Mount Roraima · Guyana
Sovereign capital. AI-native platform. Untapped potential.
Guyana is the world’s next hub for entrepreneurship and innovation.
The Boom
Six straight years of double-digit growth. The boom is not the story. What it becomes is.
Guyana’s real GDP vs. the world’s leading economies
Indexed to 2019 = 1×. Each layer of Guyana’s tower is one year of growth.
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook. “The highest real GDP growth rate in the world”: IMF Article IV consultation, 2025.
Purpose
Discover
Talent found early, across Guyana, the Caribbean, and the diaspora, before the world is looking.
Scouting runs through fellows, campuses, and the diaspora network.
Launch
Companies started and scaled beside their founders, AI-native from day one.
Studio formation to seed: Georgetown-registered, globally aimed.
Fund
Capital across the arc: direct investment, and fund allocations that compound the region’s rise.
Direct checks, and allocations to the funds raising the region.
The Precedents
Some turned the windfall into lasting wealth. Others faced mixed outcomes or watched their gains dissipate almost entirely.
NOK 3.78m
held by the sovereign fund for every Norwegian at the end of 2025, roughly US$340,000 each
NBIM Annual Report 2025; Statistics Norway, 1 January 2026. Fund value NOK 21,268 billion, about US$1.9 trillion. NBIM reports only in kroner; dollar figures are approximate conversions, ours.
The verdictCompounded
Norway thought in decades, not budget years. It waited nineteen years to legislate its fund, spends only what the fund earns, and invests every krone abroad so the money cannot overheat its own economy.
The evidence
AED 1.47tn
total assets of the state’s operating companies under Investment Corporation of Dubai, about US$400 billion
ICD audited consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2024, prepared under IFRS, audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers, filed with Nasdaq Dubai.
The verdictCompounded
Dubai is the economy that outlasted its oil. Fifty years ago oil was the core of its income; today it is so small the statistics office no longer reports it as its own line. Ports, aviation, trade, and finance took its place.
The evidence
191×
the rise in income per person since independence, 1965 to 2025
World Bank WDI, NY.GDP.PCAP.CD, vintage 13 July 2026: US$516.53 to US$98,813.98. In Singapore dollars the multiple is 81.7×; the gap is currency appreciation.
The verdictCompounded
A country with no oil, no gas, no minerals, and not even its own drinking water became one of the richest places on Earth. It saved by law, invested those savings worldwide, and locked them behind its constitution.
The evidence
87×
the rise in income per person since independence, while the savings buffer nears empty
World Bank WDI, vintage 13 July 2026: US$89.06 in 1966 to US$7,778.12 in 2025. Buffer figures: Ministry of Finance to Parliament; Bank of Botswana monthly statements.
The verdictMixed
Proof that a poor country can become a prosperous one: Botswana owned half its diamonds and saved the proceeds. It is also the warning: the saving rule faded from use, the buffer is nearly spent, and keeping prosperity is proving harder than earning it.
The evidence
US$6.38bn
the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund today, 24.6 per cent of GDP, still growing as the resource fades
IMF Country Report No. 26/120, balance at end-February 2026. Withdrawal record: Trinidad Ministry of Finance HSF annual and quarterly reports.
The verdictMixed
Trinidad has produced oil since 1908 and still does; gas now carries the economy and runs 41 per cent below its 2010 peak. The savings fund kept growing anyway, to US$6.38 billion, a quarter of GDP. The saving rules held. The dependence did not end.
The evidence
~74%
of the economy vanished in seven years of peacetime, 2013 to 2020, atop the world’s largest proven oil reserves
Computed from World Bank national accounts. The Inter-American Development Bank measures the fall even deeper, at 86 per cent. Reserves: US Energy Information Administration, about 303 billion barrels.
The verdictDissipated
Venezuela holds more proven oil than any country on Earth and still lost three quarters of its economy in seven peacetime years. The money was spent as it arrived, the savings were emptied, and the government stopped publishing the numbers.
The evidence
A$1.5bn → A$100m
the estimated value of the phosphate trust in 1990, and at receivership in 2004
Asian Development Bank, Securing Sustainability, 2017. Estimates disclosed as estimates; no audited statement of the trust exists in the public record.
The verdictDissipated
Nauru mined one resource and built one trust to outlast it. Then it borrowed against the trust to cover everyday government deficits, poor design and poor management in the Asian Development Bank’s words, until A$1.5 billion became A$100 million in fourteen years.
The evidence
The Method
Every lesson from a century of booms, encoded into how Parimé evaluates and forms companies.
Animated illustration: one live run of the Parimé agent workspace, from signal scan through thesis, validation, and team assembly to a sealed formation certificate for a Georgetown-registered company.
Team
Their parents left Guyana to find opportunity. This generation grows it at home.
Managing Partner
Born in Queens, New York, to Guyanese immigrants. Haan began his professional career fighting for educational equity in Baltimore classrooms through Teach for America. Went on to Harvard for dual degrees in medicine and business. Beyond work, he enjoys basketball, CrossFit workouts, and watching old Bollywood movies with his wife and kids.
General Partner
Born in Georgetown, Guyana, and raised in South Florida. Raa’id spent a decade leading technology development from concept through deployment, including a multilingual broadcast system for Saudi Arabia reaching 2.8 million listeners across 180 countries. Away from work, he enjoys biking, community-building, and spending time with his wife and three children.
HaanUniversity of Miami, BS, magna cum laude. Joins Teach for America and begins service in inner-city Baltimore.
2012
Raa’idFlorida Atlantic University, BBA. School administration and IT coordination, Boca Raton.
HaanJohns Hopkins, MS. Winner of TFA's National Sue Lehmann Award for Excellence in Teaching.
2014
Raa’idDirector of Community Development, ICNA Relief USA. Opens a free community clinic and counseling center.
HaanBegins coaching school leaders, teachers and principals to turn school systems around in Camden, Philadelphia and Newark.
2016
Raa’idJoins Naztec International Group. Now Director of Strategic Initiatives.
HaanFounds the first Mission Brain chapter and the Innovation Summits. Now more than 120 universities and more than 80 countries.
2021
Raa’idDelivers a multilingual broadcast system for the Hajj in Makkah. 2.8 million listeners across 180 countries.
HaanHarvard Business School, MBA with Honors. Founds Pillar Square Health.
2025
Raa’idPromoted to lead the international division for project implementation.
HaanHarvard Medical School, MD with Honors. Clerkship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Thesis on global innovation between HICs and LMICs.
2026
Raa’idNamed Employee of the Year in Information Technology by the South Florida Manufacturers Association.