Florida Venture Sourcing Weekly Newsletter

29 June 2020

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Welcome to the weekly edition of the Florida Venture Sourcing newsletter! Here and on our website you'll find out everything happening in the Florida technology entrepreneurship community. We'll update you on new Florida startups, startup investors, and startup mentors. Stay informed about all the startup news, events, deals, and jobs in Florida. Help us grow by newsletter to your interested friends and colleagues.

Weekly Highlights

Highlights from the Florida technology entrepreneurship community:

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- SeedFundersOrlando joins joins the Seedfunders Opportunity Fund, a new fund to make pre-seed stage investments in startups founded by black entrepreneurs.
- DeepWork Capital Managing Partner Kathy Chiu: doubling down on efforts to "widen its funnel" and consider more diverse founders and startups for deals.
- Florida Venture Forum Diversity & Inclusion in the Funding Ecosystem webinar: Dave Chitester, cofounder and CEO of Seedfunders: "We need to change the way it's always been done".
- Michael Hall on Miami tech: "
  Black people in tech want to know where everyone has been the last six years, and without a substantial answer, these so-called responses from community organizations look like marketing ploys."
- Tampa Bay Wave's TechDiversity Accelerator kicks off with tech diversity panel:
  Anna Mason, a partner in the Rise of the Rest Seed Fund at Revolution LLC: "What I see is the collapse of the professional-personal-parental continuum in a way that I think and hope will inure to the benefit of women and female entrepreneurs specifically, and all founders in general."
- Startup Genome Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2020 (GSER 2020); Miami #31.
- Tampa tech staffing company Anistar Technologies has been acquired by NSC Technologies for an undisclosed amount.
- Pasco County opens third business incubator to connect entrepreneurs.
- Orlando Economic Partnership and UCF launch Orlando Tech Connect to facilitate
  
  partnerships between companies in search of innovative and tech-driven solutions and startups in need of customers.
- LG Business Solutions to sell Tampa's Clean Remote flat surface remote control to hotel operators across the US.
- Orlando's CodeFirm Solutions develops Faevision software to scan images of crowds of people for masks, temperatures, and heart rates.
- Tampa cybersecurity company ReliaQuest expects to hire 100 employees by the end of the year.
- Orlando tech transportation consulting startup InNovo Partners named a finalist for two awards by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International for its platform that provides advanced traffic analytics.
- Israeli hospitality tech startup TABIT opens US headquarters in Miami.
- Cybersecurity firm Glesec relocates from New Jersey to Orlando - expects to more than double its workforce .

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