A computer science graduate, he focuses on creating mobile games inspired by African culture. As the head of Qene Games, he has developed two award-winning games.

Dawit Abraham (photo), an Ethiopian computer scientist and tech entrepreneur, is the co-founder and CEO of Qene Games, a mobile game publishing company based in Ethiopia.

Founded in 2016, Qene Games aims to showcase the richness and beauty of Ethiopian culture in the global gaming and entertainment industry. The startup has launched two mobile games so far.

Kukulu, their first game, is a 3D runner where the player, represented by a rooster, must escape a farmer by jumping over fences and running through bushes. Their second game, Gebeta, is a mobile board game based on the principles of mancala games (awélé, bao, kalaha, etc.). Gebeta was later acquired by the pan-African mobile game publisher Carry1st.

Kukulu won the AppsAfrica award for Best Media and Entertainment App in 2018, while Gebeta was awarded the AppsAfrica prize for Best App of the Year in 2020.

Dawit is also a co-founder and spokesperson for the Pan Africa Gaming Group, a network established in 2022 that brings together top video game development talents in Africa. In 2023, he became the co-founder and CEO of Beemi, an interactive streaming platform focused on games.

After graduating from Addis Ababa University with a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering, Dawit's career began in 2015 at iCog-Labs, an Ethiopian R&D company specializing in AI and robotics, where he worked as a game developer and machine learning programmer. In 2020, he was a game developer at Turing, a U.S.-based AI company, and then joined the International Finance Corporation as a product development advisor from 2020 to 2023.

Melchior Koba