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The foundation
Connect Platform
Identity, access, integrations, notifications and analytics — the layer every other Grandeur service is built on.
Single identityRole-based accessAPI integrationsLive analytics
FROM ADDIS ABABA TO AFRICA AND BEYOND
Cloud WiFi advertising & guest intelligence
Turn every guest login into measurable revenue
Grandeur Connect connects hotels, malls, restaurants, taxis and public venues to a single advertising network — capturing verified guest profiles at the captive portal and serving the right promotion to the right visitor, in real time.
One ecosystem for smart connectivity, digital advertising, live streaming, enterprise systems and applied AI — engineered to be connected, secure, intelligent and built to scale.
Guest WiFi monetisationTargeted ad deliveryConsent-first data
Live network
Hotels · Malls · Cafés · Taxis · Buses · Public venues
1.2M+
Guest sessions served
480+
Connected venues
38%
Average ad engagement lift
99.9%
Portal uptime
The Grandeur Connect ecosystem
Not a collection of apps — an interconnected ecosystem
Grandeur Connect is a technology and digital innovation company based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We build connected platforms where people, businesses, data, payments, content and systems work together — six divisions sharing one identity layer, one data model and one cloud.
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Smart connectivity
Connect WiFi
Guest WiFi turned into a digital customer experience across malls, hotels, restaurants, airports, campuses and public spaces.
Captive portalGuest profilesBandwidth controlVenue earnings
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Measurable engagement
Digital Advertising
Brands reach real audiences inside connected environments — and see precisely what each impression achieved.
Portal creativesVideo adsDigital signageLive pacing
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Digital entertainment
Grandeur Live
Premium live streaming for sport, fight nights, concerts and conferences — with ticketing, pay-per-view and audience interaction built in.
Pay-per-viewTicketingLive chatSponsorship
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Operations, digitised
Enterprise Technology
ERP, HR, payroll, procurement, fleet, inventory and finance workflows running in one connected back office.
ERP & HRPayrollProcurementField service
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Applied intelligence
AI & Intelligent Systems
AI pointed at practical problems: forecasting, segmentation, automated reporting, fraud detection and decision support.
Predictive analyticsSegmentationAuto reportingFraud detection
Built from Ethiopia. Designed for Africa. Ready for the world.
Read the full company story — our mission, vision, leadership, values and long-term roadmap.
The platform
Everything a WiFi advertising network needs, in one cloud
From the moment a guest taps “Connect” to the moment an advertiser reads their report, the whole journey runs on Grandeur Connect.
Branded captive portal
Guests unlock free WiFi through a venue-branded gateway — multi-language, mobile-first and fully configurable.
Precision ad targeting
Serve promotions by venue type, city, age band, gender, visitor type and interest, with live pacing on budget.
Guest intelligence
Footfall, dwell time, peak hours and repeat-visit analytics for every venue in one live dashboard.
Venue & advertiser portals
Owners track their earnings, advertisers track their campaigns — each in a secure portal of their own.
Digital signage & TV OS
Extend campaigns to screens with Grandeur TV playlists, scheduling and remote fleet control.
Consent & compliance
Explicit guest consent, content filtering, encryption at rest and retention rules baked into every session.
Inside a connected venue
See exactly how a venue comes alive in 3D
This is a live model of a Grandeur Connect venue. Guests orbit the floor, the gateway pulses at the centre, sessions climb to the cloud and targeted promotions come back down to the screens. Choose a stage below to follow the journey step by step.
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Guest devices Gateway & signal Cloud uplink
Stage 1 of 4
A visitor walks in and taps “Connect”
Every phone, tablet and laptop inside the venue sees your branded network name. The moment a guest joins, the gateway holds their session at the captive portal — no app to download, no password to remember.
- Branded welcome screen in the guest’s own language
- Verified profile: name, phone or email, age band, visit purpose
- Explicit consent recorded before a single data point is stored
- Returning guests are recognised and fast-tracked online
The network, end to end
Every guest session, traced in real time
Follow a single visitor through the whole Grandeur Connect pipeline — from the moment they tap your network name to the moment a targeted promotion returns to their screen.
Step 01
Guest joins the network
~2 seconds
A visitor selects your branded SSID. No app, no voucher, no staff involvement — the device is held in a secure guest VLAN.
Step 02
Portal & consent
~8 seconds
Your welcome screen opens in the guest’s language. They watch a short promotion, share a verified profile and give explicit consent.
Step 03
Gateway authorises
<1 second
The venue gateway opens the session with per-user speed limits, content filtering and a device quota — internet flows instantly.
