Bereket Engida taught himself to code at 18, quit computer science to build Better Auth, nearly missed Y Combinator over a denied visa, and became Peak XV's first-ever direct African founder investment. Thirteen months after the seed round, Vercel bought the company outright.
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From a security alarm built out of a broken cellphone to ventilators during COVID-19, Ezedin Kamil turned rural ingenuity into a portfolio of inventions — and a company to commercialize them.
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The Chapa co-founder turned a licensing battle with the National Bank of Ethiopia into the country's first payment gateway — and a platform that has now processed over 100 million transactions.
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Before there was an Ethiopian tech scene to write about, there was 'TechTalk with Solomon' explaining it on prime-time TV. Now he's building the studio to fund what comes next.
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