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About ECatalyst

Our Heart for the Developing World

Though our current focus is empowering entrepreneurs in the US and abroad, we started our work almost four years ago in the developing world in order to transform economies through entrepreneurship. Our hearts are still there, and we will be using a significant portion of profits from our US Bootcamps to continue that work solving the Missing Middle. While we want to help entrepreneurs everywhere, there are places in the world where the opportunities to start just don't exist. 


Don't know what the Missing Middle is? Watch the video and find out!

Meet Some of Our Entrepreneurs Overseas

Natnael - Brana Audiobooks

Audiobooks are great, but most of those available to people from Africa in other countries are from the West and are in English. What if someone from Ethiopia could listen to books from Ethiopia in his/her own language (Amharic)? Natnael explains his new audiobook business aimed at connecting Africans abroad back to their home cultures!

Honorine - Fresh Fruit for Schools and Hotels

Honorine has been selling fruit in Kigali in her shop and to a few smaller hotels for almost a year and a half now. Through her business many farmers find markets for their products. But she is ready to try and expand this young business. She will be supplying fruit for a school with whom she already had a contract and expand into even more schools. This will help create new jobs in her business and help more small-hold farmers. 

Dorcus - Dorcus' Healthy Nuts

Dorcus has a dream to build a business selling high-end peanuts (ground nuts in Rwanda). She has already done a small test of 1kg of nuts, and she now wants to try a bigger market test. She is looking for help to buy 45kgs of peanuts so that she can test to see if she can sell all of them during the month of June, 2022. If she can, then she will launch her new business on a bigger scale in October of 2022.  

Rekik and Selamawit - Take One Laundry

What if you were a single person with no laundry facilities, but could open an app, enter the number of loads of laundry you have, and someone would come pick it up and then deliver it to you clean and folded? Rekik and Selamawit share their ideas for a delivery laundry service.

Hallelujah - Siket Poultry Investment Platform

What if you had an opportunity to invest directly in a industry that was lucrative, stable, needed your investment, and impacted the community around you. Hallelujah explains how his teams platform does that for the poultry industry. 

Learn More about our Entrepreneurs around the World

Our Goals for a New Developing-World Ecosystem

Five Years of building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem produces up to: 

  • 15+ investment grade companies - seeking major ($50K+) capital raises
  • 450+ SME companies invested in at lower levels
  • 1000+ entrepreneurs trained in growth-oriented business creation
  • 2500+ jobs created
  • 10,000+ lives impacted 

Transforming Communities through their Entrepreneurs

Be a part of building entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the developing world. Donate today!  


ECatalyst is a US 501c3 that empowers communities in the developing world to create lasting change through their entrepreneurs.

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The People of ECatalyst

 ECatalyst is a collection of people from many nations and walks of life that believe strongly in the power of ownership and sustainability in economic development. We believe that change comes from within and that Western assistance works best when it serves underneath local leadership. We also believe in the power of business, and that the process of entrepreneurship contains within it the ownership, local creativity, and economic impact that makes development sustainable. 


As for entrepreneurs, we at ECatalyst believe strongly that there are heroes in every community, no matter how disadvantaged, with great ideas to start transformative businesses. With world-class training, mentors, resources, and a supportive community, great ideas come out of the most unlikely of places and can have massive impact. This is what we mean when we say we are 

transforming communities through their entrepreneurs.  

Thomas Carlson

Thomas Carlson

Thomas Carlson

CEO / Executive Director

Dan Schmidt

Thomas Carlson

Thomas Carlson

CFO / Board Member / Treasurer of the Board

Amen Temesgen

Thomas Carlson

Amen Temesgen

 Catalytic Leader

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 

John Shepherd

Thomas Carlson

Amen Temesgen

Chairman of the Board / 

Team Development

Dawit Tilahum

Dawit Tilahum

Dawit Tilahum

 Ethiopian Board Pres. - ECatalyst Addis  

Program Lead - Reach for Change, Ethiopia 

Robel Debebe

Dawit Tilahum

Dawit Tilahum

 Ethiopian Board Mem. - ECatalyst Addis  

Founder - Icon Management Solutions 

Diana Uwera

Dawit Tilahum

Derek Kessen

Catalytic Leader

Kigali, Rwanda

Derek Kessen

Dawit Tilahum

Derek Kessen

Advisory Board Member 

Director/Founder

OnCenter 

Vance Patterson

Vance Patterson

Vance Patterson

Advisory Board Member

Regional Partner - Middle East 

Executive Director 

Living Stones Today

Ben McLain

Ben McLain

Vance Patterson

Vance Patterson

Advisory Board Member 

Senior Impact Advisor 

Impact Foundation 

Matt Storer

Vance Patterson

Matt Storer

Advisory Board Member

President

Child Development International 

Jim Reiner

Enoch Elwell

Matt Storer

Former Board Member / Current Advisor 

Executive Director / CEO

Belay Enterprises

Enoch Elwell

Enoch Elwell

Enoch Elwell

Former Board Member / Current Advisor 

Founder CO.STARTERS 

An Interview with our Founder

This was a 10min interview with our Executive Director and Chuck Proudfit of At Work on Purpose that shares Tom's story and some of the heart behind ECatalyst.

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