Step 04
Cloud intelligence
Real time
Sessions stream to the Grandeur cloud where visits, dwell time and demographics build a living profile of every venue.
Step 05
Promotions return
Next visit onward
Advertisers target that audience by city, venue type, age and interest — the right offer lands on the right screen, and revenue is shared with you.
Solutions
Built for every side of the network
For venues
Earn from the WiFi you already pay for
- Revenue share on every ad impression served
- Live guest, session and earnings dashboard
- Router health monitoring and technician dispatch
- Monthly earnings statement emailed automatically
For advertisers
Reach real people at the point of dwell
- Buy audiences by city, venue type and interest
- Upload creatives and launch in minutes
- Impression, click and CTR reporting per venue
- Campaign templates and automated scheduling
For public transport & government
Connect citizens, then inform them
- WiFi across taxis, buses and public places
- Public service notices and citizen feedback
- Emergency broadcast to every connected screen
- Route, fleet and coverage analytics
How it works
Live in four steps
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Connect the router
We provision your gateway and point its captive portal at Grandeur Connect — no new hardware needed on most networks.
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Guests sign in
Visitors accept the terms, share a verified profile and watch a short branded promotion to unlock free WiFi.
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Ads are targeted live
The ad engine matches each guest to the highest-value active campaign for that venue, city and audience.
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Everyone gets paid & reported
Venues see their revenue share, advertisers see performance, and reports land in inboxes automatically.
The details
Every question, answered properly
No vague promises. All 30 questions we get asked — installation, the guest session, how a promotion is chosen, portals and permissions, data protection, support and commercials.
Deployment & hardware
6The guest experience
5Advertising & targeting
6Portals, data & reporting
6Support, operations & commercials
7About the company
A guest intelligence and WiFi advertising company built for African venues
Grandeur Connect builds and operates the captive-portal layer that sits in front of public WiFi. A guest connects at a partner venue, is greeted by a branded welcome screen, engages with a sponsored message, gives consent, and goes online — while the venue earns a share of the advertising revenue.
Everything runs on one cloud platform: campaign planning and creative approval for advertisers, live router and gateway health for engineers, guest analytics and earnings for venue owners, and an internal ERP covering finance, HR, procurement and field service.
Our field team installs and maintains the hardware, our operations centre watches every gateway around the clock, and our data team turns raw sessions into audiences advertisers can target by venue type, city, age band, language and visit frequency.
Multi-city
Venue footprint across Ethiopia
9 sectors
Hospitality, retail, transport, education, public
One console
Campaigns, network, guests and finance
Read our full story Headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Our mission
Turn every guest WiFi login into measurable value — for the venue that owns the network and the brand that wants to be seen on it.
Our vision
One connected advertising network across Africa: malls, hotels, taxis, buses and public offices from a single cloud console.
Our promise
Consent-first data, transparent revenue sharing with venue owners, and field engineers on the ground when hardware needs attention.
Our journey
Phase 01
Founded in Addis Ababa
Built the first captive-portal gateway for a single hotel and proved guests will watch a sponsored message for free WiFi.
Phase 02
Venue network formed
Expanded across malls, restaurants and cafés with a standard hardware kit and a repeatable installation playbook.
Phase 03
One cloud platform
Unified campaigns, guest analytics, router health, signage and finance into a single console with role-based portals.
Phase 04
Mobility & public sector
Extended the network into taxi and bus fleets, universities, airports and government service centres.
Phase 05
Intelligence at scale
Added forecasting, A/B testing and automated reporting so advertisers optimise spend without lifting a finger.
What we operate
Six disciplines under one roof
Hardware, portal software, media sales, analytics, compliance and field service are all delivered in-house — so nothing about your network depends on a third party.
Managed guest WiFi
Carrier-grade gateways, branded captive portals and five-language onboarding installed and monitored by our own engineers.
Advertising network
One buy reaches malls, hotels, cafés, campuses, airports, taxis and buses with video, banner and QR creatives.
Guest intelligence
Consent-based profiles, RFM segments, dwell time and visit frequency turned into audiences brands can target.
Compliance & safety
Content filtering, safe search, encrypted guest data and configurable retention on every venue network.
Field operations
Dispatch, SLA tracking and spare-part logistics so a fault is diagnosed and fixed, not just logged.
Venue economics
Transparent revenue share, monthly statements and an owner portal showing guests, impressions and earnings.
Why partners stay
Commitments we hold ourselves to
Consent-first data
Guests opt in before any detail is stored, and every record is encrypted at rest.
24/7 network watch
Our operations centre monitors every gateway and raises a job before venues notice a fault.
