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About Conovation Entrepreneurship Development (CED)

Conovation is a hybrid company established in January 2015 by passionate and social entrepreneurs to unleash the potential of entrepreneurs and assist the growth of businesses with top business development service provisions to entrepreneurs, trainers, business support providers, business owners, financial institutions, public as well as private organization leaders and executives at all levels to bring change in the institutions and the private sector of Ethiopia. It also focuses on research to flourish innovation and, as a role model, incubates new pilot social enterprises and initiatives that can turn around the traditional business system to sustainability with technology in focus.

Conovation has already created a clientele of innovative SMEs and partnering organizations (public and private) from all sectors, bringing forward challenging and promising products/ services to support entrepreneurship development.

Conovation’s strength lies in its highly passionate, experienced and qualified team and in its extended network of national as well as international partners that enable the company to provide quality and value for money services. Conovation’s team consists of professionals from fields in natural and social sciences. Even though a fledgling company, it has planned to put together challenging projects with far reaching benefits for the national as well as global economy in partnerships and with innovation. More importantly, as a social company, CED has devised a strategy of planting social enterprises from the income it generates to serve the underserved Triple P (people, planet and Prosperity).

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ASSISTING ENTREPRENEURS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM SUCCEED

We are a team of business leaders, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, and researchers assisting entrepreneurs in all corners of Ethiopia with diverse network in other African countries, Europe and Asia. We provide training, mentorship, business support, incubation, advisory services and research by hosting entrepreneurs and partners in our network with our team of experienced business community from all corners to the targets. What business service do you seek to grow and make your dream? Do you have an innovative product or technology that you’re looking to commercialize? Are you launching a startup (or already involved in one) and not sure what to do next? Click the ‘Become a Client’ button under Contact so we can learn more about your challenges and where we can help.

  • The company associates itself with universities, NGOs, business hubs, experts, international donors, and consulting firms in the country in delivering its services. Currently, it has over 200 highly qualified professionals throughout the country in various disciplines who are working with our firm as associate consultants, who are highly competent, experienced and skilled in their profession.

    So far, the firm has delivered a considerable number of consultancy works on training on various topics, business brand/model/product development, training manual preparation, coding/application development, project impact assessments, social entrepreneurship and innovation, base line surveys, digital business, market research, project formulations, feasibility studies, environmental impact assessments, etc. The following are some of our partners that we have worked with and which share our vision.

  • Organizations that are committed to our economic and social targets in entrepreneurship development include local universities, international academic institutions, development organizations, municipalities, incubation centers, financial institutions, angel investors, regional states, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Labour and Skills, Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, TVETs, Industrial Parks and the leading Corporation, Charities and Societies Authority, Ethiopian Cooperatives Commission, rural institutions, Ethiopian Enterprise Development, schools, manufacturing industries and corporations.

 

Why CONOVATION?

Conovation strongly believes, as entrepreneurship becomes an increasingly integral part of society, traditional problems are solved but new more complex ones arise. At the same time, different technological, industrial, environmental and societal areas are becoming more interrelated breaking the barriers of unidirectional interdependence making traditional mono-disciplinary approaches inadequate in providing sustainable solutions. Issues such as rising population, unemployment, unethical businesses, migration, health problems, climate change, eroding social assets, food insecurity, economic crises, exclusion, corruption, and tech-risk are just some of the challenges faced today.

Conovation, recognizing this context, has the holistic multidisciplinary, multi-objective and social innovative multi-approach mentality. As ‘CO’, it works with experienced practitioners, entrepreneurs, experts and researchers through inter- and intra-sectoral engagements for developing innovative solutions and especially for inventive reapplication of successful methodologies into new fields. As ‘-ONOVATION’, it focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship to sustainable development.

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Team

Here is the amazing team that runs Conovation.

Berhanu Gebremichael

CEO and Co-founder

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Lewam Abrha

CFO

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Addis Alemayehu

Operations Manager and BDS Consultant

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Nebiyu Tadesse

Coach and Mentorship Specialist

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Ashenafi Seyoum

Project Management Lead

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Yohannes Sisay

Digital Project and Web Development Specialist

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Sofiya Ali

Event Coordinator

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Chalachew

Mechanical Technology Expert

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Getahun Fenta (Ph.D.)

Research and Innovation Head

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Surafel Girma

Marketing and Communication Lead

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Abel Daniel

Incubation Program Co-ordinator

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Kalkidan

Digital Tech Developer

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