TRIBE Carnival

What TRIBE Carnival does

TRIBE Carnival is a privately held event management and costume provider organized around the Trinidad & Tobago Carnival, with a 22-year operating history dating to 2004. The company designs and sells carnival costume packages and produces themed experiences, most visibly through its "Elysia" sub-brand tied specifically to the Trinidad & Tobago Carnival franchise — a page title referencing the 2027 cycle remains live on the corporate site alongside a 2026 copyright notice.

The company operates from New City, United States, with a headcount of 11-50 employees, suggesting a small, likely founder-led operating team rather than a scaled enterprise. Its public digital presence is minimal: a single-page website with branding assets, a logo, and a copyright footer, and no disclosed mobile application, API surface, social media profiles, integrations, or technology stack. There are no disclosed certifications, patents, trademarks, partnerships, management team members, investors, funding rounds, or corporate structural events in the input data, which limits ability to verify scale, governance, or capital structure.

The business model is best characterized as seasonal event production and merchandise sales: revenue is generated by selling costume packages and paid access to fetes and themed experiences tied to a single annual carnival cycle. Pricing details, customer segments, distribution channels, marketing channels, and named customers or sponsors are not disclosed, which constrains revenue triangulation. The company appears to be operational but data-thin; any diligence thesis would need primary research on Elysia attendance, costume unit volumes, and pricing tiers.

Name

TRIBE Carnival

Legal name

TRIBE Carnival

Website

https://carnivaltribe.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TRIBE Carnival designs carnival costumes and organizes themed events for the Trinidad & Tobago Carnival, operating since 2004 through its Elysia sub-brand with a small US-based team selling costume packages and event access.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Carnival Costume & Themed Event Services

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320), Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71), All Other Amusement and Recreation Industries (713990)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Costume Jewelry & Novelties (3960)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Parades, Carnivals & Street Fairs (MPAGAEAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cultural Heritage & Traditional Festivals (Folk, Ethnic, Indigenous) (MPAGAEAB), Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Fan Conventions Organizers (THAHABAN)

Keywords

• Carnival costumes
• Themed events
• Costume packages
• Carnival experiences
• Event management

Headquarters

HQ city

New City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Core offering

TRIBE Carnival designs and produces carnival costumes and organizes themed carnival events, most notably the "Elysia" experience for Trinidad & Tobago Carnival 2027. The company sells costume packages to attendees and delivers a curated, branded carnival experience combining costume, event access, and themed festivities. Its commercial activity centers on the annual Trinidad & Tobago Carnival cycle rather than year-round retail.

Product overview

TRIBE Carnival operates as an event management company focused on the Trinidad & Tobago Carnival, specifically promoting and managing the Elysia event experience for Carnival 2027.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Elysia: Appears to be a sub-brand or product line associated with TRIBE Carnival, as reflected in the page title 'TRIBE | Elysia | Trinidad & Tobago Carnival 2027'

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Lost! (Trinidad Carnival Mas Band): Kevin Raymond's Lost! is a leading Carnival Tuesday mas band in Trinidad offering costume packages and large-scale themed Carnival experiences, directly competing for the same reveler segment as TRIBE Carnival.
• Carnival Bookings (UK): Carnival Bookings aggregates costume, fete, and travel packages for multiple Caribbean Carnivals, including Trinidad, functioning as a packaging-and-distribution peer to TRIBE's US-based Carnival experience model.
• Carnival Cove: Online retailer and experience packager for Carnival costumes across Caribbean destinations, providing an overlapping trade-off between online costume purchasing and trip packaging that mirrors TRIBE's model.
• Island People (Trinidad Carnival Mas Band): One of the largest Trinidad & Tobago Carnival mas bands, Island People sells costume packages and runs themed Carnival experiences directly comparable to TRIBE's core costume-plus-event proposition.
• Bliss T&T Carnival: Bliss is a well-known Trinidad Carnival mas band packaging costumes and fete access for both local and international revelers, overlapping structurally with TRIBE's combined costume + event offering.
• Ronnie and Caro (Trinidad Carnival): A long-established Trinidad Carnival mas brand producing costume packages and themed carnival road experiences, directly comparable in both product mix and Trinidad-focus to TRIBE Carnival.

Regional players

• Carnival Events & Promotions (private mas operators Caribbean): Aggregate term for the broader set of Caribbean island-based mas bands and carnival promoters — e.g., Antigua Carnival, Barbados Crop Over — competing for international Carnival tourism dollars with TRIBE's Trinidad experience packages.

Broad incumbents

• Island Routes Caribbean Experiences: Sandals-affiliated tour and excursion platform offering curated Caribbean experiences; though broader than Carnivals specifically, it competes for the same international traveler's discretionary spend on Caribbean event-based products.

Emerging players

• XODUS Carnival Jamaica: One of the largest mas brands for Jamaica's Carnival, packaging costumes plus fete access for international revelers; analogous business model to TRIBE Carnival but serving a separate Caribbean Carnival event, illustrating competition for the same regional Carnival tourist.

Others

• Eventbrite: Global ticketing and event-discovery platform; relevant to TRIBE as the dominant online channel where independent Carnival events, costume launches, and after-parties are listed, shaping how revelers discover and book experience-based products like TRIBE's.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CarnivalTRIBE
• Facebookfacebook.com/carnivaltribe
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/carnivaltribe

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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