Tim R. Holcomb

Enjoyed sharing the stage with @Saxonbaum, Managing Partner at @FloridaFunders and Becca Brown, CEO at @spARKbyARK in a discussion on “Navigating Tampa Bay’s Tech Ecosystem” moderated by Rachel Feinman, Senior Vice President, Innovation, Ventures and Digital Solutions at Tampa General Hospital and Managing Director, @TGHCares Ventures. Here on the Suncoast, Tampa Bay is home to one of the top startup, technology and business hubs in the nation. 👉 No. 1 Emerging Tech City in the Nation 👉 No. 1 Best Place for International Businesses in the Nation 👉 Top 10 U.S. Market for Tech Talent Growth and "Brain Gain" 👉 No. 8 Best Place in the U.S. to Start a Career 👉 No. 4 Best Place in the U.S. for Veterans to Live 👉 Top 30 U.S. Market for Manufacturing Employment 👉 No. 8 Fastest Growing City in the Nation Tampa Bay early- and growth-stage tech companies raised $891 million in 2025, including cybersecurity giant @ReliaQuest's $500 million round led by @eqt, @KKR_Co, and @FTVCapital with participation from @1011vc and Finback Investment Partners that closed in March. Q1 2026 started with a bang as well with Tampa Bay companies closing 20 venture deals for a combined $415 million across the region. That amount included Sarasota-based @TENEXai's monster $250 million Series B in March led by @CrosspointCP with participation from @ShieldCapVC and @DeepWorkCapital that placed the post-money value of the company at $1 billion, adding another unicorn to the region. The panel was held earlier today at the @DukeEnergy Center for the Arts - @MahaffeyTheater in St. Pete as part of the poweredUP @techtampabay Fest presented by @aligncompliance. A BIG shout out to Meghan O'Keefe, Executive Director at Tampa Bay Tech, and her team for organizing an outstanding program! #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

Developing and nurturing talent is crucial not only for the 145+ Florida-based early-stage tech startups and growth companies that are part of the @EmbarcCollectiv community but for the startup and innovation ecosystem in Tampa Bay and across the state of Florida. “At Embarc Collective, we know early-stage founders spend countless hours building their most valuable resource: talent,” said Dr. Tim Holcomb, CEO at Embarc Collective. “That’s why we’ve invested in partnerships with organizations like the Genspiration Foundation and @BankofAmerica Foundation to fund student internships and expand the region’s tech talent pipeline. This commitment is critical not just for our startups, but for the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem.” As one of the fastest-growing tech hubs in the country, our region’s momentum depends on creating stronger connections between students, founders, universities, and ecosystem partners, ensuring tech talent can circulate between venture opportunities in ways that create density in the network and produce real pathways for talent to capitalize on opportunities to build high-growth startup careers. While marketable skills can be developed through education, training programs, mentorship, and deliberate practice, we understand that optionality, what Paul O'Brien describes as "the presence of credible and competing opportunities" (see seobrien.com/workforce-deve…), cannot be built through talent programs alone. In addition to internships, Embarc expanded its collaboration with universities to create multiple entry points into startup careers. For example, more than a dozen Embarc Collective member companies have participated in STEM-focused capstone projects with Florida Polytechnic University over the past three years, including three during the current academic year, allowing students to work directly on real-world startup challenges. In addition, Embarc Collective hosted 300+ students from the University of Tampa through classes and student organizations during the current academic year as well. This program is having a tremendous impact on our member-companies as well. As Brody Enwright, Senior Director of Growth and Operations at @threshold360, shared: “It has proven to be a vital, high-impact resource, delivering a major benefit by providing top-tier talent essential to a growing company like ours.” At Embarc Collective, our mission has always been to help founders access the talent, capital, and connections they need to scale—and this work is critical to strengthening the long-term future of Florida’s innovation ecosystem. For more info about Embarc's talent efforts, visit embarccollective.com/resources/emba…. For more info about Embarc Collective or to explore membership, visit embarccollective.com/explore-member…. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

