CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC -The Organisation of Jap Caribbean States (OECS) Fee says it’s relaunching the OECS International Startup Hub because it acknowledges the vital position of fostering innovation, constructing capability, and driving financial development in an evolving entrepreneurial panorama within the sub-region.
The St. Lucia-based Fee mentioned that startups from six OECS member states, specifically Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, are being invited to take part within the initiative.
“Startups should have excessive development potential, with scalable concepts, and function within the know-how business or in different industries which can be interested by introducing know-how to scale their enterprise operations,” the Fee mentioned, including that entrepreneurs with tech-based and tech-enabled startups lower than 5 years in operation are strongly inspired to use.
The OECS International Startup Hub is being relaunched in partnership with Draper College and the Barbados-based Caribbean Growth Financial institution (CDB).
The Fee mentioned that know-how and technology-enabled micro, small & medium enterprises (MSMEs) within the OECS are invited to use, and as much as 150 profitable candidates will likely be accepted to take part within the free, two-week Digital Accelerator Programme.
“Twenty-two contributors from this program can even get the chance to maneuver onto a second immersion expertise in famend Silicon Valley within the Draper College Hero Coaching Programme,” the Fee mentioned.
Via this collaboration and the assist of different key personal sector companions, this system will remodel the entrepreneurial ecosystem throughout the OECS member states and unlock the total potential of technology-based startups.
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