Advancing solutions to build the climate resilience of vulnerable communities and the planet
Doorcas Africa is de-risking livestock farming by connecting farmers, vets, and buyers into a data-driven ecosystem that guarantees healthy, casualty free production at scale.
In Nigeria and many parts of Africa, livestock mortalities reach as high as 15%, with farmers losing a significant portion of their animals to preventable diseases and infections, Doorcas Africa provides Vet-as-a-Service, real time farm insights, and a agriplatform that connects farmers with B2B buyers and sponsors, ensuring healthy, casualty free livestock while boosting farmer resilience, productivity, and access to markets.
Odole Abayomi
Odole Abayomi is a Nigerian entrepreneur and Doctor of Veterinary medicine (In view) at the University of Ibadan. His work sits at the intersection of science, education, and technology. He is the Co-founder of Doorcas Africa, an agtech providing vet-as-a-service and reducing livestock mortality through disease prediction and AI. He has participated in high-impact programs, including the Fishbowl Challenge, and the Etrack by University of Cape Town. He was also recently named a Nigeria Conservation Foundation Fellow, a bevisioneers mercedes benz fellow, among only a few under 28 high performing innovators selected worldwide, a World Health Innovation Fellow in India and a sigma squared fellow.
Rising temperatures directly impact animal health and farmers’ livelihoods. At Doorcas Africa, we have seen firsthand how heat stress reduces productivity and drives losses, so building climate smart, technology driven livestock systems is a mission that hits close to home.
Afsanat Ineza – CTO
Dr. Leah Ikubanni – Chief Veterinary Officer
Dr. Abdulsalam Ismail – Vet in Charge of Research and Data Analysis
Emplaris is a company that provides smart energy management solutions for hospitals in Nigeria, utilizing real-time monitoring and predictive analytics to optimize cooling and power, minimize outages, reduce costs, and enhance resilience during heatwaves and grid stress. Their solution addresses the critical problem of frequent power outages and unreliable cooling in healthcare facilities caused by rising temperatures, which put patient safety and essential services at risk.
Tolani Olawore
Tolani Olawore is a social entrepreneur and impact strategist passionate about harnessing technology, innovation, and partnerships to address Africa’s development and climate challenges. With a background in structural engineering and international management, Tolani has led programs in energy, environment, and youth empowerment, collaborating with organizations such as the EU Delegation to Nigeria, WEF Global Shapers, Opportunity Desk, and Wennovation Hub. Her climate advocacy and leadership have been recognized by awards, including the Global Youth Ambassador, World Summit Awards, and SME100 Africa’s 25 under 25. As an award-winning entrepreneur and changemaker, dedicated volunteer and lifelong learner, Tolani is committed to using technology, data, and collaboration to drive meaningful social innovation and deliver scalable solutions for Africa’s communities and development challenges.
Our passion for solving heat challenges and promoting climate resilience is driven by the urgent need to protect vulnerable communities and save lives, especially as rising temperatures disrupt essential services like hospital care across Nigeria.
Derek Ogagarue- CTO: Leads software, hardware, and IoT development.
Faith Oseghale- Data Analyst: Handles data insights and forecasting.
Authority Odili- Chief Commercial Officer and Business Development Lead: Drives adoption and partnerships with hospitals and health sector stakeholders.
FarmXic is an AgriTech venture building intelligent farming and finance solutions to drive food security and climate resilience across Africa and emerging markets. The company develops AI-powered hydroponic systems, IoT-enabled farm monitoring tools, and digital AgriFinance platforms that empower households, youth, and smallholder farmers to grow fresh produce efficiently and sustainably, even in limited spaces or harsh climates.
Nancy Omonhiboloria
Nancy Omonhiboloria is the Founder and CEO of FarmXic, an AgriTech startup leveraging smart farming technologies to enable climate-resilient food production and financial inclusion for smallholder farmers and urban growers across Africa. Under her leadership, FarmXic is developing AI-driven hydroponic systems, IoT-powered farm management tools, and digital finance solutions that empower households and agribusinesses to “farm from anywhere.”
“At FarmXic, we’re empowering communities to grow food sustainably and thrive in the face of rising heat and climate uncertainty.”
Farm Fresh Grocery Ltd is an agribusiness dedicated to producing and distributing high-quality, herbal-infused honey. Committed to sustainability, wellness, and innovation, the company blends traditional beekeeping with modern infusion techniques to create nutrient-rich, all-natural honey that supports holistic health and immunity. Through ethical sourcing, climate-smart practices, and community engagement, Farm Fresh Grocery Ltd aims to promote healthy living, empower local farmers, and enhance food security while delivering premium, natural products to conscious consumers.
