Tim R. Holcomb

Related Ross CEO and Chairman Stephen M. Ross spoke to Andrew Ross Sorkin from @CNBC's Squawk Box today about why Florida's Gold Coast is the next great business hub. He points to a pro-business climate, strong talent pipeline, and no state income tax as key drivers. In the interview he also weighs in on the broader economy, private credit and real estate, and the surging value of live sports and entertainment. Watch the full segment: cnbc.com/video/2026/03/…

@Bisnow highlights how CEOs establishing roots in South Florida are bringing their companies with them. In the first two months of 2026 alone, four companies relocated their headquarters to the region. Winning companies choose winning conditions. Read more: bisnow.com/south-florida/… goldcoastflorida.com

A quick shout out to the @EmbarcCollectiv events team—Melissa Flynn and Victoria Marcantoni—for organizing the highest attended Embarc Collective and @TGHCares / TGH Ventures Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup event yet with more than 190 registered participants!

@EmbarcCollectiv is excited to announce that @benchmarkgroup has joined Embarc Collective’s Corporate Partner Program and will engage directly with the Embarc Collective's community of early-stage tech startups and growth companies through sell-side M&A education, strategic advisory insight, and guidance on liquidity pathways, value creation, and long-term growth planning. Benchmark will also engage directly with Embarc Collective’s broader corporate innovation ecosystem through participation in our monthly Innovator-to-Innovator Corporate Breakfast at Embarc's Digital Suite Tampa, Innovation Summit, and selected Tech Talks, panels, and podcast series, specially designed for Embarc Collective's corporate, university, and investor partners in collaboration with @EX3Labs. For more information about Embarc Collective's new partnership with Benchmark International, visit embarccollective.com/resources/benc…. “Founders often encounter M&A conversations too late in the journey, when optionality is limited,” says Tim R. Holcomb, CEO of Embarc. “This partnership with Benchmark is about demystifying the process early, and giving founders clarity, education, and trusted access so they can build stronger companies and make more informed decisions over time.” Benchmark International is a leading global M&A firm serving founder-led and middle-market companies with creative, value-maximizing solutions for growing and exiting their businesses. “Our work is most impactful when founders are educated and empowered well before a transaction,” said Clinton Johnston, Board Member of Benchmark International. “Partnering with Embarc Collective allows us to engage earlier, contribute meaningfully to founder education, and support a community that is building real, durable companies across Florida’s innovation economy.” Embarc Collective's globally-recognized startup platform offers founders curated programming, on-demand coaching and mentorship, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, and a peer community of founders that lead Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth-stage companies in more than 60 verticals. Embarc Collective member-companies have achieved a 96% survival rate, created 1,200+ high-paying tech and tech-enabled jobs, and secured almost $700M in seed, venture, and growth equity, driving more than $100M annually in direct economic returns to the state of Florida while attracting more than $100M in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @TBBJnewsroom @TBBJDigital @TampaBayInno @TB_Times @TBBWMagazine @techtampabay @tb_innovation

Excited about @EmbarcCollectiv's Q1 2026 Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup, powered by TGH Ventures tonight beginning at 5:30 pm ET in the ReliaQuest Auditorium. More than 190 healthcare and business professionals from across the region have registered to participate! Tonight's event will be moderated by Rafael Fernandes, cofounder and CEO of Embarc Collective member-company Compass Health, and will focus on healthy communities and technology. Speakers include: 💠Kim Christine, MBA - Administrator, Corporate & Community Health & Wellness, @TGHCares 💠Joseph Kiefer - Chief of Staff, Shields Health Innovations If you're interested in joining the mailing list to receive information about the remaining Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetups in 2026, visit share.hsforms.com/21etG38PYSjWdk…. The “Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup” is a quarterly educational program that bring this community together to hear from top healthcare thought leaders and foster connections among industry professionals. Embarc Collective's globally-recognized startup platform offers founders curated programming, on-demand coaching and mentorship, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, and a peer community of founders that lead Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth-stage companies in more than 60 verticals. Embarc Collective member-companies have achieved a 96% survival rate, created 1,200+ high-paying tech and tech-enabled jobs, and secured almost $700M in seed, venture, and growth equity, driving more than $100M annually in direct economic returns to the state of Florida while attracting more than $100M in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

