Our Summer Party brought together founders, startup teams, families, and ecosystem supporters for an evening of connection, conversation, and celebration! ⭐️Join the ecosystem for more member-only community-building events like this: shorturl.at/5rwFc

More than 1,200 graduate and undergraduate students applied for internships at @EmbarcCollectiv this summer. Meet @EmbarcCollectiv's Summer 2026 Genspiration Foundation Internship cohort. They include: 💠Anenka Colan-Rojas (USF 26 BBA Economics), Sales, Threshold 360 💠Dayne Guy (USF 27 MS Computer Engineering), AI Engineering, BiaTech Corporation 💠Jazlynn Hirschhorn (USF 27 MBA), Digital Marketing, CaresLink 💠Alianah Camacho Joya (USF 26 BS Digital Marketing & Analytics), Digital Sales & Marketing, Threshold 360 💠Grace Kelly (USF 27 BA Economics & Pre-Law), Sales, Women in Tech & Entrepreneurship 💠Mustafa Mannan (USF 27 MS Computer Science), AI Engineering, Trustate 💠Keisha Martinez (USF 26 BBA Marketing), Social Media & Content, IYA 💠Mel Mello (USF 27 BS Biomedical Sciences), Marketing & Sales, ryco.io 💠Jake N. (USF 27 BASc Information Technology), Operations & Platform Management, Soteria 360 💠Minh Ha Pham (USF 26 BS Business Analytics & Information Systems), Data Integration & Business Intelligence, Esencia Property Maintenance, Inc 5000 Company 💠Ayush Pramanik (USF 28 Computer Science), AI Engineering, Clarky AI 💠Kautilya Veer (USF 28 BS Computer Science & Astronomy), Data & AI Engineering, Stablein Solutions For more info about our Genspiration Internship Program, visit embarccollective.com/resourc…. Developing and nurturing talent is crucial not only for Embarc Collective's community of 145 Florida-based early-stage tech companies but for the startup and innovation ecosystem in Tampa Bay and across the state of Florida. As Florida's largest tech startup hub and one of the fastest-growing hubs in the country, we understand that our region’s momentum depends on creating stronger connections between students, founders, universities, and ecosystem partners, ensuring tech talent can circulate between venture opportunities in ways that create density in the network and produce real pathways for talent to capitalize on opportunities to build high-growth startup careers. Last fall, we expanded our partnership with the Genspiration Foundation – the family foundation of USF President Emerita Dr. Judy Genshaft. The $175,000 grant marked an important milestone for Embarc's efforts to provide top talent from the @USouthFlorida and FUSE Program schools with hands-on, immersive learning opportunities with early-stage tech startups through year-around paid internships. Unlike traditional internship programs in which students are left “on their own,” we wrap startup programming and coaching and mentorship around the internship assignment to enhance the learning experience for students in ways that prepare the next generation of entrepreneurial talent within our community. For more info about our talent efforts, visit embarccollective.com/resourc… For more info about Embarc Collective and to explore membership, visit embarccollective.com/explore…. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @TB_Times @FloridaTrend @TBBJnewsroom @TampaBayInno @FloridaC100 @FLChamber @TampaEDC @TBBWMagazine

A BIG thank you to @KenBabby, CEO of the @RaysBaseball and a member of the majority ownership group, who shared the stage this morning with @JAughey_TBSC, Senior Vice President of Sports Tourism at the @SportsTampaBay, in a fireside chat as part of @EmbarcCollectiv's quarterly Builder Series Program. For a recap of Ken's fireside chat with Jason, visit embarccollective.com/resourc…. Drawing on his experience in professional sports ownership and leadership, Babby shared lessons on building enduring organizations, creating cultures of accountability, and balancing immediate operational priorities with ambitious long-term goals. For founders navigating their own growth journeys, the message resonated: build with the future in mind, but never lose sight of the fundamentals. Long-term success is achieved through thousands of small decisions, a commitment to continuous improvement, and a team aligned around a shared vision. Ken began his career with The @washingtonpost as an intern before working his way up to Chief Revenue Officer, where he oversaw $500 million in annual advertising revenue and led the company’s transition into the digital era. After leaving The Washington Post, Ken developed a successful track in in professional sports, having owned minor-league teams in Akron, Ohio (the @AkronRubberDuck) and Jacksonville (the @JaxShrimp Baseball Club) before joining forces last fall with Patrick Z Zalupski, founder and CEO at @Dream_Finders Homes and Bill Cosgrove, CEO of @UnionHomeMtg, to purchase the Tampa Bay Rays from Stuart Sternberg. The Builder Series by Embarc Collective is a quarterly educational program that provides unparalleled access to business icons and thought leaders in Tampa Bay and across the state of Florida — each sharing the innovative leadership lessons and frameworks that led them to success in their respective careers. Join us for our Q3 2026 Builder Series for an impactful fireside chat with Dr. Moez Limayem (@USF_Pres), President of the @USouthFlorida. The event will be held on Wednesday, September 9, at 8:30 AM ET in the @ReliaQuest Auditorium at Embarc Collective. Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information! For more information about Embarc Collective or to explore membership, visit embarccollective.com/. #EcosystemBuilders #Startups #Founders #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Innovation #Technology #StartupTB #StartupFL @TB_Times @TBBJnewsroom @TampaBayInno @MLB @TampaEDC @TB_Chamber

