We find and help pioneers whose innovations improve life and create impactful enterprises that shape the future of humanity.
OUR PROCESS
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Recruit
A talent search for ideas and innovators who are dedicated to creating breakthroughs using science and emerging technologies.
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Catapult
An elite innovation incubator where teams work together to evolve exceptional ideas into products, policies or disruptive enterprises to transform the lives of Barbadians.
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Flight
Resulting from the Catapult MVP process, innovations advance to our accelerator to be made market ready and poised for take off.
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Launchpad
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A proving ground for scalable ideas and experiences. We work with innovators and investors to effectively deploy, test and sandbox their emerging technologies and solutions.
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With the launch of Catapult 1.0 we pushed the boundaries of developmental norms in Barbados. Evolving through learnings and successes, we have become selectively skilled at finding talented people to develop game-changing solutions to significant challenges.
We’re here to move Barbados forward.
Impact
Snapshot
35
CONCEPTS
IN IDEA BANK
3
PROTOTYPES
IN PROGRESS
500+
USERS
TALENT DATABASE
48
HIGH IMPACT
JOB PLACEMENTS
12
LONG-TERM
PARTNERSHIPS
EXPLO-RATIONS
[IN PROGRESS]
Catapult 1.0 yielded diverse solutions encompassing traditional medicine, education, smart cities and more. Here are some standouts currently being prototyped.
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URBAN ECOSYSTEMS OF THE FUTURE
FutureCITY [X]
An urban design platform that reimagines the city ecosystem as a human-centric living laboratory. It bridges the gap between civic, climate and fintech by combining citizen-driven data, with generative AI and digital twin architecture to design, simulate, assess, fund and deliver the SMART sustainable cities of the future Global South.
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THE VIRTUAL LAB
LifeStrand.AI
A digital wellness platform that uses AI and Biochemistry to leverage the Caribbean’s biodiversity, allows consumers to have a better relationship with traditional medicine and empowers creators to design products with local ingredients in mind, for the purpose of creating precision nutraceuticals.
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LEVERAGING HUMAN CAPITAL
TALENT.Hub
A data driven, continuous opportunity repository and talent database for developing high value Barbadian talent under 40, and aligning them with employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
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THINKERS
DREAMERS
CREATIVES
DOERS
JOIN OUR MISSION
Change Barbados through innovation and impact. There are 4 Challenge calls in frontiers for exploration. We are looking for great ideas and people.
