Ecosystem Highlight: Desiree Lazaro
Welcome to our Ecosystem Highlight series, where you’ll meet the innovators in our vast ecosystem of startup builders from Tampa-St. Petersburg, who are actively solving some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Desiree Lazaro, Founder & CEO of Motiq Technologies Inc, an AI-powered care coordination infrastructure for hospitals and care coordination teams, reducing care […]
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Ecosystem Highlight: Ken Christoper
Welcome to our Ecosystem Highlight series, where you’ll meet the innovators in our vast ecosystem of startup builders from Tampa-St. Petersburg, who are actively solving some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Ken Christopher, Head of Sales at Fabrics, a company that empowers organizations to achieve cloud efficiency in Azure & AWS at scale, […]
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Embarc Collective Expands Talent Efforts, Connecting 1,000+ Students and 135+ Startups Across Tampa Bay
TAMPA, FLORIDA – MAY 19, 2026 – Embarc Collective today announced the expansion of its efforts to develop and connect the next generation of startup talent across the Tampa Bay region, broadening support across universities, founders, and ecosystem partners. As demand for skilled workers rises alongside the region’s growth as one of the fastest-growing tech hubs in […]
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Featured Founder: Byron Crowell
Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg, who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Byron Crowell, Founder & CEO of Allsource Data Corporation, which helps businesses use first-party data to build smarter audiences, improve targeting, lower acquisition costs, […]
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Event Recap: 2026 Early-Stage Venture Summit, Powered by FLF
The 2026 Early-Stage Venture Summit, Powered by Florida Funders, brought together more than 80 founders and 45 investors for two days of high-impact conversations designed to strengthen connections between the entrepreneurs building the future and the investors helping fund it. Hosted at Embarc Collective in Tampa, the summit created a space for early-stage founders to […]
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Featured Member: Steve Baggott
Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg, who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Steve Baggott, COO at Sus Clinicals, which enables healthcare clients to advance the most promising cancer therapeutics to human clinicals more quickly, predictably, and […]
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Featured Founder: Brock Lister
Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg, who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Brock Lister of Visitry, which is a Home Health marketplace for agencies and clinicians. What were you doing previously, and what inspired you to […]
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FC100 Launches New Healthcare & Life Sciences Accelerator Track at Embarc Collective
Embarc Collective and Florida’s Leading CEO’s Team Up to Build the Next Generation of Companies and Compete for Tampa Bay’s Economic Future Embarc Collective is proud to partner with the Florida Council of 100 (FC100), a premier network of the state’s most influential CEOs and business leaders, on the expansion of its Ambition Accelerated platform. […]
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Featured Founder: Waqas Shabir
Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg, who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Waqas Shabir Co-Founder & CRO of Stackyon, which provides edge-deployed face-verified workforce intelligence for high-hazard industries via 56ms verification, real-time certification and permit checks, […]
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Dr. Tinashe Chandauka Joins Embarc Collective as New Healthcare and Life Sciences Coach
Full Press Release Here. Embarc Collective is expanding its bench of coaches with the addition of Dr. Tinashe Chandauka as our new Healthcare and Life Sciences Coach. Before joining Embarc Collective’s roster of expert coaches, Dr. Chandauka was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Texas Medical Center Innovation’s Accelerator for Cancer Therapeutics (ACT) and was selected as a […]
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Featured Founder: Samir Hassan
Welcome to our Featured Founder series, where you’ll meet startup founders from Tampa-St. Petersburg, who are building and scaling their ventures to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. We interviewed Samir Hassan, CEO of Critikality, which provides edge-deployed face-verified workforce intelligence for high-hazard industries via 56ms verification, real-time certification and permit checks, and unauthorized […]
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Recap: Q1 Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup on Healthy Communities & Technology
At our Q1 Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup Powered by Embarc Collective & TGH Ventures, founders, operators, and healthcare leaders explored how technology can help build healthier communities—without compromising trust, access, or human connection. Moderated by Rafael Fernandes, CEO & Co-Founder of Compass Health, the discussion featured Kim Christine of Tampa General Hospital and Joseph Kiefer […]
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