Innovate Addis
Where Great Minds Connect.

Ethiopia lacks a reliable street address system, making e-commerce delivery difficult and expensive. We need a universal digital addressing system (like Plus Codes or What3Words) integrated into local courier apps.

Ethiopia has a massive leather industry with thousands of tons of scrap being discarded. This challenge seeks manufacturers to process this scrap into composite materials for car seats and dashboards.

Smallholder farmers are vulnerable to climate change. We need automated insurance products that pay out automatically based on satellite weather data, without the need for manual damage assessment.

Traditional brick-and-mortar construction is slow and wasteful. This challenge seeks to foster a local manufacturing industry for prefabricated steel and timber components to speed up the Addis Ababa housing boom.

The logistics path from Addis Ababa to the Port of Djibouti is opaque and manual. We need a digital platform to track containers in real-time, automate customs documentation, and optimize truck back-loading.

Ethiopia spends hundreds of millions of USD importing palm oil while producing vast amounts of oilseeds (sesame, niger seed). The challenge is to scale local high-tech refining facilities to meet domestic demand.

Ethiopian startups struggle to move from Idea to MVP because there is a lack of local Angel Investors and early-stage VC funds. We need a standardized framework for "Startup Convertible Notes" under Ethiopian law.

Textile manufacturing is a major water polluter. To stay competitive in global markets (ESG compliance), Ethiopian factories must implement Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) systems to recycle 100% of their wastewater.

Temperature-sensitive vaccines and medicines often lose potency due to power outages in rural health centers. We need low-cost, IoT-based temperature monitoring and solar-powered medical refrigerators.