Spanx founder Sara Blakely believes you can take her out of Clearwater Beach, but can’t take Clearwater Beach out of her.
It was one of several lines that drew laughs delivered to a packed audience in Amalie Arena in downtown Tampa during the second day of the Synapse Summit. Blakely, an Atlanta resident who founded the billion-dollar shapewear company in 2000, took the stage as its keynote speaker on Wednesday.
Tampa Bay has developed a reputation as a magnet for tech companies over the last decade. Tampa Bay Wave has been there from the start. So, ten years after the nonprofit tech accelerator and startup support organization launched its first cohort, Tampa Bay Wave...
Banking is the business of risk and for that reason, it’s highly regulated. That presents challenges for fintech startups that are disrupting the industry with new innovations. Click here for full article
Steph & Ash talk live at Synapse Summit about the Growth & Partnerships in Florida’s Innovative Ecosystem with some of Florida’s most influential tech leaders. Lakshmi Shenoy (CEO at Embarc Collective), Meghan O’Keefe (Executive Director at Tampa Bay Tech),...
Thousands of tech innovators and entrepreneurs connected at Tampa's Synapse Summit last week, and a few Florida startups walked away with some big investments. The big picture: As Chat GPT and generative AI drive much of the news cycle, artificial intelligence was...