GridNet Group is a business-building and investment company creating, acquiring, and investing in businesses at the intersection of technology, wellness, and culture.
We build our own companies and platforms, back exceptional founders and creators, and grow a portfolio of media, events, communities, and technology-enabled businesses serving the Caribbean and the world.
GridNet is new. The foundation behind it is not.
Founded by entrepreneur Ingrid Riley, GridNet builds on nearly two decades of entrepreneurship, market intelligence, community building, commercial relationships and global networks.
That foundation includes 380+ experiences across 35+ countries and diaspora hubs, 150,000+ people connected, a network spanning 60+ countries, and more than US$10 million in capital connections facilitated.
It began with SiliconCaribe and Kingston BETA, growing into a collection of media properties, events, iconic communities and relationships connecting founders, creators, companies, investors and institutions across the Caribbean and international markets.
Along the way, we’ve built relationships and worked with startups, scale-ups, governments, investors, institutions, and global brands, including DBJ, Black Tech Week, InfoDev, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mastercard, AWS, and others.
Now we’re turning that foundation into something bigger.
GridNet brings these assets, relationships and capabilities together under one company with a clear mandate:
We’re remaining rooted in technology while building and backing businesses and creators across wellness and culture, creating a portfolio of valuable companies, platforms, intellectual property and equity holdings.
Caribbean-rooted. Globally connected.
We build media brands that tell the stories, surface the ideas and spotlight the people and businesses shaping what’s next.
We create communities where ambitious people can connect, collaborate, share knowledge and build meaningful relationships.
We produce experiences that bring people together in the real world — from intimate gatherings to major events and cultural moments.
We build digital platforms and marketplaces that make it easier for people and businesses to discover, connect, participate and do business.
The technologies, businesses, and ideas transforming how we live, work and play.
Founders, creators, investors, engineers, fintech operators, and the diaspora capital that funds them. Our oldest and deepest world — and the one where our brands hold outright category leadership.
The people, products and experiences shaping how we live better, feel better and thrive.
Longevity, healthtech, traditional and unique wellness practices, and the practitioners, spaces, experiences and products redefining modern Caribbean and global wellness.
The creators, stories, entertainment, experiences and movements shaping how the world sees and experiences us.
Creators, music, food, books, film, and the Caribbean creator economy — the region’s most exportable asset, and the one with the least infrastructure behind it. That gap is the opportunity.
Six operating brands across three worlds. Select one to read what it is, who it serves, and where it runs.
GridNet partners with ambitious founders, startups, scaleups, brands and businesses across the Caribbean and its global diaspora to build and grow media, experiences, platforms and communities at the intersection of technology, wellness and culture.
Some partnerships begin as commissioned work. Others begin as investments. The most exciting evolve from one into the other — turning successful collaborations into businesses we build, own and grow together.
Have something in mind?
Let’s talk about what we could build together.