Excited about @EmbarcCollectiv's Q2 2026 Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup, powered by Tampa General Hospital (@TGHCares) Ventures, on Wednesday, May 27, beginning at 5:30 PM, in the ReliaQuest Auditorium Embarc Collective's Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup regularly draws more than 100 healthcare, technology, and innovation professionals from across the region. The Q2 HealthTech Meetup will be moderated by Theo Harvey, cofounder and CEO of Embarc Collective member-company SynsorMed, a telehealth and patient monitoring company that provides "Remote Care as a Service" (RCaaS), and will focus on balancing innovation with responsible data management and privacy practices. ​Data Management & Privacy in Healthcare explores how organizations are navigating the growing role of data in healthcare while protecting patient privacy and building trust. As digital health tools, AI, and connected systems generate more data than ever before, healthcare leaders must balance innovation with responsible data governance, security, and compliance. Speakers include: 💠 Shreesh Bhattarai, CISA, CCSK, HITRUST CCSFP, CHQP, Director of HITRUST at @aligncompliance 💠 Natalie Birindelli HCISSP, CCP, CCSFP, CDPSE, CHP, CPHIMS, SSAP, Executive Healthcare Strategist at @CDWCorp 💠 Naalti V., Manager of Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, & Compliance at Tampa General Hospital Reserve your spot today at luma.com/vjqn42wk. 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 created 1,300+ high-paying tech driving more than $100M annually in direct economic returns to the state of Florida and and tech-enabled jobs and have secured $750M in seed, venture, and growth equity, accounting more than $100M in capital invested into Florida’s startup and innovation economy each year, while also enabling member-companies to achieve a remarkable 96% survival rate. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @AmbitionAccel @FloridaC100

Florida's $1.87 billion GDP ranks Florida as the 15th largest global economy, and the state's 70% growth over the past seven years ranks Florida as "... the fastest growing economy in the world." But that's just a small example of one of the largest and most impressive economies in the world. Florida leads the nation in several other key economic categories as well. 👉 No. 1 for New Business Start-Ups 👉 No. 5 for the volume of venture transactions and #7 for total venture funding raised 👉 Top 3 State for Business 👉 No. 1 Economy in the Country 👉 No. 1 Higher Education System (for 10 consecutive years) 👉 No. 1 State for Manufacturing Job Growth 👉 No. 1 State for Net Income Migration 👉 No. 1 State for New Business Migrations 👉 No. 1 State for Black-owned businesses 👉 No. 2 State for Hispanic- and women-owned businesses And here on the Suncoast, Tampa Bay is home to one of the top startup, technology and business hubs in the nation as well. 👉 No. 1 Emerging Tech City in the Nation 👉 No. 1 Best Place for International Businesses in the Nation 👉 Top 10 U.S. Market for Tech Talent Growth and "Brain Gain" 👉 No. 8 Best Place in the U.S. to Start a Career 👉 No. 4 Best Place in the U.S. for Veterans to Live 👉 Top 30 U.S. Market for Manufacturing Employment 👉 No. 8 Fastest Growing City in the Nation And more. Let’s go! #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @EmbarcCollectiv @FloridaC100 @FloridaEDC @FLChamber @FLChamberFDN @eMergeAmericas @TampaEDC @TB_Chamber @StPeteEDC @StPeteChamber @CwaterChamber1 @VisitSPC

If you walk into the House Chamber, you will see “In God We Trust" inscribed in the marble right above the head of where I stand as the Speaker. Congress put that there as a recognition of who we are: one nation under God.  Today’s @Freedom250 Rededicate250 event is a great celebration for the country, and we're excited to be a part of it.

Two hundred and fifty years ago today — on May 17th, 1776 — the Second Continental Congress called for a day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Today, exactly 250 years later, we gather to do the same. To humbly ask once more for God's mercy and guidance — as we enter the next 250 years of this republic.

