TampaBay.Ventures
Venture capitalTampa · Seed–Series A · 4 people tracked
Also known as TAMPA BAY VENTURES, LLC
Investment thesis
TampaBay.Ventures focuses on supporting promising startups in the Tampa Bay area, with the goal of fostering a strong, internationally recognized regional startup ecosystem. The firm positions itself as a local venture capital backer committed to the growth of entrepreneurship in the Tampa Bay region.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 10 of 22 portfolio companiesSaaS ×5Fintech ×4Consumer ×2Enterprise Software ×2PropTech ×2AI & Machine Learning ×1Cybersecurity ×1Data & Infrastructure ×1
HQs:United States×6
Investments · 22 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2022 · 12021 · 12 dated
Slide is a home insurance provider offering customizable coverage for homeowners, including homeowners, condominium, landlord, and commercial residential policies with add-ons like additional living expenses, valuables, and hurricane screen enclosure coverage.
FintechInsurTechTampa, US
Bruce Lucas(Bruce Lucas is Chief Executive Officer of the Issuer.)Shannon Lucas(Shannon Lucas is Chief Risk Officer of the Issuer.)Robert Gries(Director)
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersAdit Ventures Management, LlcAgilitas Private EquityAlba Infra PartnersALIVE Israel HealthTech FundAlkemi Growth Capital+73 more
Betr is a real money gaming mobile app offering player-stat pick games, a social sportsbook, a social casino, and skill-based arcade games where users can win cash prizes.
ConsumerGamingSports Tech
Co-investorsAntiElizabeth Street VenturesFlorida FundersFlucas VenturesFuel Venture CapitalGrit Capital Partners+5 more
Enaia builds an AI-based software platform for commercial real estate brokers, embedding brokerage workflows into the software to serve as an operating system for CRE brokerage.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaSTampa, US
David Young(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardNeil Berkman(Director)Mark Accomando(Director)in
Co-investorsHeartland Ventures S7LAB VenturesHeartland Ventures
Grifin offers a consumer investing app powered by its Adaptive Investing technology, which automatically builds a personalized stock portfolio based on a user's everyday shopping and spending habits.
ConsumerFintech
Aaron Froug(Founder)inBo Starr(Founder)in
Co-investorsDraper AssociatesEvolution VC PartnersFlucas VenturesNava VenturesTappan Hill VenturesAlloy Labs+5 more
Hook Security provides an automated security awareness platform that runs phishing simulations and assigns security training to employees, with multi-tenant management, directory integrations (Azure AD, Google, Okta), and client-ready reporting.
CybersecuritySaaSGreenville, US
Adam Anderson(Executive Officer, Director)Zachary Eikenberry(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsChicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV)IrishAngelsStout Street CapitalLOI Venture
Procoto is a procurement platform that centralizes vendor management, sourcing requests, and contracts for purchasing teams.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSaint Petersburg, US
Ryan Muckel(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
Prosper Infusion is an accredited pharmacy provider offering walk-in retail pharmacy and home infusion services for patients with chronic and complex conditions such as autoimmune, rare, bleeding, and immune disorders.
Digital HealthHealthtechTampa, US
Reptrics offers a customer success platform for B2B SaaS companies, covering onboarding, customer health scoring, account management, playbook automation, and feedback surveys (NPS, CES, CSAT).
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechTampa, US
Kevin Goodwin(Chief Executive Officer)David Simon(Vice President of Sales)
BoardAndreas Calabrese(Director)in
Spontivly is a no-code data platform that provides teams with a unified view of their operations without requiring engineering resources to build it.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
Anthony Nagendraraj(Founder)inMarissa Huggins(Founder)in
Co-investorsEdmonton UnlimitedRender CapitalAPEX VenturesDeepWork CapitalLOI Venture
Procurement management for SMB
Bringing the power of one-click to hiring
The new standard in security awareness training
Analytics to measure community engagement
The best place to write things down
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioSlideinsuranceNASDAQ: SLDE
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesSpontivly · stpetecatalyst.com · Jun 30, 2025
Grifin · finance.yahoo.com · Jun 18, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has TampaBay.Ventures made?
- TampaBay.Ventures has 22 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO.
- What stage does TampaBay.Ventures invest at?
- TampaBay.Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does TampaBay.Ventures focus on?
- TampaBay.Ventures focuses on Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Healthtech, New Materials, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is TampaBay.Ventures located?
- TampaBay.Ventures is headquartered in Tampa, US.
- Who does TampaBay.Ventures co-invest with?
- TampaBay.Ventures most often shares deals with Flucas Ventures, Draper Associates, Florida Funders, among 22 tracked co-investors.
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Co-investors · 3
Grit Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that leads seed investments in applied AI companies transforming commerce, media, marketing technology, and fintech sectors.
Kindred Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs technology startups in their earliest financing rounds, often helping form and fund companies before they exist. It has backed 100+ startups.
Homebrew is an early-stage venture firm backing mission-driven founders, investing its own capital primarily at the pre-seed and seed stages.
Firms observed investing alongside TampaBay.Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with TampaBay.Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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