190 R&D expenditure solely in Japan. TANAAKK find growth optionin R&D, selecting right cloud business scheme and enabling liquidity for discounted intellectual assets. Usually supporting conglomerate to achieve new $100M SaaS revenue in 5 years.
• ARC Ride — Affordable, reliable and clean e-mobility solutions for rapidly growing African cities.

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• Deliver Addis — Ethiopia's #1 online delivery service featuring some of the best spots in town.

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• Route-D — Route-D is an operation management app that improves operating income and expenditures and manages logistics operations.
• Stayway — Stayway is operating the world's largest hotel and vacation facility search and comparison site.
• Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.

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• JustAI — An AI-first modern enterprise marketing stack that sets you in an always-on, set-and-forget motion. Increase your experimentation velocity and keep your team lean! Say goodbye to manual campaign management.
• Resolv — AI for the trades that follows through: one number for customer calls and texts, connected to organized jobs, proposals, rebates, permits, and warranties.
• Herd Security — Herd trains your people on the attacks actually reaching them, coaches the ones who need it, and reports how their risk level moved across the quarter. It runs inside Slack and Teams, built from your own policies.

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• Tolo — Automated E bike Transportation Services including -E bike Transport -Parcel Delivery -Other On-Demand services

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• SUN Energy — SUN Energy adalah pengembang PLTS industri dengan 450 MW terpasang di Asia-Pasifik. Solusi on-grid, off-grid, hybrid dengan skema DP 0%. Konsultasi gratis.
• 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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• Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
• Kena Health — Talk to a nurse, doctor or mental health professional on your smartphone with the Kena Health App. Affordable primary healthcare for South Africans. Download Now.
• Intron Health — Intron provides clinical speech recognition for 200+ accents spoken in developing countries starting with Africa, reducing documentation time by 6x so doctors can spend more time with patients

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• ChipMango — ChipMango is a semiconductor company that provides chip design and pre-manufacturing engineering services.
• Aeon Cyber Defense — Aeon is a cybersecurity company focused on securing cloud, code, runtime, and AI environments,Aeon platform appears to help organizations identify and manage security risks across modern, cloud-native technology stacks.AeonSec positions itself around integrated security visibility and protection for rapidly evolving software and AI infrastructure

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• Indent — Indent creates products that help writers create original works such as novels, manga, screenplays, and game scenarios. They will work to create an environment in which artists can focus on their creations and enjoy sharing their work.
• Spectronix — Spectronics is a development of new technologies and new applications to bring about innovation, focusing on the future of laser technology.
• Zeal Boxing Fitness — Zeal Boxing Fitness combines power of sports with the power of technology to provide a service that allows to enjoy fitness.

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• Oumla — Secure, scalable blockchain infrastructure for businesses, enterprises, and governments to manage digital assets with ease and compliance.
• Uvera — Long Lasting Fresh Food
• Zetta Technologies — Zetta Technologies is a Device as a Service (DaaS) provider with a unique business model. With us you get a complete service that enables sustainability, increases your flexibility, simplifies your operations, gives financial control, and decreases the total cost of ownership.

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• EPhone — EPhone is a dialer and SMS application. They offer features like managing user SMS and calls, saving money, and smart notifications. They instantly updated the package list.
• invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
• Jalebi — An award-winning restaurant point of sale (POS) & inventory management system thathelps you save 5% on the cost of every order served.

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• Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
• TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
• Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!

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• RougeTx — RougeTx is a Netherlands-based biotech developing first-in-class small-molecule therapies for vascular diseases caused by pericyte dysfunction. Its lead candidate, RTX-001, targets hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), an inherited disorder involving fragile blood vessels and recurrent bleeding.
• MedinCell — Join Medincell on a journey to transform global health with innovative therapies.
• Santander Brasil — Banco Santander in Brazil, its largest division in Latin America and one of the world's most important, accounting for 50%.