LINK-Caribbean Magazine

LINK CARIBBEAN

Preparing For Investment - Creating Deal Flow

LINK- Caribbean enabled

LINK-Caribbean enabled entrepreneurs to raise capital from private investors, namely business angels. However, investors within the Caribbean are known to be a little more risk averse than international investors and whilst many companies wanted to receive investment, they may not always be deemed a “good investment” due to their set-up or their business not quite at the right stage of development to make it viable. In view of a key component for the LINK-Caribbean programme being to facilitate the deal flow LINK-Caribbean needed to ensure the businesses were investible or investment ready. The Investment Readiness or IR-Grants solved this problem. The provision of Investment Readiness grants to start-up and early-stage enterprises that may not be quite ready for private investment enabled companies that demonstrate business promise to improve certain aspects of their businesses. Grant funding of up to USD$25,000 was made available for specific activities that can be executed within a short time frame (3-6 months) that improve the prospects for investment.

entrepreneurs to raise capital from private investors, namely business angels.