Betelhem Dessie

Betelhem Dessie (Amharic: ቤተልሔም ደሴ; born 1999) is an Ethiopian web and mobile technologies developer. She is currently a Founder and CEO of . She owns four patented projects individually and an additional three in collaboration.

Early life Betelhem was born and raised in Harar, is done in collaboration with , an Ethiopian research and development company that focuses on Artificial Intelligence. It trains children aged six to thirteen on topics ranging from robotics and AI to programming. Another program Betelhem works on in is Solve IT. She has also trained forty girls from Girls Can Code, a United States Embassy project. She has stressed the lack of female role models in technology saying, "Unless you really are in the industry, there is no one to look up to in technology." Among previous software programming projects attributed to her is an application that maps irrigation projects in Ethiopia. It was developed for use in government. from 2011 to 2012.

In 2018, Betelhem was a third year Software Engineering student at Addis Ababa University.