Excited to introduce the twelve (12) Florida-based early-stage tech startups that have been invited to participate in @EmbarcCollectiv's Foundations Series, an expert-driven, 12-week curricular program designed for tech founders that are ready to move from ideation stage to pre-launch MVP development stage. They include: 💠HealX (Samuel Peillon, PT, DPT, CSCS), an AI-powered telehealth platform that delivers comprehensive musculoskeletal evaluations and personalized physical therapy treatment plans, democratizing access to expert physical therapy care. 💠TASKOD (Henry Castillo), a tech-enabled marketplace for home services that allows clients to post home service jobs, securely fund projects, and release payment after work is approved. 💠DayOnes Live (Eric B.), a live-event engagement platform that helps creators capture and connect with their audience, turning physical attendance into a lasting digital connection. 💠AlroraSense (Jeffrey Sullivan), an AI-assisted verification platform focused on electric distribution infrastructure that validates completed work against engineering, construction, billing, and mapping expectations, generating objective, audit-ready verification. 💠Vitals AI (Jack Csenge, CFP®), an AI-driven platform that helps financial advisors identify bottlenecks and automates practice reporting, help maintain advisor data with a 2-way sync functionality. 💠OutTheDoor.Auto (Frank Nunez), a car marketplace where buyers receive an "out the door" price estimate—actual expected price, including taxes, fees. Guides car buyers through the process to help them enter the dealership more prepared and ultimately improve the car buying experience. 💠Blue Zone Therapeutics (Aurélie Joly-Amado, PhD), an innovative platform that provides effective and practical treatments that target age-related diseases in pets, so they too can enjoy longer, healthier lives. 💠AI Construction Project Intelligence Platform (Marie-Ella Hendricks), an AI-powered project intelligence platform for general contractors that connects fragmented tools (Excel, etc.) into a unified decision-support layer. 💠Smart Edge Technologies (Christina Dills), an AI automation platform that connects disconnected business systems. 💠OrgConnect (Jordan Socarras), an all-in-one operating platform for membership organizations, starting with fraternities. 💠DAGR Group LLC (Boris Levin), an AI-driven narrative intelligence and decision-support platform that detects early-stage information threats, coordinated amplification networks, and emerging narrative shifts across open-source environments. For more info about the Foundations Series program, visit embarccollective.notion.site/Foundations-Se…. For more info about Embarc, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @TBBJnewsroom @TampaBayInno

@tampabay28 reporter Michael Paluska visited @EmbarcCollectiv earlier this month to interview Shawn Cutter, founder and CEO at Embarc Collective member-company @energiacres, for a special report on the "massive" energy demands of AI datacenters. EnergiAcres' mission is to design, build, and operate advanced AI infrastructure district energy systems that boost sustainability, reduce carbon emissions, and provide reliable, efficient energy for data centers and industrial uses, blending renewable energy with natural gas solutions for a balanced approach. Shawn and his team are building this model in 𝗢𝗵𝗶𝗼: power-first + storage, transparent cost allocation, and 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗲 so compute byproducts become local value (heat/CO₂ → food systems + cold chain + jobs). The first circular, "power-first" campus in slated for Mansfield, Ohio, designed to pair AI-scale data centers with local agriculture. Their model treats compute campuses like industrial ecosystems: capture waste heat and meter CO₂ from on-site energy generation to support greenhouses, enhance local sustainability and grow produce year-round, and reduce trucking miles/spoilage. Add reuse of rainwater + condensate and you shrink the water footprint while improving community resilience through public-private partnerships with Grow Ohio Valley, @cnxcorp Resources, and @OglebayResort, among others. Cutter said his company's vision centers on repurposing data center output rather than simply extracting from the grid and surrounding communities. "And your company hopes to create a closed loop system so that these giant data centers aren't sapping all of our energy from the grid?” Tampa Bay 28 reporter Paluska asked. "Yes, you can turn a data center from being an extractive project to being a circular project that creates opportunity for the community, rather than just building a data center that sucks up power and water," Cutter said. To watch Paulska's special report, visit tampabay28.com/news/local-new…. Embarc Collective's globally-recognized startup platform offers founders curated programming, on-demand coaching and mentorship, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, and a peer community of founders that lead Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth-stage companies in more than 60 verticals. Embarc Collective member-companies have achieved a 96% survival rate, created 1,200+ high-paying tech and tech-enabled jobs, and secured almost $700M in seed, venture, and growth equity, driving more than $100M annually in direct economic returns to the state of Florida while attracting more than $100M in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

Congrats to @ActualizationAi & John Licato on being awarded a $70K grant at the CyberBay Innovation Challenge 🏆 This marks a HUGE win for cybersecurity innovation in Tampa Bay. 🔗 Learn more: shorturl.at/hGGuJ

Winning companies choose winning conditions. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is the latest business leader expanding his presence on Florida’s Gold Coast. Florida’s Gold Coast Ambition Accelerated goldcoastflorida.com

