2023 Year End Message From Our CEO
Built for Founders, Fueled By Community As we close another impactful year, I extend my deepest gratitude to everyone in our Tampa Bay Wave community. Your ongoing support and engagement have been pivotal in empowering tech startup founders amidst their journey of building and scaling innovative solutions. This collective effort not only advances the ventures […]
Hello 2021!
By Linda Olson, CEO, Tampa Bay Wave If you are like me, you are both glad that 2020 is over but also still reflecting on what has to be one of the most unusual years… dare I say “unprecedented.” While it was truly exhausting, I am not only very proud of the work that Tampa […]
Tampa Bay Waves Leadership Panel on Diversity – An Economic Imperative
Entrepreneurial diversity is not only the right thing to do. It’s an economic imperative, according to a leadership panel at the launch of Tampa Bay Wave’s TechDiversity Accelerator. The panel was the centerpiece of an hour long virtual kickoff for the accelerator program. Fifteen tech companies from around the United States and Latin America, including […]
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 […]
Fruutfull among finalists at SoGal Florida, advances to national competition
Fruutfull’s co-founders and co-CEOs, Ellery Linder (left) and Danielle Rushton. Fruutfull, a one-year-old Tampa company with a unique design that allows women to personalize their brassiere size, is gaining traction. The company placed in the top five for Startup of the Year powered by Established, and accepted invitations to join Embarc Collective and the Tampa […]
Tampa Bay Wave Accelerator Features Startups From Healthtech, Adtech, Fintech, and more!
Tampa Bay Wave says its new cohort of accelerator startups may be its most diverse ever, in terms of the wide range of problems the young companies are solving. The nine tech companies that make up the fall 2019 accelerator cohort include three healthtech companies, two marketing/adtech companies, two consumer product companies, one fintech company […]
Immertec Takes 2nd Place At The 7th Annual Startup Of The Year Competition
Here is a closer look at the Top 5 Finalists that pitched live to an All-Star Panel of Judges and the #SOTYSummit audience. 2019 Startup of the Year™ Winner re:3D (Houston & Austin, TX; San Juan, PR) – Committed to decimating the coast and scale barriers to industrial 3D printing. After pioneering the world’s first […]
Grow Tampa Bay Here
Grow Tampa Bay Here by Chandra Clines, Manager Tax & Accounting Services with Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund Technology is the future. Over 50% of the jobs will be automated. We need more diversity in tech. If you listen to headlines, it is apparent how important technology companies will be in the future. Tampa Bay is […]
Verapy makes Tampa Bay’s 2019 Inno Under 25
A burgeoning tech scene flanked by two major universities in the same city has helped usher a new generation into Tampa Bay’s startup space. We’ve got 11 of the region’s best (and youngest) entrepreneurs, technologists and innovators below for our first ever list of Tampa Bay entrepreneurs ages 25 or under. Jonathan Truong, (25), co-founder […]
