Caribbean Drag­ons will host its flag­ship event, IG­NITE 2025, from Oc­to­ber 12 to 15 with the sum­mit fo­cus­ing on en­tre­pre­neur­ship, in­vest­ment, and re­gion­al growth.

Head of Strat­e­gy and Op­er­a­tions at Caribbean Drag­ons, An­drew Seep­er­sad, said the event is de­signed to ad­dress chal­lenges faced by ear­ly-stage founders. He not­ed that ac­cess to cap­i­tal, men­tor­ship, and net­works re­main bar­ri­ers to growth and that IG­NITE 2025 aims to bring those re­sources to­geth­er.

The event will fea­ture in­ter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pa­tion, in­clud­ing Mar­cus Dan­tus, founder of Start­up Mex­i­co and a Shark on Shark Tank Mex­i­co. Ses­sions will fo­cus on sec­tors such as Fin­Tech and HealthTech, as well as strate­gies for scal­ing busi­ness­es in in­ter­na­tion­al mar­kets.

Last year, the sum­mit part­nered with the British High Com­mis­sion to ex­pand op­por­tu­ni­ties for star­tups. That edi­tion al­so at­tract­ed fi­nanciers who are now ex­plor­ing start­up in­vest­ment as part of their port­fo­lios. Or­gan­is­ers said the out­comes demon­strat­ed the event’s po­ten­tial to link re­gion­al en­tre­pre­neurs with glob­al mar­kets.

Seep­er­sad said the sum­mit’s val­ue lies in strength­en­ing in­vestor con­fi­dence and prepar­ing founders to ex­pand in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. He added that Caribbean Drag­ons is con­sid­er­ing Ja­maica or Guyana as pos­si­ble lo­ca­tions for IG­NITE 2026.

Over 100 star­tups are ex­pect­ed to at­tend IG­NITE 2025, along­side cor­po­rate spon­sors from fi­nance, tech­nol­o­gy, and hos­pi­tal­i­ty. The or­gan­is­ers said the gath­er­ing will pro­vide op­por­tu­ni­ties for en­tre­pre­neurs to con­nect with in­vestors and strike busi­ness deals.

Caribbean Drag­ons said the sum­mit re­mains its cen­tral plat­form for ad­vanc­ing en­tre­pre­neur­ship in the re­gion.