Meet the Team

Mita Carriman

Co-Founder, Caribbean Venture Collective

Mita Carriman is the Founder & CEO of Adventurely, a marketplace backed by Google, Techstars & Backstage Capital for booking on-demand workspaces at hotels, restaurants, wellness venues, cowork studios, and third spaces through a global coworking membership.

In 2024, Mita was named a Top 50 Global Remote Work Influencer by Remote.com for her deep expertise at the intersection of travel, hospitality, and the future of work. Her insights were gained from a seven-year journey spent traveling full time while working remotely across 18 countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, where she built invaluable relationships with leaders in hospitality and workplace innovation. She is also a member of Female Founders in Hospitality.

Mita’s work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, the New York Post, and Nasdaq

Prior to founding Adventurely, Mita spent a decade as an IP attorney in New York, advising startups, founders, VC Firms and nonprofits on legal strategies to protect & monetize their IP.

Mita was born and raised in New York to a Jamaican mother and Grenadian father. In 2019 she proudly became a dual citizen of Grenada through descent.

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.

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.