An absolute thrill to be with everybody today! A great room with wonderful energy and passion around building the next chapter of leadership in Tampa Bay! #raysup

Thank you to everyone who joined our Q2 Builder Series featuring Ken Babby, CEO of @RaysBaseball The conversation delivered valuable insights on leadership, culture, growth, and building organizations that stand the test of time. 📖 Read the recap: shorturl.at/crV0z

@EmbarcCollectiv's 2026 Foundations Series Program, an expert-driven, 12-week curricular program designed for tech founders that are ready to move from ideation stage to pre-launch MVP development stage, wrapped up this week with a closing ceremony and reception in the @ReliaQuest Auditorium to celebrate the success. Meet the early-stage tech startups that completed the program and the founders that lead them. 💠AI Construction Project Intelligence Platform (Marie-Ella Hendricks), an AI-powered project intelligence platform and unified decision-support layer for general contractors. 💠AIroraSense (Jeffrey Sullivan), an AI-assisted verification platform focused on electric distribution infrastructure that validates completed work against engineering, construction, billing, and mapping expectations, generating objective, audit-ready verification. 💠Blue Zone Therapeutics (Aurélie Joly-Amado, PhD), an biotech platform dedicated to breakthrough treatments and gene therapies for age-related diseases in companion animals. 💠DAGR Group LLC (Boris Levin and Hlib Samsoniuk), an AI-driven narrative intelligence and decision-support platform that detects early-stage information threats across open-source environments. 💠DayOnes Live (Eric Bush), an interactive fan engagement platform and mobile app that allows artists, athletes, and venues to connect directly with their audiences during live events. 💠HealX (Samuel Peillon, PT, DPT, CSCS), an AI-powered telehealth platform that delivers comprehensive musculoskeletal evaluations and PT treatment plans, democratizing access to expert physical therapy care. 💠OrgConnect (Jordan Socarras), an all-in-one operating platform for membership organizations, starting with fraternities. 💠OutTheDoor.Auto (Frank Nunez), a fintech automotive marketplace that provides car buyers with accurate "out-the-door" (OTD) price estimates that guides car buyers through the car buying experience. 💠SortIQ™ by Smart Edge Technologies (Christina Dills), an AI-powered textile sorting solution that uses Meta Ray-Ban glasses for hands-free garment ID, grading, and routing. 💠TASKOD (Henry Castillo), a tech-enabled marketplace for home services that allows clients to post home service jobs, securely fund projects, and release payment after work is approved. 💠Timegility (Vanessa Saunders), an AI-enabled time strategy and workflow platform. 💠Vitals AI (Jack Csenge, CFP®), an AI-driven platform that helps financial advisors identify bottlenecks and automates practice reporting, help maintain advisor data with a 2-way sync functionality. A BIG shout out to Anna Warnke for leading the program! For more info about the Program, visit embarccollective.notion.site…. For more info about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com/. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

Congratulations to Embarc Collective member company @krewsocial1 on its work with @TGHCares, a member of our Corporate Partner Program, to strengthen employee connection, engagement, and workplace culture. 🎥Check out the story today: shorturl.at/WaPUY

Huge thank you to Nicole Schoen for hosting a member-exclusive yoga experience for our founders! Events like these are vital; our founders perform at their best when they can invest in their own well-being as they build their companies! ⭐️Learn more: embarccollective.com/explore…

Every company we've walked into has the same problem. The people who actually know how the business runs are carrying that map in their heads. It never makes it onto paper. And it's costing them. That's what we fix at Myelai. We map how the company actually operates. Find where money is leaking. Act on the highest leverage point first. Sat down with @tampabay28 at the @EmbarcCollectiv venture summit and talked about what that looks like. The companies sustainably growing the fastest right now are the ones willing to try something small, prove it works, and scale from there. Map. Diagnose. Act. Adapt. Thanks to @MichaelPaluska for the coverage and @TimRayHolcomb for continuing to create real opportunities for founders in the community. Full interview: tampabay28.com/news/region-h…

Thrilled for Speros and @MoffittNews to help lead FORGE, a bold effort that will help position Tampa Bay as a national hub for #radiopharmaceuticals alongside regional partners including @EmbarcCollectiv, @USouthFlorida and @PHSCedu.