Five languages
Portals greet guests in English, Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya and Somali.
No hardware cost
Venue partners get equipment, installation and maintenance included in the partnership.
Vendor-agnostic
Runs on TP-Link, MikroTik, UniFi, Huawei, Cisco, ZTE and D-Link fleets.
Reporting you keep
Branded PDF and CSV statements delivered automatically every month.
Ownership & leadership
The people behind Grandeur Connect
Grandeur Connect is driven by entrepreneurial leadership and technology expertise. The company's leadership is responsible for establishing the strategic, commercial, technological, and operational direction of the organization.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mesafint Abrham Kefelegn
As Founder and CEO, he is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company and its long-term development. His vision is to build technology companies and digital platforms that can create meaningful commercial and social impact. Under his leadership, Grandeur Connect is positioned as an ecosystem rather than a single-product technology company.
Corporate strategyBusiness developmentProduct visionStrategic partnershipsMarket expansionInvestment strategyCorporate developmentBrand directionInnovationBusiness operationsEcosystem development
"We are building more than applications. We are building connected technology that creates opportunities."
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Sami Abrham
He is responsible for the technical direction and engineering architecture of the Grandeur Connect ecosystem, working closely with the Founder and executive leadership to convert the company's business vision into reliable technology.
Technology strategySoftware architecturePlatform developmentInfrastructureCloud systemsCybersecurityAPI architectureDatabase architectureDevOpsSystem integrationsAI infrastructurePlatform scalabilityTechnical researchProduct engineering
Build it properly. Secure it properly. Scale it properly.
Our leadership model
Grandeur Connect operates through collaboration between:
Business Leadership
Strategy · Growth · Partnerships · Investment · Commercial operations
Technology Leadership
Engineering · Infrastructure · Security · Architecture · Innovation
Product Teams
User experience · Product development · Product strategy · Customer requirements
Operations
Service delivery · Customer support · Platform operations · Quality control
Creative & Marketing
Brand · Communication · Advertising · Content · Campaigns
Pricing
Simple commercial models
Venue Partner
Free
Revenue share model
- Branded captive portal
- Guest & session analytics
- Router health monitoring
- Monthly earnings statement
Advertiser Growth
From 25,000 ETB
per campaign month
- Targeted audience buying
- Unlimited creatives
- Venue-level performance reports
- Campaign templates & scheduling
Enterprise Network
Custom
Malls, transport, government
- Multi-site tenant portals
- Digital signage & TV OS fleet
- Emergency broadcast
- Dedicated success manager
Sign in
Portals for every role
Each part of the network has its own secure workspace. Pick yours and sign in with the credentials your account manager issued.
AdministratorFull platform controlVenue OwnerEarnings, guests & networkAdvertiserCampaigns & performanceMall AdminStores, parking & signageEmployeeShifts, payslips & expensesHR PortalPeople & payrollERP PortalProjects & operationsFront DeskCalls, visitors & ticketsField TechnicianJobs, routers & repairsHost CommandLive event controlLive StreamsWatch events & buy ticketsTaxi & TransitOn-board WiFi services
Company details
Everything on the record
Headquarters
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Business type
Privately owned technology & media company
Platform
Cloud-hosted captive portal, ad engine & ERP
Support hours
Mon–Sat, 8:00–20:00 EAT · critical faults 24/7
Data practice
Consent-based capture, encrypted at rest, retention limits per venue
Service area
Ethiopia today, expanding across East Africa
What we deliver
- Captive portal design, hosting and multilingual welcome screens
- Advertising campaign planning, creative approval and delivery reporting
- Router, gateway and access point supply, installation and firmware management
- Guest analytics, audience segmentation and post-access surveys
- Digital signage and in-venue TV screens through Grandeur TV
- Venue owner earnings reporting with monthly revenue-share statements
- 24/7 network monitoring, dispatch and on-site field repair
Trusted by operators
What partners say
“Our lobby WiFi went from a cost line to a monthly cheque. Guests connect faster and we finally know who walks through the door.”
Selam Bekele
General Manager, city hotel group
“We reached 60,000 shoppers in one mall campaign and could see exactly which floor and hour performed best.”
Daniel Yohannes
Head of Marketing, retail bank
“Rolling WiFi out across the fleet gave passengers something useful and gave us a live view of every vehicle.”
Marta Girma
Operations Director, transport operator
Get started
Let’s put your venue on the network
Tell us about your space or your campaign and our team will map out the setup, the audience and the expected return.
habeshagrandeurmarketing@gmail.com +251 900 000 000