🚀Happy #FeaturedFounderFriday! Meet this week’s Featured Founder at Embarc Collective: Founder: Byron Crowell Company: Allsource Data Corporation 🔗Learn more about Byron and Allsource Data Corporation: embarccollective.com/resources/byro…

Thanks to all who came out for @EmbarcCollectiv's 2026 Early-Stage Venture Summit last week! It was an honor to be the event’s Presenting Sponsor and witness all the founder pitches, networking moments, and operator insights firsthand.

Shoutout to Compass Health for being mentioned in a recent @TBBJnews article 👏 Compass Health is helping reshape the patient experience through concierge-style care coordination and faster access to specialists across Tampa Bay. ⭐️Read more: shorturl.at/4Wtb2

Meet Byron Crowell, founder and CEO at @EmbarcCollectiv member-company Allsource Data Corporation. Tampa-based Allsource Data Corporation is an AI-native marketing platform that transforms first-party data (website, CRM, transactions) into actionable, high-converting audiences, increasing digital ad performance and resolving anonymous traffic without relying on third-party cookies. Allsource uses AI to enhance agency capabilities—not to replace agency expertise—augmenting human judgment with data-driven insights, keeping strategists in control while automating the tedious parts of audience intelligence. The company's SmartAudiences™ AI to create, test, and deploy customized lookalike audiences and targeting models based on a company's internal data, such as customer orders, website traffic, and churn data. This approach aims to reduce advertising spend by as much as 2 to 3 times and improve lead generation by focusing on high-intent, first-party data rather than external data rentals. To learn more about what inspired Byron to launch Allsource and the pain point the company's AI-native marketing platform addresses, check out Embarc Collective's "Featured Founder" article here: embarccollective.com/resources/byro…. For more information about Allsource Data Corporation, visit allsourcedata.io/index.html. For more information about Embarc Collective or to explore membership, visit embarccollective.com/explore-member…. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

@EmbarcCollectiv member-companies mark your calendars for the "How Investors Value Revenue" Workshop on Thursday, May 21 from 12 - 1 pm ET in the @CDWCorp Innovation Lab, featuring Clinton Johnston, Managing Director at @benchmarkgroup — a leading global M&A advisory firm serving founder-led and middle-market companies and an Embarc Collective corporate partner. Clinton has more than three decades of experience in M&A, cross-border transactions, and finance. He has structured and negotiated deals across industries and geographies, and works with founders on value creation, liquidity pathways, and M&A preparedness. This session will help early-stage tech founders gain valuable insights into how investors evaluate and value revenue and is specifically designed to provide a clearer, more objective view of your revenue — whether you're planning to raise, considering a future transaction, or focused on building a stronger, more resilient business. The workshop will cover the following topics: ✔️How investors analyze revenue beyond top-line growth. ✔️Key metrics, including customer concentration and revenue per employee, that signal business health and scalability. ✔️What patterns in your revenue reveal about risk. ✔️How to apply an investor's lens to your own strategic decisions. Member-companies can register to participate on the Embarc Collective members' site on Disco AI: disco.co. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

A huge thank you to @HWHLaw for supporting the 2026 Early-Stage Venture Summit as our Welcome Reception Sponsor 🚀 Their support helped bring founders, investors & ecosystem leaders together for a great kickoff evening at Small Giant on Water Street. hwhlaw.com