Excited to share @EmbarcCollectiv's 2025 Impact Report — a milestone year that reflects the strength, scale, and staying power of our founder community and showcases the impact Embarc Collective continues to have on Florida's startup ecosystem. To download the full 2025 Impact Report, visit share.hsforms.com/1KBzuu-CBQLy5y…. Embarc Collective closed the year with 300+ founders and cofounders actively building and scaling more than 130 early-stage tech startups and growth companies in healthcare and life sciences, cybersecurity and data analytics, AI and deep tech, financial and legal services, and defense and national security, among other sectors. In addition, Embarc Collective: 🔹 hosted 100+ pre-seed/seed, venture capital and growth equity investment firms from across the nation for meetings with Florida-based startups and growth companies. 🔹 delivered 1,200+ hours of coaching and mentoring. 🔹 held 320+ events that drew more than 11,500 participants into entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation conversations. 🔹 welcomed 20,000+ visitors. To date, our startup community: 🔹 created 1,200+ net new jobs. 🔹 raised $700+M in seed, venture and growth equity funding. 🔹 celebrated the close of more than a dozen funding rounds totaling $100+M in capital invested in Florida-based companies and two member-company exits, Chattr and Boats and Buyers. 🔹 responsible for $200+M in annual direct and indirect economic returns across the state of Florida. Beyond the numbers, this year’s report highlights the growing depth of our efforts in healthcare and life sciences innovation and expanded support for growth-stage companies with more than three dozen companies at $1+M in ARR, expanded enterprise partnerships with organizations like @ReliaQuest and the @USouthFlorida, increased founder-to-founder collaboration and engagement, and continued national recognition of Tampa Bay as a rising technology hub. Embarc Collective's globally-recognized startup platform offers founders curated programming, on-demand coaching and mentorship, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, and a peer community of founders that lead Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth-stage companies in more than 60 verticals. Embarc Collective member-companies have achieved a 96% survival rate, created 1,200+ high-paying tech and tech-enabled jobs, and secured almost $700M in seed, venture, and growth equity, driving more than $100M annually in direct economic returns to the state of Florida while attracting more than $100M in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @TBBJnewsroom @TampaBayInno @TB_Times

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Congrats to our partner University of South Florida on 70 years of impact in Tampa Bay! 🎉 Today, USF drives nearly $7B in annual economic impact while educating the next generation of innovators and leaders. 🔗 Learn more: shorturl.at/6YCsi

A BIG thank you to Scott Price, Founder and CEO of @aligncompliance, for joining me on stage for @EmbarcCollectiv’s first quarterly Builder Series event for 2026 earlier this week. Scott and I delved into his almost two decade year journey at A-LIGN from a scrappy, boot-strapped startup to a globally recognized, high-growth unicorn with offices across Europe, India, and Latin America backed by Hg, @FTVCapital and Warburg Pincus LLC. His reflections include: 👉 Be patient and disciplined in capital decisions. 👉 Build culture intentionally — and measure it. 👉 Design security into your product from day one. 👉 Align incentives clearly with investors and executives. 👉 Invest in people development even when budgets tighten. 👉 Scaling a company isn’t about moving fast at all costs. It’s about moving with clarity, discipline, and intention. For a recap of my discussion with Scott, visit embarccollective.com/resources/buil…. The Builder Series by Embarc Collective is a quarterly educational program that provides unparalleled access to business icons and thought leaders in Tampa Bay and across the state of Florida — each sharing the innovative leadership lessons and frameworks that led them to success in their respective careers. Join us for our Q2 2026 Builder Series for an impactful fireside chat with Ken Babby, CEO of the @RaysBaseball. The event will be held on Wednesday, June 10, at 8:30 AM ET in the @ReliaQuest Auditorium at Embarc Collective. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information! Embarc Collective's globally-recognized startup platform offers founders curated programming, on-demand coaching and mentorship, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, and engagement with a peer community of 330+ founders and founding team members that lead 140+ Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth-stage companies in healthcare and life sciences, cybersecurity and data analytics, AI and deep tech, financial and legal services, and defense and national security, among other sectors. Since its inception five years ago, Embarc Collective member-companies have achieved a 96% survival rate, created 1,200+ high-paying tech and tech-enabled jobs, and secured almost $700M in seed, venture, and growth equity, driving more than $100 million annually in direct economic returns to the state of Florida while attracting more than $100 million in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

@FloridaC100 @eMergeAmericas Great choice @FloridaC100. Congratulations Melissa!

