"Marketing should be seen as holistic value delivery and hence, it should be collaborating with design and sales for needfinding, with product management for specifying the product, and with operations to make sure customers can be onboarded without friction."

— Minh Ha Duong on marketing like a pirate

Founder: Saru Sheshadri

Company: Constellation4 Health

Thoughts: Sales can cure many illnesses. Laser focus on finding product-market fit in rapid fashion.

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The Embarc Collective Growth Marketing Summit, Sponsored by TriNet and Brex

Learn from National Marketers from Series A-E Companies to Help Guide Your Startup’s Growth

Thursday, May 5 at 8AM ET at Embarc Collective

Embarc Collective has made a limited number of tickets available to the public. Embarc Collective members can register for the Summit free of charge.

The OC Emporium | Tampa’s Premier Diverse Vendor Showcase

Connect with Qualified, Pre-Vetted Minority, Woman, Veteran, & LGBT-Owned Businesses

Presented by the Orenda Collective

Wednesday, May 11 at 6PM ET at Embarc Collective

Outsourcing & Systems for Business Owners

Focus on What Matters Most in Your Business.

Presented by Babe Crafted

Thursday, May 12 at 6PM ET at Embarc Collective

Interested in hosting an event at Embarc Collective? Reach out here.

Meet the Tampa Startup That Wants to Make Your Products Foolproof

Tampa Bay Inno • Embarc Collective member company Iteright is helping product owners build better.

Tampa Startup Closes $3.7M Round from Local Tech Leaders

TBBJ • Congratulations to Embarc Collective member company Chattr for its recent $3.7M seed round raise, which will help employers make hiring easier.

Why This Ex-Google Employee Co-Founded a Notetaking Startup

St. Pete Catalyst • We are excited to welcome Twos to the Embarc Collective membership! Learn how their app helps you to remember and organize your thoughts and notes.

Company: Grifin

Elevator Pitch: We’re a unique mobile app that encourages and inspires our users to build a positive relationship with money. We have adapted the financial industry to fit into their lives. We do so by automatically investing our customer’s $1 into the publicly traded companies where they shop. Order a Starbucks coffee and you’ll automatically buy $1 of Starbucks stock.

Position: Database Engineer

Highlights: In this role, you will manage, debug, and scale data infrastructure for development, testing, and production environments and improve the performance of data infrastructure and management tools through configuration tuning, query optimization, and software optimizations.

Apply Here

Learn more about all open jobs from startups at Embarc Collective here.

In anticipation of Embarc Collective’s Growth Marketing Summit, we are sharing resources for hacking your own startup’s growth. Interested in joining the Summit on May 5? Sign up here.

🚀 The Complete Growth Marketing Playbook- understand the process you will need to achieve outsized growth for your startup.

💡 A Lean Startup’s Growth Marketing Tech Stack - determine the types of tools you’ll need to measure, analyze, and build for growth.

✨ Top 10 Growth Hacks for Startups - learn startup brainstorming tactics that will fuel your growth.

Dreamit Ventures Sprints

Dreamit Ventures focuses on startups with revenue or pilots that are ready to scale in the health tech and secure tech space.

Deadline: April 30

Apply Here

2022 Battle of the Pitches

Veterans Florida is looking for the top sixteen small veteran-owned businesses to compete for cash awards in the 2022 Battle of the Pitches at the Veterans Florida Expo presented by Bank of America. Previous participation in Veterans Florida programs is not required.

Deadline: May 9

Apply Here

12th Annual GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Award

Companies from across the state and all industries are eligible to participate apply. Selection is based on steady growth in employee counts and revenue as well as strength in leadership, corporate culture, community support and philanthropy, innovation in management or technology, or other factors that contribute to an outstanding organization.

First Round Deadline in June

Apply Here