About SiliconCaribe

Silicon Caribe is about the people, businesses, and trends driving the rise of Digital Caribbean.

Media

SiliconCaribe Blog focuses on startups and digital‑first businesses founded by Caribbean‑based and Caribbean‑born entrepreneurs, wherever they are in the world, with a deep lens on AI, fintech & remittance‑tech, cybersecurity, agritech, and climate tech.

Expect trends, insights, and data on the people, businesses, and shifts happening at the intersection of technology, business, and culture across the Caribbean and global Diaspora.

I’m Ingrid Riley. I started the SiliconCaribe blog because I believed that our Caribbean’s innovation stories need to be written, amplified, and I wanted to share more nuanced analysis of the things I see and care about.

Today, this blog and weekly newsletter, SiliconCaribe Insider, is read by 30,000+ people and syndicated globally by Dow Jones to 90+ countries.

Welcome to Silicon Caribe Blog, where you stay ahead of who and what’s shaping the future of Caribbean business and technology.

Events

Silicon Caribe produces events and experiences for Caribbean tech’s most remarkable entrepreneurs,  creatives, CEOs, tech professionals, and investors – all designed to help them connect, share knowledge, collaborate, do business, and have fun. 

We are the leading producer of Caribbean technology events, having done over 300+ events across 15 cities in the region and global diaspora, from Jamaica, Bahamas, to Trinidad and Tobago, New York, Miami, to Nairobi.

We’ve done Conferences. Meetups with Pitch Stages. Startup weekends. Hackathons. CoWorking Popups. Tech Happy Hours. Trend forums. Workshops. Invite-only Private Dinners.

Our signature events now are: Kingston BETA.- the Caribbean’s first and longest running tech and startup event series. Caribbean Tech Week.  Future of Caribbean Money. Beyond the Beach Impact Investment Summit. 

SiliconCaribe has consistently built spaces where knowledge is shared, people connect, talent is discovered, deals are made, and innovation thrives.

Community

SiliconCaribe creates online and in-person spaces where Caribbean and global diaspora entrepreneurs,  creatives, CEOs, tech professionals, and investors meet with their peers, find co-founders, upskill, hire talent, connect to investors, get ecosystem support, be accepted into global accelerators, and get millions of dollars in investment deals.

SiliconCaribe was founded in 2007 as a passion project by Ingrid Riley.

“We’re in an era of unparalleled economic opportunity driven by technology. Anyone, anywhere, can use the Internet and other technologies, their creativity, and time to create something transformative. For the Caribbean and our global Diaspora, this is a unique chance to innovate, disrupt industries, influence culture, and build lasting wealth.

– Ingrid Riley

SiliconCaribe: The Mission is to amplify and future-proof Digital Caribbean.