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Organizers of TechStars Startup Week Tampa Bay have an ambitious goal for the 2019 event. They want to draw more than the 4,000 attendees who came...
Construction is underway on Delmar 745, a $21 million, 12-story apartment building in downtown St. Petersburg that will provide affordable housing. The project, with 65 one-...
Communities with the most startup success are ones where entrepreneurs, investors and companies have strong connections. That connectivity remains a key issue, and an opportunity, in...
Prime Medical, a Largo-based company that makes germ-fighting textiles for the healthcare industry, is getting ready to roll out its first Clorox-branded products. Clorox Healthcare privacy...
One Saturday afternoon in 2016, Kim Proano and Brittni Lynch were bar-hopping and shopping in downtown St. Pete when it occurred to them that they could...
Japanese tech giant SoftBank started out as a customer before it became an investor in 5×5 Technologies Inc., a drone support company in St. Petersburg. SoftBank...
Two trade publications are confirming that Japanese technology giant SoftBank was the investor that pumped $4.4 million into 5×5 Technologies Inc. in St. Petersburg in August....
Two veterans of HSN Inc. are out to disrupt the $14 billion lingerie market. Danielle Rushton and Ellery Linder have launched Fruutfull, a Tampa company with...
Growing up in tiny Big Bend, Wisconsin – the local kids lovingly referred to their hometown as “Large Lump” – Kris Radish was desperate for a...
The Thanksgiving turkey’s barely cold, and the City of St. Petersburg is ready to start declaring the Christmas season. Which is, of course, pretty much how...