Enjoy the range of innovative pitches from just some of the startups that impressed investors on TBR LAB Demo Day 2021. Stay tuned for much more to come in the future.
We are proud to showcase the top tech and tech-enabled startups from the Caribbean and the Diaspora. This is a group of entrepreneurs addressing challenges and seizing opportunities across the region. We're acting local, but thinking global! If you want to connect with any of these founders, please email danielle@techbeach.net.
In 2019, Avera Tech was founded with a mission of utilizing the power of technology to counteract problems with opportunities. We have partnered with governments throughout the Caribbean to build and manage technology solutions that would stimulate the region economically and create opportunities for the people who live there. Our goal is to make the Caribbean a global technological competitor.
Company Founder: Aliyah Bryan
Country of Operation: US Virgin Islands (Saint Croix)
Nature of Business: Tourism Technology
BI Brainz is a Data Science and Business Intelligence company focused on helping customers extract actionable insights from their data. We offer training, workshops, consulting, and coaching. With over 14 years of combined experience in building, scaling, and launching successful data projects, we are on a mission to help Caribbean companies become more data-driven, profitable, and successful.
Company Founder: Raquel Seville
Country of Operation: Jamaica
Nature of Business: Data Science and Business Intelligence
Our company (Caribbean Transit Solutions) provides real time and on-demand information on Public Service Vehicles (Private and Public Buses) as well as private fleets of vehicles. In short: We unlock the power of data insights to improve transportation & movement in the Caribbean.
Company Founder: Khalil Bryan
Country of Operation: Barbados, Trinidad, St. Lucia
Nature of Business: Data Insights for Transportation
Caribshopper is a marketplace that brings Caribbean culture closer by allowing Caribbean businesses to scale and connect with consumers living away from ‘home’. The platform handles the fulfillment and logistics, payment processing, and customer acquisition required for Caribbean merchants to sell direct-to-consumer. Since its launch in October 2020, Caribshopper has shipped 1,600+ products to 26 states in the USA, as well as Quebec and Ontario in Canada. The platform features over 3000 SKUs from 280+ brands representing Jamaica and Trinidad.
Company Founder: Kadion Preston
Country of Operation: USA (Miami)
Nature of Business: Marketplace for Caribbean Products
Farm Credibly improves access to finance for underbanked farmers who are productive but want to be more productive. The platform allows impact conscious funders to finance vetted farms for an average annual return of 15-20%. Farm Credibly’s use of technology allows for remote monitoring of farm progress. For farm funders, revenue from farm production is generated after just 4 months. We empower funders with the means to reduce risk in financing underbanked farmers through leveraging Blockchain technology as a means of performing alternative credit scoring.
Company founder: Varun Baker
Country of Operation: Jamaica
Nature of Business: Platform for Farmers to Access Finance from Funders
Gerby Click is a distribution & logistics platform that is distributing local products throughout Haiti. We are VERY involved in agriculture with one of our Company "2 Men Pou Demen" meaning "2 hands for tomorrow". Since food is a major issue in Haiti, That Company is teaching kids from orphanages how to create seedlings and give them to the farmers to reduce their cost. After the harvest, those orphanages receive products in return of the seedlings. Since distribution is a huge issue for the farmers because of lack of capacity, Gerby Click distributes them throughout the whole country.
Company Founder: Tamara Lima
Country of Operation: Haiti
Nature of Business: Online Distribution Platform
Hyperion, a banking hub to bootstrap and run a small business simple and accessible. We’re centralising the essential financial services to enable entry-level owners to quickly set up their business and start selling their product/service in less than a day in financial compliance. We'll reduce time-to-market, upfront cost, and complexities by validating their business once and have access to personal & commercial banking, multiple payment methods, financial tools, and a business network in a single application.
Company Founder: Demiban Diaz Torres
Country of Operation: Puerto Rico
Nature of Business: Banking Hub for Small Businesses
LUHU is a social commerce mobile app which helps users find value in their network. Connect with other users to purchase products and services, also find offers, deals and know what is going on nearby.
Company Founder: Zwede Hewitt
Country of Operation: Trinidad & Tobago
Nature of Business: Social-Commerce App
An online healthcare platform that allows patients to see doctors and be treated online. Patients can also book house visits, in-office appointments, lab tests, ambulances, and purchase health products from our health store.
Company Founder: Che Bowen
Country of Operation: Jamaica
Nature of Business: Online Healthcare Platform
Medl solves the problem that 1 in 2 prescriptions are never filled, as medication is confusing, time-consuming, inaccessible and expensive. Our end-to-end prescription platform, to-your-door delivery, and continuing patient management scraps the traditional pharmacy model, to transform the patient experience for the $1.25tn pharmaceutical market. Working with our patients, we aim to derive side-effect data to reduce the costs of stage 3 and 4 drug trial costs, particularly for underrepresented populations, where there is a huge gap in data.
Company Founder: Kiran Mathur Mohammed
Country of Operation: Trinidad & Tobago
Nature of Business: Platform and App for Prescription Orders and Delivery
Introducing the region's first Digital Identity As A Service Platform. Our platform helps to drive economic and financial inclusion in Jamaica and the rest of the world. We are the only platform in the Caribbean that has the capabilities like Netflix or Facebook to support companies globally with digital identity and digital onboarding. We are enabling the contactless economy, especially in a pandemic-prone world. We are driving revenue for companies in the finance and insurance sectors by enabling digital KYC & AML onboarding of their end-users. We are powering a compliant-first society.
Company Founder: Jordan Jones
Country of Operation: Jamaica
Nature of Business: Identity Verification Platform
Osoobe is a venture studio that designs and develops strategies and solutions to problems through the means of AI, automation, and digital transformation. Our first product, Seekuur (https://seekuur.com), is a job board platform that finds the best-aligned candidate fit for hiring companies. We do this through candidate pre-screening and company stage & value assessment.
Company Founder: Nicholas Kee
Country of Operation: Jamaica
Nature of Business: Venture Studio: Designs and Develops Strategies and Solutions Through AI, Automation and Digital Transformation.
Mental health is a global epidemic. Entrepreneurs are most at risk, research shows that 42% of entrepreneurs are diagnosed with underlying mental health conditions. Entrepreneurs however have minimum access to mental health care and are required to perform at higher levels than any other group. Recess is a wellness tech app that is digitizing a trauma-informed therapeutic using AR and VR to improve the mental fitness & productivity of entrepreneurs and high performers. Our solution while scientifically sound is 30x cheaper and 1000x more scalable than traditional one and one talk therapies.
Company Founder: Kelly-Ann Bethel
Country of Operation: Trinidad & Tobago / Canada
Nature of Business: A Mind Tech App That Digitizes Trauma-Informed Psychology Using AR and VR
