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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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Featured Founder: Fallon Williams

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 Fallon Williams, CEO of GladysDrift LLC, which builds quantum-enhanced energy reduction applications for data centers. Please provide a brief one-liner about your company. Our […]

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Featured Founder: Zachary Perdomo

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 James Harkness, CEO of Ybor.ai, enterprise-grade platform that automates and standardizes software delivery, enabling organizations to ship secure, scalable software faster with measurable impact. […]

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Embarc Collective Welcomes Tom O’Neil to Board of Directors

Embarc Collective Welcomes Tom O’Neil to Board of Directors We are thrilled to welcome Tom O’Neil, Tampa Market Lead for Brixey & Meyer and seasoned CPA, to the Embarc Collective Board of Directors as Treasurer. Tom brings a wealth of experience in audit, assurance, tax, advisory, and strategic financial leadership that will be invaluable as […]

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Featured Founder: Zachary Perdomo

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 Zachary Perdomo, Co-Founder & COO of Alchemain, an innovative cloud-based platform designed to empower developers by automating the process of dependency management. Please provide […]

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Embarc Collective Welcomes USF President Dr. Moez Limayem to Board of Directors

Embarc Collective Welcomes USF President Dr. Moez Limayem to Board of Directors We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Moez Limayem, President of the University of South Florida (USF), to the Embarc Collective Board of Directors. His appointment enriches our leadership with seasoned insight, diverse networks, and a steadfast commitment to community and innovation. Our board members […]

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Featured Founder: Rafael Fernandes

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 Rafael Fernandes of Compass Health, a patient-centric care coordination and navigation service. Compass Health helps individuals and families access high-quality specialists, manage appointments, with […]

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Featured Founder: Travis Weathers

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 Travis Weathers of VTEM Labs, a service-disabled veteran-owned company that provides software and logistics support for continuous threat exposure management, penetration testing, incident response, […]

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Featured Founder: William Mingione

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 William Mingione of DirectLend.AI, a platform that matches business owners with their top financing options in minutes, eliminating the need for brokers and helping […]

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Featured Founder: Andrew Montalenti

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 Andrew Montalenti of PX, a daily developer tool that helps backend engineers go from working code on a laptop to deployed code in a […]

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