St. Pete investors are backing URS, a cybersecurity company responding to new trends

Seedfunders, a St. Petersburg-based investment firm, is adding the cybersecurity company Ultimate Risk Services (URS) to its portfolio.

The firm endorsed URS after the Department of Defense doubled down on cybersecurity regulations for every business, small and large, in its supply chain last year. Taking quick action, URS is changing its business angle to help smaller government contractors reach the levels of security needed to meet the new criteria.

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Talking music and the muse with percussionist Gumbi Ortiz

When jazz guitar giant Al Di Meola swept through Florida for three shows in late March, there was only one other person he wanted on his stage: Gulfport’s Gumbi Ortiz.

Born Gamaliel Ortiz in the South Bronx, to a Puerto Rican father and Cuban mother, Gumbi (say it “Goom-bee”) has been Di Meola’s go-to percussionist and right-hand-man for more than 30 years, playing in just about all of his bands, and accompanying him on solo shows, in nearly every country on the planet (“I got five passports, man,” Ortiz enthuses). He’s on Di Meola’s recordings, as well as those by other artists.

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