Startup Weekend Ethiopia is a 54-hour event taking place April 12-14, 2019 in Addis Ababa where designers, developers, marketers and entrepreneurs can share ideas, form teams and launch startups. It is the first such event in Ethiopia and aims to inspire local entrepreneurs. Sponsors will gain access to Ethiopia's growing startup community and business leaders, as well as visibility and networking opportunities. Sponsorship packages range from 1000-10,000 CHF and provide various benefits including recognition, event access and participation.

1. Startup Weekend Ethiopia
sponsoring opportunity
Let’s kickstart future entrepreneurs, together

2. Operating your own business
changes everything. Startup
Weekend Ethiopia is the
perfect place to start.
— Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, founder & CEO soleRebels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem_Tilahun_Alemu
Patron of Startup Weekend Ethiopia
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3. What is Startup Weekend?
Techstars Startup Weekend is the world’s starting point for
entrepreneurship: Learning, networking and starting companies.
It’s a 54-hour event where designers, developers, marketers, and
startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, and
launch startups. We are organizers dedicated to fostering local
entrepreneurship to strengthen our community.
https://startupweekend.org/

4. What is Startup Weekend Ethiopia?
Startup Weekend Ethiopia takes place on
April 12nd
-14th
2019 in Addis Ababa. It’s the first Startup
Weekend ever in Ethiopia.
With this first event we want to inspire entrepreneurs
and enthusiasts from the whole country to join.
Helping people to gather, to network and to build
successful companies on their own all over Africa.

5. The seeding Team
Jürg Stuker
Finance and
Head of Team
Ralph Schmidhalter
Program Lead and
Core Team
Benjamin Gräub
Outreach
Timo Hahn
President of the Board
Startup Weekend
Schweiz

6. Impressions

7. Schedule: Here’s what happens during a Startup Weekend
Dinner &
Networking
Get to know your
new friends. Meet
the people you'll be
working with.
60 Seconds to
Pitch
Got an idea? You’ve
got 1 minute to
pitch in front of the
group.
Build a Team
Whether it's your idea
or someone else’s,
you'll create a
cross-functional team
to work with over the
weekend.
Day 1: Meet, Pitch & Team Up
Choose your
project
From the top
projects – Choose
which one you'll
work on over the
weekend.

8. Schedule: Here’s what happens during a Startup Weekend
Day 2: Learn & Work
Learn from the Best
Local mentors will be coming in throughout the event to
coach you through the hard problems. We'll be here to help
when you need it.
Get to Work
We've got the resources and support in place to make
things happen in a short period of time. You'll be
responsible for everything from finding customers to
building your product.

9. Schedule: Here’s what happens during a Startup Weekend
Day 3: Present & Choose
Present in Front of Panel Judges
The culmination of the weekend. You'll have 5 minutes to
present the product or service you built to the crowd and a
panel of experts and investors.
Celebrate
Watch the other teams present and celebrate all the
work you’ve done. Get the opportunity to talk to judges
and mingle with mentors.

10. What’s so unique?
• Inspired and supported by Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, a successful
business women in Africa with worldwide honors
• We don’t support but we enable the local community allow for
Ethiopians to shape their own international image
• The first Startup Weekend in Ethiopia ever (and one of the first in Africa)
• Experienced team from Switzerland takes personal responsibility for an
inspiring event and a reliable execution
• Proven concept with more than 400k global participants in 1’475 cities

11. Bethlehem Tilahun
Alemu
Founder & CEO
soleRebels
www.solerebels.com
Bezawit Getenet
Negussie
Corporate Strategy Lead,
blueMoon
bluemoonethiopia.com
Florian Manderscheid
Chief Operating Officer,
iceaddis
www.iceaddis.com
Bekure Tamirat
Director of
Operations, Gebeya
www.gebeya.com
Speakers and Jury

12. What do we offer to
sponsors?
• Be recognized as a supporter of a pioneering venture: The first Startup
Weekend in Ethiopia from April 12th
to 14th
2019 in Addis Ababa
• Access with and visibility to a dozen Ethiopian business leaders
• Intimate access to the fast growing Startup Community of Ethiopia
• Meaningful contact to 100 entrepreneurial people participating in the
first Startup Weekend in Ethiopia and to their ideas
• Media presence in the economically most promising country of Africa
• Valuable cultural insights for your company and your employees
• Face to face contact to the reliable Swiss organisational team

13. Sponsoring Packages
Package
(in CHF)
Warm, cosy and
pioneering
feeling
Visible in all
communication
Distribute
perks at
events
Contact to
participants
VIP Tickets to
StartUp
Weekend
Participation
as Mentor
Participation
in Jury
XS
1’000 ✅
S
2’500 ✅ ✅
M
5’000 ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ * 1
L
7’500 ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ * 2 ✅
XL
10’000 ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ * 3 ✅ ✅
Individual bespoke package tailored to your needs

14. Partners

15. Why should Ethiopians attend
Techstars Startup Weekend?
CONNECT DISCOVER LEARN START
Connect with people
driven to build
something new. Rich
and diverse talent is a
Startup Weekend staple.
Participants will mix,
mingle and work with
new people who could
be their next cofounder,
friend,mentor, or
investor.
Participants will discover
where they are on the
Entrepreneur's Journey.
They will be introduced
to new resources
available near them and
will leave knowing the
next steps they need to
take on their road to
success.
Participants will learn
what it really takes to
start a company.
No book, panel, speaker,
or blog post will teach
them what you need to
know.
The only way to learn is
the experience of trying.
It’s that simple. Startup
Weekend is designed to
get you going, FAST.
Local Organizers will set
up the ideal
environment for
participants to be
successful and learn as
much as possible in just
54 hours.

16. For more information contact:
Jürg Stuker
juerg.stuker@startupwekend.ch
Mobile: +41 79 252 67 01
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entrepreneurial Africa!
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