Top 20 Startup Investors in Ethiopia in May 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in startups based in Ethiopia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from Ethiopia. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Startup Investors in Ethiopia in May 2025
Renew Capital is an Africa-focused investment firm that addresses critical gaps for Africa’s growing businesses and connects them to a global network of impact investors.
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Investment focus
- Mobile Apps, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- 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
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Energy
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, India, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Xac Bank — Xac Bank is the fourth largest bank in Mongolia with a loan portfolio of 395M USD, serving 298,000 borrowers and savers clients and deriving a yearly ROE of 22%. Xac Bank has demonstrated its ability to adapt to a fast growing and fast changing economic environment in Mongolia, on the back of a booming mining industry, and has re-focused itsoperations away from microfinance to SME, consumer lending and mortgages. In order to manage the associated risk, the bank has heavily invested in systems and human capabilities in order to serve the increasing need of underserved SMEs and urban as well as rural population. Xac Bank has also built an in-house mobile platform currently under upgrade in order to better serve the needs of its customers. Xac Bank is actively involved in deploying government and developmental funds to provide easier access to low cost housing and environment friendly energy to the lower layers of the Mongolian population. Finally, Xac bank is constantly providing non-financial services to the community under the form of financial literacy programs and business support to its lowest income customers via association with NGOs.
- Cassava Technologies — Cassava Technologies is an innovative technology company encompassing fiber networks, data centers, renewable energy, cloud & cybersecurity.
- Beacon Power Services — Beacon Power Services is a utility company that provides energy management software and analytics for utilities.
Osema is an angel investor and tech product, enthusiast.
Passionate about building high-performance teams and growing businesses internationally.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce
- Seed
- Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- beU delivery — Food delivery service
- beU delivery — O2O service in Africa
For the many, not just the few. For good.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture, Internet, Clean Energy
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Kenya, Nigeria, United States
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- BasiGo — BasiGo is an early-stage e-mobility start-up looking to revolutionize the public transportation sector by providing matatu owners with a cost-effective electric alternative to diesel buses.
- Turaco — Turaco develops simplified insurance and credit solutions through mobile technology to solve the healthcare financing needs. Turaco has simplified insurance products and also provides on-demand health loans, allowing customers to get healthcare at affordable monthly premiums.
- MoKo Home + Living — MoKo Home is Kenya's one-stop furniture company specializing in comfort & smiles, having served over 10000 smiley homes to date. Will yours be next?
Newgen Venture Partners focuses on early-stage startup companies with innovative ideas and revolutionary technologies. Since its establishment in 2012, Newgen has invested in more than 100 enterprises, the accumulated valuation of which has exceeded RMB 50 billion. It is the first investor in several unicorn enterprises, such as GrubMarket,HotMaxx, LePure, and WePie.Newgen Capital is the brand of Newgen's investment in early-stage venture capital funds. As an L.P. actively engaged in early-stage venture capital, Newgen Capital collaborates with renowned institutions such as ZPARK VENTURE, L.P. Fund I, and GSR Ventures (Suzhou Jinshajiang Chaohua Phase IV Venture Capital Partnership (L.P.). In 2022, Newgen also invested in LiquidMetal Ventures. Together with these partners, Newgen is committed to discovering and investing in early-stage V.C. funds with innovation and growth potential, making investments that create value for the ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Software
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- China, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Finavox AI — Finavox AI is a cutting-edge technology company based in Singapore, dedicated to transforming financial advisory services through the power of AI. Specializing in CRM integration, Finavox AI develops tools that automate and enhance client relationship management, making financial advising more efficient and client-focused. Backed by substantialinvestment from regional investors, including incubation by SGInnovate and support from AWS, Finavox AI is poised to redefine how financial services leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and client satisfaction. The company collaborates with top financial institutions and tech partners across the globe to ensure its solutions meet the highest standards of security and effectiveness.
- Intelligence At Work — We execute manual, repetitive, end-to-end workflows across the tools your teams use every day.
- 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.
