City, county, EDC give a warm welcome to St. Pete’s newest tech company

iSocrates, a digital media company that recently set up shop in downtown St. Petersburg, is a perfect match for St. Pete’s Grow Smarter strategy, said Mayor Rick Kriseman.

“Having iSocrates here really fits with who we are as a community, who we want to be as a community,” Kriseman told about 100 people who turned out for the company’s Digital First Friday, a new Meetup series designed to bring together digerati to share, learn, discuss and network in the burgeoning data analytics, digital media and marketing, and technology professions in Pinellas Count.

Kriseman was joined by Karen Seel, chair of the 2019 Pinellas Board of County Commissioners, and J.P. DuBuque, president of the Greater St. Petersburg Economic Development Corp., for the Feb. 1 Meetup.

iSocrates plans to host the events on the first Friday of each month at its headquarters, the Rising Tide Innovation Center at 433 Central Ave.