Top 5 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Ethiopia (June 2026)

Nissay Capital is a venture capital Company specializing in seed, start-up, growth capital, middle stage, and later stage investment.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Japan, United States, Ethiopia

Investor stats

Total investments: 223
Round size: Seed $709k–$43M; Series A $2.7M–$77M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
CREO Bioscience — Cleo Bioscience is a Biotechnology company.
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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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Electric Vehicle, Analytics, Electronics
Stage:Series A, Series C, Pre-Seed
Geography: Japan, United States, Israel

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Series A $2.3M–$20M; Series C $25M–$610M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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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British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Stage:Debt Financing, Series B
Geography: India, Kenya, Nigeria

Investor stats

Total investments: 187
Round size: Series B $12M–$70M; Debt Financing $10M–$100M
Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ecom Express — Ecom Express is an end-to-end technology-enabled logistics solutions provider to the Indian e-commerce industry. It provides logistics services in over 2,650 towns across 27,000+ pin codes in India, covering 95%+ of India’s population. Its clients include India's largest e-commerce players, with the Company delivering almost 1 millionshipments per day via 2,800 delivery centers. This team has a varied and rich experience of over 100 years in the Indian Express Industry. The Company is formed for catering to the dynamic needs of the electronic commerce industry which is growing by leaps and bounds. There is no single Company currently equipped completely to cater to the needs of this fast-growing industry which is seeing changes every day.It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
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.
Solon Capital Holdings — Solon Capital Partners is a West-Africa focused investment manager that is pioneering a new approach to economic development and poverty reduction in fragile and post-conflict states.

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CBC Group imports and exports synthetic resins, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, foods, electronics components, and optical equipments.

Investment focus

Industry: Manufacturing, Apps, News
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: Japan, Ethiopia, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Series A $4.3M–$8M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Dodai — Dodai manufactures and assembles the electric motorcycles.
3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
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