EPhone - Ethiopian super dialer app

Imagine having a dialer app where you can do more than just dial. This is where EPhone comes in. EPhone is a mobile dialer and SMS application that was launched in 2019. In our brief interview with the CEO, Nohe Fekade, he tells us about the overall journey of the startup: where it started, where it is now, and where it plans to go.

It all started when Nohe Fekede was looking for freelance developers while working on his other startup. He then met a developer named Haileyesus Shitalem. After their first contact, the pair worked on different projects. EPhone, at that time, was launched as an application on play store. Haileyesus had the idea, and although he built the app, he wasn’t taking it very seriously. Nohe says that he was amazed when he found out about the project. The two then discussed the project, and that’s how EPhone began as a startup in December 2019 with Haileyesus as the CTO. EPhone currently has more than 180 thousand downloads, of which 42% are monthly active users