The Caribbean has always had extraordinary founders. It just never had a publication built to tell their stories properly.
SECTION 1 — THE ORIGIN
This was not supposed to be easy.
Building a media company from scratch, in the Caribbean, without investors, without a team, and without any guarantee that anyone would care — that is not the kind of project you take on because it sounds fun.
You take it on because you cannot stop thinking about it.
I first had this idea in 2019. I wrote it down, closed the notebook, and told myself someone else would build it. Someone with more resources. More connections. More time.
Nobody built it.
So I kept watching. Kept noticing. A founder in the Cayman Islands building a brand across fifteen countries with no investors and no blueprint. A founder in Trinidad building financial infrastructure for an entire region from a population of 1.3 million. A Jamaican woman getting backed by a Silicon Valley venture fund for technology she built right here.
These stories existed. They were extraordinary. And almost nobody outside the Caribbean had read them.
The coverage was the problem. Not the founders.
I spent six years waiting for someone else to fix that.
On June 2, 2026 — nine years to the day since I walked out of my last radio shift at KLAS Sports FM — I stopped waiting.
I built it myself.
SECTION 2 — WHAT FOUNDPRENEUR IS
Foundpreneur is the Caribbean’s first founder-facing business media company.
Not a blog. Not a content platform. Not a press release aggregator dressed up as journalism.
A publication — with editorial standards, a specific voice, and a clear mission. To cover the Caribbean founder economy with the same editorial weight the world gives Silicon Valley.
Every Thursday, The Foundpreneur Weekly lands in the inboxes of Caribbean founders, operators, and investors across the region and its diaspora. Long-form founder profiles. Industry intelligence. A diaspora spotlight. A podcast conversation that goes where the story actually is.
Free. Always.
SECTION 3 — WHAT WE BELIEVE
Caribbean founders are not building interesting things for a small market.
They are building extraordinary things against extraordinary odds — without the infrastructure, the investor networks, the media attention, or the ecosystem support that founders in larger markets take for granted.
That story deserves to be told properly.
Not in a press release. Not in a paragraph at the bottom of a regional trade publication. Not from a distance by someone who flew in for a conference and flew home.
By a Caribbean journalist who is genuinely invested in the story.
That is what Foundpreneur is.
Every profile we publish passes two tests before it goes live.
The Coffee Test — can someone read it during their morning coffee and want to forward it to a friend?
The Caribbean Test — does it treat the region with the same editorial weight it gives Silicon Valley?
If the answer to either is no, we rewrite it.
SECTION 4 — THE EDITORIAL BRANDS
Foundpreneur — The flagship Caribbean business publication. Founder profiles, industry intelligence, annual lists, and the Diaspora Desk. All at foundpreneur.co.
The Foundpreneur Weekly — The Thursday newsletter. Five minutes. One profile, three intelligence items, one diaspora spotlight, one podcast conversation. Free, always.
The Foundpreneur Podcast — Interview-style conversations with the builders reshaping the Caribbean and its diaspora. No scripts. No filters. Just the real story behind the build. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Amazon Music.
The Foundpreneur 10 — The annual list of ten Caribbean founders selected by editorial panel. Not a popularity contest. Never a public vote. Three criteria: the quality of the build, the power of the story, and what it took to build where they built it.
SECTION 5 — THE PERSON BEHIND IT
Stephen Stanberry is a Caribbean journalist, storyteller, and media founder based in Old Harbour, Jamaica. He started his career at KLAS Sports FM 89 in broadcast journalism, left media in 2017, and returned nine years later to build the publication the Caribbean founder economy never had.
He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Foundpreneur. Husband. Father of three.
For story submissions, interview requests, or general inquiries: hello@foundpreneur.co
