Top 10 Marketplace Startup Investors in Ethiopia (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, China | Series B, Series C | Energy, Internet, Software | $9.1M–$50M |
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Consonance Investment Managers
VC Fund
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2 | Nigeria, United States, Kenya | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $50k–$10M |
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Osema Kassim
Angel
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2 | Ethiopia | Seed | E-Commerce | $2M–$3M |
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Goodwater Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $125k–$105M |
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Team Ignite Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | $300k–$25M |
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CrossFund
VC Fund
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1 | Pakistan, Nigeria, Vietnam | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | FinTech, Marketplace, Financial Services | $22k–$2.5M |
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Addis Alemayehou
Angel
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1 | China, Ethiopia | Seed | B2C, E-Commerce, Food Delivery | |
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Partech
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $1M–$56M |
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Newgen Venture Partners
VC Fund
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1 | China, United States, Ethiopia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $67k–$5M |
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Orange Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | France, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$33M |
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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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- Industry: Energy, Internet, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Series B $10M–$43M; Series C $9.1M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
We are an investment company focused on helping early and growth-stage entrepreneurs build successful companies in Africa.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Nigeria, United States, Kenya
Investor stats
- Total investments: 45
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4M; Pre-Seed $185k–$1M; Series A $50k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
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 — Control what AI coding assistants can install. Approve libraries, MCP servers, and extensions before they enter your codebase.
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Osema is an angel investor and tech product, enthusiast. Passionate about building high-performance teams and growing businesses internationally.
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- Industry: E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- beU delivery — Food delivery service
- beU delivery — Food, groceries, parcels & pharmacy delivered across Addis Ababa in 59 minutes. 700K+ users.
Consumer Tech Investors - We empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, India, South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 913
- Round size: Seed $850k–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $125k–$2.1M; Venture - Series Unknown $481k–$105M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Pure — Pure Poker is a privately held fintech and software company that develops a legal, compliant, rake-free real-money online poker platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company replaces the traditional casino "house" model with a trusted, identity-verified social gaming network.
- Wrtn Technologies — Bring AGI Close to People
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 297
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.5M; Series A $17M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $760k in 2024
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: FinTech, Marketplace, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Pakistan, Nigeria, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $90k–$2M; Angel $22k–$315k; Pre-Seed $56k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Addis Alemayehou is managing partner at 251 Communications.
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- Industry: B2C, E-Commerce, Food Delivery
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: China, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- beU delivery — Food delivery service
- Xiaoman Technology — Xiaoman Technology is a food delivery platform that delivers food and services to the marketplace.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: France, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 694
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8.8M; Series A $4.5M–$28M; Series B $9M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $345M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: China, United States, Ethiopia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $159k–$5M; Angel $67k–$485k; Series A $485k–$1.6M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: France, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 87
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5M; Series A $2.8M–$22M; Series B $11M–$33M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $426M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- 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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