Meet @SteveBaggott2, co-founder and COO of one of @EmbarcCollectiv member-company @susclinicals. Sus Clinicals is a biotechnology company with technology that accelerates cancer drug and device development using a proprietary Oncopig® platform to test new drugs, devices, and diagnostics. The company joined Embarc Collective last month. The company's novel therapeutics platform, Oncopig Cancer Model® (OCM), offers a qualification of potentially life-saving cancer therapeutics through proprietary pig-based preclinical testing services that is designed to accelerate medical discoveries and preclinical testing of therapeutics, enabling the healthcare industry to access a predictive model that can identify drugs, diagnostics, and devices that have the potential for success in human clinical trials. The company has raised $5.50M in total funding to date, including a $2M grant from @theNCI (National Cancer Institute) as a part of @NIH (National Institutes of Health) SBIR grant in 2023 and a $3.50 million seed round that closed in 2024 and set the company's post-money valuation at $10.5 million. To learn more about Steve, his experience as an angel investor in @QCAVentures, and the inspiration behind Sus Clinicals, check out Embarc Collective's "Featured Founder" article here: embarccollective.com/resources/feat…. To learn more about Sus Clinicals, visit susclinicals.com. Embarc Collective, Florida’s fastest-growing startup hub, is a central landing zone for some of the most driven and focused startup builders in Florida. Our startup platform provides founders curated programming and a constantly-growing repository of startup resources and frameworks, on-demand coaching and mentorship, access to talent, connectivity to corporates, universities, and investors, workspace, assigned offices, conference rooms and event space in our 32,000 sq ft hub in downtown Tampa, 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, education, renewable energy and climate tech, and defense and national security, among sixty sectors. Member-companies have achieved a 96% survival rate, created 1,300+ tech/tech-enabled jobs, and raised $750+M in funding, driving almost $200M annually in wages and compensation and investment capital directly into Florida's economy. For more information about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

One of the biggest takeaways from @EmbarcCollectiv's 2026 Early-Stage Venture Summit, powered by @FloridaFunders, is clear: Tampa Bay is quickly becoming a growing hub for technology and innovation and its ecosystem has quickly gained national attention as a region that has the resources high-growth tech companies need to launch and scale their businesses. A recent WFTS @tampabay28 feature hosted by Tampa Bay 28 special projects reporter @MichaelPaluska spotlighted the region’s growing momentum in AI, startups, and tech innovation—and highlighted the role founders, investors, and ecosystem builders are playing in not only shaping what’s next but also reshaping and creating the jobs that the region's workforce will fill over the next decade and beyond. “Those early-stage companies that take advantage of technologies like AI in the future will likewise produce jobs in the future as well,” Embarc Collective CEO Tim Holcomb said. “I think one of the things we've seen here at Embarc is that we have 145 early-stage tech startups in the community today, they support over 1300 jobs, all Florida-based, driving over 100 million annually in direct economic benefits to the state. So I can say with confidence, a resounding yes, that those early-stage companies that will take advantage of AI in the future will likewise produce jobs in the future as well.” To access the full interview with WFTS, including insights shared by Ryan Bailey, Founder and CEO of Embarc Collective member-company @myelai_inc., visit tampabay28.com/news/region-hi…. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

Thank you to @FloridaFunders, Presenting Sponsor of the 2026 Early-Stage Venture Summit 🚀 Their gracious support helped bring together founders, investors & operators from across Florida for two days of startup momentum, connection & collaboration. ⭐️ floridafunders.com

Tampa Bay’s startup momentum is getting national attention ⚡ A new @tampabay28 feature highlights the region’s rise as a hub for AI + tech innovation, including insights from Embarc Collective member Ryan Bailey and CEO Tim Holcomb. ⭐️Read the feature: shorturl.at/ponRn

According to the latest data from the @FLChamber @FLChamberFDN Foundation and @FloridaTaxWatch, more wealth relocates each year to Florida than to any other place in the U.S. In fact, approximately $39.2 billion in net wealth transfers to Florida EACH YEAR To put that into perspective, that amounts to $4.48 million in individual net assets transferring to the Sunshine State every hour Today, some 115 billionaires now call Florida home; and their numbers are swelling each year. In the past three years alone, the following billionaires have established residence in the Sunshine State: Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Ross, Ken Griffin, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and most recently, Howard Schultz, among many others. Why? 1. Capital shifts to where it is treated well. 2. Where wealth migrates, good jobs tend to follow. 3. When newcomers succeed in a location, others want to join them. For the full story, check out this @SiteSelection article: siteselection.com/florida-why-fl…. @AmbitionAccel @FloridaC100 @EmbarcCollectiv @eMergeAmericas

🚀Happy #FeaturedFounderFriday! Meet this week’s Featured Founder at Embarc Collective: Founder: Steve Baggot Company: Sus Clinicals Inc 🔗Learn more about Steve and Sus Clinicals: embarccollective.com/resources/feat…