Caribbean Dragons

📰On Friday 7th February the Caribbean Dragons partnered with the British High Commission Port Of Spain and the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce to host an Innovation social. Feature speaker Dr Alan Lowdon OBE addressed an audience of entrepreneurs, founders, startups and small businesses on the importance of Innovation, Investment and Global Connectivity for Scaling Caribbean Startups ✨ Thank you to Trinidad and Tobago Newsday for the coverage. 🗞️Read full article here: https://lnkd.in/e6fpvuqP

Partnerships that fuel: 💫Innovation 💰Investment 🌎 Global Connectivity The Caribbean Dragons partnered with the British High Commission Port Of Spain and the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce to create a forum that enabled capacity and knowledge sharing for the entrepreneurial ecosystem last week Friday at our Quarter 1 Innovation Social 🤝 His excellency, Jon Dean, British High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago, the President of the T&T Chamber - Kiran Maharaj and Dr Alan Lowdon OBE , all came together to support and elevate our startups, entrepreneurs and founders. Dr. Alan Lowdon, OBE, was integral in his delivery and sharing of practical strategies for scaling and securing investment, inclusive of :   ✨Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) - a language to master. ✨Matching finance to growth stage - non-dilutive and dilutive funding. ✨Insights into accessing global markets and forming industry partnerships - the role of test and demonstration ✨Tools for commercializing innovations and building sustainable businesses ✨Inspiration from real-world success stories and actionable next steps Special thanks to Giselle Roberts , Vashti G. Guyadeen, Lauren Maynard-Edwards, Claudia Joseph, Marc Sandy, Leeooi-Oneika Howard, for their support to in this endeavour to cultivate collaboration AND to all our valued attendees. 🙏 This was our management team’s first initiative for 2025, to secure our mandate of enabling entrepreneurs for sustainable global impact.🚀 Andrew Seepersad Marc G. Persaud Krista-Lee Lookit - That Lookit Brand Aryan A.

Our Q1 Innovation Social is underway! Thank you to Dr Alan Lowdon OBE, The British High Commission and Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce for partnering with us on this event.

Exciting news ✨ Our Community Series is back kicking off with our Q1 Innovation Social ! 🚀 Scaling Caribbean Startups: Innovation, Investment, and Global Connectivity 🌎 Join Dr. Alan Lowdon OBE, a renowned expert with 30+ years of experience in energy innovation, cleantech investments, and global entrepreneurship, for an engaging knowledge-sharing session. This workshop will dive into practical strategies for scaling your startup, securing investments, and tapping into global markets. Gain actionable insights into forming industry partnerships, commercializing innovations, and building sustainable businesses—all inspired by real-world success stories and lessons from the UK. Whether you're just starting out or ready to scale, this session is packed with tools and inspiration to help you grow. Let’s connect, innovate, and thrive! 🌟 Register at: https://lnkd.in/eqk_QFTf #Entrepreneurship #StartupEcosystem #CaribbeanStartups #LatinAmericaInnovation

To all the dreamers, innovators, and entrepreneurs, change-makers – your vision is shaping the future of our region. ✨ In this new year let’s continue building stronger ecosystems, forging meaningful partnerships, and unlocking opportunities that drive inclusive growth and sustainable impact.🤝 Here’s to a year of bold ideas, thriving businesses, and communities empowered by entrepreneurship.💫 #HappyNewYear #Entrepreneurship #StartupEcosystem #CaribbeanStartups #LatinAmericaInnovation

As part of the United Kingdom's Trade Partnerships (UKTP) Programme, which is implemented by International Trade Centre (ITC) and financed by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the UK is funding support for a number of IT and/or BPO enterprises from Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, St. Kitts & Nevis and Trinidad & Tobago, to accelerate their business development and export services to the UK. Who is eligible? · You are an IT company in the field of: Mobile, website, software and app development; cloud solutions; graphics design/image processing; big data; business intelligence & artificial intelligence; system integration; business process outsourcing (BPO); voice (e.g. call centre); non voice (e.g. data entry) · You need to be officially incorporated and operating in Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, St. Kitts & Nevis or Trinidad & Tobago. · You already generate sales in your respective market and you are interested in developing sales stream/partnerships in the UK · If selected, ready to commit to the activities of the project Interested? Apply here before 15 December - https://lnkd.in/egJEKyrf

Caribbean Dragons has a focus to facilitate the entrepreneurs of the Orange Economy who play a vital role in socio-economic, cultural and creative contribution in society. With two of our team members wearing hats in the Orange Econony as well, we were even more motivated to be a generative vehicle for the next steps of a pilot project to help actualize the recognition, data, analysis and output for the sector. Special thanks to IDB Lab for hosting us and partnering with us on the next steps for this initiative #orangeeconomy #entrepreneurs #businessgrowth

How to attract private investment? How to improve the sector? How to make it investable? What are the areas of opportunity to effect change? Insights will be shared from this generative roundtable discussion for actionable strategies to bolster the creative sector at IDB Lab 💡 #orangeeconomy #empowerment #innovation #actionablestrategies #caribbeandragons

Youth Empowerment has always been a focus for our brand pillar of “Building” and in so doing we are pleased to host our quarterly workshop for enlisted secondary school students tomorrow at College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago - COSTAATT : Design Thinking in Innovation Management 💡 #youthempowerment #designthinking #innovationmanagement

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