Top 45 Startup Investors in Ethiopia (September 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 — A Musical Dawn. New single by @ebne_hakim, 'Ete Mete', out now!
• 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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• Kaon — Chat with AI characters for free on FlowGPT! More than 1 million characters and bots to chat with, AI boyfriend, girlfriend, uncencored chat and AI tools.
• RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
• Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People

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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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• 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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• Bank Respublika — Bank Respublika builds its relations with customers on the principle of maximum benefit to them. It is to constantly improve the quality of customer service, expand services and improve conditions. It cooperates with various international and foreign financial institutions, and one of the main directions of this cooperation is the implementationof various programs for business lending and trade finance.
• 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.

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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 — We help women gain self-agency over their reproductive health through our period & pregnancy tracking app, online pharmacy and Telehealth services. #FEMTECH

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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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• 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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• Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
• MAX — Make mobility accessible, safe, reliable, and sustainable for 1 billion Africans
• Sistema.bio — Sistema.bio is a biodigester with biogas appliances. High efficiency biodigesters transform organic waste into renewable biogas.

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

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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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• 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.

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• Mercanis — Source services smarter and drive automation along your source-to-settle process. Discover how Mercanis enables you to collaborate with best-in-class suppliers across your departments.
• Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
• Jungo Software — Experience the future of driving with in-cabin sensing technology. Learn how this accident prevention system saves lives

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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 — Shoppable Business is a trusted, hassle-free B2B eCommerce marketplace for buying and selling 100% authentic branded products and services in the Philippines.

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• Oceanloop — Oceanloop uses cutting-edge aquaculture technologies to transform the worldwide shrimp industry. Land-based Oceanloop shrimp farms provide high-quality, antibiotic-free, and sustainable saltwater shrimp production where consumption occurs. When compared to conventional farms, Oceanloop considerably reduces its resource utilization and environmentalfootprint.
• Wandercraft — Self- balancing and hands free movement with the innovative self-balancing feature, Atalante allows for multi-tasking and cognitive involvement as part of treatments.
• Santander Brasil — Banco Santander in Brazil, its largest division in Latin America and one of the world's most important, accounting for 50%.

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• Coris Holding — Coris Holding is a financial institution that was established with the motive to provide support to SMEs and SMIs.
• mopo — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• hummingbirds — hummingbirds deliver reliable nature-based solutions de-risked through rigorous, ground-based project development.

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• Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
• Sotas — Sotas provides services to chemical trading companies and bridges the gap between raw material producers and consumers.
• Regional Fish — Regional Fish provides seed, seedlings, aquaculture methods and fisheries services.

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• Semeia — Semeia provides software that helps in medical follow-up and consultation.
• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• 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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• 4AFRI — 4Afri is an innovative holding company focused on Africa-centric growth equity opportunities.
• 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.
• Cambridge Industries — Cambridge Industries pioneers sustainable waste-to-energy, recycling, and urban mining solutions worldwide.

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• Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
• Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.
• RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.

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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 — A wellness + farm to skin brand that creates pampering experiences and luxurious natural personal grooming products. Sharing Africa!
• Mukuru Clean Stoves — Earthshot Prize Winner 2022. We use recycled metal to manufacture improved, efficient and affordable cookstoves.
• 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 — Speed up #CloudNative Development and Run Anywhere. #Nuvolaris: #Serverless #Stack for #Everyone
• 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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• Lemma — Production Monitoring for AI Agents
• Crimson — The AI platform built specifically for litigation lawyers. Analyze case files, draft documents, and prepare for trial with AI that understands disputes.
• Bolna — Powering Voice AI for India (@ycombinator f25)

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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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• Erco Energía — We build Solar PV, EV infrastructure and Electric Energy Storage systems. Erco was founded in 2012 and is based in Medellín,Colombia with offices in Cali and Bogotá.
• 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.

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• Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.

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

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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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• 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.
• 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 designs and manufactures fully electric, driver-optional smart tractors for the agricultural sector. The company integrates robotics, electrification, and data analytics into its equipment to support more sustainable and efficient farming practices. Its flagship product enables autonomous operation and real-time data collection,allowing farmers to monitor field conditions, crop health, and machinery performance. Monarch Tractor's technology stack includes a software platform that supports remote fleet management, machine learning-based insights, and compatibility with third-party farm management systems. The equipment is built to perform standard agricultural tasks such as tilling, mowing, and spraying, while reducing noise and emissions compared to traditional diesel-powered machines. The company targets use cases in vineyards, orchards, and other specialty crop environments where precision and automation can significantly impact productivity and operational costs.

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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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• 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 — HerdAI is the agentic training platform that turns your policies and live threats into microlessons in minutes, delivered in Slack and Teams. GRC and security leaders hit 100% audit-ready without chasing completions.

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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 - 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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• 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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• Cuoral — Proactive customer success and engagement. We help you reduce customer churn and increase retention and revenue.
• BankWise — Liga123 merupakan situs slot jackpot 888 slots paling gacor dan juga platform ini terdata paling banyak dicari hari ini karena memiliki akses yang mudah tanpa harus menggunakan Apk tambahan seperti VPN untuk memainkan game favorit.
• PowerLabs — PowerLabs is an energy and climate technology research and implementation company whose goal is to use intelligent energy to build a world where human output is boundless.

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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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• 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.