MyCharge, a local tech company just four months old, has launched a unique power bank rental service. Starting with over 60 locations, the company plans to expand to 150 stations by year's end.
The Addis Ababa based e-mobility startup Dodai has launched a battery swapping pilot, donating 40 electric bikes to the city and aiming to install several swap stations over the next six months.
In a city growing faster than its social fabric can keep up, Enqoy offers a simple premise: strangers, one table, shared conversation. The Addis-based startup is using food to fight loneliness.
Wegagen Bank’s Efoyta digital lending platform gets the green light from the National Bank of Ethiopia. Over 2.7 billion Birr disbursed in pilot phase, now going national. Kifiya's Qena powers it.
Digital lending, mobile money, and online banking need more than ideas, they need an ecosystem with regulatory support and capital access. Sandboxes offer a critical bridge.
Despite agriculture making up 35% of Ethiopia’s GDP and over 75% of jobs, the sector remains largely untouched by practical digital transformation. Experts say tech is skipping the farmer in Ethiopia.
