Attracting the Builders: The Move to Florida
The Twitterverse has highlighted the influx of talent migrating from California and other major tech markets to Florida. While the Twitter chatter has mostly been concentrated on South Florida, over the past few years, we’ve seen a similar influx of talent in other parts of the state, including Tampa and St. Pete. Our team at […]
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Recap: 2020 Glaring Gap Summit
Summit Recap The Glaring Gap Summit, made possible with support from JPMorgan Chase, culminated last week. Our vision was to create an environment where women have access to the resources, expertise, and network to confidently lead as angel investors and within venture firms in Florida’s technology community. The Summit leveraged learnings from our Glaring Gap Report […]
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The Glaring Gap Summit: Investor Education Day
Just over a year ago, we received data about the gap that exists nationally between what women startup founders raise on average to grow their companies versus what men raise. Less than 20% of global venture deal volume in 2019 went to startups with at least one woman founder. In terms of total dollars raised, […]
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Let’s Eliminate the Glaring Gap
Nationally it’s known that women entrepreneurs operate with less capital and over fewer funding rounds than men. We also know that the volume of tech entrepreneurs is much lower when comparing women to men. We had hypotheses on why, but we wanted to qualify the extent of the problem, specifically in the state of […]
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Recap: 2020 Southeast CEO Summit #SECEOSummit
This year our CEO Summit looked a bit different – but in doing it virtually, we were able to partner with 13 venture funds to bring together startups from across the Southeast looking at raising an institutional round of funding in the next year. 50 startups participated in bite-sized sessions over the course of 3 […]
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Preview: 2020 Embarc Collective Southeast CEO Summit
As early-startup founders, we find ourselves in the weeds of the business focused on every detail to make sure that we can push the business to demonstrate its traction potential. However, when you’re continually focused in the business (as opposed to on the business), you may lose sight of larger strategic opportunities ahead of you. […]
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Milestone: Reaching 100 Weeks of The Weekly Collective
Today we released the 100th edition of our newsletter, The Weekly Collective. Reaching a milestone like this, 100 consecutive weeks of compiling stories and creating resources for the startup community we serve, oftentimes looks easy from the outside. I wanted to take a moment to share some of the “sausage-making” that goes behind the scenes. […]
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Starting Out: What’s It Like to Work in a Startup?
Once again, Embarc Collective had the opportunity to partner with the Ryan Nece Foundation, a youth leadership program, on a workshop with high school leaders about technology startups. With guidance from members of the Embarc Collective community, these students learned about what it’s like to work in a technology startup in Tampa Bay. At Embarc […]
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Lessons Learned Coaching Early-Stage Tech Startups
Over the last year, I’ve had the chance to shape Tampa Bay’s newest startup hub, Embarc Collective and how it supports Tampa Bay’s startup talent. Working directly with our startup community gave me the chance to support passionate entrepreneurs at all stages across various industries (44 companies at the time of writing). Each week I […]
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Building in the Bay
I remember visiting Tampa for baseball tournaments when I was younger, but I never thought that it would be the place I called home. I was close to finishing my undergraduate degree at the University of Alabama and decided to take a trip down to Tampa to spend time with my dad. He invited me […]
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