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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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
- India, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
- ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
- CreditAccess Grameen — CreditAccess Grameen provides micro financial products and services for women from rural poor and low income households in India. It offers microcredit loans for income generation, family welfare, emergency, and home improvement, as well as micro insurance services covering life insurance, health insurance, and national pension scheme.CreditAccess Grameen also provides non-financial services, such as enterprise development, financial literacy promotion, basic health/nutrition education, basic medical services, special medical services for women and children, and training for women and women's rights/gender issues education. Vinatha M. Reddy founded Grameen Koota Financial Services in 1999. It became CreditAccess Grameen in January 2018, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
- Plural — Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
Goodwater empowers exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for the better. They believe consumer technology is a force on earth, shaping culture and transforming the global economy at unprecedented speed and scale. They invest in promising entrepreneurs to solve pressing problems. As a combined force, Goodwater companies are aglobal force for change, poised to measurably improve billions of lives.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Stash — Invest and build wealth with Stash, the investing app helping over 6M Americans invest and save for the future. Start investing in stocks, ETFs and more today.
- Rabbit — At Rabbit, we plan to change how the world shops.Retail has witnessed one revolution before with the introduction of E-Commerce that changed how customers order stuff and the second revolution is here! We are proud to be among the pioneers, a handful of global entrepreneurs that are leading and shaping the retail's second revolutionWe arefunded by amazing VCs that are helping us build the next big thingYou feel it is vague? that's intended as we are still building in stealth. but trust us, it is COOL!
- Wrtn Technologies — Wrtn Technologies develops an AI-powered writing assistant through NLP-based AI.
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) is an innovative model that provides support to entrepreneurs in some of the world’s poorest countries to help them create and build viable, sustainable businesses. The resulting jobs and associated opportunities provide benefits for both the employees and the wider communities around them, liftingsome of the world’s poorest families out of poverty.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Blockchain, E-Commerce
- Grant, Series A
- Tunisia, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Farm Trust — Farm Trust is an E-commerce platform for fruits and vegetables that provide traceability through blockchain.
- GreenPath Food — Greenpath Food is a worldwide food supplier of the highest quality organic, regeneratively-grown produce from small-scale East African Farms.
Verdant Frontiers designs and builds large-scale businesses to deliver compelling returns for investors and life-changing jobs in Africa.
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Kenya, Italy, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
MiraclePlus invests in and accelerates early-stage startups. MiraclePlus assists startups in developing products that are good enough to succeed in the market. MiraclePlus' acceleration program works with the founders to get each team in top shape so that they can present to thousands of investors on Demo Day.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
This is the official website of Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo Co. Musashi Seimitsu Kogyo develops, manufactures, and sells differentials, transmission gears, ball joints, and other products for automobiles and motorcycles. While promoting the development of products such as powertrains, suspensions, and steering systems for next-generation vehicles such as electric vehicles and automated driving, we are also focusing on the creation and expansion of a wide range of new businesses, including the promotion of Industry 4.0 through the development of advanced AI technology and the development of open innovation to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs in a wide range of areas. We are also focusing on the creation and expansion of new businesses.
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Investment focus
- Electric Vehicle, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
- Series A, Series C, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Dodai — The very first Model 01 Electric Bike with rechargeable battery & high quality parts. On Sale for the first 500 customers.
- 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.
- Monarch Tractor — Monarch Tractor offers a tractor platform that combines mechanization, automation, and data analysis to enhance farmer’s existing operations, alleviate labor shortages, and maximize yields.The company is dedicated to eliminating diesel fuel and replaces harmful chemicals with mechanical solutions, so its tractor impacts the environment exactly asintended, without side effects. Its platform utilizes hardware and machine learning to identify and eliminates plant ailments and estimate yields.
IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
- Liquid Intelligent Technologies — Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies is a pan-African technology group with capabilities across 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa.
DEG, a Merkle Company is a full-service digital agency purpose-built to meet clients in the moment with data-driven marketing, commerce, and collaboration solutions.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Funding Round, Debt Financing, Grant
- India, South Africa, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- BioBuu — BioBuu focuses on the development of manufacturing capacity and environmentally sustainable production.
