Independent reporting on Florida’s startup economy — the founders, the funding, the launches, and the community events that actually move things.
Florida’s startup scene has no single center. Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg hold the densest founder community in the state: coworking floors, accelerator cohorts, and a networking calendar that runs year-round. Central Florida’s growth story is increasingly about infrastructure and lifestyle development as much as technology. Across the state the pattern is consistent — companies built with less outside capital than their coastal counterparts, and founders who lean harder on relationships and personal brand to get traction.
This page collects our Florida startup coverage in one place: the latest reporting, funding news, regional context, and the resources founders ask us about most.
The latest Florida startup reporting
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Startup funding in Florida
Florida venture activity is thinner and more relationship-driven than what you would find in Silicon Valley or New York, which makes it harder to track from the outside. We report the rounds we can verify — and, just as often, the models founders here are using instead of venture capital.
Where Florida startup activity clusters
Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg. Where we do most of our reporting, and where the founder community is densest. Start with the best coworking spaces in Tampa and St. Pete and where founders actually show up.
Central Florida. Growth here is being shaped by infrastructure and lifestyle development as much as by technology — see how that is reshaping the region.
Statewide. Some of the most consequential Florida stories are about connective tissue rather than any one city, like the Florida-Israel Business Accelerator.
Resources Florida founders ask us about
- The best coworking spaces in Tampa and St. Pete for founders and freelancers
- Tampa Bay networking events and business groups: where to show up
- Just opened: new Tampa Bay businesses to check out
- Business development for Florida tech companies is not a hire, it is a system
- From founder to thought leader: the playbook for getting press and podcasts
- Running multiple businesses without burning out
Events and community
Accelerator applications, summits, meetups and the year-round Tampa Bay calendar.
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