AI Companies in Ethiopia

Gebeya

Addis Ababa

Gebeya operates a pan-African talent marketplace and no-code platform focused on the service economy. Their core offering allows freelancers and SMEs to build branded service marketplaces – integrated with WhatsApp and Telegram – without requiring coding expertise. While details on specific AI-driven skills assessment are limited on their public website, Gebeya positions itself as facilitating discovery and connection between service providers and clients, suggesting potential use of AI for matching and verification within their platform.

iCog Labs

Addis Ababa

iCog Labs is Ethiopia's first artificial-intelligence research and development lab, founded in Addis Ababa with support from AI researcher Ben Goertzel. It has contributed to the OpenCog AGI framework and the software behind the Sophia humanoid robot, alongside applied AI and software projects.

Hasab AI

Addis Ababa

Hasab AI is an Ethiopian voice-intelligence startup building speech and language technology for low-resource African languages. Its platform transcribes, translates, tags and summarizes audio in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya, with reported Amharic speech-recognition accuracy of about 97%. The company is based in Addis Ababa and launched its platform publicly in 2025.