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Top 20 Startup Investors in Ethiopia in May 2026

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 2026

Investor Ethiopia investments
Renew Capital 3
Finnfund 3
Consonance Investment Managers 2
Goodwater Capital 2
Osema Kassim 2
KFW DEG 2
Novastar Ventures 2
Newgen Venture Partners 2
Musashi Seimitsu Industry 1
Nigerian Exchange Group 1
European Investment Bank 1
Orange Ventures 1
DEG 1
Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme 1
IFC Venture Capital Group 1
Samuel Z. Alemayehu 1
Nissay Capital 1
Impact Angel Group 1
Partech 1
Norfund 1

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Renew Capital
VC Fund · Addis Ababa, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia · 11 investments in the past 12 months

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
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Finnfund
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland

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, Energy, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, India, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

  • Igloo — As a top insurtech company, Igloo makes insurance easy across Southeast Asia by working with reputable insurers and distribution partners.
  • Netwey — Netwey is a telecommunications company that offers services including mobile internet, internet home, and telephony.
  • TPL Insurance — TPL Insurance is a Pakistan's first direct insurance company that take care of all insurance related matters.
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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 — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States

Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Posh — Event marketing made easy.
  • Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
  • Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.
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Osema Kassim
Angel

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
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KFW DEG
VC Fund · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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, Energy, FinTech
  • Debt Financing, Grant, Funding Round
  • 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.
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Novastar Ventures
VC Fund · Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya

For the many, not just the few. For good.

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Investment focus

  • Agriculture, Internet, Health Care
  • Series A, Funding Round, Series B
  • Kenya, Nigeria, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 your plug for Modern Sofas, Quality Mattresses, Beds & affordable home furniture in Kenya. Order furniture online and we deliver
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Newgen Venture Partners
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China

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

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • 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 — Intelligence At Work specializes in providing specialized B2B small but efficient combination of derministic and small generative models to automate complex, repetitive business processes. We create efficient, reliable workflows that integrate seamlessly with existing digital tools, helping organizations enhance productivity and reduce manualworkload. Intelliatwork's technology is designed to adapt to various industries, including supply chain, financial services, and healthcare, by automating tasks like data extraction, system updates, and application processing. Our AI models are built to be accurate, reliable, and adaptable to changes, ensuring long-term efficiency and effectiveness.
  • 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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Musashi Seimitsu Industry
VC Fund · Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan

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, Analytics, Electronics
  • Series A, Series C, Pre-Seed
  • Japan, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 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.
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Nigerian Exchange Group
VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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.
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European Investment Bank
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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

  • Hummink — Dream Smaller Now : Experience a revolution with Hummink's world's smallest fountain pen. Redefine micro-scale writing with our innovative technology.
  • Solynta — Welcome to the homepage of Solynta, leader in hybrid potato breeding and development of hybrid true potato seeds with attractive traits.
  • IPT PowerTech — IPT PowerTech coverage, coupled with our extensive expertise in supply chain management, field implementation, and power systems, has made us one of the most capable companies in handling the most complicated and versatile projects in the MEA region and its neighboring countries.
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond, with financial objectives in line with VC industry standards. With 350m€ assets under management, Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with an investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in theMiddle East and Africa, and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • SAYNA — Sayna is to provide high-quality training in the digital sector and provide professional chances to young people by bridging the gap between the growing demand and supply for digital talent in Africa.
  • 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
  • Gebeya — Gebeya is building a-self-sustainable ecosystem that trains, hires, and nurtures the best of African talent. Our mission is to be the premier software engineering and IT training academy in Africa, while becoming the number one global IT services workplace that matches African IT talent with clients across Africa and the rest of the world.
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DEG
VC Fund · Overland Park, Kansas, United States

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

  • 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.
  • Turnkey Lender — Turnkey Lender is a Commercial lending software that can improve efficiency and reduce costs for financial services companies.
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Oxfam’s Enterprise Development Programme
VC Fund · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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.
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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, Energy, Internet
  • Funding Round, Series B, Series C
  • United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Loggi — Loggi is connecting Brazil, using technology to reinvent logistics with a fast, cost-efficient, and reliable network across e-commerce, wholesale food delivery, and courier services. Loggi is unlocking the growth of the on-demand economy, supporting new commerce for Brazil’s large, young, urban population.The company was founded in 2013 and isbased in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • Coursera — Coursera is an online education company that serves over 20 million registered learners by partnering with 140 of the world’s best universities and education institutions. On Coursera, anyone, anywhere can access over 1,000 online courses and Specializations in dozens of fields in order to achieve meaningful career, educational, and personalenrichment goals throughout their lives.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
  • TradeDepot — TradeDepot is an end-to-end distribution platform that connects the world's top consumer goods companies directly to retailers on the streets of Africa's cities. With its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, TradeDepot’s aim is to build the largest retail distribution network in Africa. The company was founded in 2016, with a mission toimprove milk distribution to smaller retailers on the continent, using technology. Today, the company is scaling the same technology to improve the distribution of food, beverages and personal care products to retailers, and to improve livelihoods for these retail store owners.
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Samuel Z. Alemayehu
Angel

Samuel Z. Alemayehu is the Founder and Chairman Of The Board Of Directors of Cambridge Industries.

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Investment focus

  • SMS, Energy, Gaming
  • 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 — Cambridge Industries pioneers sustainable waste-to-energy, recycling, and urban mining solutions worldwide.
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Nissay Capital
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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

  • CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
  • Global Trust Networks — Global Trust Networks is a company that helps foreigners to live in Japan
  • Fabric Tokyo — FABRIC TOKYO is a Japanese startup provides a direct-to-consumer custom-made apparel brand. (former-company name Lifestyle Design Co., Ltd.). It enables customers to save their sizes, idea fabrics, and favorite designs, allowing them to make their original clothing later.FABRIC TOKYO was founded in 2012 by Yuichiro Mori and is based in Tokyo,Japan.
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Impact Angel Group
VC Fund · Boulder, Colorado, United States

The Impact Angel Group operates as a network of angel investors. It focuses on deal sourcing, investment screening, and due diligence. The Impact Angel Group was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

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Investment focus

  • Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
  • Seed
  • Ethiopia

Portfolio highlights

  • Deliver Addis — Ethiopia's #1 online delivery service featuring some of the best spots in town.
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Partech
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Partech is a global venture capital firm with offices in San Francisco, Paris, Berlin and Dakar. Partech invests in Internet and information technology startups at seed, venture and growth stages.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
  • Yampa — Discover yampa's autonomous AI agents and revolutionize your customer experience. Elevate your service with the most advanced AI technology.
  • HostnFly — HostnFly develops algorithms to optimize the income from rented apartments on Airbnb. The company also offer Parisians to take care of their apartment rental by guaranteeing an income.
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Norfund
VC Fund · Oslo, Oslo, Norway · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Norwegian investment fund for developing countries

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Energy, Renewable Energy
  • Funding Round, Private Equity, Debt Financing
  • Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

  • OmniRetail — OmniRetail is a consumer goods distribution platform that solves the inefficiencies of traditional trade by digitizing key stakeholders through its products.
  • Wave Mobile Money — Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, andaccepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
  • Arnergy — Arnergy is a trusted solar energy company that provides clean, reliable, and affordable solar power solutions for homes and businesses, helping you save money while enjoying uninterrupted energy.
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