Oluwatosin Ariyo
Oluwatosin Ariyo is a people-driven business leader with a strong background in Human Resources, Operations, and Organizational Development. She is passionate about building structures that empower people, strengthen teams, and drive sustainable business growth.
Rising heat undermines our product quality, supply chain, and community wellbeing, making climate adaptation essential to sustain our business and protect the ecosystems that support it.
Mrs. Ariyo Oluwatosin Adenike – Co-founder/ Head of Production
Mr. Ariyo Adegoke – Co-founder / Business Advisor
Mrs. Olubajo Elizabeth Onyeobi – Accountant
Mr. Adesemoye Samuel – Marketing Lead
Miss. Onyeiwu Celina Chioma – Digital Marketing Lead
Miss. Omotunde Adewunmi – Supply Chain/ Procurement Expert
Miss. Precious Imegwu – Business Analyst
Mr. Ademola Jolaoluwa – Marketing / FMCG
Farmslate provides real-time climate and heatwave risk intelligence to banks and smallholder farmers. Using satellite data, weather forecasting, and agronomic verification, They help farmers adapt their practices to extreme heat while enabling lenders to manage climate-related credit risks more effectively. Their solution enables timely interventions, protects yields, and ensures that banks can continue lending during increasingly unpredictable climate conditions.
Ifeoluwa Olatayo
Ifeoluwa Olatayo is a founder working at the intersection of agriculture, finance, and data systems. She has spent several years building solutions for farmer, agri-value chains, and extension systems across Nigeria. Her work focuses on designing intelligence-driven tools that make smallholder farmers bankable and enable institutions to lend with confidence. She currently leads Farmslate, an agricultural credit-risk and monitoring platform for banks and MFIs.
Working closely with farmers, I’ve witnessed how heatwaves can wipe out an entire season’s effort. This fuels my commitment to solutions that help them anticipate heat stress and protect their crops and income.
Muktar Attah; Head of Technology
Biola Adeyemi; Head of Agricultural Intelligence
Elizabeth Olufemi, Head of Operations
Let-it-Cold provides solar-powered cold storage solutions for marginalized communities, helping to preserve perishable produce, reduce heat-related spoilage, and promote food security and sustainability. By combining clean energy and cold-chain technology, they’re building climate resilience, improving food security, and empowering communities affected by rising temperatures.
Zainab Abdulwaheed
Zainab Abdulwaheed is a passionate entrepreneur and the CEO of Let-it-Cold, a solar-powered cold storage startup tackling post-harvest losses and extreme heat challenges in Nigeria. Inspired by witnessing farmers lose their harvests to rising temperatures, she set out to build solutions that combine clean energy, technology, and social impact. Zainab’s mission is to empower marginalized communities, preserve livelihoods and create climate-resilient food systems, turning the challenges of a warming world into opportunities for growth and sustainability.
Our mission is to make cooling accessible and sustainable, so communities can thrive even as the planet gets hotter.
Fatima Garba Yusuf – Operations Manager.
Fortune Riagbayire – Chief Technical Officer.
Kamal Aliyu – Energy Research Analyst
Muzanmill – Hardware and Software Engineer
Ofemini Global Limited provides sustainable logistics solutions for the agricultural value chain, ensuring efficient and climate-resilient movement of food produce across Nigeria. The company addresses challenges of post-harvest losses, heat exposure, and supply inefficiencies by using data-driven coordination to support farmers, processors, and agribusinesses. Ofemini’s innovation helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, prevent spoilage of perishable goods during transport, and strengthen food system resilience to rising temperatures ultimately improving farmer livelihoods and food security.
Tosin Olufemi Olukotun
Tosin Olufemi Olukotun is a development professional passionate about climate action, sustainability, and inclusive rural development. She has designed and led programs that integrate market-based solutions, gender inclusion, community resilience, and logistics support for farmers. Her experience includes managing large-scale warehousing operations and farmer networks.
As the Founder of Ofemini Agro Enterprise, Tosin promotes youth and women’s participation in regenerative agriculture and provides logistics solutions for farmers particularly in the perishable commodity sector to reduce post-harvest losses and greenhouse gas emissions. She holds a BSc in Biochemistry from Ambrose Alli University and currently pursuing an MBA in Sustainability from Nexford University.
We’re building climate-smart logistics systems that keep agricultural produce fresh, farmers profitable, and communities resilient. Our mission is to move produce, without losses while protecting the planet.
