Vision

Our goal is to ignite Caribbean entrepreneurs to scale impactful, globally competitive, sustainable businesses that lead to social, environmental and economic change.

Mission

To Create Dynamic Caribbean Economies

In the Caribbean, we suffer from high unemployment rates and low GDP growth. The Branson Centre Caribbean (BCoEC) is working to change that. For the past 7 years we have been able to consistently produce results that directly impact the issue of unemployment and growth in the Caribbean.

We’ve helped entrepreneurs grow and businesses thrive. On average, each entrepreneur that has passed through our programme has created 4 new jobs, supported 3 existing jobs, and grown their revenue by 132%.

We’ve been working towards our mission in the startup scene since our launch in 2011. The entrepreneurial ecosystem has expanded and grown over those six years with many new incubators and programmes that are supporting entrepreneurs in the idea and validation stages. So in 2018, we’re going bigger and changing our focus so that we can continue towards fulfilling our mission.

We’ll know that we are fulfilling our mission by seeing more transactions, more deals and more investments in entrepreneurial businesses. We want to ensure that our impact in the Caribbean is a significant one. While the work we’ve done in the startup scene has set a great foundation, we know that in order to move the needle on GDP growth and the rate of unemployment, the Caribbean needs more businesses that can employ hundreds of people.

There are sources of capital waiting to be put to good use with the right deals and there are driven entrepreneurs who have a proven track record in creating growth in their businesses but need the right opportunities and capital to move it to the next level. We, at the Branson Centre see ourselves bridging the gap between the two.

When we are able to bring scalable businesses together with the right sources of capital, that’s when the magic will happen. That’s when we will see businesses employing hundreds of people and our Caribbean economies growing.