New Cohort of Entrepreneurs Brings Together Ten Ventures and 16 Fellows Driving Sustainability Solutions Across the Continent

WASHINGTON, DC (April 6, 2026)—Halcyon, a global startup accelerator, today announced the latest cohort to participate in its Climate Resilience & Food Security in Africa program. The group of 16 entrepreneurs represent ten startups from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

“African founders are often innovating without broader institutional support from a startup ecosystem,” said Mercy Erhiawarien, Senior Manager of Programs at Halcyon. “Our programming is intended to help founders scale their ventures while also creating a community of support for networking and sharing best practices.”

Over the next four months, founders will attend a one-week, in-person residency in Accra, Ghana, five virtual programming days, and a final one-week, in-person residency in Nairobi, Kenya. Entrepreneurs receive training in Halcyon’s methodology on product-market fit, capital strategy, and leadership, as well as access to critical resources and connections to accelerate their ventures.

The startups were competitively selected for their ventures addressing:

• Adaptive infrastructure
• Climate data & analytics
• Climate Fintech/Agri-Insurance
• Climate intelligence and early-warning systems
• Climate-smart agriculture and food systems
• WaterTech

Halcyon has operated programs in Africa since 2022. With more than 650 founders worldwide, more than 110 are based on the continent.

Meet the Founders and their Ventures:

• Agriflex Ltd, Millicent Okumu, Kenya: Agriflex provides certified and affordable agricultural inputs, precision farming tools, and extension services to smallholder farmers and agrodealers, improving productivity, reducing input costs, and promoting climate-smart practices, all while strengthening inclusive and sustainable agricultural value chains.
• Drought Guard Africa Limited, Rodgers Mwijukye, Uganda: Drought Guard Africa provides climate-smart irrigation systems, clean water infrastructure, and solar energy solutions to refugee settlements, rural farmers, and marginalized communities to strengthen food security, increase incomes, and build climate resilience in drought-prone and underserved areas.
• eSusFarm, Watson Vuyo Matsa, South Africa: eSusFarm is an AI-powered agri-financial infrastructure platform that integrates satellite data, parametric triggers, and mobile money distribution to help insurers and banks enable climate-resilient insurance and credit for rural smallholder farmers across emerging markets.
• Green Eden Farms Ltd, Ritkatmun Bwemana & Theophilus Maimako, Nigeria: Green Eden Farms is a climate-smart agribusiness that works with smallholder farmers to improve productivity through modern farming techniques, value chain development, and environmentally responsible practices that enhance food security, increase incomes, and build climate resilience.
• Green Giraffe Zambia Limited, Mwiche Mulenga Mukoma & Joseph Ivwananji Simukoko, Zambia: Green Giraffe transforms farmer interactions into real-time, audit-ready digital records, enabling emerging food brands to capture and verify supply chain data, ensuring traceability, compliance, and climate-smart agricultural practices for entry into highly regulated export markets.
• KAMIM Technologies Ltd, Adekoyejo Kuye, Nigeria: KAMIM builds CoolCycle, a solar-powered, end-to-end service for smallholder farmers, cooperatives, and food businesses that bundles farm-to-market cooling with a traceability and offtake platform, making cold chain affordable and accessible, improving farmer incomes, reducing food loss, and strengthening food security.
• Rada 360, Musa Mishamo & Erick Mwandu, Tanzania: Rada 360 uses satellite data, AI, and precision agriculture to provide a digital platform for crop monitoring, yield prediction, and early warning alerts, helping smallholder and large-scale farmers and agricultural institutions increase productivity, improve sustainability, and build climate financing and weather insurance.
• SafeSip, Faith Kuya & Costantine Edward, Tanzania: SafeSip is an autonomous water utility providing climate adaptation through its solar-powered WaterBank® infrastructure. SafeSip utilizes a Hub-and-Spoke model to deliver 24/7 access to clean water for underserved rural households in climate-vulnerable zones via RFID technology.
• Sesi Technologies, Isaac Sesi & Emmanuel Boadi Kyei, Ghana: Sesi Technologies is developing affordable hardware and digital tools for smallholder farmers, governmental agricultural departments, aggregators, agricultural institutions, and agribusinesses to enable soil health analysis, helping farmers optimize input use, reduce post-harvest losses, and increase productivity.
• Tawi Fresh, Cherotich Rutto & Maureen Obiero, Kenya: Tawi Fresh offers a secure, AI-powered, and data-driven B2B marketplace digitizing agri-commerce, financing, and value-added services from farm to fork. Their e-commerce platform offers intuitive, scalable, and anchored-on strong process automation, ensuring seamless transactions and superior client servicing.

This program is generously supported by Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).

About Halcyon

Halcyon accelerates the impact-driven future of business. Since 2014, Halcyon’s fellowships for early-stage social entrepreneurs have provided space, community, and access to 650+ founders—infusing support at a critical juncture where many impact-driven startups fail.

Halcyon is focused on serving social entrepreneurs with ventures in Climate, Health, and EquityTech—three verticals that drive equity and inclusivity in society. Halcyon’s support includes tailored business training for leadership, product-market fit, and capital strategy and additional resources to help Halcyon founders scale their ventures.