Mentorship
Our Mentorship program will provide appliable insights for the individual startups, offering real lessons and advice that enable the founders to take their products to market and overcome the often challenging early days of a business. The mentors we work with are people with experience building businesses from the ground up in Ethiopia.
Seratera team will organise the virtual meeting with mentor (once to twice per month) and one week during the startup camp.
Meet our mentors virtualy and in the camp
Business incubators
Lead Enterprise Architect bei Mercedes-Benz AG
Mr. Abebe Hailu have experence with business incubators. He is responsible for maturing the Enterprise Architecture practice at leading Automobile industry
organization. He will join us in our startup camp in April 2022.
Hub managment and sustainable entrepreneurship
Thandi Dyani has organised Impact Hub in Johannesburg South Africa and memeber of BMW foundation sustainable enterpreneurship.
She will join us in our startup camp in April 2022.
Digitalisation. Inventor of Ge’ez Software
Meet Dr Aberra Molla The Father Of Ethiopic Alphabet.
He will join us in our opening workshop in September 2021. He owns 20 IP in Ethiopian Geez software.
Finance and capital fund raising
Finance professional and qualified accountant with broad management experience in financial and business processes and strategy including financial forecasting and analysis, capital fund raising.
Digital marketing story telling
We expect to build digital platform for production and processing.
Establishing a global company from Ethiopia
Mrs Jenny Ecuyer
CEO and founder of companies in Ethiopia.
Networked internationaly and specialised in textil and flower industry.
Mentors in Food, cosmetic and herbal medicinal processing
Ecopia team have experience on all the value chain of food, natural cosmetics herbal medicinal plants. They will be hosting demonstrations on hand experence on the 32 stakholders from the farmer to international consumers.
Ideas-to-Value, Policy-to- Results and Geo-Strategic
Mr. Fauno Nadah, has helped start Asset Management, Manufacturing, Risk Management, ICT and Infrastructure companies and regularly advises on Public Sector related issues of Governance, National Economic Development and National Security.
Mentors in Virtual and Startup Camp.
Product development and marketing
Dr. Mitslal Kifleyesus Matschie
Founder and CEO of Ecopia Plc.
Founder of Seratera and member of the BMW foundation network.
Fashion and Desgin
Mrs Aniko Balazs
Founder and CEO of Aniko Fashion in Vienna.
Who have been working in the Design Studio of Christian Dior. Graduated from fashion design Esmod/ Paris, Sonia Rykiels Award from LISAA, Institut Superieur des Art Appliqués, Paris.
Marketing
Mrs Beate Wedekind
Mrs Beate Wedekind advisor and development expert. Very good networked with German and Ethiopian decision makers. Expert in communications and Journalist.
Courage to questions
Ms. Saskia Meynhardt
"Incubation is a mindset that encourages you to trust there are new ways outside the given paths, yet respecting them.
Quality and standards
Expert on ISO standards as well as certifications. Aquired on hand experenice from Quality and Standards Authority of Ethiopia on the following sectors: Laboratory testing activities for various products; in agricultural products testing like Fertilizers, honey, bees wax, oil seeds, pulses, · Food products: Oil, Iodized salt, Soft Drinks, Beverages, water as well as in chemical products testing : Soaps and detergents, water, matches, acids, bases, heavy metals, etc.
Registration for Mentorship
What makes us different?
Mentor on Textil
Why count on us to deliver results? Because our company is more than just a business. Each person brings something different to the team, but there are a core set of values we all share.
Mentor on sustanble enterpreneurship
We're always working on something. Most of the time, we're focused on getting results for our clients. But every so often we get the chance to experiment with new concepts and ideas.
Mentor on digital marketing
We all have a passion. This is mine! From an early age, I decided to master my craft. And I’ve been learning ever since.