CURRENT COHORT
KAMA Cohort 1
Applications are now open for Cohort 1 — startups building solutions for Ethiopia's most critical sectors, together with its leading enterprises.
Cohort 1 Timeline
Track 1 – Enterprise Open Innovation
This track is challenge-led. Participating enterprises publish specific business challenges, and startups apply with solutions that address them. Startups can also propose ideas that add value to a participating enterprise beyond a published challenge.
Selected startups work with the enterprise to co-create, develop, test and validate solutions in real enterprise environments, creating pathways to adoption and commercialisation.
Track 2 – National Innovation & Venture Building
This track is solution-led. Startups bring their own innovative solutions addressing national priorities, broader market needs, emerging opportunities and future growth areas in any sector, including solutions relevant to enterprises outside the current cohort.
Places are limited, and solutions are primarily validated through open-market opportunities. Where a startup proposes working with an enterprise, KAMA facilitates the connection and may make relevant expertise, infrastructure, data and other resources available.
TRACK 1 OPPORTUNITIES
Participating Partner Enterprises & Challenges
Explore designated operational challenges from each partner enterprise.
Ethiopian Airlines Group
Africa's largest aviation group, connecting the continent to the world through passenger, cargo and logistics networks.
Ground Operations
How might we know where every bag and every resource is — before a miss becomes a delay?
Network Risk
How might we anticipate cascading operational risks before they disrupt the network?
Payments
How might the payment rail we built to sell our own tickets carry everyone else's payments too?
Parts Disposal
How might a surplus part reach the buyer who values it most — before it loses its value sitting still?
Parts In Transit
How might every part be followed from delivery request — so a grounded aircraft waits as little as possible?
Language Assessment
How might we assess a candidate's English to one consistent standard — without waiting for a scarce assessor?
Ethiopian Electric Utility
Delivering electricity to millions of homes, businesses and industries in every corner of the country - powering Ethiopia's economic activity.
Loss Intelligence
How might we recover more of the electricity we deliver but never bill?
Outage Localization
How might we find the faulted section before the crew leaves the depot?
Transformer Health
How might we know, continuously and affordably, how heavily each distribution transformer is loaded?
Rural Energy Access
How might the households beyond the grid get electricity they can rely on — and pay for?
Development Bank of Ethiopia
Ethiopia's policy bank, providing the long-term finance that turns national priorities into productive projects.
Credit Risk
How might we see a loan going wrong sixty days before it does?
Credit Decision
How might we take the waiting out of a lending decision — without taking out the appraisal?
Appraisal Intelligence
How might every appraisal rest on current sector evidence and a defensible collateral value?
Ethiopian Agricultural Business Corporation
Supplying the seeds, fertiliser and mechanisation services that drive Ethiopia's agricultural transformation.
Stock & Authenticity
How might we know our true stock in every warehouse — and let a farmer check that an input is genuine and came from EABC?
Grower Productivity
How might our contract growers produce more certified seed per hectare — and be paid fast enough to stay with us?
Staging & Demand
How might we sense real demand by district and stage inputs where they are needed — before the planting window shuts?
Agronomy Service
How might every farmer get their soil tested and the right input advice — as a service they can reach and trust?
Mechanization
How might we know, for every machine we own, the hours it worked, the hours it stood idle — and why?
Market
How might we learn which customers would stay — before input markets open to choice?
Ethio Engineering Group
Building Ethiopia's industrial growth by producing machinery, vehicles and industrial equipment.
FaydaVerse Digital Solutions Enterprise
Turning national digital public infrastructure into accessible services that connect citizens to the digital economy.
Citizen Grievances
How might a citizen's complaint about their Fayda record be acknowledged and resolved in hours, through any channel?
Partner Onboarding
How might a partner institution integrate with Fayda in days — and our own staff find any answer in minutes?
Credit & Identity Services
How might a verified identity become the credit history that people without collateral do not have?
Ethiopian Tourist Trading Enterprise
Showcasing Ethiopia's culture and heritage through crafts and cultural products - for visitors from around the world and international markets.
Artisan Marketplace
How might artisans and cooperatives see what sells, make it, and get it to our shelves — from a phone?
Cultural Storytelling
How might the story behind an Ethiopian heritage products reach the customer — and change what they choose and pay?
Artisan Production
How might a cooperative make more of what sells - without making it less handmade?
Digital Sales
How might ETTE sell through digital channels - to travellers before landing, and to customers who never enter a shop?