Inaugural “Back to School” Laptop Donation Drive Draws Community-Wide Support to Empower Kids with Technology
Over 130 devices & $5,000 cash donated over 3 days to benefit local kids! Thanks to the generosity of many throughout the Tampa Bay community, more than 120 laptops and tablets were donated for the benefit of middle and high school members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay. The drive, which ran […]
Tampa Bay Community Rallies During COVID to Help Local Teens with a Laptop Donation Drive
Local tech organizations are partnering to get laptops into the hands of underprivileged kids! With so many school-aged children being forced into e-learning for the 2020-2021 school year, there is growing concern about whether low-to-moderate income households have a sufficient number of laptops or other devices so that all children have the proper tools they […]
EDA Grant For Florida Startups Yields Lakeland Group Investment
Seeds sown by Tampa Bay Wave and Upsurge Florida lead to investment in Wave member technology company, JustProtect. Seeds planted by a federal grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to promote investor awareness and seed funding activity in Florida have recently blossomed into a significant investment in the Tampa-based technology company, JustProtect. The […]
Wave Steps Up to Support Local Startups with New Emergency Relief Loan Fund in Response to COVID19
In early April 2020, Tampa Bay Wave was so moved by the economic stress on our founders that we were among the first in the Tampa Bay community to establish an emergency loan fund, called the Rising Tide Relief Fund. We were moved to do so watching the stress our startup founders were experiencing. Like […]
Tampa Bay Wave Selects 15 New Tech Startups for the 2020 TechDiversity Accelerator Cohort
Tampa Bay Wave is proud to announce their 21st accelerator cohort for the 2020 TechDiversity Accelerator. Tampa Bay Wave has selected fifteen tech companies to join their cohort for the TechDiversity Accelerator, a program that has been supported by the Nielsen Foundation since 2018. This is an international program designed for early-stage tech companies that […]
Safe & Productive Coworking – Wave’s Plans for Reopening Our Innovation Center in Response to COVID
UPDATED as of June 1, 2020 (Check back frequently for updates) As we continue to monitor the situation at hand, we have your health and safety top of mind. Since closing to the public in mid March, we have been steadily planning for the eventual reopening of our downtown Tampa location, including some changes you […]
Growing the tech industry: How a Wave entrepreneur played role in funding for video conferencing startup
It took veteran entrepreneur Steve MacDonald about a half-hour to see the potential in Vizetto, a technology company with a video conferencing platform to enable remote teamwork. Steve MacDonald After that meeting in March 2019 in a conference room at Tampa Bay Wave, an enthusiastic MacDonald, executive entrepreneur-in-residence at Wave and a partner and member […]
#GivingTuesdayNow
Over the past several weeks, we have seen how fast things change on both a global and individual human level. While the full impact of the COVID-19 crisis is still unknown, the stories of human resilience, love, and generosity continue to flood in. On #GivingTuesdayNow, Tampa Bay Wave asks you to continue to keep good […]
Innovation at Work COVID-19
Truly, the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is making on the lives of families around the world, not to mention here at home, is unprecedented. Beyond the fact that people around the globe are ill or dying, we are all dealing with some kind of “new normal”, for at least the foreseeable future, thanks to […]
The Myth of the Insta-Entrepreneur
The Myth of the Insta-Entrepreneur by Andre Hampton, founder and managing director of StreamS Capital and of Factory 114. With a few hundred bucks, a snazzy social media profile and a couple of clever posts, everyone can look like a successful “Insta” entrepreneur, right? Not exactly. The fantasy might look like that, but the reality […]
