Ethiopia’s 7 Fastest Growing FinTech Startups

At Fintech Energy we track over 200,000 fintech startups and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 7 FinTech companies in Ethiopia. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top FinTech Companies & Startups (Ethiopia)

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M-BIRR

Founders	James Noctor, Thierry Artaud
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Ethiopia-based Fintech

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Chapa

Founders	Israel Goytom Birhane, Nael Hailemariam
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Paas, Mobile App, Payment

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Elebat Solution

Founders	Unknown
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Elebat Solution is an accelerator and operator of digital finance & e-commerce aimed at nabling rural and urban youth, SMEs and households

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ebirr

Founders	Unknown
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

ebirr is a financial service provider that enables users to store, send & receive electronic money and transactions on their mobile phones.

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BelCash Technology Solutions PLC

Founders	Vince Mountaga
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Operates various products in Financial service, health advice , Labour market access, Legal advice and Mobile Trade service.

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QUBI

Founders	Unknown
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

QUBI provides top level digital currency trading services for bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, QB, ripple, eos and more.

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Axiom Financial Technologies

Founders	Alexander Melesse, Natnael Melaku Kokeb
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Fintech providing products for micro finance institutions, small and big businesses, rural and urban households and the government.