About Medkana
An ICT and VAS company built for this market
Medkana Solutions PLC is an ICT and value-added services provider. We design, build, and operate the products that financial and telecom platforms run for the people and businesses they serve.
Our story
Why we exist
Across Africa and emerging markets, mobile money, digital banking, and mobile networks did the hard part. They connected hundreds of millions of people to finance and to each other. But connection alone was never the finish line.
Merchants take payments all day and still cannot see their own business. Households see a balance, never a pattern. A prepaid phone with no airtime goes silent at the worst possible moment. Property changes hands through processes few people can see into or trust.
Medkana was founded in Addis Ababa to work on exactly these gaps. We are not a single-product startup; we are an ICT and value-added services company that builds and operates a growing portfolio of products, each one delivered through the banks, operators, and institutions people already rely on.
Founded 2026
Headquartered in Addis Ababa, serving banks, mobile money operators, telecoms, and enterprises across emerging markets.
B2B by design
We sell exclusively to institutional partners and never go direct to consumers. The relationships and the customer experience remain with your institution.
White-label by default
Every customer touchpoint is fully brandable. The end-user experience is presented under your institution’s identity in every detail.
Built for local realities
Offline-first operation, USSD fallback, Amharic and English interfaces, the Ethiopian calendar, and the operational rhythms of the platforms we integrate with.
Mission
To turn connectivity into capability: giving the institutions of emerging markets the products their customers need to trade, plan, speak, and build with confidence.
Vision
A region where every wallet is intelligent, every merchant is visible, every call completes, and every market is open, with Medkana operating quietly underneath.
What we do
Two sides of one company
- Custom software development and platform engineering
- Systems integration with core banking, switches, and mobile money platforms
- Web, mobile, and USSD application development
- Technical consulting, architecture, and platform modernisation
- Merchant and consumer financial services delivered through partner platforms
- Telecom value-added services, from call completion to airtime credit
- Data products for engagement, credit-readiness, and reporting
- Digital marketplace platforms, beginning with property auctions
How we work
The principles behind every engagement
01
Problems before products
We begin with a problem people live with, in markets, in households, on the phone, and only then design the software.
02
Operate, not just deliver
We stay after launch. Monitoring, iteration, support, and growth are part of the engagement, not an afterthought.
03
Local first, world class
Ethiopian context is the starting point, and international engineering standards are the baseline it is built on.
04
Partners, not vendors
Our commercial models are built around shared outcomes with the institutions we serve.
Where we're headed
The five-year roadmap
2026
Operationalization
Medkana becomes officially operational. First products ship with design-partner institutions.
2027
Regional expansion
Live deployments beyond Ethiopia with East African operators. Addis Auction House launches on its own platform.
2028
Deepen
Credit-readiness data products for lenders. Deeper analytics across the portfolio.
2029
Scale
Multi-country operations with in-market partner teams and localized rails coverage.
2030
Target
The default technology partner for financial and telecom platforms across the region.