Congratulations to Embarc Collective member company Running Mate on becoming an Official Verified Community on Strava 🎉 ⭐️Read the press release for this incredible milestone today: getrunningmate.com/strava-pr…

We're proud to welcome our largest new member cohort yet to Embarc Collective 🚀 We're excited to support these companies and their leaders as they build and scale in Tampa Bay. ⭐️Learn more about membership: embarccollective.com/explore…

Thrilled for Speros and @MoffittNews to help lead FORGE, a bold effort that will help position Tampa Bay as a national hub for #radiopharmaceuticals alongside regional partners including @EmbarcCollectiv, @USouthFlorida and @PHSCedu. Radiopharmaceuticals are targeted therapies that deliver radiation directly to cancer cells with precision, offering new ways to reach cancers that have been historically difficult to effectively treat. moffitt.org/newsroom/news-re…

Our CEO, Tim Holcomb, recently joined the CyberBay Podcast to discuss Tampa Bay’s growing startup ecosystem, the importance of founder support, emerging technology, and how partnerships are helping strengthen the region’s future workforce. ⭐️Listen today: shorturl.at/gFfqK

We’re excited to share this week’s #EcosystemHighlight, a series that features founders and leaders from our vast community of innovators! This week, we’re highlighting Desiree Lazaro, Founder & CEO of Motiq! 🔗Learn more about Desiree and Motiq: shorturl.at/NW0G0

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Q2 Tampa Bay HealthTech Meetup! This quarter, our panelists expounded on cybersecurity, compliance, patient trust, and the evolving role of AI in healthcare. ⭐️Check out the the official recap blog: shorturl.at/MCnSQ

#PHSCedu is proud to partner with the new FORGE coalition alongside @MoffittNews, @EmbarcCollectiv, @USFHealth and Speros to help prepare students for careers in health care, technology and emerging industries. Read more: bizjournals.com/tampabay/new… #TampaBay #WorkforceDevelopment

Shared the main stage yesterday at the US AI Congress in Washington DC with Brent Rippe, Managing Partner at RKCA Investment Banking, Bobbye Jo Green (moderator), Head of Programming at @StationDC_HQ, Robert Sheesley, Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at @slavic401k, and Tyler Mantel, Partner at Roll Tack Ventures, in a discussion on "Accelerating the AI Economy." Congratulations to Zack Huhn, Executive Director of the US AI Congress and Chairman of the Enterprise Technology Association, Summer Crenshaw, CEO of the Enterprise Technology Association (@Enterprise69902), and their team for organizing an outstanding two-day cross-industry forum that brought together leaders researching, legislating, funding, architecting, designing, building and deploying artificial intelligence from all 50 states. For more information about the US AI Congress, visit usaicongress.org/. For more information about @EmbarcCollectiv, visit embarccollective.com/. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #AI #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL

We're eager to announce our participation in @MoffittNews' new regional coalition FORGE, alongside several other globally accredited institutions. 🚀Read the full press release: embarccollective.com/resourc… 🚀Read the official @TBBJnewsroom story: shorturl.at/3CVp7

Very excited to announce @EmbarcCollectiv's partnership with @MoffittNews and Speros by Moffitt, Moffitt’s massive $1.5 billion, 775-acre global patient care and research and innovation campus in Pasco County. Embarc Collective will lead Speros's new Florida Oncology and Radiopharmaceutical Growth Engine, or FORGE, startup incubation program, an innovative effort to bring new precision medicine solutions for cancer treatment across different modalities to market. “FORGE represents a transformational opportunity to position the Tampa Bay region at the forefront of one of the most promising advances in cancer care,” Speros President and Moffitt Chief Integration Officer Josh Carpenter (@jdcarpenter1) said. “By bringing together these regional partners, we are building the talent, infrastructure and innovation ecosystem needed to accelerate next-generation radiopharmaceutical therapies." The collaboration includes Moffitt Cancer Center, Speros by Moffitt, Embarc Collective, the @USouthFlorida, and Pasco-Hernando State College (@PHSCedu). The goal is “… to build an end-to-end radiopharmaceutical ecosystem that could generate 4,000 jobs and $2.6 billion in economic impact over the next decade” and establish the Tampa Bay region as a preeminent life sciences and healthcare hub for next-generation modalities that deliver best-in-class precision medicine. For more information about the new partnership, check out @anjelicamrubin's recent article in the @TBBJnewsroom here: bizjournals.com/tampabay/new…. Earlier this year, Embarc announced the addition of its first radiopharmaceutical tech startup to its community, TMAB Therapeutics, Inc, and named TMAB Therapeutics' founder and CEO, Dr. Tinashe Chandauka, as our first dedicated Healthcare and Life Sciences Coach (for more information, see embarccollective.com/resourc…). FORGE plans to launch an integrated theranostics center, a startup incubator with Embarc, imaging technologist training programs at PHSC and nuclear pharmacy opportunities at USF to allow companies to move from discovery and production to clinic use anchored at Speros. “We are excited to partner with Speros and Moffitt Cancer Center [to] support efforts to bring radiopharmaceutical and other precision medicine modalities to market through the Speros FORGE startup incubator," Embarc CEO Tim Holcomb said. "By bringing together world-class partners across research, health care, workforce development and entrepreneurship, we have an opportunity to build a globally competitive radiopharmaceutical and precision oncology hub right here in Tampa Bay." For more information about Embarc Collective, visit embarccollective.com/. #Startups #HighGrowth #VentureCapital #Founders #Technology #Innovation #EcosystemBuilders #StartupTB #StartupFL @FloridaC100 @FloridaEDC @FLChamber @FLACommerce @TB_Times @TampaEDC @TB_Chamber @PascoEDC @PascoChamber