Anteneh Tesfaye
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ZayRide, Ethiopia based ride hailing startup, joins Google for Startups Accelerator Africa 2020 class.
Google for Startups Accelerator ( formerly known as Launchpad) Africa Class 5 will be delivered remotely this time. There will be one combined class, with 20 startups not 12 as in the past.
The 3 months program with a one week ‘virtual bootcamp’ per month starts at 29th June and end on 11th September 2020.
The selected pool of startups for this new class of Google for Startups Accelerator Africa 2020 are from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia & Zimbabwe. The startups cut across an array of industries like logistics, transportation, education, agriculture, e-commerce, media, health and professional services. The 20 selected startups are:
Since its launch in 2018, the Google for Startups Accelerator program has worked with 47 startups from 17 African countries: Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte D’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
Zayride is going Pan African as well. They previously reported they are expanding to Liberia.
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Anteneh Tesfaye
Anteneh is the founder and CEO of Shega, a company that is making sense of Ethiopia’s innovative economy through high-quality content, data, and intelligence. Previously, Anteneh overlooked the expansion of Africa’s Talking to Ethiopia. Anteneh was also part of the early team at Cred, an Indian Fintech startup that is valued at $6.2 Billion and worked as Country Research Analyst for Euromonitor International. Anteneh is an Alumni of AIESEC and Young African Leaders Initiative ( YALI ) fellow.
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