CARIBEquity helps Caribbean ESOs build a low-burden data protocol that fits how they already work, then turns that data into intelligence you can act on and report with confidence. Now open as a fully funded pilot.
The world measures innovation in money: revenue, funding raised, valuations. But the work that creates those outcomes happens first in an "invisible layer" of readiness, relationships, and momentum that just financials doesn't capture.
The frameworks used to measure Caribbean ESOs were built for other markets. We need a tool built for us, by us, that understands the region and lets us measure what matters here.
The metrics that reveal that early work sit scattered across notes, inboxes, and memory, or are never captured at all. What is not recorded stays invisible.
What cannot be measured cannot be evidenced. So your hardest, earliest work can go unrecognized or uncredited.
Built around the IDB's Contextualized Impact Framework, CARIBEquity structures your data into three complementary metric sets, tuned to your organization and each program you run.
Standard operational metrics reported across the region, so your data can be compared like for like.
Metrics routed to your organization and each program from your declared objectives, context, and activities.
Open-ended metrics that capture the story behind your numbers: qualitative impact and lessons learned.
You finish the pilot with a working data practice and a clearer, evidence-based picture of your organization.
Designed around your organization, low-burden, and built to fit how you work.
Your team learns what to track and why, so the practice outlasts the pilot.
A simple way to collect, maintain, and improve your data over time.
Your positioning, mission-to-activity alignment, and institutional insights.
Evidence your outcomes and tell your story to funders and partners.
Representation within a shared regional evidence base for the Caribbean.
You are not left to figure it out alone. Training is delivered in groups and support is individualized, so the load stays light and manageable.
Tell us about your ESO, the programs you run, and your 2026 cohort.
Places are limited and awarded by selection. Decisions are made by the end of July.
Group training with individualized support. You backfill your 2026 cohort data as you go.
A low-burden protocol designed around how you already work, not bolted on top of it.
Personalized reports on where you sit, how well your activities align with your mission, and how your impact is developing.
You run programs, and most reporting stops at the edge of a single one. CARIBEquity works across all of them and rolls up to your whole organization. It guides you to the right metrics for where you are, gives you a simple system to collect and manage them over time, and shows how your activities and mission actually line up.
"Do I need perfect data already?"
No. If your data is informal or scattered today, you are exactly who this pilot is for. You can backfill your 2026 cohort during onboarding.
Running structured programs or cohorts for founders and startups, registered in one of the 15 CARIBEquity countries, with a 2026 cohort that recently completed, is running, or is upcoming.
Among the first ESOs to use the tool and help shape it for the region. Places are limited.
Participation is fully funded under CARIBEquity. There is no cost to selected ESOs.
Onboarding and training total roughly 3 hours, followed by around 30 minutes of data entry a week, plus optional office hours.
Your underlying founder and startup data is strictly yours. Tool-level data is visible to IDB Lab. Only anonymized, aggregated data feeds published regional insights. No individual founder data is ever published.
A clean, guided interface walks you through every step. If you can fill in a form, you can run this.
The tool turns what you enter into mission-oriented impact narratives and organizational assessments, so the analysis and insight generation are done for you.
Designed for how Caribbean ESOs actually work: small cohorts, scarce data, and real constraints, not a global template dropped on the region.
Join Caribbean ESOs applying to track, understand, and communicate their ecosystem contribution.
Applications close in about two weeks. Onboarding begins the first week of August.