Please join us in welcoming Melissa Medina to The Florida Council of 100 Board of Directors. As Co-Founder and CEO of @eMergeAmericas, Melissa has played a defining role in positioning Florida as a global hub for technology and innovation. Her insight and global connectivity in this space will further strengthen the Council’s efforts to support resilient, high-growth industries across the state.

@EmbarcCollectiv is excited to announce our new partnership with Tampa General Hospital (TGH), TGH Ventures, and the Tampa Medical & Research District (TMRD) to accelerate health care and life sciences innovation across Florida. “TGH Ventures exists to bridge the gap between innovation and real-world health care impact,” said Rachel Feinman, senior vice president of innovation, ventures, and digital solutions at TGH. “By partnering with Embarc Collective, we’re deepening our access to Florida’s startup ecosystem and creating meaningful opportunities for collaboration, pilots, and long-term partnerships that advance both patient care and enterprise innovation.” This partnership builds on Embarc Collective’s growing role as a convener of Florida’s innovation economy and reflects the continued expansion of our corporate partner program, which offers leading institutions a structured and meaningful way to engage with the state’s startup, research, and investment ecosystems. “Florida’s health care industry is a massive economic driver, and innovation happens when institutions and entrepreneurs are intentionally connected,” said Tim R. Holcomb, Ph.D., CEO of Embarc Collective. “This partnership with Tampa General Hospital, TGH Ventures, and the Tampa Medical & Research District is about creating those pathways, ensuring startups can work alongside health care leaders to bring new solutions into the real-world and improve human health at scale.” Tampa General Hospital, ranked #1 in Tampa Bay for 10 consecutive years and ranked Top 50 in the nation for six medical specialties by the @usnews, will gain direct access to Embarc Collective’s pipeline of early- and growth-stage health care and life sciences startups across Florida, opening up new opportunities for collaboration, pilot programs, and long-term innovation partnerships. In addition, TGH Ventures will support both internal innovators and portfolio companies by participating in Embarc Collective’s curated programming, founder network, and applied innovation initiatives. “By deepening our partnership with Embarc Collective, we are expanding that foundation, supporting both our internal innovators and portfolio companies while continuing to engage directly with Florida’s growing startup community to accelerate meaningful health care innovation,” said Jennifer Crabtree, president of the Tampa Medical & Research District and senior vice president at Tampa General Hospital. For more info about the new partnership, read Anjelica Rubin's article in the Tampa Bay Business Journal, bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/…, or checkout the joint announcement, embarccollective.com/resources/emba…. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @FLChamber @FloridaEDC @FLACommerce @FLChamber @TB_Times @FloridaTrend

Excited to announce available internships with @EmbarcCollectiv member-companies for the Summer 2026 for undergraduate and graduate students from the @USouthFlorida and FUSE (Florida Undergraduate Scholar Education) Program schools. At @EmbarcCollectiv, we understand that founders and cofounders of early-stage, high growth tech companies devote hours to attract, cultivate, and deploy its most valued resource … TALENT. To help address the talent challenge that early-stage tech companies in our community face, we announced a new university partner program in July with the @USouthFlorida as the inaugural institution to join the program. A major pillar of this program, Student Engagement (including internships, capstone projects, student organizations, and more) and Career Pathways (job opportunities for graduates), provides Embarc Collective's community of 140+ early-stage tech startups and growth companies access to top graduate and undergraduate talent from Florida's top ranked system of universities and colleges. Recognizing that funding for talent is equally a challenge, we announced the expansion of our partnership with the Genspiration Foundation to provide member-companies with funding for paid internships for students from USF and FUSE (Florida Undergraduate Scholar Education) Program schools, internships that provide students with hands-on, immersive learning opportunities with companies in the startup ecosystem. This summer, Embarc will host paid internships for almost a dozen students from USF and FUSE program schools. ⭐️ BiaTech Corporation — AI Engineering Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Threshold 360 — Digital Sales & Marketing Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Women in Tech & Entrepreneurship — Sales Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ CaresLink — Digital Marketing Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ IYA Cares — Social Media & Content Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Clarky AI. — AI Engineering Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Trustate — AI Engineering Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Stablein Solutions — Data & AI Engineering Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Esencia Property Maintenance, Inc 5000 Company — Data Integration & Business Intelligence Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Soteria 360 — Operations & Project Management Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ Waddle — Marketing & Market Research Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login ⭐️ ryco.io — Marketing & Sales Intern app.joinhandshake.com/login To apply for one or more of the open positions, simply click the URL link next to the position that interests you. For more info about the program, contact Kailah Matyas, Embarc Collective's Talent Strategist, at kailah@embarccollective.com or visit embarccollective.com/resources/emba… to learn more about our student offerings. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

