LINK-Caribbean, an investment facilitation project designed to position startup regional businesses to attract capital from private investors, particularly so-called business angel investors will host the region’s first Caribbean Angel Investor Forum in Montego Bay, Jamaica on May 11 and 12, 2017, according to a release from the Barbados-based Caribbean Export Development Agency.
The release says the “invitation only” event is expected to attract “high-net-worth individuals from across the region and internationally and will be staged with funding from the US$1.6 million LINK-Caribbean programme that seeks to promote the development of “an organized angel investment ecosystem within the Caribbean.”