SHEGER AI Sheger AI is an AI hub that makes the AI tools that are provided by Open AI available here in Ethiopia by shaving off the inconveniences and limitations that users may encounter in getting access to the services. Moreover, It is done in a manner that caters to the specific needs of individuals and different businesses. Open AI is a research organization

  COMPANY – ADDISTAG SYSTEMS PLC FOUNDER – YAFET BIRHANU   INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESSPassion for programming and experience of new software technologies especially location-based solutions like mobile maps and web maps made me be invested in this sector. BACKGROUND OF THE FOUNDERSeveral years of work experience as a GIS specialist and data science in a number of natural resource modeling works. Scientific data collection,

COMPANY – EDMONIAICT SOLUTIONS FOUNDER – BEZAWIT WORKU INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESSWe believe that human beings are born with enormous capacity and potential. As such our inspiration is to help our fellow Ethiopians utilize their full energy and transform their life. BACKGROUND of the FOUNDERBezawit Worku has a BA in Law and is currently completing a Master’s degree in Business Law. By profession,

FOUNDER (S):Temesgen Fesseha, Co-founder/ Marketing and Sales; Dagim Feyessa, Co-founder/ Developer; Yonathan Feyessa, CEO/Developer / Co-founder; Abdurazak Abrar, Co-founder/ Chief Technical Officer.INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESSMost business in Ethiopia have not digitized their business operation systems resulting in poor efficiency and performance. We decided to build an affordable tech solution that can match their culture and business needs.BACKGROUND OF FOUNDER (S):All founders have Electrical

COMPANY: LIK-TERA FOUNDER: SAMUEL GIZAW INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESSFour years ago while I was running an offline business, I could not sustain my business due to the fact that there was a light railway construction going on right in front of my shop. That made it difficult for customers to visit my showroom and do purchases as usual. Consequently, I was forced to

COMPANY: KURAZ TECH FOUNDER (S): BIRUK MAMO: CEO and Founder of Kuraztech; Biruk Fekade – COO and Founder of Kuraztechwww.kuraztech.comINSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESS:Many countries in the world actively use these technologies in some form or the other. In Ethiopia, however, a country with millions of students there is minimum use of ICT technologies. The primary reason being the lack of IT infrastructure in

COMPANY NAME: YENEPAY FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGIES, PLC FOUNDER: SISAY GETNET KELKLE INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESS: A few years back, I had a first-hand experience to see how difficult it is to run an online business in Ethiopia and one of the biggest hurdles was the lack of a digital payment platform. This challenge has given me the courage to set out to create a

COMPANY NAME: BALUBET FOUNDER: JERUSALEM MERSHA INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESS:Jerusalem started the company to create jobs for the many youth who became unemployed as a result of the motorcycle ban in Addis Ababa. BACKGROUND OF FOUNDER:Jerusalem studied Architecture and Urban Planning/Design at Addis Ababa (EIABC). While a student on campus, she launched an online marketing company called Dinq Design and continued to operate the

COMPANY NAME: GUZO TECHNOLOGIES FOUNDER:  DANIEL GETACHEW INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESS: Guzo Technologies has one big vision and that is to place itself on top through contributing innovative products and services that are made by African youth. We believe we are on the right time to contribute to the world. We focused on emerging technologies like XR and IoT. BACKGROUND OF THE FOUNDER:

COMPANY NAME: TELSEM ROBOTICS AND AI FOUNDER:  MESERET AMBEL INSPIRATION TO START THE BUSINESS:Students are losing interest in learning through regular education since it is mostly theoretical. They often don’t know the reason or advantage of learning physics and math at an early age. TELSEM was established to address this challenge. BACKGROUND OF FOUNDER:Education:  Electro-Mechanical Engineer WORK EXPERIENCE: – Design, build and programming of