Tech entrepreneur and Founder of HopStop.com, Chinedu Echeruo is the Keynote presenter at the Development Bank of Jamaica’s (DBJ’s) 3rd Venture Capital Conference, scheduled to take place from March 7 – 9, 2016 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, in Kingston.
Echeruo has a rich and successful career as an entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of Gigameet.com a cause-based fundraising and networking platform. Prior to starting Gigameet, Mr. Echeruo founded two highly successful US-based Internet companies, Tripology.com, sold to Rand McNally, and now owned by USA Today, and HopStop.com, a website and mobile app for mass-transit…
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The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) through our Jamaica Venture Capital Programme (JVCP) is excited and pleased to present Jamaica’s 3rd Venture Capital Conference to be held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel!
Mark your calendar for March 7 - 9th and commit to joining us as we explore the theme: THE POWER OF SMART CAPITAL.. expanding the financial landscape, fuelling innovation, driving entrepreneurship.
The Conference activities have been extended over three days as follows:
Monday, March 7
Workshop and Official Opening and Cocktail Reception…
Jamaica’s efforts to put venture capital into the investment and entrepreneurial mix are paying off. The Latin American Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (LAVCA) has ranked the country 9th in its 2015-2016 Scorecard, thereby placing Jamaica ahead of the Dominican Republic and Argentina.
The LAVCA Scorecard ranks 14 countries by their venture capital ecosystems. Jamaica obtained and overall score of 46, and ranked 9th out of a total 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries. LAVCA described Jamaica’s efforts to develop its investment and entrepreneurial ecosystem as “noteworthy.”
“Jamaica’s…
The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has announced that, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank Multilateral Investment Fund (IDB-MIF), it will be hosting a series of training workshops for stakeholders of Jamaica’s emerging Venture Capital and Private Equity industry. The workshops are to be held at the UWI Regional Headquarters on June 23 – 26, and will be facilitated by Ascentium Associates, a UK-based training specialist.
Audrey Richards, Project Coordinator of the Jamaica Venture Capital Programme (JVCP) at the DBJ explains that: “The objectives of the training are to ensure that everyone with an…
As part of their preparation for international competition on May 1, 2014 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Winner of the inaugural National Business Model Competition (NBMC) – Herboo Enterprises - paid a courtesy call on His Excellency, Sir Patrick Allen, Governor General.
During the visit, which took place recently at Kings House, the student entrepreneurs provided His Excellency with full details of the local and international competitions as well as the origins of their business. For his part, His Excellency used the opportunity to extend his best wishes to the team and entreated them to ‘fly the Jamaican flag high’ in…