Ingrid Riley is a Caribbean Tech Pioneer, Community Builder, Media Entrepreneur, Creator, Startup Advisor, Investor, and Expert Tech Event Producer.
She’s produced 300+ tech events across 10 Caribbean Countries plus US, and UK Diaspora Cities of London, New York, and Miami, building a tech community of 5,000+ tech CEOs, leaders, and operators, and was dubbed the “Caribbean Tech Queen” by Caribbean Media in 2012. She founded Kingston BETA, the Caribbean’s first and longest-running tech community event and startup stage, and writes a weekly must-read Caribbean tech and business newsletter called SiliconCaribe Insider. For her work, she received both the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Game Changer Award ( 2012) and the Techlinks Caribbean Innovators Game Changer Award ( 2013).
Ingrid’s platform today reaches over 100,000+ tech founders, operators, and investors. She’s helped hundreds of people get jobs, hire talent, get press, and raise money to scale their companies.
Ingrid Riley is the Founder of SiliconCaribe, and recently the Co-founder of the Caribbean Seed Fund.
My Areas of Expertise:
• Producing and Hosting world-class events
• Advancing your career in tech
. Connecting to a global network and investor cash for your digital business.
• Landing a competitive tech job
• Kickstart and Building a sustainable community
• Building a professional network
. Building a digital media brand
SiliconCaribe
SiliconCaribe is a digital media, events, and communities company that chronicles and connects the people and companies shaping the Future of Caribbean Tech and Business.
We uncover and tell startup and innovation stories plus facilitate meaningful connections that lead to business, investment, and career opportunities. Our goal is to help create more profitable digital businesses, great jobs for tech talent, and wealth in more diverse hands.
Our core mission is to do our part in repositioning the Caribbean as a place where entrepreneurship, innovation, and excellence live, Beyond the Beach.
SiliconCaribe was founded by Ingrid Riley, Caribbean Tech Pioneer, Media, and Events Entrepreneur in 2007.
Our Weekly Newsletter
SiliconCaribe Insider is our free weekly 8-minute newsletter that makes you smarter about the Future of Caribbean Tech and Business and the people and companies driving it.
You get curated and original news that matters, Trends, and Insights as well as Startups in the Spotlight from the English, French, Spanish, and Dutch Caribbean and Diaspora. Every Tuesday in your inbox.
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Our Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Builder
Kingston Beta is the hub of Jamaica’s Tech Scene and kickstarted Jamaica’s Tech Startup Community in 2007.
Our Tech events, Startup Stage, Pitch Bootcamps, Office Hours, Workshops, and Investor Network are fueling innovation and helping to create a thriving tech entrepreneurial community.
With 300+ events and activations across 10 Caribbean countries and the US Diaspora and activations under our belt, we are the Caribbean’s first and longest-running tech startup event series and community.
We relish our role as a vital ecosystem builder and a driving force behind the development of the tech entrepreneurial and startup community.
Subscribe to Our Monthly Community Newsletter. Event Coverage on Instagram & Twitter.
Our Investor Network
Beyond the Beach is an invitation-only boutique event uniting accomplished American and Caribbean tech entrepreneurs and investors to mentor, and offer global market access, knowledge, and investment opportunities to Caribbean Tech Entrepreneurs worldwide. We do this with our strategic partner – Entrepreneurs Across Borders.
Caribbean Seed Fund
Caribbean Seed Fund: Igniting Innovation, Growing Economies. The member-managed seed fund brings together US and Caribbean-based investors to make early-stage investments in startups across diverse tech sectors, as well as providing them strategic mentorship, access to markets, and knowledge so they become profitable businesses that can make a big impact.
We do this in a network of very successful and values-aligned Caribbean and American tech entrepreneurs and investors.
Our Back Story.
SiliconCaribe started as a blog to chronicle our Caribbean Startup and Digital Business Stories. The blog evolved into a must-read Dow Jones syndicated tech news site published in over 90 countries worldwide.
It then evolved into becoming the leading producer of Caribbean Tech Events having done over 300+ of them directly impacting over 100,000 entrepreneurs, investors, governments, and non-profits across 10 Caribbean Countries plus the US and UK Diaspora.
From the Tech News Blog came a roster of tech events that started with the pioneering tech startup community event series Kingston Beta kickstarted Jamaica’s Tech Startup Scene and led to Caribbean Beta the Region’s first tech startup conference in 2011.
What came next was Startup Weekend Jamaica, Agrihack Caribbean, Caribbean Bloggers Week; plus Startup Pitch Competitions and Trend Forums around Blockchain, Fintech, and Women in Tech. Additionally, SiliconCairbe provided Caribbean Tech, and StartupContent programming was also produced for SXSW and Black Tech Week in the United States.
As the leading producer of Caribbean Tech Events, we’ve gathered entrepreneurs, investors, digital creatives, tech and business professionals, governments academics, and non-profits. Our Caribbean Tech Events have won awards, inspired many, created communities, and connected entrepreneurs to the brightest co-founders, tech talent, business opportunities, and investment deals.
Onward We Go!
Her Awards & Special Features
For her work in the Caribbean Tech industry, Ingrid was given the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) 50Under50 Business Leader Game Changer Award + the TechLink Caribbean Game Changer Social Entrepreneurship Award.
She was dubbed the “Caribbean Tech Queen” by Caribbean media back in 2012 for her pioneering work in the Caribbean Tech Industry and Tech Startup Ecosystem and named Caribbean Future Proofer by the UK Magazine, Pitch Cool in 2020.
Additionally, Ingrid was featured in a SiliconValley TEDx Talk given by Futurist Gary Whitehill on “Stop making excuses. Create your own reality” which has been viewed 1.7 million times.
Ingrid is very mission-driven and is a big believer in #DigitalCaribbean and #CaribbeanTech and its limitless possibilities for the Region and Diaspora.