Born in the chaos of Addis Ababa's streets.
Kabba started with a simple observation: one of Africa's fastest-growing cities had no reliable way for most people to get around. That gap is the opportunity.
The problem was everywhere.
Every morning in Addis Ababa, millions of people join the same lottery. Wait for a minibus. Hope it goes where you're going. Hope it doesn't overfill. Hope you're not late. For most people, transport isn't a solved problem — it's a daily stressor that eats time, energy, and reliability.
Businesses deal with it differently: accepting late arrivals as normal, budgeting for absenteeism, managing the downstream chaos of a workforce that can't reliably get to work. Schools face it too — parents with no visibility, administrators with no tools, and routes held together by phone calls and habit.
Kabba was built to change that. Not by disrupting the status quo with technology for its own sake, but by doing the hard work of organizing demand, building routes that make economic sense, and running operations that earn people's trust one route at a time.
“A city where every commute is predictable — and where that predictability is a right, not a luxury.”
We believe structured shared mobility is the most efficient transport system for rapidly urbanizing cities. Kabba is building the platform, operations, and trust that makes it possible.
Bring structure, technology, and reliability to urban mobility in emerging cities.
Reliability
Riders know when they're being picked up, which vehicle, and when they'll arrive. Every day — not most days.
Productivity
When employees arrive on time, companies run better. When students are safe, parents work with peace of mind.
Efficiency
Shared routes reduce per-seat costs, emissions, and congestion. Everyone benefits when more people share fewer vehicles.
The road to electric.
Shared transportation already reduces the number of individual cars on the road. Kabba takes that further with a planned transition to electric vans — lowering per-kilometer operating costs, reducing emissions, and building a fleet that gets better over time.
The economics work in our favor: high route utilization drives down cost per seat, and subscription-based revenue creates the financial stability to invest in the right infrastructure at the right time.
Fewer cars
per commuter versus individual transport
Lower cost
per seat as routes scale and utilization grows
Electric first
on new route expansions as the fleet modernizes
Zero waste
on route planning — routes launch only when demand exists