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We held our first virtual Catalyst workshop of 2026, welcoming 6 Africa-based environmental enterprises advancing agriculture and aquaculture through innovative AI and agritech solutions. This virtual Catalyst was organised together with one of our longstanding pro bono partners, environmental social enterprise Bright Tide and the 6 participating ventures - hailing from Rwanda, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt - are participating in Bright Tide's latest accelerator programme, AgriBlue. AI Africa.
The workshop saw 18 volunteer lawyers from multiple Hogan Lovells offices across continental Europe, the UK, and the US working alongside African and international in-house counsel from our valued clients. We would like to thank those volunteers from our clients who joined us for the workshop and in advising these inspiring organisations.
These legal teams were further supported by our incredible local law firm partners from the HL Connect network including lawyers from K-solutions & Partners (Rwanda), Kaplan & Stratton (Kenya), BFF Law (Morocco) , n.dowuona & Company ALN Ghana and Sharkawy & Sarhan from Egypt. A Catalyst of this size covering such diverse jurisdictions would not have been possible without our local law firm partners so graciously supporting.
The legal teams advised the ventures on a wide range of critical legal issues including expansion, corporate governance, corporate structuring, contractual issues, brand protection, IP strategies, and so much more. The experienced and diverse teams and the strategically arranged breakout sessions fostered opened discussions, critical thinking and problem solving and ensured that the enterprises could openly share and receive bespoke advice to help them take the next steps in their respective businesses.
We were delighted to work with 6 incredible ventures, including:
- Earthwise Storage a Rwanda-based social enterprise dedicated to reinventing poultry financing and contract farming by enabling smallholder farmers to scale production through inclusive contracts, solar-hybrid cold storage, and data-driven market planning, helping reduce post-harvest loss and delivering safe, traceable protein to urban markets.
- NjordFrey a Rwanda-based agritech venture with a goal to increase smallholder income and food security through aquaponics. The venture provides scalable aquaponic commercial kits, powered by solar energy, and a digital monitoring system that allows farmers to monitor and analyse their produce in real time.
- KingFisher AG a Kenya-based social enterprise using AI-powered technology to increase food production in Kenya by providing small, indoor farms with a low carbon footprint, suitable for people with little experience.
- Green Leaf AI a Morocco-based social enterprise that has built an AI-powered app to help early-stage and medium-scale date palm farmers detect early-stage crop diseases
- Wonfliki a Ghana-based venture supporting African farmers maximise productivity on farms. It leverages precision agriculture and information dissemination to help secure the future of food by providing analytics and data directly to farmers.
- Croptimus an Egypt-based entity working to convert agricultural waste into premium soil amendments to improve climate resilience and food security through decentralised production and strategic partnership.