I'd like to personally welcome Tom O'Neil, Partner and Tampa Market Leader at @BrixeyMeyerCPA, to the @EmbarcCollectiv board of directors. Tom is a global business leader, board advisor and audit expert with 40 years of cross-sector and international experience with @EYnews in audit quality review, business operations and risk management. As a senior 25-year National office audit partner with EY, Tom worked with international teams serving clients in all industries, including for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, to establish proper internal controls environments and work successfully with regulators. He has unparalleled experience advising troubled organizations undergoing fraud investigations, restatements, material weaknesses and other high-risk audits. Although relatively new to the Tampa market, Brixey & Meyer provides comprehensive services, including audit, tax, merger and acquisition support, and specialized CFO services to businesses seeking strategic growth. Separately, Brixey & Meyer Capital is a firm that manages private investment funds, focusing on purchasing companies with significant growth potential, usually located in the Eastern and Central time zones. In addition to his role at Brixey & Meyer, he is an active angel investor and member of Ohio-based @QueenCityAngels Ventures and Florida-based @NWAngels. Tom joins current Embarc Collective board members: ✔️ @DBrooks55, COO at @USFAthletics ✔️ Dave Felman, Shareholder, @HWHlawfirm ✔️ Dr. Judy Genshaft, co-CEO of the Genspiration Foundation and USF President Emerita ✔️ Kim Hill, Chief of Staff and Head of Corp Communications at @ReliaQuest ✔️ Jason Kuhn, Founder & President, Kuhn Automotive Group, and Founder, Kuhn Capital Partners ✔️ Rhea Law, former President of the University of South Florida ✔️ @USF_Pres Moez Limayem, President of the @USouthFlorida ✔️ Steven MacDonald, Angel Investor, General Partner, @FloridaFunders, and Founder, MacDonald Ventures ✔️ @brianmurphyRQ, Founder & CEO, @ReliaQuest (Embarc Collective Chair) ✔️ Jack Shields, Founder, Chairman, & CEO, @Shields_Health Innovations, and Founder & Chairman, Shields Health Solutions ✔️ Jeff Vinik, Chairman & Governor, @TBLightning (Embarc Collective Chair Emeritus) ✔️ @WeatherfordDrew, Founding Partner at Weatherford Capital ✔️ Jeff Wysocki, Global CIO and Chief Digital Officer, @MosaicCompany For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

Angel groups and venture capital investment firms can register to participate HERE: luma.com/l8ypo5rh.

EARLY-STAGE FOUNDERS AND INVESTORS. @EmbarcCollectiv's 2nd Annual Early-Stage Venture Summit will be held on May 6 and 7 in the @ReliaQuest Auditorium. Led by @FloridaFunders, recognized as one of the most active early-stage venture capital investors in the Southeast with more than $300 million AUM in 100+ startups across the region, Embarc Collective’s Early-Stage Venture Summit is a two-day summit that will connect Florida's TOP EARLY-STAGE TECH STARTUPS with a national network of angel groups and pre-seed and seed stage venture capital investors, making investment capital more reachable for startups that pursuing initial market traction and will feature curated content designed specifically for early-stage CEOs and networking opportunities to foster meaningful investor-founder connections. This summit open to ALL EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS in Tampa Bay and across the state of Florida. Last spring, the inaugural Early-Stage Venture Summit drew founders of more than 70 early-stage tech startups rom across the state and early-stage investors from dozens of angel groups and venture capital investment firms, including investors from QCA Ventures, Florida Funders, @NWAngels, @TamiamiAngels, Suncoast Ventures, Valor Ventures, Bridge Angel Investors, @SeedFunders, @FlaOppFund, Constellation4, @Techstars, Lateral Capital Ventures, and many, many more. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Space is limited. Florida-based, early-stage tech startups can register to participate HERE: luma.com/fxvzxa5a. Embarc Collective's globally-recognized startup platform offers founders curated programming, on-demand coaching and mentorship, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, and engagement with a peer community of 330+ founders and founding team members that lead 140+ Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth-stage companies in healthcare and life sciences, cybersecurity and data analytics, AI and deep tech, financial and legal services, and defense and national security, among other sectors. Since its inception five years ago, Embarc Collective member-companies have achieved a 96% survival rate, created 1,200+ high-paying tech and tech-enabled jobs, and secured almost $700M in seed, venture, and growth equity, driving more than $100 million annually in direct economic returns to the state of Florida while attracting more than $100 million in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @TBBJnewsroom @TBBJDigital @TB_Times @TampaBayInno @techtampabay