Meet the Team
Daniel Smith
Co-Founder, Caribbean Venture Collective
Founder & CEO, Keepingly
Daniel Smith is the Founder & CEO of Keepingly, a groundbreaking platform backed by Techstars and Brown Venture Group designed to empower homeowners to maintain, manage, and grow their property value. Drawing from his personal experiences as a homeowner, Daniel's customer-centric approach and data-driven mindset have led to the creation of innovative solutions for stakeholders in the housing industry.
In 2023, Daniel was honored as a RISMedia Real Estate Newsmaker, recognizing his impactful contributions. He is a committed futurist, using technology to tackle key housing issues, with a special emphasis on homeownership sustainability and creating equitable homeownership opportunities.
Daniel's advocacy and authoritative insights in proptech, the future of real estate and home ownership have been featured by Fast Company, MSN, Yahoo and other top publications.
Prior to his work with Keepingly, Daniel received an MBA and lead an impressive career in the digital landscape as an entrepreneur working tirelessly to transform how organizations in the Caribbean and the US market their products and services.
Daniel is a proud native of Trinidad and is based in Miami.
Mita Carriman
Co-Founder, Caribbean Venture Collective
Founder & CEO, Adventurely
Mita Carriman is the CEO and Founder of Adventurely, a marketplace backed by Techstars, Google & Backstage Capital for coworking day passes at hotels, restaurants, cafes and 3rd spaces.
Named one of the Top 50 Global Remote Work Influencers by Remote.com, Mita spent the past 8 years traveling while working remotely full time across 18 countries, 26 cities, and is a member of Female Founders in Hospitality.
Her extensive global experience gave her unique insights into the intersection of hospitality, travel and the future of work which she channels into creating innovative solutions through Adventurely.
Mita’s work with Adventurely has been featured by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, NY Post, and Nasdaq. Prior to her work with Adventurely Mita spent 10 years as an IP Attorney in New York, serving as legal counsel to a range of startups, companies, and non-profits.
Mita is a native New Yorker born to a Jamaican mother and Grenadian father. In 2019 she proudly became a dual citizen of Grenada through descent.
Origin Story
Caribbean Venture Collective Co-Founders Mita Carriman and Daniel Smith met as founders in the Techstars Detroit Fall 2024 class.
Daniel, a native of Trinidad now living in the US, is the founder of Keepingly, a platform helping homeowners manage, store, and track important homeownership documents. Mita, a native New Yorker with Caribbean roots from Jamaica and Grenada, is the founder of Adventurely, a marketplace for coworking day passes that blend work & play in hotels, restaurants, cafes and 3rd spaces. Mita became a dual citizen of Grenada in 2019 through descent.
As they navigated opportunities to connect with investors and scale their businesses, they observed a gap in venture support for founders of Caribbean descent. After exploring existing networks, they realized an opportunity to build a new one that fully embodies their vision, expanding the scope to include stakeholders not only with Caribbean ancestry but also those contributing to sectors vital to the Caribbean’s future.
Caribbean Venture Collective was then born, aimed at amplifying startups with a connection to the Caribbean.