Accelerating innovation and entrepreneurship.
DCIF builds the capacity and capital systems that enable the next generation of innovations and founders to succeed.
Live programs ↓Curaçao · Aruba · Sint Maarten · Bonaire · Saba · Sint Eustatius
Our current economic path erodes its own foundation.
The islands’ future depends on local entrepreneurs who can build, scale and stay. DCIF gives them the capacity and capital to do it.
A “young adult drain”. — CBS, July 2026
Young firms create the jobs. Innovation pays back.
When founders get capacity and capital together, ventures grow, talent stays and value stays local. That is how we build regenerative economies across the islands.
We focus on the hardest phase.
Between first cheques and growth capital.
Most start-ups strand here. There is no formal risk capital for rounds of XCG 100–250K, so good ventures stall before they can prove themselves.
DCIF builds that bridge.
We mapped the innovation and entrepreneurship support ecosystem and focus on the leverage points where capital and capacity are missing.
See the regional playing field →Capacity and capital in one system.
Support without capital stalls. Capital without capacity fails.
DCIF provides both.
Pioneer Program
Q1 2027DCIF Angels
LiveBecome Venture Ready
LiveDCIF Forward
Launching 2028
Built with partners who invest in the islands.
DCIF collaborates with supporters of Dutch Caribbean Innovation.
Financing Caribbean Innovation.
An expert session by DCIF on financing innovation in small island economies.
Wed 28 Oct 2026 from 14:00 to 17:00
Dutch practitioners from ROM InWest and KplusV join CariFoodFund and the DCIF founders to share what works in regional funds, innovation loans and readiness programs, and to identify which learnings we can implement in the Dutch Caribbean.
Let's complete the ecosystem.
- Summer 2026Initial team and DCIF registration
- Fall 2026Partner LOIs and open call
- 2027Pioneer Cohort 1
- 2028Launch of DCIF Forward
- 2029+Scale with founding partners