about us.
Startup Factory Ethiopia was born to solve one challenge: How do you build a successful, scalable and sustainable business in a country with a challenging business environment and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystem?
As the first venture builder in Ethiopia, our approach focuses on identifying the best entrepreneurial talent in Ethiopia and providing them with the necessary infrastructure, relationships, mentorship, coaching, operational support and effectively simulating a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem for our ventures & entrepreneurs.
Our focus.
Our Vision
Our vision is to build the next generation of market leading companies in Ethiopia from the ground up.
Our Mission
Our Mission is to build innovative, scalable and investable ventures that with exceptional teams.
Our Purpose
Our Purpose is to bring the necessary experience, expertise, network and grit to get the job done.
Our Aim
is to identifying & developing talent & matching theme with business challenges worth solving
Startup Factory Ethiopia in Detail.
Innovate.
We challenge the existing ways of doing business with new ideas, approaches and methods with the aim of launching new businesses that create jobs and generate value.
Build.
We assemble teams with the skills; expertise and gumption to focus on a problem worth solving, validate a business model and find real customers. We provide the oversight, key resources and supporting infrastructure for success.
Scale.
As a team of experienced investors and entrepreneurs, we understand what a scalable venture looks like. We only launch companies that we believe have a very large target market, a product or service with a concrete competitive advantage, and an operationally and financially scalable business model.
Lela Gebeya - Our Venture capital.
Message From Startup Factory Ethiopia.
“We are on a mission to build innovative, scalable and investable ventures with exceptional entrepreneurial teams in Ethiopia.”
Fassil Gebretsadik
Co-Founder & CFO