Adekunle Olorunfemi – Director of Operations
Alhassan Muhammad – Operation Supervisor
Blessing Olayinka – Data Analyst
Abigail Oluwaseyi – Customer service Analyst
Muhammad Bakura – Logistics Officer
Jeremiah Nwanah – Logistic Officer
Olayemi Ifeoma – Customer Service Analyst
Samuel Adebayo – Head of Logistics Team
Oloruntoba Esther – Fleet Analyst
Pod is a climate tech startup developing innovative adaptation solutions to address the clean water crisis in Africa. Their flagship solution, LoopBox, is a wastewater sewage treatment plant that solves water contamination and disease outbreaks in flood-prone coastal and waterlogged communities by replacing local septic tanks, popularly called soakaways, contaminating nearby wells, boreholes, and other water sources. Their solution transforms human waste into clean water while advancing renewable energy access. Together, we can build cleaner and healthier communities.
Rasheed Aliu
Rasheed is a climate and energy-focused Innovator passionate about building sustainable solutions that enhance community resilience and improve quality of life. With a background in electrical/ electronics engineering, and having served 3 years as an advisor to the EU in Nigeria and ECOWAS. He founded Pod to address the growing impact of heat on vulnerable populations. His work combines technology, community engagement, and data-driven insights to create scalable models for climate adaptation and resilience across Nigeria.
At Pod, we advance climate resilience by helping communities live better, improving the quality of life, and thrive despite rising temperatures.
TheHyWing partners with rural Primary Health Centers to deploy solar-powered telehealth kiosks that connect communities with remote doctors through low-cost insurance plans. We focus on delivering affordable, accessible care for heat-related illnesses and general primary healthcare, solving the challenge of power outages, doctor shortages, and climate-driven health crises in Nigeria.
Ayibatonye Ikemike
Ayibatonye Ikemike, is a Nigerian-based entrepreneur and Cloud/DevOps engineer with 4+ years supporting reliable infrastructure on Azure and GitHub.
Extreme heat in Bayelsa, Rivers State, and throughout south-south and Nigeria is increasingly threatening vulnerable communities, causing preventable illness and hardship. I believe affordable, climate-resilient healthcare is essential for protecting lives and creating a safer, healthier future for everyone impacted by the climate crisis.
Ambaiowei Joyce – Product Designer
Emmanuel Emitayo – Frontend Engineer
Grace Ernest – Legal officer
Mr Green – Mobile Engineer
Jasola John – Software Engineer
Mr Endris Suofe – Research and data analyst
Ikpeme Victoria – Product Manager
Dr Karibi Ebisori Ngosai – Medical Director & Advisor
Developing a digital device and service for environmental pollution monitoring
Connecting African renewable energy projects to global markets and helping them unlock new revenue streams. By offering expertise in navigating International Renewable Energy Certification and carbon markets.
Providing a digital platform enabling both formal and informal waste collectors to efficiently manage recyclable waste collection
Creating a biodegradable, 2-in-1, hand glove sanitizer
Connecting agribusinesses to reliable, fairly priced smallholder produce with seamless aggregation, logistics, and market-driven insights.
Utilizing Japanese techniques (Himono) and establishing a marketplace for drying and smoking fish
Converting plastic waste into safe cooking gas, offering a more climate and forest-friendly cooking energy source
Establishing a chain of franchisable and tech-enabled fish retail shops
Designing and manufacturing solar-powered ice makers for fish storage
Providing sustainable drainage solutions to filter and retain stormwater, thereby mitigating flooding and improving water quality
Revolutionizing Africa’s energy landscape by transforming plastic waste into clean cooking gas. This innovative solution tackles two pressing challenges: it provides communities with safe, reliable fuel while reducing both deforestation and plastic pollution in waterways and landfills.
A data driven solution for sustainable aquaculture production
Carbon offsetting for tourists through local climate initiatives
Data driven performance metrics for businesses investing in conservation efforts
Sustainable change through innovation
Empowering coastal communities to deliver credible carbon projects that benefit people and planet
Providing affordable and responsible financial services to underserved small scale fishers
Reimagining the potential of African Aquaculture
TECA supports pioneering entrepreneurs from idea stage to launch, expanding the pipeline of investable opportunities in the fintech for climate resilience space. TECA’s mission is to launch 100 ventures by 2026, including at least 60 in Africa. These ventures will help build the climate resilience of vulnerable communities and create investment opportunities for other players in the ecosystem.