- Laprophan — Laprophan gives people access to cutting-edge treatments and therapies. As a result, we are committed to researching, developing, and bringing new, innovative goods to market. dedication to patient-centered care pervades everything we do, from product creation to service delivery.
- SUN Energy — SUN Energy - Pengembang Proyek PLTS Terkemuka untuk Mendukung Perjalanan Keberlanjutan Perusahaan Anda.
Addis Alemayehou is managing partner at 251 Communications.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce
- Seed
- Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- beU delivery — Food delivery service
Samuel Z. Alemayehu is the Founder and Chairman Of The Board Of Directors of Cambridge Industries.
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Investment focus
- SMS, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Cameroon, Ethiopia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- SantéPhone — SantéPhone is a mobile-based health prevention platform founded in partnership with leading health insurance companies across West Africa. The application was powered by 4Afri Mobile.
- Nextbillion.ai — Nextbillion.ai aims to deliver a wide range of AI-powered hyperlocal solutions starting with the area of mapping. Nb.ai is working on building the geospatial infrastructure needed for enabling location-based experiences for the next billion users. The complexities in markets like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria are far greater than the traditionaldeveloped countries and we are building the future of location technology. Underdeveloped infrastructure, the rise of megacities, complex addresses, and an ever-changing road network make things even more challenging and we are trying to solve these extremely complex problems using a combination of data, AI, platform, and people.
- Cambridge Industries — Designing, constructing and operating extremely cost-competitive and scalable waste-to-energy facilities customised for Sub-Saharan Africa Cambridge Industries is a holistic waste management and renewable energy generation company, delivering leading technologies to address waste and energy deficiencies in Africa. They produce clean/greenenergy while solving waste-related problems by reducing the amount of waste going to landfills. Their goal is to turn one of Africa's most challenging social problems, the management of waste, into a source of new wealth. Cambridge’s 'Green Vision' is a comprehensive, sustainable, clean, and renewable power generation and waste management system designed specifically for African cities. Effective power generation and waste management are among the principal challenges faced throughout Africa, particularly in its rapidly urbanizing cities. Cambridge Industries provides local governments with an efficient, cost-effective solution to resolving power deficits while managing municipal waste, from garbage collection to the treatment and ultimate conversion of the waste to low-emission, renewable electricity and useful byproducts, such as recycled metals and building materials.
Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Internet, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Japan, United States, Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- CloudLegal — CloudLegal provides AI-powered legal services, combining generative AI with legal expertise to streamline corporate operations.
- Blackbox — Blackbox is an entertainment firm that is involved in businesses, including VTuber production, media mix, and live music events.
- Knowhere — Knowhere is a company that applies high-performance AI to sports.
Nigerian Exchange Group focuses on listing and trading securities, licensing, market data solutions, and ancillary technology services.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services
- Series A
- Ethiopia
Portfolio highlights
- Ethiopian Securities Exchange — Ethiopian Securities Exchange provides regulated platform for companies to raised long term finance.
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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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Energy
- Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
- France, Germany, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- UP Catalyst — UP Catalyst produces sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite for the green energy storage industry.
- Sidekick Health — Our mission is to develop and deliver effective personalized digital therapeutics that prevent suffering and add millions of quality life years to people around the world. Our multi-chronic digital care platform allows us to scale the production of clinical treatments across major chronic diseases.
- Heura Foods — Heura is a plant based startup founded by food activists Marc Coloma and Bernat Añaños in April 2017. Its mission is to create solutions that will leave the current food system obsolete and accelerate the transition to a world where animals are out of the equation. Their Mediterranean culinary heritage is reflected on their products: clean label,high nutritional values and taste.
Orange Ventures is the Venture Capital Fund of the Orange Group, with 350m euros under management
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CorralData — Experience the power of AI-generated metrics and insights with CorralData. Get one month free and seamlessly integrate with 200+ data sources with no upfront costs.
- Epoca — Epoca prepare the health solution of your dreams .
- Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.
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