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Your Startup Guide to Strategic Planning

Use this outline to guide your annual planning process As we dive deeper into Q4, it’s an opportune time to reflect on your startup’s past year of growth and plan for what comes next. This is a critical practice for startups—to zoom out of day-to-day execution and make a deliberate effort to work on the […]

Featured Founder: Matthew Basile of Naya Software

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 Matthew Basile of Naya Software, which is a contract management platform that enables parties to leverage data to automate all aspects of commercial real […]

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Embarc Collective Receives Truist Foundation Grant to Further Strengthen Tampa Bay’s Thriving Tech Startup Community

The grant will support early-stage startups through Embarc’s customized coaching program Embarc Collective, Florida’s fastest-growing startup hub, today announced a $50,000 grant from Truist Foundation, a purpose-driven financial services company, to support Embarc Collective’s customized coaching for startup founders. Embarc Collective’s professional and management training provides technical support, education, and network access for entrepreneurs – […]

Community Announcements

Embarc Collective and ReliaQuest Team Up to Host Florida’s Premier Women Investor Program, The Glaring Gap Summit

Embarc launches partnership with ReliaQuest to set a new standard for supporting startups in Florida’s booming entrepreneurial community Embarc Collective partners with ReliaQuest this November to set a new standard for supporting Florida’s booming startup community. As part of the partnership, we will host Florida’s premier women investor training program, The Glaring Gap Summit. Read more […]

Leadership

Tactical Guidance to Level Up Your Leadership

Featuring: Derrick Brooks, EVP Corporate & Community Business Development, VSG and Pro Football Hall of Famer, Allie Felix, VP Platform for Embarc Collective, Heather Rivas, GM of Boulon Brasserie, Allison Casper Adams, Owner/Operator, Oxford Commons Hospitality Company, Brian Murphy, Founder and CEO of ReliaQuest, Punit Shah, CEO of Liberty Group and Co-Owner of Miami Marlins MLB, Lakshmi […]

Featured Founder

Featured Founder: Azza Diasti-Kennedy of Pet Harmony

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 Azza Diasti-Kennedy of Pet Harmony, a telehealth veterinary services app for pets & pet owners. What were you doing previously and what inspired you […]

Recap: 2022 Growth Marketing Summit

Photo Credit: XoXo by Cortni With the support of TriNet and Brex, we recently hosted a Growth Marketing Summit for the Embarc Collective membership. As so many of the members of Embarc Collective grow and build out leadership teams, we wanted to create space for those individuals to learn about different approaches to take with […]

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Welcoming Druid Ventures

We are excited to welcome Druid Ventures as a new Venture Capital sponsor to Embarc Collective. Druid Ventures recently raised a $12.9M fund to invest in early-stage companies in the Web 3.0 space. How will Druid Ventures be involved with the Embarc Collective community? The goal of this partnership is to create strong connectivity […]

Featured Founder: Anthony Nagendraraj and Marissa Huggins from Spontivly Inc.

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 Anthony Nagendraraj and Marissa Huggins from Spontivly, a data analytics tool that integrates with a company’s suite of community tools to allow for greater […]